Meaning & use

Virality

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The quality of spreading rapidly and widely, especially of content shared across the internet and social media.

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The marketing team designed the campaign specifically to maximize virality.

No one could predict the virality of the video once it was posted online.

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"Virality" is a relatively recent coinage, built on the metaphor of a virus spreading from person to person, and has become central to how marketers and researchers discuss online content.

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