Trends in marketing communication with a focus on social marketing

Bachelor work deals with trends in marketing communication and their focus on solving social problems. Theoretical part generally focuses on the action of the communication and communicating mix in the marketing mix, it describes trend in marketing communication as guerilla marketing and viral marketing. It defines the terms of social marketing, cause related marketing and corporate social responsibility. The practical part describes a nonprofit organization Oxfam International and it also describes marketing communication of its campaign Grow. Furthermore, it characterizes successful guerilla and viral campaigns with the focus on solving social problem and evaluates the usage of these trends in daily campaigns. In the last part, it introduces cause related marketing campaign that creates jobs for USA from the Starbucks company