Publications

April 2012 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Mekanism: Engineering Viral Marketing

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Alison Caverly

Mekanism introduces students to a digital media production company specializing in creating viral marketing campaigns for advertising agencies and clients (e.g., Microsoft, AXE, eBay, Toyota, etc.) Mekanism has grown tremendously from 2007 to 2010 in part due to the... View Details

Keywords: Viral Marketing; Viral Advertising; Core Competencies; Growth Strategy; Online Media; Videos; Advertising Media; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Media; Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry; North and Central America

Educators

January 2014 (Revised June 2014)
Supplement

Dumb Ways To Die: Advertising Train Safety (C)

The case series focuses on Melbourne Trains' viral advertising campaign to improve safe behaviors around trains among young people. This iconic, low budget campaign swept the Cannes Lions advertising awards in 2013 and became a social media sensation. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Communication; Viral Advertising; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Strategy; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Oceania; Europe

January 2014 (Revised June 2014)
Supplement

Dumb Ways To Die: Advertising Train Safety (B)

The case series focuses on Melbourne Trains' viral advertising campaign to improve safe behaviors around trains among young people. This iconic, low budget campaign swept the Cannes Lions advertising awards in 2013 and became a social media sensation. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Channels; Marketing Communication; Viral Advertising; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Public Sector; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Oceania; Europe

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

expenditures. Advertisers can get the most bang for the buck if they post their videos on YouTube and then motivate consumers to disseminate the ads for them, via email or social media. Getting an ad to go View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

17 Jun 2013
News

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

01 Feb 2012
News

Viral Advertising via Ad Symbiosis: Self-Interested Sharing

January 2014 (Revised June 2014)
Case

Dumb Ways To Die: Advertising Train Safety (A)

The case series focuses on Melbourne Trains' viral advertising campaign to improve safe behaviors around trains among young people. This iconic, low budget campaign swept the Cannes Lions advertising awards in 2013 and became a social media sensation. View Details

Keywords: Viral Marketing; Advertising; Marketing Communications; Social Marketing; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Oceania; Europe

Educators

24 May 2013
News

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

24 May 2013
News

Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral

January 2014
Teaching Note

Dumb Ways To Die: Advertising Train Safety (A), (B) & (C)

Keywords: Advertising Media; Viral Advertising; Viral Marketing; Public Safety; Advertising; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Public Administration Industry; Oceania; Europe

24 May 2013
Video

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

2015
Other Unpublished Work

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Lingling Zhang, Clarence Lee and Anita Elberse

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Advertising Campaigns

May 2011
Conference Presentation

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising

Jun 2011
Conference Presentation

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising

May 2011 - 2011
Conference Presentation

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising

June 2013
Article

How to Profit from 'Lean Advertising'

By: Thales S. Teixeira

This article introduces the concept of Lean Advertising, i.e., how to use non-traditional approaches to create and distribute advertising using extremely low-cost approaches online. A framework for Lean Advertising is proposed that identifies the four ways in which... View Details

Keywords: Viral Advertising; Viral Ads; Online Marketing; Lean Advertising; Digital Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry

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March 2012
Article

The New Science of Viral Ads

By: Thales Teixeira

It's the holy grail of digital marketing: the viral ad, a pitch that large numbers of viewers decide to share with family and friends. Several techniques derived from new technology can help advertisers attain this. In our research, two colleagues and I use... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Information Technology; Research; System; Marketing; Emotions; Television Entertainment

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