viral marketing
noun
: marketing designed to disseminate information (as about a new product) very rapidly by making it likely to be passed from person to person especially via electronic means
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These tokens are often launched as short-term speculative plays, relying on viral marketing rather than fundamental utility.
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Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Miami Beach isn't just breaking up with spring break, like its viral marketing campaign says.
—Martin Vassolo, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
As viral marketing stunts go, there’s a somewhat meta feel to cramming the cast of Severance into a glass box at New York City’s Grand Central Station.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
The Bad Larry Burger Club pop-up grew from that, beginning in 2019 and picking up steam with viral marketing stunts like a pandemic-era burger chute that safely delivered burgers to guests and raucous metal shows.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 12 June 2024
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Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Miami Beach isn't just breaking up with spring break, like its viral marketing campaign says.
—Martin Vassolo, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
As viral marketing stunts go, there’s a somewhat meta feel to cramming the cast of Severance into a glass box at New York City’s Grand Central Station.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
The Bad Larry Burger Club pop-up grew from that, beginning in 2019 and picking up steam with viral marketing stunts like a pandemic-era burger chute that safely delivered burgers to guests and raucous metal shows.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 12 June 2024
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“Viral marketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/viral%20marketing. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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