The Dynamics of Viral Marketing

@misc{citeulike:313710, abstract = {We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network, consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on half a million products. We observed the propagation of recommendations and the cascade sizes, which can be explained by a stochastic dynamic model. We then established how the recommendation network grows over time and how effective it is from the viewpoint of the senders and receivers of recommendations. While on average recommendations are not very effective at inducing purchases and do not spread very far, there are product and pricing categories for which viral marketing seems to be very effective.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Leskovec, Jurij and Adamic, Lada A. and Huberman, Bernardo A.}, citeulike-article-id = {313710}, eprint = {physics/0509039}, keywords = {acceptance, bass, marketing, modelling, user, viral}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2007-05-22 11:56:02}, priority = {5}, title = {The Dynamics of Viral Marketing}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509039}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:313710 L3 - citeulike-article-id:313710 N2 - We present an analysis of a person-to-person recommendation network, consisting of 4 million people who made 16 million recommendations on half a million products. We observed the propagation of recommendations and the cascade sizes, which can be explained by a stochastic dynamic model. We then established how the recommendation network grows over time and how effective it is from the viewpoint of the senders and receivers of recommendations. While on average recommendations are not very effective at inducing purchases and do not spread very far, there are product and pricing categories for which viral marketing seems to be very effective. TI - The Dynamics of Viral Marketing KW - acceptance KW - bass KW - marketing KW - modelling KW - user KW - viral AU - Leskovec, Jurij AU - Adamic, Lada AU - Huberman, Bernardo PY - 2005/Sep/05/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509039 ER -