In a fast-changing, increasingly digital and social marketplace, it's more vital than ever for market ers to develop meaningful connections with their customers. Principles of Marketing, 15/e, helps students master today's key marketing challenge: to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands an integral part of their daily lives. To help students understand how to create value and build customer relationships, Kotler and Armstrong present fundamental marketing information within an innovative customer-value framework.

Thoroughly revised to reflect the major trends impacting contemporary marketing, this edition is packed with stories illustrating how companies use new digital technologies to maximize customer engagement and shape brand conversations, experiences, and communities.

Marketing : creating and capturing customer value -- Company and marketing strategy : partnering to build customer relationships -- Analyzing the marketing environment -- Managing marketing information to gain customer insights -- Consumer markets and consumer buyer behavior -- Business markets and business buyer behavior -- Customer-driven marketing strategy : creating value for target customers -- Products, services, and brands : building customer value -- New-product development and product life-cycle strategies -- Pricing products : understanding and capturing customer value -- Pricing strategies -- Marketing channels : delivering customer value -- Retailing and wholesaling -- Communicating customer value : integrated marketing communication strategy -- Advertising and public relations -- Personal selling and sales promotion -- Direct and online marketing : building direct customer relationships -- Creating competitive advantage -- The global marketplace -- Sustainable marketing.