Examples
An electronics manufacture is about to launch a new video console and wants to maximize new product potential. In advance of the launch, Viral Marketing Research is used to compare the relative ROI of several strategies of among high SNP respondents within the target audience. Results help the manufacturer maximize sales by identifying what needs to be communicated and through which media (e.g., print ads, Internet videos, texting, television).
A pharmaceutical company has developed a new drug for an existing drug category and needs to build brand recognition. Viral Marketing Research could be conducted among physicians or patients to identify which communication strategies are most likely to be spread by word-of-mouth, and which are likely to induce physicians/patients to prescribe/request the new drug.
The search engine Viral Sauce uses viral marketing research and statistical methods in order to rank the results of search queries by the perceived viral potential of content (using a measure which they call vRank), rather than by content's current popularity. In doing so they claim to be able to retrieve content which is more interesting to niche users.
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