“The Pepsi Refresh Project: Viral Marketing” Frederick Thomas Business 508 Summer 2012 • Dr. Lisa Toson “The Pepsi Refresh Project: Viral Marketing” 1 Introduction; Purpose: Pepsi way of using another avenue in selling their brand product to the public. The Pepsi Refresh Project obligated to make $20M in grants toward social innovation projects selected
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The Pepsi Refresh Project: A Thirst for Change 1. Should the Pepsi brand team continue to fund Pepsi Refresh Project in 2011? Pepsi brand team should keep this Refresh project for maintaining and strengthen Pepsi’s brand position in soda market. The Pepsi Refresh Project is a first-of-its-kind initiative‚ positioning as a consumer brand‚ and directly respond to the evolving needs of consumers and their preferred methods of communication such as facebook‚ twitter‚ blog‚
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Analysis of Pepsi Refresh Project PR campaign (R.O.P.E. Format) Case Study #1 Pepsi Refresh Project In today’s generation Y age so many Americans and world citizens use social media. Facebook‚ Twitter‚ online blogs and photo and video sharing sites like Youtube are being accessed by a wide variety of publics. It makes sense that to run a successful PR and marketing campaign these social media sites be used to promote and spread the missions and objectives of the campaign
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Candidate no: 045751 ‘NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Pepsi ’s Refresh Project‚ a first-of-its-kind experiment in social media’ "You ’re not going to fix this with a new logo or can or graphics‚ or ad campaign‚" he said. "This requires a major‚ comprehensive approach to the category and a refocusing to optimally capture the value of the brand at every beverage occasion‚ rather than have the discourse be ... how much volume can we pump out into the marketplace‚" said Mr. Laboy‚ PepsiCo Executive interview
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In order to discuss the success of the Pepsi Refresh Project‚ we must first discuss the target demographic and the goal of the campaign. The target demographic of the project was the “Millennial” consumers between the ages of 17 and 27. The psychographic target was proactive individuals who displayed initiative and a genuine interest for improving their local communities. It was an age group of people who had just experienced the financial crisis of 2008 and yet still had hope and a need for change
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COMPANY Case Pepsi: Can a Soda Really Make the World a Better Place? This year‚ PepsiCo did something that shocked the advertising world. After 23 straight years of running ads for its flagship brand on the Super Bowl‚ it announced that the number-two soft drink maker would be absent from the Big Game. But in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLIV‚ Pepsi was still the second-most discussed advertiser associated with the event. It wasn’t so much what Pepsi wasn’t doing that created such a stir
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PeJoe Grondin The Pepsi Refresh Project: A Thirst for Change For decades‚ PepsiCo beverages have had success in capturing much market share of the soft drink industry through fascinating advertising campaigns. Their campaigns revolved around the idea that Pepsi was a drink for the young and young at heart. The advertisements were filled with optimism and aimed to bring people together in some way. At the turn of the twenty-first century‚ Pepsi was challenged with the fact that people were
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1. Pepsi relied on the celebrities on its marketing campaigns throughout its history and the message given by Pepsi was most concentrated on being young “ 1961-1964: Now It’s Pepsi for those Who Think Young”‚ 1992-1993 “Be Young‚ Have Fun Drink Pepsi” to being socially responsible. Pepsi used to have a brand image of being “cool” however Pepsi tried to change this image to being socially responsible and started the campaign Pepsi Refresh which aims to grant aid to the projects which promises to make
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virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others‚ creating the potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Like viruses‚ such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands‚ to millions. Off the Internet‚ viral marketing has been referred to as "word-of-mouth‚" "creating a buzz‚" "leveraging the media‚" "network marketing." But on the Internet
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is resolved. (September 2008) There is debate on the origination and the popularization of the term Viral Marketing‚ though some of the earliest uses of the current term are attributed to Harvard Business School graduate Tim Draper and Harvard Business School faculty member Jeffrey Rayport. The term was later popularized by Jeffrey Rayport in his 1996 Fast Company article ’The Virus of Marketing’ ‚ and Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1997 to
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