My Research

My work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Research in Marketing, and California Management Review. It has been covered by Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Up Next Podcast, and University of Amsterdam, AI & Business.

Journal publications

S. He, B. Hollenbeck, G. Overgoor, D. Proserpio, A. Tosyali (2022), “Detecting Fake Review Buyers Using Network Structure: Direct Evidence from Amazon,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (47).

Authors listed in alphabetical order.

Finalist, 2024 Robert D. Buzzell MSI Best Paper Award

G. Overgoor, W. Rand, W. Van Dolen, M. Mazloom (2022), “Simplicity is not Key: Understanding Marketer-Generated Social Media Images and Consumer Liking,” International Journal of Research in Marketing, 39 (3), 639–655.

G. Overgoor, M. Chica, W. Rand, A. Weishampel (2019), “Letting the Computers Take Over: Using AI to Solve Marketing Problems,” California Management Review, 61 (4), 156–185.

Conference proceedings publications

W. Xie, Y. Zhu, G. Overgoor, Y. Bart, A. Lapedriza Garcia, S. Ostadabbas (2026), “AdSum: Two-Stream Audio-Visual Summarization for Automated Video Advertisement Clipping,” International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 261–275.

G. Overgoor, M. Mazloom, R. Rietveld, M. Worring, W. Van Dolen (2017), “A Spatio-Temporal Category Representation for Brand Popularity Prediction,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Bucharest, Romania, 233–241.

Current projects

How Consistency and Timing Shape Consumer Responses to Racial Representation in TV Advertising

Gijs Overgoor, Lijing Wang, Gokhan Yildirim, Yakov Bart, Koen Pauwels

Revise and resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research

Examines how the consistency and timing of racial representation in television advertising shape consumer responses.

NeuroViT: A Brain-Aligned Vision Transformer for Product Image Analysis

Gijs Overgoor, Hang-Yee Chan, William Rand, Willemijn van Dolen

Under review at Journal of Marketing Research

Develops brain-aligned image measures and studies their relationship with consumer responses to product images.

Correcting Toward the Wrong Target: LLM-Annotated Regressors Under Noisy Human Benchmarks

Gijs Overgoor, Samsun Knight, Yakov Bart

In preparation

Studies the reliability, bias, and downstream validity of AI-based annotation for video-advertising research.

Public traces expose coordinated fake review campaigns on digital platforms

Gijs Overgoor, Ali Tosyali, Ethan Feldman, Anol Bhattacherjee

In preparation

Develops a public-data approach for identifying coordinated fake-review activity on e-commerce platforms.

The Dollar Value of Better Ad Content: Tracing the Relationships Between Ad Creatives, Zapping Rates, and Ad Elasticities

Samsun Knight, Gijs Overgoor, Tsung Hsieh, Yakov Bart

Research in progress

Examines relationships among television-ad creative content, viewer zapping, and advertising elasticities.

Shades of Representation: Auto-Detection and Perception of Skin-Tone Diversity in Visual Marketing Communication

Wen Xie, Gijs Overgoor, H.H. Lee, Z. Han

Research in progress

Examines the automated measurement and consumer perception of skin-tone diversity in visual marketing communication.

Neurosensory Response to Advertising

Gijs Overgoor, Hang-Yee Chan

Research in progress

Develops a neuroscience-informed measure of audiovisual processing and studies its relationship with advertising outcomes.

Media coverage