IT’S TIME!

Here it is folks, Tackling Viral Marketing, enjoy!

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In the end the time was worth it

Now this is the final blog entry of the communications project I would like to elaborate on my experience during the whole ordeal. At the beginning of the semester I had no idea what kind of work I had before me. As the blog began, I found myself encouraged and motivated to keep up to [...]

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Why not do it? After all you’re in CANADA eh!

According to the latest strangelove blog posting Canadians spend more time on the internet than in front of the television screen. This Montreal Gazette article brought me to thinking, that viral marketing could possibly be the most prominent form of advertising this country has when relating it to the younger generation.Just think of it.  If [...]

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Seopher’s TOP 10 pics

The video production of this project has finally commenced. Thus bringing me to search the world of the internet for content to include within the informative piece I have been working on. It is in this search that I came across a website that least a few issues in the complexities of acheiving success in [...]

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Email – is the KEY to achieve viral success

A group from the University of Alabama conducted a study that hoped to find the motives behind what makes viral marketing work. In this study they picked apart the procedures of viral marketing and the way it jumps into the inboxes of people and spread into the mainstream worldwide. Now this collective piece of work [...]

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And in the RED corner…

In today’s world social network websites such as twitter, facebook and myspace allow the internet users to interconnect with each other. These networks also make the users feel like it is ‘their’ place. A network that allow the user to express he or she freely and share news and events with others. This notion of [...]

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Thank you for your PARTICIPATION!

Viral marketing largely nourishes itself when it conducts consumer activity. I came across a journal article from York University that illustrates the importance of geniality of having user generate activity spread advertising like wild fire. The article brings to mind that giving the consumer an opportunity to win an award or prize is all the [...]

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Watts’ real interpretation of the viral bug

Even with viral marketing’s apparent popularity and success Dr. Duncan J Watts professor of Sociology at the University of Columbia argues that it [viral marketing] is not worth the corporate attention. Watts emphasizes on the notion that companies should not focus or depend on the success of a viral ad to explode into the main [...]

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