Companies have been increasingly seeking new mechanisms for making their electronic marketing campaigns to become viral, thus obtaining a cascading recommendation effect similar to word-of-mouth. We analysed a dataset of a magazine publisher that uses email as the main marketing strategy and found out that networks emerging from those campaigns form a very sparse graph. We show that online soci...

In this article, we provide a computational simulation model which offers alternative explanations on viral marketing campaign effectiveness compared to standard aggregate diffusion models by (1) combining individual preference information and heterogeneity among individuals as well as (2) simulating differing degrees of interconnectedness among individuals within social networks. Our model pro...

Until the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was adopted in 1997, states were not expected to actively promote their public health programs for children or to encourage enrollment. But the availability of new administrative funds under SCHIP for outreach and marketing spurred states to create marketing campaigns to raise awareness about and increase involvement in SCHIP and Medic...

The increasingly vast number of marketing campaigns over time has reduced its effect on the general public. Furthermore, economical pressures and competition has led marketing managers to invest on directed campaigns with a strict and rigorous selection of contacts. Such direct campaigns can be enhanced through the use of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining (DM) techniques. This paper de...

Media-related commercial marketing aimed at promoting the purchase of products and services by children, and by adults for children, is ubiquitous and has been associated with negative health consequences such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity. But, as Douglas Evans points out, not all marketing in the electronic media is confined to the sale of products. Increasingly savvy social marke...

Research background: CoVid19 was a shock for governments, organizations as well people. At the beginning of pandemic, everyone stunned and companies tried to adapt “new reality”, some sectors were forced either diminish their offer due downfall demand, or even fully stop offering products services result lockdown restrictions, in case tourism events sector. Imminent health, social economic cris...

Recently, economic depression, which scoured all over the world, affects business organizations and banking sectors. Such economic pose causes a severe attrition for banks and customer retention becomes impossible. Accordingly, marketing managers are in need to increase marketing campaigns, whereas organizations evade both expenses and business expansion. In order to solve such riddle, data min...

BACKGROUND Commercial food marketing has considerably shaped consumer food choice behaviour. Meanwhile, public health campaigns for healthier eating have had limited impact to date. Social marketing suggests that successful commercial food marketing campaigns can provide useful lessons for public sector activities. The aim of the present study was to empirically identify food marketing success ...

Online social networks have become a favorite platform for marketers and advertisers. Due to the wide reach of these networks and low cost of advertisement, there has been an upsurge of marketing and advertising campaigns on social media. Social networks like facebook, twitter and google+ possess the capability to quickly turn any piece of information viral, thus increasing its impact. However,...