An Analysis of the strategies used by Coca-Cola to target specific demographics

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An Analysis of the strategies used by Coca-Cola to target specific demographics

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  An Analysis of the strategies used by Coca-

Cola to target specific demographics

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Deciphering Adverts • Semiotics – Founded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure

• Further developments by Post-Structuralist Roland Barthes

• A formula devised to understand what an image is try to communicate or represent.

• Signifier+Signified=Sign

• Signifier = image

• Signified = image representation

• Sign = association of the image as the quality of what it represents

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Brand Awareness

Reaching Mass Audiences

•  Sponsorship – World Cup and the •Olympic Games

•  They bring different genders and •age groups together.

•  These events have similar brand  •values to Coca-Cola

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Coca-Cola

Open Happiness Campaign

•  Iconic contour bottle shape

•  Sans Serif type

•  Coca-Cola red

•  Trademarked slogan

•  No people used

•  Generating a feeling

•  A wide demographic is targeted

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Unethical Practices

Indian Bottling Plants

•  Groundwater resources  •depleted

•  Factory waste discharged into •rivers, fields and groundwater

•  ‘Fertilizers’ from by-products •found to be to toxic

•  Cadmium and lead – can cause •birth defects and miscarriages   

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Coca-Cola Zero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ausqvoQOA

Wayne Rooney Campaign

•  Targets 20-something males

•  Athletic – Health conscience

•  Success – Plays for one of the most •successful football teams in the •world

•  Is not associated with the feminine •Diet Coke brand

 

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The Myth

• Image of Wayne Rooney and Coke Zero is only denoting a person and a drink

• Attributes/values of Wayne Rooney -  young, athletic, successful male

• Connotation - The visual representation of Wayne Rooney suggests that Coke Zero is part of his attributes. 

• A myth is built

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Artificial SweetenersSodium Cyclamate

•  Banned in America in 1969•  Tests show that it is carcinogenic•  Venezuela has banned the sale and                                                                     •production of Coke Zero

Aspartame•  British and US versions use aspartame

•  Over 75% of adverse reactions to food     •additives reported in the US

•  Research indicates conditions like    •Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis may •be caused

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Summary

Have these adverts worked?

•  Sales in Britain of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero •reached the £1 billion in 2009

•  Great result considering being in the worst global •recession since the 1930’s

•  Open Happiness – tapping into the mood of the nation•