Combining content marketing and sponsorship at Coca-Cola

This event report discusses how Coca-Cola evaluates sponsorship opportunities, and builds content marketing efforts around them.

Combining content marketing and sponsorship at Coca-Cola

Low Lai Chow

"These days, the consumer is as much a brand manager as I am," Prinz Mathew Pinakatt, Coca-Cola's global director of alliances and ventures, declared while speaking at Sports Matters, a conference held in Singapore in September 2013.

Social media has been a key factor in encouraging such a state of affairs, he told delegates. But many brands have still not mastered the art of marketing on this channel. "It's really hard to say who's good at it. The larger the organisation, usually the harder it is, because of the guidelines...

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