This study explored the relationship between brand loyalty and online experience value, focusing on a representative characteristic of social media, interactivity. The subjects of this study include Instagram, the most actively used social media platf...
This study explored the relationship between brand loyalty and online experience value, focusing on a representative characteristic of social media, interactivity. The subjects of this study include Instagram, the most actively used social media platform in Korea, and female consumers in their 20s and 30s following coffee shop/café accounts on Instagram. This study examined how corporate-consumer interactivity affects the two sub-factors of brand loyalty, attitudinal brand loyalty and behavioral brand loyalty, and whether attitudinal brand loyalty mediates the relationship between corporate-consumer interactivity and behavioral brand loyalty. This study also explored whether two sub-factors of online experiential value, entertainment value and aesthetic value, have any relationship with corporate-consumer interactivity and brand loyalty. The study results are as follows.
First, corporate-consumer interactivity had a positive effect on each of the two sub-factors of brand loyalty. This means, the higher the corporate-consumer interaction, the higher both the attitudinal brand loyalty and behavioral brand loyalty. Second, it was found that the attitudinal brand loyalty fully mediates the relationship between the corporate-consumer interactivity and behavioral brand loyalty. Also, when the relationship between the online experiential value on Instagram and corporate-consumer interactivity was studied, it was found that the higher the corporate-consumer interaction, the higher both the entertainment online experiential value and aesthetic online experiential value. Lastly, we examined whether either one of the sub-factors of online experiential value, entertainment value and aesthetic value, mediate the relationship between the corporate-consumer interactivity and behavioral brand loyalty, but no significant mediating effect was found.