Updated marketing text addresses latest customer engagement tools, practices and developments

The revised edition of Kotler and Armstrong’s popular Principles of Marketing continues to build on the importance of customer involvement in shaping brands, and more specifically brand conversations, experiences, advocacy and community.

It offers fresh insights into real marketing practices from all-stars including Walmart, Amazon, Netflix and Apple to encourage students to explore current issues such as mobile and social marketing, ethics and financial marketing analysis. New and updated cases enable students to apply what they’ve learned to actual company and brand situations.


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Ohio State University, USA instructors saw a positive correlation between MyLab Marketing assignment scores and MyLab quiz scores for the hybrid  (blended) and online cohorts on their marketing course. Through MyLab, students in both formats get the same course experience – earning similar homework, quiz, exam and final course grades across both course formats. In a student survey, 87% agreed that simulation assignments helped them develop important critical thinking and decision-making skills.

Average Course Assignment and Assessment Scores for Online (n=316) and Hybrid (n=249) Sections, Fall 2018 are shown in this table: 


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