MG103 Consumer Behaviour — Insight Brief LSE ID Number: 201441431 Word count: 1,052 Coca-Cola is a well-established brand which is famous for its carbonated soft drinks. Almost everyone has heard or tried its products and many people may consider coke as their first choice when choosing a beverage. In order to further ignite people’s passion in Coca-Cola’s products and link the brand to positive associations, Coca-Cola had launched a campaign called “Share a Coke” in more than 80 countries, which was debuted in Australia during the summer of 2011 (Moye, 2015). The highlight of this campaign is that consumers could buy a personalized coke with their names on the packaging. The logo of Coca-Cola is replaced by popular names or other …show more content…
The main reasons for the campaign’s success are that it effectively attracts consumers’ attention and persuades them to buy the product. Firstly, attention of consumers will be discussed. Consumers’ attentions are usually limited, selective and can be divided. However, as long as marketers are able to create stimuli that are personally relevant, pleasant, surprising and easy to process, they can have the consumers’ attention (Kappes, 2015). Since Coca-Cola’s campaign had succeeded in meeting some of the above requirements, it is rather attention-grabbing. The products that Coca-Cola lunched during the campaign were personally relevant as there are personalized names and messages on the packaging. This was appealing to consumers since this feature makes buyers to feel that they are purchasing personalized products, which produced a sense of ownership towards the cokes; it was likely that the consumer may turn the thought into reality, that is to buy the Coca-Cola’s products. Other than creating the stimuli of personal relevance, the campaign also produced the surprising stimuli.Most consumers do not expect to receive personalized drinks with their own names on it. It is something new to have such design and thus consumer may feel surprised. Furthermore, Coca-Cola also released some labeling with special or humorous messages, for instance BFF, no one and
When Coca cola bring refreshment, value, joy and fun to their stakeholders, then they successfully nurture and protect their brands, particularly Coca-Cola that is the key to fulfilling our ultimate obligation to provide consistently attractive returns to the owners of our business. Marketing positioning Local marketing strategy enables Coke to listen to all the voices around the world asking for beverage that span the entire spectrum of tastes and occasions. What people want in a beverage is a reflection of who they are, where they live, how they work and play, and how they relax and recharge. Whether you’re a student in the United States enjoying are freshing Coca –Cola a woman in Italy taking a tea break , a child in Peru asking for a juices drink, or a couple in Korea buying bottled water after a run together, “Coca cola is there for you. Coca cola are determined not only to make great drinks, but also to contribute to communities around the world through our commitments to education, health, well ness, and diversity. Coke Strives to be a good neighbor, consistently shaping business decisions to improve the quality of life in the communities in which coke does business. It’s a special thing to have billions of friends around the world, and coke never forgets it.
The soft drink industry is currently in a decline. One of the reasons is due the concern of health issues related to soft drinks. With the Share-A-Coke program, there has been a growth in sales of Coca Cola products. This success is due to the increase in social media activities generated by the idea of sharing. Customers are able to find personalize Coca Cola and are sharing them with people around them. This is important because we are targeting groups of people in various categories instead of just a specific audiences. The competition has not created any kind of promotion that is similar to this.
Over the last few decades, American culture has been forever changed by the huge amount of advertisement the people are subjected to. Advertising has become such an integral part of society, many people will choose whether or not they want to buy a product based only on their familiarity with it rather than the product’s price or effectiveness. Do to that fact, companies must provide the very best and most convincing advertisements as possible. Those companies have, in fact, done
Many junk food advertisements are aimed to attract certain audiences in specific. Carl’s Jr advertisements with the women in bikinis are aimed to attract an older audience while the animated commercials for Lucky Charms or Frosted Flakes are aimed towards children. Recently, Coca-Cola Company has come up with the “Share a Coke” campaign in which the Coke plastic bottles now have an extensive range of common names; customers can then look for their friends’ names and “share a Coke”. This marketing strategy has proven to be very effective amongst the youth with teenagers posting pictures of their customized coke on social media such as Instagram or Facebook. Coca-Cola has even gone as far as creating a website for the sole purpose of customizing cokes for special occasions. The homepage of shareacoke.com includes three options for customizing America’s favorite soda, “Celebrate Birthdays”, “World Champions”, and “Wedding Party Fun.” The website even goes as far as offering free shipping for orders of twelve cokes or more. Back in 2013, Coca-Cola came up with “The Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial” in which it listed
Persuasive appeals successfully convince the audience to buy
Experiencing adventures in life for many “classics”. Movies, songs, and foods all fit into this special, yet simple category. The classic glass bottle with white letting labeling “Coca-Cola” will forever be the typical, classic beverage for all. “Coke’s Love Story” intensifies the rhetorical appeals while appreciating audiences from different friend groups, families, and couples. Coca-Cola continues to strive to change people’s emotions, opinions and taste buds by a simple sip of
It's a hot summer day and you're craving a cool, refreshing drink. As you walk into the grocery store, you begin to scan the rows of liquid refreshments. The universally familiar red label of Coca Cola catches your eye. Suddenly, images of laughing friends and family fill your mind and a feeling of love and happiness washes over you. Why is this? It seems that people all over the world are able to recognize Coca Cola and the happiness it represents. No matter what Coke commercial you see, this company has branded itself as being love and happiness in a bottle.
The campaign was launched to retrieve sales, as in the prior month, 50% of teenagers and young adults had not tasted a Coke (“'Share A Coke' campaign,” 2012). Originating in Australia, Coca-Cola wanted to revive the idea of people getting together and having a good time over a Coke. It aimed to initiate conversations with close friends and between those who had lost touch. Social media took off almost immediately. With a broad target audience in mind, Coke enabled people to be engaged in different ways. Individuals could get highly involved with the campaign or simply purchase a drink and give to a friend and still enjoy the fun. Fans became the face of the
To conclude, after watching ads for over two hours I have learned that advertising is an effective method of persuasion. I noticed that several ads applied multiple appeals to persuade viewers to buy their products. I also noticed that several techniques were applied to make the viewer more interested in products. Before this exercise, I did not realize that I subconsciously paid attention to advertising on television. In the future, I will try to be more conscious of my buying
The Coca-Cola organization has made exemplary strides mainly to offer a variety of products to its clients even with the competitive nature of the market. Consumers’ choice gets based on the brand aspect in which the organization wins most customers' heart against its rivals. Even though a significant number of people deny cases to having inclination picking between Coca-Cola items or its rivals', many have a strong desire in some way. Many inclines toward Coca-Cola products since the organization has more than hundred years of history and predictable brand image. This picture is engraved in a lot of people subsequently end up purchasing their beverages. It is out rightly conspicuous in the company’s high market share in the field of soft drinks.
Coca-Cola is the result of a patent medicine formulated in a small southern pharmacy over a hundred years ago. It has grown into a multibillion dollar international company. It also owns one of the most valuable brands in the world. Their Coca-Cola banner has won the world’s top brand 13 times on brand c-consulting firm Interbrand’s annual list (Fraser, 2012). In addition to its main product, Coke, the company owns over 3500 beverages. One of its core competencies is brand building. They have built their brand to have respectability and dependability. Their brand and logo are recognized all around the globe. It has actually become a new known on almost all households worldwide (RNWILKIN, 2009).
Despite its relation to obesity and other health risk, soda still remains as a popular beverage in the United States, and upon other demographic groups. Amongst the lineup of refreshments, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are the most leading carbonated cola beverage brands around the world. Pepsi and Coca-Cola had been rivals when introduced respectively in the 1900s, trying to dominate the carbonated soft drink market. Through print ads and video ads, both brands were undergoing global advertising war trying to dominate each other. Between the two brands, Coca-Cola seem to be superior to Pepsi due to it’s creative advertisements that grabs consumer’s attention. Coca-Cola portrays rhetorical strategies within the advertisement to catch the audience’s attention by using ethos, pathos, and logos.
Coco Cola advertisement seemed a good choice of texts for analysis because of the nature of Coca Cola’s approach to advertising. The famous logo was created in 1885 and this together with the iconic shapes of the bottle and corporate colours have not really changed since then. The shape of the bottle and logo colouring, instantly identifies it as Coco Cola. The advertisement analysed below is taken ‘Vogue’ Magazine (Issue November 2007) and is for ‘Diet Coke’ which was a new venture for the company in 1982 and within two years ‘Coke’ had become the top low-calorie soft drink in the world. Although “Coke” replaced the traditional name of “Coca Cola”, the red is still used and silver replaces the white
The Coca Cola company has promoted a new campaign launch to help catch consumer’s attention. From 1886 to 2016 Coca Cola has been a well-known soft drink. The campaign launch “Share a Coke with a Friend” that was released in 2014 had grabbed consumer’s attention tremendously. The new campaign was targeting everyone. The Coca Cola company knew they needed to create a campaign that would make an impression on the newer generation. The “Share a Coke with a Friend” Campaign was an interesting approach that made a tremendous change in the Coca Cola advertisement industry. The new ad had drawn in even more consumers.
They have succeeded in focusing on the brand image, customer retention and adding social and ethical benefits to every bottle they sell (Coca-Cola.com, 2014). “In advertising, everything depends on strategy applied on the market, which is adjusted to the positioning” (Moraru, 2010).