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    The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Generation Z’s Purchasing Behavior in the Fashion Retail Industry
    (SLIIT City UNI, 2025-07-08) Christy, R
    This research paper explores how Social media advertising is a strong force of Generation Z consumers in the fashion retail industry. The study explores the influence of advertising, user-generated content, and AI-based recommendations on consumer purchase decisions. Based on secondary research studies, it identifies the key drivers of brand consideration and conversion. The study understands that top fashion brands like Zara and Shein effectively support micro influencers, interactive content, and one-toone marketing, while traditional brands like Gap miss the consumer target. This study highlights the importance of originality, personal experiences, and sustainability messaging to engage Gen Z consumers. The results to brands are to extend micro-influencer partnerships, adopt AI driven content personalization, and step up interactive marketing. This study also provides practical outcomes to policymakers and industry stakeholders who wish to maximize digital marketing effectiveness and consumer interaction.
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    The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Brand Equity: A Study of Fashion-Wear Retail in Sri Lanka
    (International Review of Management and Marketing, 2017) Jayasuriya, N. A; Azam, F
    Appreciating the massive popularity of Facebook worldwide the purpose of this study was identifying the Facebook marketing activities that haveimpact on brand equity and studying the relative importance of each activity on brand equity creation. This paper review the literature on social mediamarketing, paying particular attention on Facebook marketing functions and its relationship with brand equity. Despite the popularity of social media,there are no adequate studies testing the relationship between social media marketing and brand equity until the last decade(Veloutsou,Cleopatra; Moutinho, 2009), still the dearth of empirical ndings accelerates the scarcity of research in this area.In Asia Pacic region context, there is hardlyany research on nding the relationship between FM and BE (Ahmed and Ibrahim, 2016), Ramsaran-Fowdar and Fowdar, (2013).This study bringstogether the brand management literature and the social media theory in a business context. In doing so, this study offer a new structured model based on theory that would enhance the knowledge on the relationship between Facebook marketing and brand equity.Considering the popularity of socialmedia, this research will be limited for Facebook platform and future researcher can conduct the same research of all the leading social networkingsites such as Linkedin, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter