The Effect of Using Instagram Influencers in Building Conseva's Brand Awareness
The Effect of Using Instagram Influencers in Building Conseva's Brand Awareness
The Effect of Using Instagram Influencers in Building Conseva's Brand Awareness
Received: 25th June 2020/ Revised: 07th July 2020/ Accepted: 20th July 2020
How to Cite: Tjandrawibawa, P. (2020). The effect of using instagram influencers in building conseva’s
brand awareness. The Winners, 21(1), 67-73. https://doi.org/10.21512/tw.v21i1.6497
Abstract - Rapid growth of social media marketing alone can facilitate and add value to their
development leads to abundant brands’ promotion for products. Besides, it does not cost much, so it is
their products or services. One of the many ways is considered more efficient. The impact on sales will
promotion through influencers on Instagram. Recently, be significantly large if customers visit the site and
it is known that companies using Influencer marketing understand what the brand offers. One of the goals of
tend to keep going up since such particular way is effective marketing is to introduce the existence of a
considered to be quite effective to increase brand product to consumers. Moreover it is essential to bring
awareness. However, the average data obtained from the brand image into the customers’ minds, so the
various journals and articles is data from medium to brand will become one of customers’ top preferences
large scale companies both locally and internationally. (Haryanto, 2009).
Therefore, the research was conducted to examine Among other social media platforms, Instagram
whether the use of Instagram influencers to increase is one of the most popular platforms globally with
brand awareness is also effective for micro-scale local active users more than 1 billion. In Indonesia, there are
brands by taking examples from one of Surabaya 60 million Instagram users, thus Indonesia made it into
lifestyle brands called Conseva. The research was fourth place of the countries with the most Instagram
conducted with a quantitative method focusing on users after America, India and Brazil (statista.com).
collecting numerical data to see the results of the This particular platform, which has been purchased by
growth of followers and visits obtained by Conseva Facebook, is also ranked fourth as the most used social
before and after using Instagram influencers. If the media in Indonesia, which is as much as 79% of the
number of Instagram followers and visits to Conseva total population.
increases, it means that brand awareness has also With the increasing use of Instagram, the
increased and vice versa. term ‘Instagram influencer’ also appears, which is
part of influencer marketing and a type of marketing
Keywords: instagram influencer, influencer marketing, that works with individuals who create content on
brand awareness, microbrand social media and these individuals have quite a large
audience (Kl, 2019). Evans et al. (2017) stated that
many people follow an individual because of their
I. INTRODUCTION popularity. Influencers are also referred as “insta-
famous” which means micro-celebrity who is famous
The way people communicate and obtain for works produced on Instagram media only.
information has changed since social media platforms Allen (2017) also revealed that these popular
were found. Social media also changes the way individuals also have the influence to convey the
consumers communicate and share information about message of a brand to a larger market. Therefore,
brands so that consumers are now able to think, discuss, these individuals are referred to as influencers because
and share their experiences with certain brands (The they are able to influence their followers in the media.
Nielson Company, 2011). This means brands have a This has been proven by the data collection conducted
new channel to connect more straightforwardly to their by Talaverna (2015) where 82% of consumers have
consumers in more organic way (Glucksman, 2017). a tendency to follow the recommendations of their
Many companies assume that applying internet favorite influencers.
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is also increasing from year to year since 91% of
respondents or 3.640 marketing agencies, brands and
other professional industries surveyed by Influencer
Marketing Hub believe that influencer marketing is an
effective form of marketing.
However, from the information provided by
the Influencer Marketing Hub, 55% of respondents
spend funds above 10.000 US dollars or around Rp
140.000.000,00 per year for influencer marketing.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the majority of
companies surveyed are not micro scale. Based on
Indonesian Law No. 20/2008, micro businesses are
businesses that have an annual turnover of at most Rp
300.00.,00,.00. According to data from the Ministry
Figure 1 Statistical Data of of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises,
Leading Social Networks in Indonesia micro scale businesses are the largest types of
Source: Statista businesses in Indonesia, to develop it to a larger scale,
tough competition and limited funds for marketing
In the midst of intense business competition, become the challenges.
new brands certainly need a strategy to increase brand
awareness so that potential buyers have the ability
to recognize or remember that the brand is part of
certain product categories (Longwell, 1994). Based
on Rakuten data (Rakuten Marketing, 2019), 65% of
consumers find a new brand or product at least once
a week from an influencer. Therefore, in the era of
rapid use of social media as a marketing strategy,
it is important for brand owners to work together
with influencers to increase their brand awareness
(Uzunoglu, 2014).
According to Delzio (2015), brand awareness
on social media can be measured using metrics such
as number of followers and “hits/visits/page views”,
while according to Erskine (2019) in addition to Figure 2 Estimated Influencer Marketing
the two metrics there are other metrics like views, Growth Globally
impressions, shares and comments that can be used as Source: Influencer Marketing Hub
brand awareness measurement. If the number of these
metrics shows an increase or has a high number then it
will have a positive impact on brand awareness. Other data and journals studied also rarely
Based on the benchmark report from the mention the effectiveness of using influencer marketing
Influencer Marketing Hub (Influencer Marketing, for a brand owned by a micro scale business. Tabellion
2020), the main purpose of companies using influencers and Esch (2019) also stated that marketers have not
is to increase brand awareness. The use of influencers been able to decided which influencer marketing
Figure 3 Growth of Indonesian Micro, Small, Medium and Large Enterprise in year 2017-2018
Source: http://www.depkop.go.id/
Table 1 Data
influencer C is using DSLR camera so when the photo advantages so that influencers can briefly describe
is zoomed-in, it does not look pixilated or blur. them in the caption section to attract followers’
Due to the image quality, it could be the reason attention. Influencers might not be aware of the product
influencers C received positive comments about the advantages and thus, a brand needs to explain it to
totebag compared to influencers B who did not get any influencers. Secondly, the influencer service user must
comments on Conseva’s products. The same idea was also know the requirements for the photos; 1) how
expressed by Teo et al. (2019) that visual-centric social the photo shoot should be taken i.e. long distance or
networking sites, such as Instagram, require good close distance shoot, 2) how to style the product and 3)
quality photos to influence consumers’ perceptions of the product details which should be highlighted since
the quality of products being promoted. In addition to brand owners has better understanding of the product
the photo quality factor, since influencer C followers benefits and uniqueness better than influencers.
are somewhat smaller than the other two influencers, Thirdly, influencers must inform or ask influencers
the possibility to engage with followers will be higher, to include appropriate hashtags to approach a wider
which can be seen from the fact that influencer C audience.
replied to almost all comments on her post. Anger & The findings of the research will contribute
Kittl (2011) also argue that quantity is not the same as to the benefit of local brand owners in Indonesia
quality. In this case, although influencer C does not who have limited budget for marketing. The market
have as much followers as the other two, influencer C competitiveness justifies the need to try various
build great engagement with the followers. That way marketing strategies including Instagram influencer
is considered to have more positive impact compared marketing. Although the research only takes three
to influencers with a large number of followers that influencers, and the result turns out to be far from
most of them are not an active user of Instagram. expectations, it is hoped that other local brand owners
might want to incorporate the points to optimize the
use of influencer marketing to get better results.
IV. CONCLUSIONS For future research, it can be continued by
increasing number of Instagram influencers in
The results show that after doing endorsements, endorsing products and using advance analysis
the use of influencer marketing for Conseva’s micro- method such as hypotheses testing method, to get a
scale brand turned out to be less impactful. Costs more accurate measurement of brand awareness.
incurred to pay influencers are not proportional to the
addition of followers since Conseva only gained six
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