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other forms of marketing activities, typically advertising. Using an agent-based modeling approach, we demonstrate that … while advertising serves as one source of information flow, the WOM that is most effective at driving product growth is … created by strong rather than weak ties. The rationale behind this is simple: advertising competes against weak ties in …