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Going native on Facebook: a content analysis of sponsored messages on undergraduate student Facebook pages

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This paper examines the prevalence and nature of sponsored messages on Facebook. Results of a content analysis of desktop and mobile Facebook pages from 52 undergraduate student subjects showed 53% of sponsored messages in the desktop sample and 100% of sponsored messages in the mobile sample would be categorised as native advertising, as they were located in the user's news feed. Approximately 12% of all news feed posts were sponsored posts and almost 90% of sponsored news feed posts were based on the user's or user's friends' actions. The majority of the sponsoring advertisers were from companies established after the year 2000, and only 11% were leading US advertisers.

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  • Cynthia B. Hanson, 2018. "Going native on Facebook: a content analysis of sponsored messages on undergraduate student Facebook pages," International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 12(1), pages 91-104.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijimad:v:12:y:2018:i:1:p:91-104
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