Viral and Guerilla Marketing in Culture

Master´s thesis Viral and Guerilla Marketing in Culture rises on the definiton of viral marketing as a way of spreading information and guerilla marketing as an attitude. Viral spreading of the information is as old as the advertisment itself but new media provided another dimension and context. For art viral and guerilla marketing represent utilized capacity as culture can take advantage of its viral character (spreading) and guerilla character (fight for a better world, surprise moment, search for new ways of promotion). Basic statement of this thesis is that cultural organizations do not trade on the potential of viral and guerilla marketing. The statement was confirmed by analysing the audience of arts, specifics of arts marketing compared to the marketing of goods, defining viral´s and guerilla´s strong points and weaknesses, activation of the public space in favor of arts and in last but not least analysing of the case studies and research of knowledge and usage of viral marketing in Czech arts organizations