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Unwavering interests in influencers: Influencer-focused barrages in social media product review videos

2025· article· en· W4413450987 on OpenAlexafffund
Yanli Pei, Juntao Wu, Fang Wang, Shan Wang

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Marketing and Social Media
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsInfluencer marketingProduct (mathematics)BusinessSocial mediaAdvertisingMarketingComputer scienceMarketing managementWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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Barrages, or live text comments displayed on the video interface, are valuable audience-contributed content. This research examines barrages commenting on influencers (influencer-focused barrages) and their effect on the effectiveness of product review videos. A dataset comprising 257,650 barrages in 295 popular influencer-created product review videos on Bilibili was analyzed. The results show that barrage volume positively affects the effectiveness of videos, as measured by the counts of likes and collects. Importantly, influencer-focused barrages, although comprising a small portion of the total barrage volume, exert an additional positive impact. Moreover, this effect differs across videos of various durations and influencer genders. It is more pronounced in longer videos and those featuring female influencers compared to shorter videos and those by male influencers. A content analysis further reveals differences in barrage content directed at male and female influencers. An additional experimental study further confirms the effect of influencer-focused barrage volume on video effectiveness. This research enhances both theoretical and practical understandings of barrage content and its impact on influencer videos, providing researchers, businesses, and influencers with a novel perspective and useful insights.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.389
Threshold uncertainty score0.495

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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