Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/J4C2Eao User-Generated Content and its Impact on Branding How Users and Communities Create and Manage Brands in Social Media By: Severin Dennhardt Publisher: Springer Gabler Print ISBN: 9783658023492, 365802349X eText ISBN: 9783658023508, 3658023503 Copyright year: 2014 Format: EPUB Available from $ 84.99 USD SKU 9783658023508 The emergence of social media as one of the driving forces of consumers’ online experiences today also challenges our current understanding on marketing and brand management. The effects of brands’ social media involvement are to this day uncertain. Severin Dennhardt shows that social media and user-generated brands do have a strong influence on brands. Four independent studies demonstrate that first, successful brands can be created in virtual worlds, second, user-generated content drives the creation of unique brands, third social media strongly influences the social value perception of brands, and fourth, social media impacts consumers’ purchase decision process.