Viral Marketing

We were set the task to reference one of the slides in the 'being connected' lecture. At first I wasn't too sure on what I had to do but after last weeks tutorial I saw that Craig had looked into viral marketing and I found, what I saw really interesting.

Looking over the internet I relised that viral marketing mainly depends on each person passing on the message to over friends. The more people who sends the ad/message the quicker the message is spread and can be known globally, the message could also slow down if people do not send the message.

When we were discussing this in the tutorial last week it came to my attention that the majority of viral marketing is used for more personal use i.e. jokes and I thought a good example of this would be links to 'youtube' Last friday I watched a program about youtube showing the most popular videos on youtube. It showed us the top 50 viral marketing videos. I have posted a few examples below showing clip from the show:

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This was on the top ten, I could see why people would want to send this to other people.

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Yet again another video mainly for the audience entertainment. In my opinion I think viral marketing is mainly for the viewers entertainment and is good way to share each others common interests.I am going to carry on researching this subject because I find it realy interesting and would like to see how this will expand in the future.