Throughout the discussion, we have attempted to show the complementarities between IMC, market orientation, and brand orientation. We have emphasized that each concept reflects specific emphasis, but collectively, they provide a rich description and complex insight into the relationship. For most organizations, the issue of what is an antecedent to what does not seriously arise, because it is the exploitation of the complementarities that is more important. However, for organizations with low market orientation, in this case, the cultural context for inter functional coordination and focusing on customers, attempts to develop IMC may not succeed.