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Engaging Festival Audiences through Social Media (Research Note)
1. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 1
Engaging Festival Audiences
through Social Media
(Research Note)
Christine M. Van Winkle
University of Manitoba, Canada
Christine.vanwinkle@umanitoba.ca
http://tourismandcommunity.com/mobile/
Jill Bueddefeld
University of Manitoba,
Canada
Elizabeth Halpenny
University of Alberta,
Canada
Kelly J. MacKay
Ryerson University,
Canada
2. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 2
Engaging Festival Audiences
through Social Media
(Research Note)
Thank you:
Student Research Assistants:
Jill Bueddefeld,
PhD Candidate
University of Manitoba
Geoff Fudurich,
MASc
Ryerson University
3. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 3
Introduction
Global increase in social media adoption
Penetration rates vary regionally
Social Media Platform Adoption
4. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 4
Introduction
Social media to build relationships
Address customers needs
Enhance organizational
performance
Trainor, Andzulis, Rapp, and Agnihotri, 2014
Customer orientation to build relationships
Jayachandran, Sharma, Kaufman, & Raman, 2005; Rapp et al, 2010;
Sashi, 2012
5. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 5
Introduction
Understanding how customer orientation
and social media use are related can
provide insight into how organizations
meet their consumers’ needs
through online relationship
building.
6. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 6
Purpose
provide insight into the current state of
social media use (and non-use) by festival
organizations, and to examine the
relationship between social media use and
customer orientation
(Jayachandran, Sharma, Kaufman, & Raman, 2005;
Trainor et al., 2014; Sashi, 2012).
7. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 7
Research Question
• How do festival organizations use social
media to engage attendees?
– To what extent is SM used from firm-centric
approach of pushing messages (grounded in G-
D logic) vs a relationship building approach
grounded in S-D logic approach?
– Does an organization’s relationship
building approach affect when and how
SM is used?
8. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 8
Method
• Online survey
• Comprehensive list of Canadian and
American Festivals (N= 2390)
• E-mail contact and initial follow-up
• Final follow-up through IFEA membership
9. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 9
Results
446 Festival administrators responded
(17.6% response rate)
senior administers (43%)
marketing specialists (15%)
producers and event management staff (9%)
and other staff/volunteers (12%).
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Results
On Average Festivals were:
25 years years old
7.3 days long
76% of Festivals run by non-profit organizations
the majority hosted at a single site (62%) and
attracting a regional audience (48%)
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Results
Most Festivals were:
Music (27.9%) or other (35.8%)
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Results
Most Used Platforms
24%
32%
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Results
Frequency of Social Media Posting
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Results
Social Media Engagement (Sashi, 2012)
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Results
Customer Relationship Orientation (Jayachandran et al., 2005)
Please indicate to what extent you agree to disagree with
the following statements by selecting the response that
best describes your festival. N Mdn IQR
In our organization retaining attendees is considered to
be a top priority
358 7 1
Our employees are encouraged to focus on relationships
with attendees
315 6 2
Our volunteers are encouraged to focus on relationships
with attendees
342 6 2
In our organization relationships with attendees are
considered valuable assets
351 7 1
Our senior management emphasizes the importance of
attendee relationships
339 6 2
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Results
• There was a significant positive relationship
between the number of social media
platforms used and customer orientation
(rs(302) = .121, p = .032).
• There was also a relationship between
customer orientation and the amount of
posting to social media during certain
periods.
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Results
• greater posting the week before the
festival (rs(302) = -.220, p = .000) and the
week after the festival (rs(301) = -.127, p = .
028) were associated with a stronger
customer orientation.
21. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 21
Discussion
• Social media posting before and during
festival
• Need to consider the multi-phase
experience Clawson & Knetch, 2013
• Staffing may be a key issue
• Social-media automation may be
appropriate
22. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 22
Discussion
Facilitating Social Media Engagement
23. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 23
Conclusion
• Social media strategy should be considered
to alleviate demands on staff
• Next steps
– Explore factors affecting customer relationship
orientation
• What factors affect whether SM is used as a form of
CRM to enhance Customer Engagement
– Examine outcomes of customer relationship
orientation
24. ENTER 2018 Research Track Slide Number 24
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This aligns with what we saw when we looked at the posting activities of 4 canadian festival
Platforms use different algorithms to populate news feeds. Facebook previous used a timeline but have made it more complicated. Interaction matters in many of the algorythsms used.
Notably, the amount of posting the week during the festival (rs(299) = -.054, p = .356) and the rest of the year (rs(302) = -.111, p = .053) were not related to customer orientation. Note that a greater amount of posting was coded at 1 where as no posting was coded as 6.
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