Faculty

Prof. Sh. DheerajAdvertising

ITM- KhargharExecutive MBA

Batch XIII

Name:- Geeta Raut - 12

Youngistan Campaign

Indian Soft Drink Market

Carbonated

NonCarbonated85%

15%

About PepsiCo • PepsiCo is a world leader in convenience

foods and beverages. Its world renowned brands are available in nearly 200 countries and territories.

• PepsiCo entered India in 1989 and has grown to become the country’s largest selling food and beverage companies.

• PepsiCo India have invested more than U.S.$700 million since the company was established in the country in 1989.

PepsiCo’s Profile • Revenues in 2007 was more than $39 billion.

• Share in Indian carbonated soft drink market is

• 43 bottling plants in India, of which 15 are company owned and 28 are franchisee owned.

• PepsiCo’s Frito Lay snack division has 3 state of the art plants.

• It has more than 185,000 employees across the world.

• In India, PepsiCo provides direct employment to 4,000 people and indirect employment to 60,000 people including suppliers and distributors.

• CEO : Mr.Sanjeev Chadha.

• India Headquarters : Gurgaon.

Brand Image of Pepsi

• Pepsi is a brand that every youngster relates to.

• But this definitely doesn’t mean that other age groups are not it’s user’s.

• Thus Pepsi’s brand image is it’s hip, cool, lively and refreshing attitude.

Products

Advertising Strategy of Pepsi• Pepsi’s target audience are mostly teens

and young adults and their advertising reflects this in every possible way.

• The company changes its advertising strategy and image to reflect the target's interests.

• Pepsi makes sure that the advertisements reflect to the target audience’s interests.

CONTD…• The advertising strategy includes cool,

hip promos to attract more of the target audience.

• The advertising is mostly creative and has different elements like music and sports other than bollywood.

• Pepsi.com also plays an important role in advertising and attracts target audience by giving access to options like downloads.

Some of Pepsi’s successful Campaigns

Yeh Dil maange more

Bubbly Campaign

Youngistan Campaign

“Yeh hai Youngistaan Meri Jaan “

About Youngistan• This campaign has two new celebrities

Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone —who acted in the two most-talked about Hindi films in 2007, to accompany brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan.

• “This time we wanted an all-encompassing theme. ‘Youngistan’ reflects the mood of India’s youth, which is today keen to take the ropes and drive India,” says Punita Lal, executive director, marketing, PepsiCo.

CONTD…• “Youngistan”, hopes to cash in on the

buzz surrounding today’s youngsters.

• Youngistan is not so much a place and it is a state of mind of today’s youth. “While the term is new, what it stands for – the GenNext attitude – is not new”.

Segmenting pattern• Demographics: The Campaign targets

teens and young adults of metros and phase II cities.

• Psychographics: The campaign attempts to capture the youth of today by focusing on their personality,lifestyle and attitude of youth through the advertisement

Targeting Strategy• The Youngistaan Campaign uses

undifferentiated targeting strategy to reach out to its target audience. That is it launched youngistaan campaign for all the target audience in the same way.

Positioning• The campaign positioning was done

on the basis of user approach i.e a personality based approach where a user’s image or association rubs off on the brand image. The user could be a celebrity or an ordinary user.

• For this campaign Pepsi used the three most popular celebrities of the last year i.e Shahrukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone

Placement of the Campaign• The campaign was first launched on T.V during the tri-

series matches in February.

• The campaign was launched across radio, outdoor, Web and wireless platforms.

• Pepsi has launched a website for Youngistan inside the Pepsi Cool Zone and is planning to make it a responsive peer group site where youngsters can visit and make comments on any topic.

• Pepsi Youngistan is also sponsoring ‘‘Wassup Youngistan” on MTV, a show where youth can voice their thoughts.

Youngistan T.V advertisement

Advertising Agency for Youngistan

• JWT ( J. Walter Thompson), ranks as the largest advertising agency brand in the U.S. and as the fourth-largest full service network in the world. It was the first agency to be associated with anthropology and the study of consumer behavior.

Competitor’s for Youngistan.

• Competition for Pepsi has always come from it’s arch rival Coco-Cola. Coke kept up with Pepsi’s Youngistan by launching a campaign “Jashn Mana le” staring Hrithik Roshan.

• Sprite, a subsidiary of Coco-Cola company has also launched an ad campaign called “Hindustan”, mocking the Pepsi’s “Youngistan” campaign.

Conclusion•As it’s earlier campaign’s Pepsi through ‘Youngistan’ campaign aims at capturing it’s target audience in another cool, funky, attractive way.

Source

www.google.co.inwww.authorstream.com.Reference wikipedia.

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