Can marketing create needs and demands?

Does marketing creates need or responds to the need? it is the very old marketing argument. I think marketing does this both. In order to survive in the competition or keeping business alive, marketers has to follow both strategies. Marketing satisfies need when consumersā€™ know what they need. But when there is no need is present or consumersā€™ donā€™t have the idea about what they need, marketing creates need. Read more