Imc vs. Advertising

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Introduction The above claim made by Yeshin, is one of great controversy. Advertising is a way of mass communication that provides an intense level of control for those providing the design and delivery of advertising messages. The method of advertising is considered to be very flexible in that it can be used to convey concepts to national viewers or a specific target market group. Even though the costs can be excessively high, a vast audience can be addressed with a message, resulting in the cost per contact being the lowest of all the tools of marketing communication. On the contrary, it can be argued that the capacity of advertising alone to convince the target market to believe or act in a specific manner is doubtful. Moreover, the amount that it contributes to sales is also difficult to measure. Advertising, also suffers from low reliability due to the target market being less likely to believe messages that are delivered through this technique than if they were to deliver the same messages through some other tools (Fill, 2005). Advertisement vs. IMC In terms of the above statement being correct, there is supporting evidence in the form of claims made by business scholars. In the article, „Understanding the Diffusion of Integrated Marketing Communications‟, Kimet al. (2004), state in an article by Caywood (1997) suggests the background behind the emergence of IMC comes from three major areas. This claim is further explained in detail by listing the three segments. The first one being the view from the corporate angle, which is that there is a growing competitiveness created due to management‟s unification and acquisition group that have been needed to meet the consumer‟s desires more successful via a series of new marketing strategies. The second segment, which is from the media and the market side, indicates the decreasing power of the traditional

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