RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1287/mksc.2022.0243
A1 Bollinger, Bryan
A1 Gillingham, Kenneth
A1 Lamp, Stefan
A1 Tsvetanov, Tsvetan
T1 Promotional campaign duration and word of mouth in solar panel adoption
JF Marketing Science
YR 2024
FD 2024-09
VO Vol. 43
IS N° 5
SP 925
OP 1151
AB Intensive marketing campaigns can be used to increase awareness, consideration, purchase, and word of mouth (WOM) of prosocial products. With expanded interest and belief in how social norms and spillovers might be leveraged to combat climate change, it is critical to understand how campaigns designed to leverage such peer effects can be best designed. In this paper, we study the role of campaign duration in solar photovoltaic adoption using a large-scale field experiment in which we randomly assign communities to campaigns with shorter durations, increasing the marketing intensity to maintain the same total resources per campaign. We find that the longer campaigns generate more WOM and lead to more adoption postcampaign despite a comparable number of installations during the campaigns. The shorter campaigns led to 22.6 fewer installations per town in the two years after the campaigns concluded, leading to a cost per acquisition of $4,367 versus $2,029 in the longer campaigns, the latter being lower than installers’ self-reported acquisition costs and the former being substantially higher.
PB The Institute of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America
SN 0732-2399
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48549/
UL http://tse-fr.eu/pub/128996