Advertising agencies today are confronted with the ever-evolving nature of technology and new

| Adherence: Marketers are integrating new media with the traditional IMC tools to help understand the consumers and how they wish to interact with the brandDeviations: The tools must be understood and tested to prove that they are being used effectively to create the brands that consumers want, and not brands that the clients wish the consumers to want

The average United States Citizen views about 5000 advertisements a day (Johnson). Advertising is everywhere. Billboards on the way to work, ads on the internet, and paper products such as magazines or newspapers display a sale or a promotion of a good or service. Usually, the ad will give a brand or company name, and uses the product’s merits to draw the consumer closer. This has grown exponentially as advertisements in media in 1970 were estimated to be 500 a day, a ten percent increase in the last 48 years. (Johnson). This is due to the rise of technology, as the computer has become a household gadget within the new millenium. These advertisements are meant to give a synopsis of the product or service’s purpose, quality, and efficiency. If a consumer views 5000 advertisements in a single day and assuming the commercials do not repeat, 5000 goods or services are introduced. With more options to choose from in such little time, the consumer has a harder time differentiating the quality and perhaps necessity of the product. The marketers rely on the quick, impulsive decision making of consumers. With the misleading nature of many infomercials or radio broadcasts, the people of American society are bombarded with constant propaganda, thus making seemingly harmless promotions more potent to filling industries’ pockets and lessening the common population’s

Back to the 70’s the biggest campaign was using sodas, like 7UP's "Un-Cola”, Coca-Cola and Pepsi. We also see more advertisement on television and marketing teams looking at trends to see how and why such campaigns worked and which were flops. Moving into the 80’s and 90’s we see that computers are slowly starting taking over advertisement. It isn’t until the 2000’s when we start to see more and more marketing strategies and in the 2010’s we see that platforms such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter start to influence and branch out to different

The competitive nature of business resulted in the imaginative use of advertisements. They could incorporate items, events and people that resonated well with their target market to boost sales. This led to the rethink and expansion of the advertising industry. It now consists of the businesses that need to advertise, agencies that create them; involving visualizes, designers, production managers, researchers and actors, and the media that transmits the adverts. A sizeable portion of many businesses’ funds is

Moreover, (Product) RED uses the INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS (IMC)technology for its marketing campaign. The IMC involves the utilization of all the elements of the marketing mix, which specifically includes

As societies advance deeper into technology, so do the corporation and businesses that we as consumers support. The means of advertisement has changed significantly over the decades. For example before the television sets or radios were invented, general advertisement was commuted by word of mouth from shopkeepers, and posters, to the general populous. After the radio was invented, businesses could pay a fee to be promoted by local broadcasters over a larger radius than, word to mouth advertising would. Through the centuries many methods of advertising have spawned, however the most effective form of advertisement are televised commercials. Thanks to the use of television, companies and businesses have the ability to create intrapersonal commercials

* From mass media advertising to more particular (niche) media, which are centered towards more specific target audiences (Magazine, HR 2006).

Walmart is a fortune 500 multinational company that operates a number of retail stores and warehouses. Walmart has around 11,000 stores in close to 27 countries. It has stores in many countries including Japan, Brazil and Canada. This headquarters is located in Bentonville Arkansas. Walmart is not only a fortune 500 company, but the world’s largest company going by revenue.

Initial discussions on IMC were based on definitions and theoretical understanding, and this discussion is still taking place. IMC or Integrated Marketing Communications according to Schultz (1993) combine and evaluate strategic role of diverse communications to produce a greater impact. It is a process that produces and applies different communication programs starting with the customer and work back to outline right approaches and procedures to progress throughout these influential programs. Another source sees it as a business process that aims to plan, implement and assess influential marketing communications over time. There isn’t a clear definition for it, each source rely on a different definition however according to all found IMC is identified as a strategic process. It’s composed of three main basics: consumer, channels and evaluation of performances. Consumer gives an idea of how an exchange of information affects message’s form and content. Communication channels analyze each channel in apart to

Marketers can combine a variety of IMC tools to create brand value and avoid potential conflicts (Duncan & Everett, 1993) rather than separate practices to produce manifold messages about the same brand. However, companies can no longer be tied to a specific communication tool such as advertising. In order for consumers to get uniformity message and brand information, Reid (2005) states that marketers should fully apply IMC to capture audiences’ attention and convince them to have high perception of product and brand.

However, with the introduction of new technologies and advances in information technology communication has been completely revolutionised and same has impacted in organisations in there IMC strategies. “For IMC to really take hold, old assumptions must exit, assumptions about the role of advertising and sales promotion, about the organisation of advertising and public relations departments, about agencies and what they do, about the media, and most of all accountability” (Schultz et al. 1994).

Advertisements have become more popular within the past few years. The reason for this is because this generation, Generation X, is much more virtual friendly and much more reliant on technology. Bert Markgraf, the freelance writer and graduate of McGill University, speaks about this, saying:

IMC or Integrated Marketing Communications is a “concept that recognizes the added value of a plan that evaluates the strategic roles of various communication disciplines, and combines these disciplines to provide clarity, consistency, and maximum communication impact”. In other words, the goal of IMC is to ensure that all of the messages sent via the different channels have a common look or feel (Textbook).

This sentiment is a shared concern across marketers, publishers, brands and the agencies representative of those brands as programmatic and ad-tech has permeated the way media is bought and sold.

The stages in all three models are represented by the cognitive, affective and behavioural stage. The hierarchy of effects model is based on the assumption that a consumer passes through a sequence of steps, which include awareness, knowledge, liking, preference, conviction and purchase. While most of the steps in the information-processing model are similar to those of the hierarchy of effects model, a new step introduced is that of retention, which pertains to a customer retaining relevant information.