INTEGRATED MARKETING
COMMUNICATIONS BELCH NINTH
EDITION TEST BANK 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ planning and execution of all types of advertising and promotion
messages selected for a brand, service, or company, to meet a common
set of communication objectives, or more particularly, to support a
single 'positioning' .... is the broad definition of what?.
Answer: IMC - Integrated Marketing Communication
⩥ who formed a task force to define IMC from the viewpoint of the Four
A's agencies and in what year?.
Answer: American Association of Advertising Agencies (in 1989)
⩥ what was the definition that the American Association of Advertising
Agencies made up for to define IMC?.
Answer: "A concept of marketing communications planning that
recognizes the added value of a comprehensive plan that evaluates the
strategic roles of a variety of communication disciplines (ex: general
advertising, direct response, sales promotion, and public relations) and
, combines these disciplines to provide clarity, consistency, and maximum
communication impact"
⩥ what did Duncan and Everett describe IMC as and in what year?.
Answer: 'the strategic coordination of all messages and media used by
an organization to influence its perceived brand value' (1993)
⩥ how and what year describes IMC as 'a way of looking at the whole
marketing process from the viewpoint of the customer'.
Answer: Kotler (2003)
⩥ what is IMC trying to achieve?.
Answer: to sell more branded product or service or achieve a higher
price that consumers are willing to pay that they would otherwise be
willing to in the absence of advertising
⩥ distribution channels.
Answer: the path through which products or services get to customers
⩥ what were the two interesting points that Rossiter and Bellman (2005)
made regarding the role of traditional advertising compared with
promotion in today's marketing communication.
Answer: 1) there had been an increase, not a decrease, in the use of
general advertising media