Coca-Cola concluded probably the largest experiment in the brand’s music history—its 24-hour live session with Maroon5, during which the band were writing and recording a new song. Throughout the unique event, which was steaming live online, the band’s and the brand’s fans from all around the globe were supporting the guys in the studio by tweeting with hashtag #WithMaroon5 (the messages popped up on the interactive wall in the studio).
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Pepsi is celebrating up-and-coming artists by launching a new system that rates their popularity based on social media buzz around them. The iconic soda brand launched The Pepsi Music Index, a live ranking engine which analyses people’s real-time opinions on the performers and presents ‘the feedback’ in a clear ranking. The new system is very similar to the MTV Music Meter launched in mid-December 2010, which also builds a chart of the most popular emerging performers based on real-time discussions about them in the digital world.
‘Music for charity’—this idea is behind a range of Coca-Cola’s social initiatives, launched in recent years. Now, in collaboration with musicians Solange Knowles, Chris Taylor and Twin Shadow, the soft drink giant has released a digital-only charity single, ‘Kenya,’ which is helping raise money the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) by Coca-Cola.
Jim Beam announced the first-of-its-kind ‘Live Music Series’—a string of 10 concerts each featuring a different headline artist that has forged a unique and bold path to success. Jim Beam will offer a program that allows legal-aged consumers to choose exclusive song downloads from the Live Music Concert Series.
Coca-Cola to present new bottles as homage to iconic electronic duo Daft Punk (and in partnership with them) as a new addition to the Club Coke portfolio, which already includes flamboyant designs by Justice & So_Me and Mika. The new bottles in gold and silver, without any pattern at all will be released in a limited-edition box in early March. The minimalistic and kind of futuristic space design is inspired by the appearance of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who always perform in their helmets created with a high-tech twist.