Public Relations Role In Integrated Marketing Communication

Consumers have come a long way since the 1960s when John Fitzgerald Kennedy established the Consumers Bill of Rights. In actuality, the consumers have grown skeptical, due to gaps between what company’s say and in how they (or their products) actually perform. Enter Integrated Marketing Communication (hereafter referred to as IMC). The decline in corporations and their productivity has led to a new movement intending to integrate the three main assets of business: public relations (hereafter referred to as PR), advertising and marketing. The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of PR in IMC; however, in order to do this, we must first understand what IMC is and what purpose it serves.
In recent years there has been a shift from the emphasis on the individual spectrums of advertising, marketing, and PR to movement toward IMC. Its goal? To create a unified message. To find one efficient definition of IMC is hard to come by; however, loosely defined Integrated Mark...