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What Marketers Can Learn from Coca-Cola’s "Share a Coke" Campaign

In 2011, Coca-Cola decided to take a chance, pulling their iconic logo off bottles and replacing it with a choice of 150 of the most common first names in each country.

The outcome? A global marketing rooster that is still being discussed and dissected almost ten years later!

Why It Worked (for Its Time):

1. Scalability in Personalization if You Will

It created instant personalization. Any time your name, or your friends name, appeared on a product, it made it shareable and photogenic and resonated emotionally. It took a commodity product and created a personalized experience out of it.

2. Invented a User Generated Content Opportunity

Not only consumers enjoyed it, but they posted about it and tweeted about it and shared about it. Coca-Cola customers became brand advocates by posting about a consumption occasion as billions posted pictures of free branding on social media.

3. Emotional Branding Through Product

The campaign wasn't about the product—It was about connection. "Sharing a Coke" was now a word for sharing a moment, a memory, a friendship, etc.

4. Localization Strategy

Each unique market had culturally relevant names and phrases. In Australia it took the chance on 150 names. In China, where last names are usually used instead of first names, Coke adjusted to use "Bestie" and "Classmate." Same emotional hook, they just adapted!

The Results:

→ +2% U.S. sales growth after a 10-year decline
→ 500,000+ photos shared with in the first year
→ 6 million virtual Coke cans created online
→ Campaign launched in 80 countries

The Takeaway:

Personalization is great, but emotional relevance is unstoppable. The best campaigns don’t just target demographic segments; they target feelings too.

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As we say goodbye to our 2024-25 interns, we say hello to newcomers as well!

Jayden is in his second year of the Broadcasting - Film & Television program at Fanshawe College with hopes of pursuing a post-graduate program at either Fanshawe College or Western University afterwards.

Starting off as a volunteer with SetReady in May this year, Jayden took on a role at reux after he volunteered his Time as a Production Coordinator on the Mod-X Truss Workshop in Toronto at the end of June.

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“Eyes Wide Shut” | Awareness Campaign on the Opioid Crisis

👉PPC Ads
👉 Short Film
👉Photography
👉Research & Strategy

Following the health of her daughter, Kristine wrote this incredibly powerful poem about the stigma her daughter experienced as a young woman with a distance use disorder.