Liquid Youth, a brand highlighted in today's Noteworthy Launches, is part of a spate of health and wellness beverages seemingly—or explicitly—aimed at women. The collagen water is “designed to nourish your skin, hair, nails, and joints, empowering your beauty from the inside out." The drink, packed in...

Red Bull topped a list of non-alcoholic beverage brands that generated the highest return on investment for influencer marketing last year, according to CreatorIQ, which helps brands track and manage influencer marketing programs. The firm developed a proprietary metric called Earned Media Value (EMV) to benchmark and evaluate the effectiveness of influencer campaigns in engaging consumers. The top-10 ranking shows...

Two senior executives from major soft drink bottlers shared insights during BD’s recent Future Smarts conference into how their bottling organizations are navigating everything from evolving consumer preferences to capital expenditures in the age of technology. Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages President Jean-Claude Tissot and Admiral Beverage EVP and General...

Coca-Cola has launched a BodyArmor Flash I.V. Caffeine Zero Sugar variant in flavors Pineapple Passionfruit and Watermelon Punch. The sports drink contains 95mg of caffeine....

Technology Boosts Coke’s Marketing Effectiveness Up to +300%

Keurig Dr Pepper Hires from Oracle, Google

Brand AI Agents Assist KDP Marketers on Packaging, Advertising, Sales

Beverage Digest hosted on-stage conversations with the global CMOs of both Coca-Cola and Keurig Dr Pepper during its Future Smarts conference in New York on Dec. 15. The thrust of the discussion centered on digital technology — including artificial intelligence — in marketing operations, data-driven...

I got the chance to join a friend in Las Vegas for the Formula 1 Heineken Las Vegas Grand Prix late last month. This global motor sport has captured the attention of young US consumers, and brands are piling in with sponsorships to attach themselves to the fervor. In October, Apple agreed to pay a reported $750 million for exclusive rights to broadcast F1 races for US audiences for the next five years. Coca-Cola first put its name on an F1 car, a McLaren, in 2019.

Just this week, PepsiCo announced a global partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team starting next year. Mercedes is among the most valuable and elite teams in open wheel F1 racing. The marketing partnership covers...