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On- and off- Platform Distribution Channels in the Social Era
Online publishers are looking for ways to leverage viral content distribution and to encourage their readers to share the articles they read with their friends. In doing so, publishers enjoy the free marketing and advertisement for their content and increase their circulation and readership. Faced with the dominance of Facebook in social marketing and the availability of the social platform’s built-in tools, publishers may consider abandoning their own distribution channels,