This research defines customer review as one of the advertisement and investigates the attitudes of the users depending on the characteristics of the media. This has the value as the leading research on how the customer review affects the on-line b...
This research defines customer review as one of the advertisement and investigates the attitudes of the users depending on the characteristics of the media. This has the value as the leading research on how the customer review affects the on-line brand attitude and this can contribute as the basic data in establishing on-line brand strategy for various internet advertisement mass characteristics and media attitude investigation.
In order to investigate how thecharacteristics of on-line Word of Mouse (WOM) can affect the on-line Word of Mouse, the amount of customer review, the proportion of affirmation or negation and whether the website displaying the customer review is commercial or not were defined as the characteristics of on-line Word of Mouse and set as the independent variables. These independent variables were investigated for differences on reliability, liking influences and response intention of attitudes of customer review depending on the involvement as the parameter.
This research was progressed through the survey of 152 respondents and the results were summarized as below. Firstly, if the amount of customer review was large, reliability, liking influences and response were high and if the customer review was negative, reliability, liking influences and response were higher compared to when the customer review was positive. Secondly, the respondents with high involvement had high reliability, high liking influences and high response intention in case of large amount of customer review. The respondents with negative customer review showed higher reliability and higher liking influences but the respondents with positive customer review showed higher response intention. The respondents with high involvement showed higher reliability in case of customer review for media with commercial aspect. Noticeable aspects include that the group with high involvement, reliability, liking influences and response intention were high in the positive customer review than in the negative customer review and for cases when involvement was not a parameter, the commercial aspect showed no difference and the reliability was higher for customer review with higher involvement. This can be inferred as higher reliability is given for professional and commercial writings than the normal media.
The effect of characteristics of the customer review, which is one form of on-line advertisement media, on attitude change as shown in this research can be used as the basic data to formulate effective on-line brand strategy. Hence, the corporation must pay attention and make an effort based on the characteristics of the media and establish various on-line brand strategies.