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In this context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate brand perception of PAVs and VSVs in YouTube.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The research design is based on an examination of comments of six VSVs and six PAVs on YouTube. Therefore, the content of 1,080 posts was analyzed to capture the topic, the attitude toward the video and the pragmatic intent of posts.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Results indicate that there are strong differences with regard to users ' perception of the two analyzed video type segments. The content of VSVs is clearly recognized as positive more often than the content of PAVs. In contrast, only PAVs evoke substantial brand awareness but receive rather mixed results with regards to brand assessment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 As a whole, the study is widely descriptive and of explorative value. Nevertheless, the research design can be estimated as a first step to measure the brand-related impact of online videos. Ideally, the data generated in the investigation should be combined with traffic and conversion data of the brands\u2019 websites to get an encompassing picture of the marketing related impact of the investigated online videos.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Seen from a marketers\u2019 perspective, one can recommend PAVs over VSVs as there are hardly any brand-related impacts of VSVs visible in online communication. PAVs are perceived less positively but they are able to evoke brand awareness at least.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 According to the authors\u2019 knowledge this investigation is one of only a few studies that analyzes real online communication in the context of video-based online marketing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ajim-11-2015-0174","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,25]],"date-time":"2016-05-25T08:08:03Z","timestamp":1464163683000},"page":"250-264","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Product advertising and viral stealth marketing in online videos"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"68","author":[{"given":"Lars Michael","family":"Wendt","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joachim","family":"Griesbaum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ralph","family":"K\u00f6lle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020121603593297200_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Appiah, O. 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