Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

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Jonah Berger – Evolution video, a clever Trojan Horse for Dove products

Evolution video clip, a clever Trojan Horse for Dove products

The famous “Evolution” video cost only a little over one hundred thousand dollars to make, and got more than 16 million views. It netted Dove hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure. The clip won numerous industry awards and more than tripled the website traffic the company received from Dove’s 2006 Super Bowl ad.

Source: Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Book) by Jonah Berger

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Stories are an important source of cultural learning that help us make sense of the world. They provide a quick and easy way for people to acquire lots of knowledge in a vivid and engaging fashion.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

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People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while they focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride. Stories, then, can act as vessels, carriers that help transmit information to others.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

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Stories can act as vessels, carriers that help transmit information to others. In other words, stories carry things, a lesson or moral, information or a take-home message. No wonder that people tell stories for the same reasons they share word of mouth. Some narratives are about social currency, some are driven by emotions or retold for their practical value.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Communication
  • Content Creation
  • Storytelling
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