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Marketing communications in the digital age
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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Xia Zhu and Yue Meng-Lewis. It was first published in December 2022.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence .

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Course image: violetkaipa/Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: Markus Spiske/Unsplash

Figure 3: adapted from p. 634 Kotler et al (2019).

Figure 4: Cartoon image: Resource/shutterstock.com

Figure 5: Dmitrii_Guzhanin/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Figure 7: Simon Hark/Shutterstock.com

Figure 9: Sunan Panyo/123RF.com

Figure 10: sebastien decoret/123RF.com

Figure 11: Oleksandr Kashcheiev/123RF.com

Figure 12: © Fred Bush Safaris

Figure 13: Olivier Le Moal/123rf.com

Audio-visual

Video 2: Sasol ‘Ama-Glug-Glug’ advert https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Nf1wD3FxOIw&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=Sasol [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] courtesy: Sasol https://www.sasol.com/

Video 7: HelloFresh ‘Dinner is solved’ advert. Courtesy: HelloFresh UK https://www.hellofresh.co.uk/

Video 10: NHS ‘Second-hand smoke – the invisible killer’ advert https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YtdhpaQw5t8&ab_channel=LucindaSinclair NHS. Crown Copyright

Video 13: Dark Gummies advert. Courtesy: Drug Free Kids Canadahttps://www.drugfreekidscanada.org

Video 16: Nintendo ‘Two brothers’ advert. courtesy: Alec Helm/The Nintendo Company

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