Together with the growth of online advertisement market, some changes have begun to come to the methods of marketing, where the user's participation has become important. Among these changes, UCC has settled itself as one of the playthings from 2006,...
Together with the growth of online advertisement market, some changes have begun to come to the methods of marketing, where the user's participation has become important. Among these changes, UCC has settled itself as one of the playthings from 2006, and the industries have started to use it for the marketing of their products. These changes have occurred, together with the development of digital appliances, the change of the user-focused internet environment, and the trends of the user, who want to open about themselves and share it with others. We have already found easily the success cases around us using UCC as the marketing method. In order to make successful marketing using the UCC, it is indispensable for the users to participate, and to attract the user's participation, it is necessary to motivate them. The study is aimed at finding the motivation and method for the users' participation in the UCC marketing through the analysis of actual cases, and the results of the study is as follows;
Firstly, according to the results of the analysis of the 1st hypothesis, through the study of actual cases, that the motivation of the users' participation in UCC marketing can be different by the classification by the industry, it was indicated that the motivation of the users' participation had some differences by the industry. In most of the industries, it was shown that such factors as, how the information was shared, and what the users were interested, were the most decisive, and other factors were different by the industry. But, the factors, like economic motivation or self-satisfaction, didn't occupy a large proportion in the participation motivation. Only in the service industries, the economic motivation showed the result a little bit higher than in other industries.
Secondly, according to the results of the analysis of the 2nd hypothesis, through the study of actual cases, that the methods of the users' participation in UCC marketing can be different by the classification by the industry, it was indicated that the methods of the users' participation had little difference by the industry. As shown in the users' responses, such as, "I have seen the UCC," "I have added my opinion to UCC," "I have scrapped the USS," and "I have transferred UCC to others.", it was indicated there were little change in the rank of the upper level, even if we cannot help admitting there were some delicate differences in the questionnaire. This can be attributed to the fact that the marketing using UCC has not established itself firmly among the users, and that the technological environment has not been yet fully prepared in the manufacture of UCC
Thirdly, according to the results of the analysis of the 3rd hypothesis, through the comparison and analysis of the actual case studies, that the methods of the users' participation in UCC marketing followed by the motivation of participation will have some co-relation between them, it was indicated that the methods of the users' participation in UCC marketing followed by the motivation of participation was different from the result of the participation method in the 2nd hypothesis. In the participation methods by the industry, the passive participation was high, but in the participation method followed by the participation motivation, the active participation was indicated to be high in most of motivations. Especially, in the relation-forming factor and information-sharing factor, such users' responses, as "I have planned and manufactured UCC," and "I have changed or integrated UCC," was shown to be high as the participation method. And the reason is thought to be that the users have increasingly participated in the brand community, Blog and Mini-homepage.
Forth promotion of the future UCC marketing through the result of the study, the application methods for the increase of the users' participation is proposed as follows;
Firstly, as the users with the experience in the participation of UCC marketing are the young people aged in 10s and 30s, the efforts should be made to find the information for the targets the brands aim and the interests of those people in order to use them for the marketing. In addition, to attract the interest of those users, who have very strong individuality, it is necessary to use diverse and unique ideas for the UCC marketing.
Secondly, as examined in the study, it was known that the higher the participation motivation in the UCC marketing, the more active the participation methods. Therefore, it seems that enough motivation to attract active users' participation has not been made yet, and clear motivation should be made to induce active user's participation. Besides, it is considered to be necessary that some appropriate re-compensation should be made to increase the users' active participation in the UCC marketing.
Thirdly, it seems that the UCC marketing has not yet consolidated itself quite firmly in the users. As the users still have some technological or economic burden in manufacturing the UCC for the marketing, better technological and economic environment should be provided to them for the manufacture of quality UCC with cheap price.
Lastly, in order to help the UCC marketing to settle its position as important part of marketing, rather than a simple marketing term, some efforts should be made for the standardization of the user environment or manufacturing cost through the technological development. It is necessary to expand the number of the professional expert, who can take the advantages of the measurement of the effects, concept of the analysis and the technology in response to the results found from the UCC marketing. In addition, it can be an important task to make the environment, where the users can recognize the usefulness of the UCC by themselves.