Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Questions That

Refer to the scenario below to answer the questions that follow.
Bob and Larry have taken their fly fishing equipment and accessory business, Flies-R-Us, to the Internet because they wanted to expand their business. However, they don't have much money to use conventional media to drive traffic to their site.
-To improve brand awareness,Bob and Larry decided to hire a media-relations specialist in hopes of getting coverage for Flies-R-Us in the media.The media-relations specialist wrote a feature story profiling Bob and Larry and their fly fishing equipment and then sent that story to her contacts at newspapers and special interest magazines.The article was picked up by Field & Stream,the popular sportsman magazine.By running the article,Field & Stream most likely provided Flies-R-Us with ________.

A) word-of-mouth
B) viral communication
C) an implied third-party endorsement
D) an opt-in strategy
E) a customer referral