viral marketing en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A technique aiming at reproducing "word of mouth", usually on the Internet or by email, for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends.
2006, Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 424:
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de Freundschaftswerbung (a marketing technique) · fi viraalimarkkinointi (a marketing technique) · de Empfehlungsvertrieb (a marketing technique) · ru ви́русный ма́ркетинг (a marketing technique) · pl marketing wirusowy (a marketing technique) · tr salgın pazarlama (a marketing technique) · uk ві́русний ма́ркетинг (a marketing technique)