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. 2023 Apr;26(4):716-724.
doi: 10.1017/S1368980023000083. Epub 2023 Jan 16.

User engagement with a popular food brand before, during and after a multi-day interactive marketing campaign on a popular live streaming platform

Keally Haushalter  1 , Sara J Pritschet  1 , John W Long  1 , Caitlyn G Edwards  1 , Emma J Boyland  2 , Rebecca K Evans  2 , Travis D Masterson  1
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User engagement with a popular food brand before, during and after a multi-day interactive marketing campaign on a popular live streaming platform

Keally Haushalter et al. Public Health Nutr. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

Objective: To assess viewer engagement of a food advertising campaign on the live streaming platform Twitch.tv, a social media platform that allows creators to live stream content and communicate with their audience in real time.

Design: Observational analysis of chat comments across the Twitch platform containing the word 'Wendy's' or 'Wendys' during a 5-day ad campaign compared with two 5-day non-campaign time periods. Comments were categorised as positive, negative or neutral in how their sentiment pertained to the brand Wendy's.

Setting: Twitch chatrooms.

Participants: None.

Results: There were significantly more chatroom messages related to the Wendy's brand during the campaign period. When considering all messages, the proportion of messages was statistically different (x2 = 1417·41, P < 0·001) across time periods, with a higher proportion of neutral and positive messages and a lower proportion of negative messages during the campaign compared with the comparison periods. Additionally, the proportion of negative messages following the campaign was lower than before the campaign. When considering only positive and negative messages, the proportion of messages was statistically different (x2 = 366·38, P < 0·001) across each time period with a higher proportion of positive messages and a lower proportion of negative messages during the campaign when compared with the other time periods. Additionally, there was a higher proportion of positive messages and a lower portion of negative messages following the campaign when compared with before the campaign.

Conclusions: This study demonstrates the impact and sustained impact of a fast-food brand ad campaign on brand engagement on the live streaming platform Twitch.

Keywords: Digital marketing; Food marketing; Streaming; Twitch; User engagement.

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Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

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Example of overlay logos during the ad campaign
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Message counts for negative, neutral and positive comments across all three time periods. Lowercase letters denote significant differences from the ad hoc pairwise post hoc analysis between message type per time period with a Bonferroni adjusted P-value of < 0·05
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