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A Thematic Exploration of Digital, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing: Research Evolution from 2000 to 2015 and an Agenda for Future Inquiry
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Over the past 15 years, digital media platforms have revolutionized marketing, offering new ways to reach, inform, engage, sell to, learn about, and provide service to customers. As a means of taking stock of academic work's ability to contribute to this revolution, this article tracks the changes in scholarly researchers’ perspectives on three major digital, social media, and mobile (DSMM) marketing themes from 2000 to 2015. The authors first use keyword counts from the premier general marketing journals to gain a macro-level view of the shifting importance of various DSMM topics since 2000. They then identify key themes emerging in five-year time frames during this period: (1) DSMM as a facilitator of individual expression, (2) DSMM as decision support tool, and (3) DSMM as a market intelligence source. In both academic research to date and corresponding practitioner discussion, there is much to appreciate. However, there are also several shortcomings of extant research that have limited its relevance and created points of disconnect between academia and practice. Finally, in light of this, an agenda for future research based on emerging research topics is advanced.
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“D&SMT (e.g.e-commerce, online brand communities, digital advertising tactics, live chat services, mobile services) have since revolutionized the engineering of compelling customer experiences offering new ways to reach, inform, sell to, learn about, and provide service to customers that have an overarching social dimension (Lamberton and Stephen, 2016).”
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“Proposition: Digital consumption experience related to branded content positively relate to digital content sharing intentions.”
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“According to Lamberton and Stephen (2016), one of the key features of mobile marketing is to leverage the specific features mobile that can bring additional value to both consumers and marketers.”
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“All of these use cases are essentially WOM in one form or another. This, at least, is how marketing scholars have mainly characterized social media, as discussed by Lamberton and Stephen (2016).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lamberton, C., & Stephen, A. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lamberton, Cait
- Stephen, Andrew T.
- ORCID
- Lamberton, Cait
- Venue
- Journal of Marketing
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-11
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 146-172
- ISSN
- 0022-2429 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7185
- OpenAlex
- W2465116584
- Cited by
- 1,127
- References
- 115
- Citations by year
- 2026: 105 · 2025: 114 · 2024: 135 · 2023: 141 · 2022: 137 · 2021: 140 · 2020: 112 · 2019: 100 · 2018: 83 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 8
- FWCI
- 229.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Marketing (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Marketing and Advertising Strategies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Business and International Management › SMEs Development and Digital Marketing
- Keywords
- digital marketing, social media marketing, mobile marketing, research trends, keyword analysis, individual expression, decision support, market intelligence, academia-practice gap, future research agenda
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