Soft drinks

Article • WARC Category Intelligence, March 2018

Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in the energy drinks category.

Case Study • SABRE Awards, EMEA, Marketing to Women, Gold, 2019

Energy drink brand Carabao created a media relations campaign based around Google image searches to showcase the brand’s ethos as one that resonated with young women in the UK.

Coca-Cola launches its first branded energy drink

News • 01 April 2019

Coca-Cola will launch its first energy drink in the UK under the Coca-Cola brand in a move that will put it in direct competition with market leaders Red Bull and Lucozade, as well as Monster, in which Coca-Cola has a minority stake.

Carabao Energy Drink: Mr Carabao’s £1 Million Giveaway

Case Study • Case Studies on WARC, 2018

Energy drink brand Carabao increased trial and rate of sale in the UK with a promotional campaign that allowed consumers to win a share of a total £1m cash prize fund.

Inside Red Bull's behavioural strategy for retail partners

News • 17 January 2019

The international energy drink brand Red Bull, is deploying an intensification strategy in the United States and will help its retail partners by deploying findings from an in-depth behavioural study.

How Red Bull optimises need-state-based retail activations

Article • Sam Peña-Taylor, Event Reports, Shopper Insights & Retail Activation Conference, October 2018

Red Bull, the global drinks brand, undertook a behavioural study to uncover a need-state based segmentation of its audience in order to aid retail partners.

Refinery29 x Gatorade: Sisters in Sweat

Case Study • Finola Austin, WARC Media Awards, Entrant, Best Use of Data, 2018

Sports-themed food-and-drink brand Gatorade joined forces with digital media and entertainment company Refinery29 to target teen female athletes in the US with a digital and social media campaign.

Suntory: Lucozade

Case Study • MMA Smarties, Gold, South Africa, 2018

Lucozade, the beverage brand, created a digital first campaign to promote its completion in South Africa.

Sting: STING X ASIAD - Most recognizable online campaign hijacked the biggest Vietnam milestone in 2018

Case Study • MMA Smarties, Finalist, Vietnam, 2018

Sting, a carbonated energy drink, leveraged the Asiad 2018 games to promote the brand across digital and social engagements with the Vietnam teams and athletes.

Blindfolded, Describing an Elephant: Why you need multiple implicit tools to tackle real world questions

Research Paper • Leigh Caldwell, ESOMAR, Congress, 2018

The research team for an energy drink company addressed the concepts around the nonconscious drivers of consumption by creating a model of the UK consumer’s mind and how the different parts of it collaborate to achieve the consumer’s goals.

YouGov Ad of the month - UK: Carabao

Opinion • BrandIndex, September 2018

This month, energy drinks brand Carabao is the brand which has achieved the highest uplift in its Ad Awareness in the UK.

Mountain Dew, Visioncare and Nickelodeon meet millennials in the ’90s

Article • Geoffrey Precourt, Event Reports, ANA Brand Activation Conference, April 2018

Nickelodeon, the kids-focused media brand, has successfully connected with millennials through appealing to their sense of nostalgia.

Citrix & Red Bull Racing: This is how the future works

Case Study • AME Awards, Silver, 2018

Citrix, an American multinational software company, increased site traffic and share of voice by creating an entire digital ecosystem to reach business and IT decision makers.

Gatorade: The sports fuel company - Jimmie Johnson Gatorade dunk

Case Study • AME Awards, Finalist, 2018

Gatorade, a manufacturer of sports-themed beverage and food products, launched the Jimmie Johnson Gatorade Dunk campaign in the US.

The world's best drinks campaigns and companies 2018

Rankings • Rankings Articles, May 2018

Looks into which drinks campaigns, along with the agencies that have worked on drinks campaigns, have performed best over the past year.

How Boost targets children on parent’s phones

Article • Jo Bowman, Event Reports, I-COM Data Creativity Awards 2018

Boost, a malted drink popular with children in India, successfully reached its target audience with long-form video content delivered via parents’ phones.

Soft drinks global industry overview

Article • Euromonitor Strategy Briefings, March 2018

Gives a global industry overview of the soft drinks category, including leading companies and brands, the top five trends shaping the industry and market snapshots.

Leveraging category entry points to drive brand influence in China

Article • Chris Maier, Research on WARC, Publicis Media China, November 2017

This article draws on exclusive research by Publicis Media China and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute to determine how CEPs drive brand influence in the Chinese ready-to-drink category.

Re-inventing the Redbull India content strategy

Case Study • Samera Khan, WARC Prize for Asian Strategy, Entrant, 2017

Energy brand Red Bull reinvented its content strategy on Facebook to become relevant to the Indian audience, while staying true to the brand's values.

Sponsor: The Flag of Spirit

Case Study • Sasipa Mongolnavin, WARC Prize for Asian Strategy, Entrant, 2017

Sponsor, a sports drink brand in Thailand, increased its sales by building a connection with sports lovers by helping them support the Thai national football team.

Boost: Playing a bigger game

Case Study • Rachit Khanna, Deep Singh, WARC Prize for Asian Strategy, Entrant, 2017

Kids' malt drink brand Boost used TV and print to reposition itself in India.

Gatorade Drives High Social Engagement

Case Study • Direct Marketing Association - US, Runner Up, Best Use of Social Media, 2017

Gatorade, a sports drink brand, engaged millennials in the US by creating an interactive ad game on Snapchat to help increase purchase intent and relevance.

How Boost is paying way to effectively target kids using Pokkt's proprietary software and overall, driving brand preference

Case Study • MMA Smarties, Silver, India, 2017

Boost Drinks, an energy drinks brand, increased consideration among its target audience by creating a 3-part video series with its celebrity brand ambassador, Virat Kohli.

Mizone Olimpiactiv

Case Study • MMA Smarties, Bronze, Indonesia, 2017

Mizone, an energy drink brand, increased brand uplift by creating the world's first digital sporting event on mobile.

MILO Champ Squad Trade Launch

Case Study • MMA Smarties, Gold, Indonesia, 2017

MILO, a beverage produced by Nestle, launched a geo-targeting mobile campaign to promote its drink product as a healthy choice for families.