Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study message strategies, formats and
objectives of high and low involvement products via Companies Facebook Pages and
to study the relationships among high and low involvement products and message
strategies, brand appearances and formats. Quantitative content analysis was
employed in this study. The samples were 662 posts of high and low involvement
products published via Companies Facebook Pages from September to November
2014.
The research results revealed that top-five of message strategies were
Positioning Strategy, Generic Strategy, Brand familiarity Strategy, Affective Strategy and
Others. The message formats posed in Facebook Pages were Texts followed by Photos
and Videos. And the message objectives posed in Facebook Pages were Inform
followed by Present, Feel, Participate and Give. For hypothesis testing, the research
showed that there were statistically significant relationships between the product
involvement types and the message strategies and formats, including the brand
appearance at the level 0.001.