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viral marketing
[ vahy-ruhl mahr-ki-ting ]
noun
- a marketing strategy that focuses on spreading information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially by using unconventional means such as the internet or email:
Which online social networks can help with viral marketing?
viral marketing
noun
- a direct marketing technique in which a company persuades internet users to forward its publicity material in e-mails (usually by including jokes, games, video clips, etc)
- a marketing strategy in which conventional media are eschewed in favour of various techniques designed to generate word-of-mouth publicity, in the hope of creating a fad or craze
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Word History and Origins
Origin of viral marketing1
First recorded in 1985–90
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Example Sentences
In fact, you could say Deadheads invented viral marketing like the Ice Bucket Challenge.
From The Daily Beast
Either this is clever viral marketing for a new Yogi Bear movie or Earth is destined to become the Planet of the Bears.
From The Daily Beast
The heavy viral marketing is also taking some of the pressure off the actual show.
From The Daily Beast
But no amount of viral marketing can make a hit out of nothing.
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Indeed, when reluctant authors are cajoled into participating in viral marketing, the results are less than spectacular.
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