Das soziale Netzwerk Instagram experimentiert damit, seinen Nutzern keine „Like“-Zahlen mehr für Posts auszuweisen – und hat damit für einige Aufregung gesorgt. Das Netzwerk postuliert, dass sich Instagram-Nutzer wieder verstärkt den eigentlichen Inhalten der Plattform widmen sollten, statt sich einem permanenten Wettstreit um Aufmerksamkeit und öffentlich sichtbare Anerkennung auszusetzen.

From May 28^th until May 31^st 2019, the 48^th EMAC Annual Conference was held in Hamburg, with more than 1,000 scholarly attendants from all over Europe and the world. The conference provides a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of current academic research projects, panel discussions, and special sessions with thought leaders in their respective fields. Scholars from different areas of the MCM took part in all those different activities.

The International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM), Europe’s leading marketing journal and one of Marketing academia’s rare “A journals,” annually honors a single paper as the best article published in the previous year. This year’s winner was co-authored by MCM scholars Nele Hansen, Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer, and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau. The prestigious award honors their article “Brand Crises in the Digital Age: The Short- and Long-term Effects of Social Media Firestorms on Consumers and Brands”, which appeared in last year’s December issue of the IJRM.