Content Strategy for Yekaterinburg Cultural Centers on the VKontakte Social Network: Evaluating Effectiveness through the Prism of User Engagement
Annotation
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of twelve Yekaterinburg cultural centers' content strategies on the «VKontakte» social network for the period 2024 - 2025. Engagement Rate (ER) and View Rate (VR) were used to analyze user activity levels. A reverse analysis of news feeds revealed a certain imbalance: high content visibility with low audience reactivity. Key drivers of success include: personalized birthday greetings that stimulate empathic responses through social identification mechanisms; biographical profiles of specialists that enhance trust through individuation; and contests and giveaways that activate gamification with a FOMO effect. In contrast, an analysis of «anti-top» publications (political announcements, duplicate content, and a lack of endogenous multimedia) revealed factors that reduce engagement: cognitive dissonance, content fatigue, and algorithmic demography.
| Type | Article |
| Information | Culture: management, economy, law № 03/2026 |
| Pages | 14-20 |
| DOI | 10.18572/2070-2159-2026-3-14-20 |
