Marketers’ interest in viral advertising has increased signi…
Marketers’ interest in viral advertising has increased significantly in recent years because of social media. Professor Thales Teixeira of Harvard Business School, and others have found that emotionality explains why people are willing to view certain ads over other ads. But, when it comes to sharing, emotionality explains just part of the story. Professor Teixeira found that most ads are shared by people who are: