The Marketing Center Münster is proud to announce that Professor Sebastian Hohenberg has been named co-recipient of the 2025 Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research, awarded by the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Marketing Strategy Special Interest Group. The Varadarajan Award is one of the field’s most prestigious recognitions and honors scholars whose work has made an exceptional contribution to marketing strategy research and practice.

In keeping with its annual tradition, the academic family “SALTY,” established by Professor Sönke Albers (KLU), convened to explore the latest frontiers in marketing.

In Hollywood, the buzz for a new film is usually considered a good predictor of its success at the box office.

But Prof. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau from the MCM's Chair of Marketing & Media along with a team of marketing scholars from Toulouse and Karlsruhe now provide empirical evidence that buzz is actually so much more than just an indicator -- it's also infectious. The authors show that the buzz for a new product causes success by:

In a new article published in the Journal of Retailing (rated “A” by VHB), Professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau from the Chair of Marketing & Media together with former MCM professor Raoul Kübler (now ESSEC Business School, France) investigate how users of the metaverse communicate with and in immersive digital environments. In their article, they introduce the concept of Spatial Word of Mouth (WOM) as an extension and 3D evolution of traditional electronic WOM alias eWOM for the metaverse age.