محمد انیسه

Today, social media has taken over all aspects of people's lives and has enabled extensive communication. For these reasons, businesses have tended to engage in marketing activities on social media to facilitate their relationship with customers. One of the main goals that businesses pursue by doing these marketing activities is to achieve special value in the minds of customers. In the same direction, the purpose of this study is to investigate the direct impact of social media marketing activities on brand equity and the indirect impact through brand trust and customer brand engagement. The research method is practical and descriptive-survey with correlation approach. the data were collected by questionnaires that completed by 304 Iranian Instagram users who follow at least one page of a clothing brand on Instagram. descriptive statistical methods by SPSS25 software and partial least squares structural equation modeling by SmartPLS3 software have been used to analyze the data. Finally, according to the results of the analysis, the positive and significant impact of social media marketing activities on brand equity, on brand trust and on customer brand engagement and also the positive and significant impact of brand trust on customer brand engagement and both on brand equity have been confirmed. brand trust and customer brand engagement have been proven as partial mediators in the relationship between social media marketing activities and brand equity.