The paper explores how viral marketing plays a major role for the companies in the present scenario. This paper gives an insight into the various models to provide an overview into the mathematical aspect associated with viral marketing. At the end the implications of viral marketing on various different industries is discussed. This manuscript elucidates how organizations can design their vira...

Viral marketing has attracted attention from both academics and practitioners. With the rise of usergenerated content (UGC) and broadcasting networks, viral online video advertising campaigns (viral advertising in short) are an emerging trend in viral marketing. Previous literature mainly studied the influence of network structure on viral advertising. Here, we extend such works by decomposing ...

Seeding strategies have a major influence on the success of viral marketing campaigns, but previous studies using computer simulations and analytical models produced conflicting recommendations about the optimal seeding strategy. We therefore compare four different seeding strategies in two complementary small-scale field experiments as well as in one real-life viral marketing campaign that inv...

College students commonly believe their peers engage in higher levels of dangerous drinking than is actually the case. Social norms marketing campaigns attempt to correct these misperceptions, decrease the perceived normative pressure to drink, and thereby drive down high-risk alcohol consumption. In this case study, we critically examined "Done 4," an unsuccessful social norms marketing campai...

The need for social marketing research in the area of breastfeeding is highlighted by the failure of campaigns to increase breastfeeding rates over the past two decades in developed countries. This is despite evidence of the health benefits of longer breastfeeding duration to both baby and mother, and the high levels of expenditure on these campaigns. Whilst past campaign approaches typically f...

Despite the increasing number of companies investing in mobile marketing campaigns, research investigation on the adoption process of mobile marketing from the perspective of consumers has been limited. Although mobile devices are a promising marketing tool, mobile spam (i.e. unsolicited SMS messages) raises privacy concerns relating to the utilisation of the personal and location data used to ...

The collapse of the traditional social ties, the advance of the mass media and the advent of political marketing have altered the structure and the direction of electoral campaigns. Present-day media-mediated electoral campaigns are hotly debated. On one side are those who claim that campaigns simplify political reality, manipulate voters, encourage voting apathy and in the long run contribute ...