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. 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 See All Example Sentences for viral marketing

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First Known Use

1989, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of viral marketing was in 1989

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“Viral marketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/viral%20marketing. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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