populaireerde
Populaireerde is a Dutch neologism used to describe the act of making something popular, especially through media campaigns, influencer networks, and deliberate online amplification. It is formed from the adjective populair with the -eren verb pattern and is typically treated as the past tense of a coined verb populaireeren. Because it is not yet standard Dutch, there is variation in spelling and conjugation, and some writers may prefer alternatives or spell it as ge-populaireerd in contexts that mirror other -eren verbs. In discussions of marketing, journalism, and studies of virality, populaireerde may appear to denote a deliberate effort to raise a topic’s visibility.
The word emerges in contemporary, informal Dutch, particularly in blogs, marketing analyses, and social media discourse.
De campagne populaireerde het product binnen een week. In analyses van virale content wordt de term soms