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A Critical Evaluation of the Impact of Giveaways on Follower-Engagement of Commercial Posts on Instagram

Sep 2026 · Proceedings of the 29th Global Conference on Business Management and Economics · pp. 18-25 · 0 citations

Abstract

Many businesses harness social media influencers on Instagram to promote their products. Influencer posts are often not perceived to be advertising. Because of their authenticity and credibility, posts on Instagram have a wide reach to an engaged audience. In order to measure the success of a social media campaign on Instagram individual methods of engagement-, reach-, traffic- and sentiment-metrics are used. Due to the simplicity and costeffectiveness of the data collection most companies prefer to use a measurement of numbers rather than of sentiment. However, quantitative metrics can lead to inaccurate conclusions about the effectiveness since they can be altered by the influencer’s behavior. This study aims to identify the strategy of giveaways as an intentional manipulation of the outcome of the measurement metrics by the influencers on Instagram. The results, based on data collection form posts of 18 female German influencers during a 24 hour surveillance of 21 days, suggest that the promotional tactic of giveaways purposefully influence and boost the traditional metrics of effectiveness measurement.

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