Powerade, the brand owned by Coca-Cola, has launched a new campaign featuring UK paralympic athlete Richard Whitehead to promote the improved formula of its ION4. The campaign is part of the bigger advertising platform taglined ‘Keep on Sweating’ that showcases the famous athletes.
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The Coca-Cola Company has published its seventh systemwide Sustainability Review, entitled Our Commitment to Making a Positive Difference in the World. The Review releases 25 sustainability goals across seven focus areas for the Company and its bottling partners and also reports the Company’s sustainability strategy and progress.
The Doritos ‘Pug Attack’ user-created commercial about a dog which goes for chips scored the No.1 ranking in the 2011 USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter rating, bringing its creator, JR Burningham, one million dollars as a prize from PepsiCo. This year’s top-five also includes by Bud Light ‘Dog Sitting’ ad (which received 8.5 Ad Meter Score just like the winning spot), Volkswagen’s little Darth Vader commercial, Doritos ‘House Sitting’ (created by Tynesha Williams, won $400,000) and Pepsi MAX ‘Love Hurts’ spots.
Coca-Cola India and NDTV, India’s largest news and infotainment network, in association with their NGO partners, UN-HABITAT, Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and Sulabh International, embarked upon a unique initiative ‘Support My School.’ The campaign, started January 24, aims to develop healthy, active and happy schools in rural and semi-urban towns of India by improving basic amenities in educational institution of this kind and subsequently generate monetary resources for over 100 schools across the country.
Diet Coke and Heidi Klum joined forces on to raise awareness and funds for women’s heart health education and research. February is American Heart Month, and for the fourth consecutive year, Diet Coke is partnering with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to support ‘The Heart Truth®’ campaign (read more about the brand’s involvement in the movement in 2009 and 2010).
Pepsi announced the program details of the 2011 Pepsi Refresh Project, a crowd-sourcing movement that supports bold, fun creative ideas that have the power to move communities forward. In 2010, the Pepsi Refresh Project, an award-winning program, directed millions of dollars to fund over 1,000 great ideas across the country, and now it wants to fund twice as many great ideas.