Social Media's Impact on the Consumer Mindset: When to Use Which Sentiment Extraction Tool?

Raoul V. Kübler, Anatoli Colicev and Koen H. Pauwels

Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2020, vol. 50, issue C, 136-155

Abstract: User-generated content provides many opportunities for managers and researchers, but insights are hindered by a lack of consensus on how to extract brand-relevant valence and volume. Marketing studies use different sentiment extraction tools (SETs) based on social media volume, top-down language dictionaries and bottom-up machine learning approaches. This paper compares the explanatory and forecasting power of these methods over several years for daily customer mindset metrics obtained from survey data. For 48 brands in diverse industries, vector autoregressive models show that volume metrics explain the most for brand awareness and purchase intent, while bottom-up SETs excel at explaining brand impression, satisfaction and recommendation. Systematic differences yield contingent advice: the most nuanced version of bottom-up SETs (SVM with Neutral) performs best for the search goods for all consumer mind-set metrics but Purchase Intent for which Volume metrics work best. For experienced goods, Volume outperforms SVM with neutral. As processing time and costs increase when moving from volume to top-down to bottom-up sentiment extraction tools, these conditional findings can help managers decide when more detailed analytics are worth the investment.

Keywords: Sentiment extraction; Consumer attitudes; Language dictionary; Maching learning; LIWC; Support vector machine; Brand strength; Volume; Valence; User generated content (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intmar.2019.08.001

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