Report on viral marketing campaigns that use video on the Web. Cites two examples: TractorChasers.com, used by John Deere to stimulate interest in a new line of tractors, and Blimp Chasers, used by Syngenta to create interest in a seed treatment for the cotton market.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11823
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Thesis in partial fulfillment of a Master of Science degree, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism, Kansas State University, Manhattan. 103 pages. Retrieved by online keyword searching. Only the title page, abstract, content section, and discussion section are printed for reference., Case analysis of a video that went viral, "I'm farming and I grow it." It was created by three Kansas farm boys. Author used two theories, Uses and Gratifications and Two-Step Flow, to identify key factors in the success. The study also provided a model to help a non-professional video go viral, based on previous research and this case study.
