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long tail

long tail noun: sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.

long tail: sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through...
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Noun

long tail (plural long tails)

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
    • What’s really amazing about the Long Tail is the sheer size of it. Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you’ve got a market bigger than the hits.2004 October, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”, in Wired, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2016
    • “I would like to tell you that the Internet has made such a level playing field that the Long Tail is absolutely the place to be, that there's so much differentiation, so much diversity, so many new voices. I'd love to tell you that that's in fact how it really works. Unfortunately, it's not,”...2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Eric Schmidt, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN
  2. The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values.

long tail meaning in Tamil

long tail in Tamil

ஏறுவால்

Forms of long tail

plurallong tails

Origin of long tail

In the marketing sense popularized by journalist Chris Anderson in 2004, alluding to the long tail of a power law distribution.

Questions about long tail

What does long tail mean?
Long tail means sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
What is long tail in Tamil?
Long tail in Tamil is ஏறுவால். See Long tail meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is long tail?
Long tail is a noun.
What is the plural of long tail?
The plural of long tail is long tails.

Words near long tail in the dictionary

  1. long suits
  2. Long Sutton
  3. long sweetening
  4. long sword
  5. long swords
  6. long tail
  7. long tails
  8. long take
  9. long term
  10. long term evolution
  11. long termly

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