@inproceedings{f0afec9ae610416699599760a113a70b,
title = "Key Opinion Leader and Business Growth: Econometrics and Machine Learning Approaches",
abstract = "Key opinion leaders (KOLs) are individuals with a strong social status whose recommendations and opinions are influential on their followers{\textquoteright} decision-making (Bamakan et al. 2019; Chowdhry and Newcomb 1952). Prior to the social media era, KOLs were typically political figures, journalists and celebrities who received enough media exposure to cast their influence. The increasing importance of user-generated content (UGC) provides regular people with such opportunities and creates new groups of KOLs.",
author = "Yanni Ping and Jorge Fresneda and Yun Zhu and Chelsey Hill",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 3rd Digital Marketing and eCommerce Conference, DMEC 2022 ; Conference date: 29-06-2022 Through 30-06-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-05728-1\_7",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783031057274",
series = "Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "52--56",
editor = "Mart{\'i}nez-L{\'o}pez, \{Francisco J.\} and Martinez, \{Luis F.\}",
booktitle = "Advances in Digital Marketing and eCommerce - Third International Conference, 2022",
}