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** Also played straight with any book she puts on her book club list. Most noticable with James Frey's supposedly-autobiographical "A Million Little Pieces".

** The Tarantino Bump is currently affecting ''{{Battle Royale}}''. There's been a notable surge in new fans ever since he declared it to be his favourite film made since 1992.

* This trope can also be called "The {{Glee}} Factor", as many musicians and songs and styles who've been covered by the cast (BritneySpears, {{Madonna}}) have had CareerResurrections and renewed interest after their music was featured.

** Then there was Raj Patel, the economist who went on ''TheColbertReport'' with his new book, and [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/19/raj-patel-colbert-report-benjamin-creme was subsequently hailed as a messiah by a religious group]], although he may in fact just be [[{{MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian}} a very naughty boy]].

When this happens to songs, it's RevivalByCommercialization. If it happens to a particular object or good, it's TheRedStapler.

* Herman Cain was given his own talk show after popular response to the times he substituted for NealBoortz.

* {{Minecraft}} sold around 1000 copies after being referenced on the {{Valve}} blog. Shortly afterward, PennyArcade made a series of comics about it, which led to 7000 more sales and a [[BeyondTheImpossible server meltdown]].

** Indeed, these events ended up giving Leno five hours of prime-time TV a week. However, this was seen as a defensive posture on {{NBC}}'s part, and Jay has lost most of his ''TonightShow'' audience, and the daily show has since been cancelled. Letterman has re-bounded since Conan O'Brien's takeover of ''Tonight'', fueled in part by several controversies ([[GateConstruction PalinGate]]) the once safe host (Staffergate) has been involved in.

* Can also be called The ''{{Skins}}'' Effect; a number of bands, notably The Gossip and The Foals, experienced huge boosts in popularity and success as a result of their music appearing in the show. Alex Hancock (the show's music supervisor) is looking into ways to make this a deliberate part of the show, by only ever including music by unsigned bands; he's up against OFCOM and cross-promotion rules, though.

* The TropeNamer is StephenColbert of ''TheColbertReport''. Whenever politicians, especially ones running for an office, experience a bump in poll numbers after being on his show, Colbert would take credit for it by saying that they received the Colbert Bump. He also claims responsibility whenever authors' books do well or musicians' songs do well. He once claimed responsibility for making Paul [=McCartney=] popular. The trope led to a series of crossover sketches in which Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Conan O'Brien fought over whose show was responsible for Mike Huckabee's temporary rise in popularity.
** Then there was Raj Patel, the economist who went on ''TheColbertReport'' with his new book, and [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/19/raj-patel-colbert-report-benjamin-creme was subsequently hailed as a messiah by a religious group]], although he may in fact just be [[{{MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian}} a very naughty boy]].

* KT Tunstall's big break happened when she performed "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on ''{{Later with Jools Holland}}'' after being given only 24 hours notice.
* In the early '90's ''TheWord'' had a similar effect with bands like Nirvana. It also notoriously damaged Shabba Ranks's career when he spouted homophobic remarks and was called out for it by Mark Lamarr; "That is absolute crap and you know it"
* TheBeatles. ''The EdSullivanShow''. That is all.
** Funnily enough, this one actually went both ways, with the EdSullivanShow seeing a ratings boost for the weeks featuring the Beatles.
*** Another guest who caused a mutual boost by appearing on The EdSullivanShow: ElvisPresley.
* BorisJohnson was a pretty minor journalist (not yet even a Conservative MP) when he made his first appearance on ''HaveIGotNewsForYou'', but each hilarious appearance boosted his popularity, to the point where the hosts of the show joked he could become leader of the Conservative Party despite his [[CloudCuckoolander buffoonish]] persona. His relatively huge profile compared to other politicians was apparently of great concern to Labour Party officials when he ran for the office of Mayor of London, which he then won.
** Johnson's main opponent in the election was Ken Livingstone, whose earlier mayoral campaigns had also benefited from several appearances on ''HaveIGotNewsForYou''.
** HIGNFY was also [[LittleDidIKnow unwittingly]] the jumping-off point for Neil and Christine Hamilton in their successful transformation from "corrupt ex-MP and his shamelessly supportive wife" to "pair of absurd media whores."

* HillaryClinton experienced a brief surge in popularity during the 2008 presidential elections after her appearance on ''SaturdayNightLive''. Sarah Palin's appearance, meanwhile, [[InvertedTrope brought the show's ratings to their highest in a long time]].
* For years, Jim Rome has referred to "Jungle Karma" on ''The Jim Rome Show'' to refer to the tendency for athletes and athletic teams to have success after appearing on his show, as well as a corresponding bout of bad luck if an athlete stiffs him.
* Not many people in Britain had heard of the SexPistols until they were [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p25SdQEnhHI&feature=related interviewed live on Thames TV]] and Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones said both the S and F words [[ClusterFBomb in the space of a few minutes]]. Even though it was only shown in the London area, "The Filth and the Fury" was headline news across the country the next day. A smaller but similar effect came when they played live on Manchester Granada TV, thus introducing ''Anarchy in the UK'' to the north of England.
** In a more recent example, most Americans had never heard of RussellBrand or Jonathan Ross until "Sachsgate."
* Bill Clinton's sax-riffing appearance on ''TheArsenioHallShow'' was credited with popularizing him with younger voters in 1992. Four years prior to that, Clinton received a bump by appearing on ''TheTonightShow''. Up to that point, he was best known for giving an embarrassingly long speech at the Democratic National Convention that year, which was the reason for his initial appearance.

* TheNostalgiaCritic has this effect on films/shows he reviews, on this site if nowhere else. It's very telling that BigLippedAlligatorMoment became a page on this Wiki ''within an hour'' of the posting of the video that coined the phrase.
** Similarly, every time TheAngryVideoGameNerd reviews a game, TheOtherWiki strains to cope with an avalanche of fans adding trivia entries for the game in question.
** Again with ''TheSpoonyExperiment''. When reviewing ''Bloodwing: Pumpkinhead's Revenge'', Spoony mentioned how hard it was to find ''any'' info on this game, calling him ''the game the internet forgot''. Once his video was released, lets just say that there's no more shortage of info on this game...
* Several older HumongousMecha series saw renewed/revived popularity upon making a debut in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''SuperRobotWars'' franchise, with ''{{Xabungle}}'' and ''HadesProjectZeorymer'' being the prime examples.
** Their parody [[CaptainErsatz non-appearances]] on ''MegasXLR'' have also produced mini-bumps ([[{{Pettanko}} not ''that'' kind]]).
* RichardNixon's 1968 appearance on [[{{Rowan And Martins Laugh-In}} Laugh-In]] coincided with a distinct leap in his electoral poll numbers.

* Can also be called The ''{{Skins}}'' Effect; a number of bands, notably The Gossip and The Foals, experienced huge boosts in popularity and success as a result of their music appearing in the show. Alex Hancock (the show's music supervisor) is looking into ways to make this a deliberate part of the show, by only ever including music by unsigned bands; he's up against OFCOM and cross-promotion rules, though.
* Probably related to the phenomenon of people rediscovering vintage pop music through QuentinTarantino's iconic uses of it.
** The Tarantino Bump is currently affecting {{Battle Royale}}. There's been a notable surge in new fans ever since he declared it to be his favourite film made since 1992.

* The Jellybotties won't ever exactly be tearing up the charts, but they experienced a bump in popularity when Alan Davies sang a few bars of "Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable" on ''{{QI}}''. It's now their most popular song by far.
** For proof of this, type "Peter Cushing" into Google and the song's title is the sixth auto-complete option. It's the ''first'' auto-complete result when searching for "Peter Cushing" on YouTube.
* {{Retsupurae}} made commentary on one of [=SirRonLionheart's=] [=~Let's Play~=]s. Shortly after, his amount of YouTube subscribers increased rapidly.
* [[TheTonightShow Conan O'Brien]], attempting to take the place of Oprah, has recommended several kitschy items, from {{Troll 2}} to a StevenSeagal album to a calendar entitled ''Extraordinary Chickens''. Sure enough, they've gone up in popularity, and their Amazon pages show that people who buy one will frequently buy others.

* A shrine featured as a set piece in ''LuckyStar'' [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-05/record-450000-visit-lucky-star-shrine-on-new-year has gotten about five times as many visitors]].
* It's generally believed that White Zombie's popularity got a big boost after ''BeavisAndButthead'' showed them and gave them good reviews. Conversely, the reputation of Winger particularly suffered.
* Foreign destinations that [[MontyPython Michael Palin]] visits on his BBC show frequently experience greater tourist numbers.
** Strangely, after Sacha Baron Cohen raked them over the coals in ''{{Borat}}'', the nation of Kazakhstan saw a surge in tourism.
*** Presumably because the number of Americans who [[SmallReferencePools actually know the NAME Kazakhstan]] skyrocketed.
*** It's also possible that the clear fakeness of the way it's presented in the film made people curious as what it's actually like.

* Whenever a popular YouTube series (such as ''TheGmodIdiotBox'') uses a song that can be found on YouTube, said song will get a whole lot of hits all of a sudden, and a slew of comments all of which reference the same thing.
* ''SportsIllustrated'' has a strange relationship with the people that appear on their cover--everybody wants to be on it, but there's supposedly a curse related to whoever gets the coveted cover photo.
** Ditto the ''Madden'' and ''NCAA' series of video games.

* The "Double Rainbow" video submitted in 7th of January of 2010 was unknown until July when if was referenced from site to site.

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*** Inverted again with Johnathan Franzen's ''The Corrections''. The disparaging comments he made about the book club after his book was chosen was one of the reasons Oprah suspended book recommendations for a year, almost certainly doing damage to the sales of American publishing agencies.

* This trope can also be called "The {{Glee}} Factor", as many musicians and songs and styles who've been covered by the cast (BritneySpears, {{Madonna}}) have had CareerResurrections and renewed interest after their music was featured.

* This trope can also be called "The {{Glee}} Factor", as many musicians and songs and styles who've been covered by the cast (BritneySpears, {{Madonna}}) have had [[CareerResurrection}}s and renewed interest after their music was featured.

When this happens to songs, it's RevivalByCommercialization.

* Turkish Delight received a significant boost in sales after the theatrical release of [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.]]

* [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]] has this effect on films/shows he reviews, on this site if nowhere else. It's very telling that BigLippedAlligatorMoment became a page on this Wiki ''within an hour'' of the posting of the video that coined the phrase.

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* The SuperRobotWars series does this for mecha anime series from the 70s & 80s.
* {{Gackt}} is a reverse of this. His appearances, in talk shows, drama's, and movies, often result in a massive increase in ratings and viewership.

** Played straight in other cases, most notably in recent times with BarackObama, when he appeared on the show before his presidential run and Oprah famously declared him "[[TheMessiah The One]]."