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Maya Gaspar

Jonah Berger’s 6 “STEPPS” to Viral Success

Why are your cat’s photos more popular than yours? Why are 10% of all daily searches on the Internet for Donald Trump? Why does the book that is the subject of this blog post, “Contagious: Why Things Catch On”, appear third in the Google results, when you simply look for the word “contagious”? (Note: the…


Martin (Marty) Smith
Red Bull Stratos Curatti

Why Contagious? You could read Jonah Berger’s Contagious: Why Things Catch On as an update to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, but I wouldn’t (lol).  Berger’s assertion that Gladwell is mostly wrong seems moot. The Tipping Point is philosophy. Berger’s book is ditch digging psychology based on his…