Best Coca-Cola Marketing Campaigns

Coca-Cola has been a dominating name in the soft drink industry for the last century.  One of the factors behind the brand’s popularity is its incredible, effective and innovative marketing campaigns.  Let us look at some of the most memorable and successful marketing campaigns done by Coca-Cola.

Best marketing campaigns by Coca-Cola

1) Christmas campaign, 1930

Often credited for popularising the modern image of Santa Claus, Coca-Cola introduced the red and white santa image first in 1931, as a part of its winter advertisement.  Created by artist Haddon Sundblom, the image was used by the Company as a brilliant marketing tool and it became so successful, children started leaving bottles of Coke for Santa Claus, on Christmas night. 

2) Hilltop, 1971

Hilltop is one of the biggest groundbreaking television commercials by Coca-Cola till date and is considered the world’s most famous ad by many.  The advertisement featured a group of young people from different ethnicities singing I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) on a hilltop in Italy.  The advertisement was an instant hit and the song became synonymous with Coca-Cola.

3) Always Coca-Cola, 1993

In 1993, Coca-Cola decided to experiment with the then fairly recent technology, computer animation.  This resulted in the creation of Coca-Cola polar bears, which are featured frequently in the Company’s various advertisements since then.  The campaign featured 27 different advertisements which appealed to a wide range of customers. Out of the 27 commercials, the ‘Northern Lights’ advertisement became the most popular and polar bears became mascots of the Company.

4) Share a Coke, 2014

One of the best performing campaigns in recent times, Coca-Cola’s ‘Share a Coke’ campaign was introduced in the summer of 2014.  The Company used 250 most common millennial names to market its products and the campaign quickly gained international recognition.  Over 500,000 photos with the tag #ShareaCoke were shared online within a year.

5) Taste the Feeling, 2016

The ‘Taste the Feeling’ campaign was an update to Coca-Cola’s previous “Open happiness” tagline.  The campaign featured 10 TV commercials and showed the feeling which surrounds drinking a bottle of Coke.  The campaign featured the song Taste The Feeling, sung by late Swedish DJ Avicii and Australian singer Conrad Sewell.

By putting more emphasis on the brand instead of its products, Coca-Cola has become one of the most successful companies in the world, with a net worth of $ 227.4 billion.