The latest trend in the e-commerce market today is curation service, which is customized and user data -based service that provides recommendations for products and information. With the opening of the mobile app market, curation service was started a...
The latest trend in the e-commerce market today is curation service, which is customized and user data -based service that provides recommendations for products and information. With the opening of the mobile app market, curation service was started and the scope has continuously expanded and grown.
In the market of excess products, quantitative data on products have explosively increased, and the number of word-of-mouth based social network services has increased. This has met with the desire of users who want to purchase products more necessary and proper for themselves. In this process, consumers have tried to minimize the hassle of choosing the right one for them among a variety of products. This is the important background of the emergence of curation-based e-commerce.
The current curation service, however, has problems that it scope is being expanded with the opening of mobile shopping channels in online commerce where it had continuously developed with the widespread use of smartphones, and that its quality is getting worse due to the fiercer competition caused by releases and updates of new application apps of new companies.
Accordingly, this research aimed to explore the factors promoting curation service as marketing tools effective for the current e-commerce environment of information and excess products by analyzing attitudes toward curation service according to the categories of mobile apps and analyzing and drawing brand attitude and purchase attitude through curation service techniques. For this, finance, shopping, entertainment, and music were selected for the 4 categories of mobile apps, and one of the curation service techniques, the personalized recommendation technique was suggested. The resultant differences for brand attitude and purchase intention were verified.
In this research, an online survey was performed with mobile shopping users. A total of 180 questionnaire sheets were collected for the analysis. To investigate the demographic characteristics, i.e. general characteristics, of the collected survey data, frequency analysis, credibility and validity analysis, and principal component analysis were conducted.
The differences according to the categories of mobile apps as well as the brand attitude and purchase intention for personalization recommendation techniques were verified. To generalize the research, an analysis was conducted by dividing the categories of mobile apps into financial apps, shopping apps, entertainment apps, and music apps, and the personalized recommendation techniques was divided into content-based filtering technique and cooperation-based filtering technique. After analyzing the difference of personalized recommendation techniques according to the categories of mobile apps with the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), regression analysis was conducted to verify the difference of brand attitude and purchase intention according to personalized techniques.
The results of this research can be summarized as follows:
Content-based filtering technique, one of the personalized recommendation techniques, had a difference according to the categories of mobile apps. However, the level of cooperation-based filtering technique had no difference according to the categories of mobile apps. Moreover, it was revealed that the more activated the both content-based filtering technique and cooperation-based filtering technique, the higher the brand attitude. As for purchase intention, content-based filtering technique showed no statistically significant effects on purchase intention, while activated cooperation-based filtering technique led to higher purchase intention.
In conclusion, this research revealed that even the same content-based filtering technique had different consumer preference according to the categories of mobile apps. Cooperation-based filtering technique, however, had no difference in the consumers’ awareness according to the categories of mobile apps. Accordingly, financial apps that showed low results in content-based filtering technique would be more effective for consumers using cooperation-based filtering technique.
Additionally, curation service strategies such as personalized recommendation technique recommend using consumer data. For such strategies, it is important to collect accurate consumer data, and recommendations for consumers through information should encourage consumers to have positive brand attitude and make purchases accordingly.
Especially, this research verified that the recommendation method encouraging direct purchase through content-based filtering technique, which is the technique of recommending through previous data of consumers, had negative effects for consumers.
Based on the results, curation service strategy through personalized recommendation technique is very effective on mobile apps, but it is necessary to explore customized and personalized recommendation techniques according to what responses are required from consumers.