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Hi and welcome to Thought Catalyst.

I'm Charles Painter and today we're going to be talking about the marketing campaigns of the Coca-Cola Company.

Coca-Cola was first invented within an Atlanta-based pharmacy by Dr. John Pemberton in May 1886.

Initially sold at local soda fountain counters, growing demand and the idea of making the beverage portable led to bottling the sparkling drink.

In its first year, Pemberton sold just 9 glasses of Coca-Cola a day for 5 cents a glass.

Since then, the company has expanded ever so slightly,

currently selling its products at an estimated rate of more than 1.9 billion servings a day.

That's the equivalent, every day, to almost 1 in 4 people buying something from Coca-Cola.

The Coca-Cola company is one of the most recognised companies in the world, and it's certainly the world's biggest drink company.

They control more than half the global market in carbonated soft drinks, as well as a substantial chunk of the somewhat larger non-carbonated segment.

It owns four of the world's five biggest selling soft drinks, with Coca-Cola being the world's best known and most valuable non-technology brand.

Within its portfolio, the company holds more than 500 brands including Fanta, Sprite and relentless.

Within these, they produce over 3,500 varied products, spanning from sodas to bottled water to iced teas and coffees.

Despite an estimated 94% of the world's population recognising the red and white Coca-Cola logo,

nearly 10% of their revenue, $41 billion, was spent on advertising and marketing campaigns last year.

This astronomical $4 billion was spent on a diverse range of campaign tactics across multiple geographic regions.

As with many things in the world, ironically, the companies that are the most well-recognised possessed the highest budget for their advertising and public image.

Luckily, this hefty budget allows Coke to experiment and get creative with their marketing, providing the opportunity to remind us why they're as successful as they are.

What is the Coca-Cola brand built upon?

Well, it's this secret.

Training our brains to associate the brand with a good feeling, be that.

Happiness, relaxation, friends, love, anything, rather than the soda itself that makes them good at what they do.

Now we're going to go through a few examples here.

First of all, let's have a look at the 2015 Christmas advert.

For many, the arrival of the iconic holidays are coming Coca-Cola truck is a highlight of the period, building excitement for Christmas.

The ad might be 21 years old, but interest in it shows little sign of diminishing as it brings out everyone's nostalgic side.

The focus of last year's A Coke for Christmas ad follows

a young boy who aims to spread the joy through giving Coca-Cola to those who are making Christmas a reality, including a dad, a shop assistant, and Santa Claus himself.

Now the important aspect of the advert is that it targets the whole family.

The ability to provide the experience for the entire family is essential.

The commercial itself closely follows Coke's primary principles in their advertising.

Rather than attempting to sell a drink, Coke focuses on selling an abstract positive concept, such as happiness, family and sharing.

As we can see, Coke have become experts at selling these non-concrete conceptions.

This year's video, like many before it, remains true to their core values that they use in their marketing campaigns year round.

Along with this, Coke modified their traditional formula for advertising, adopting a more multi-channel approach.

Traditionally, video, print and physical advertising were the focal point of Coke's festive commercials.

However, this year saw the addition of Coke TV and social media via hashtags and a Coke emoji.

This was an attempt to broaden their influential radius.

Now the next example we're going to look at is called Share-A-Can.

Now, Coke's Share Happiness campaign has been one of the key pillars of their advertising machine.

This involved multiple previous strategies such as the Coke Hug Me machine and the hugely successful de-branding tactic, which we'll talk about in a few minutes.

However, the The Coca-Cola Sharing Can may have successfully created the most literal rendition of Sharing a Coke.

The regular-looking can of Coke can be twisted to become two mini-cans, allowing probably one of the easiest methods for sharing a Coke on the move.

As part of the pilot project, Coke distributed its Sharing Can to thirsty Singaporeans and documented their surprised reactions.

The documentary of this surprised happiness involved a team accompanying the distributors, following them to areas where they knew there would be heavy traffic,

and filmed people's authentic reactions.

This documentation provided Coke with video evidence of the purest possible form of happiness, showing how people would react and the kind of power it has.

Now finally we get on to de-branding.

As mentioned earlier, arguably the most successful share happiness campaign would be the de-branding tactic.

Marketing director Lucy Austin

and her team within Coca-Cola's South Pacific branch were who delivered a 151 word creative brief

that gave them free reign to deliver a truly disruptive idea that would make headlines and capture the country's attention.

The resulting campaign known internally as Project Connect, based on its ambition to both strengthen the brand's bond with Australia's young adults,

and inspire shared moments of happiness with the real and virtual world, it became known as Share a Coke.

The primary concept behind this was the swapping out of Coke branding on bottles

and cans in in favour of 150 of the most popular names in Australia, allowing Coke to reach 42% of the population.

This campaign was released and almost immediately saw a positive reaction, with unaffiliated celebrities buying bottles,

and social media conversation and media coverage blowing up as a result.

Within that summer, Coke sold more than 250 million named bottles and cans in a nation of just under 23 million people.

This overwhelming positive result led to the expansion of the campaign across the world, reaching more than 70 countries.

As the campaign spread across the globe, over 17,000 names were used, including generic nicknames and titles such as Mom and Dad and Mate.

These additional titles purposefully made the invitation more about giving a coke to someone else rather than keeping it to yourself,

and broadened the appeal and played to their core principles.

The ability of such a revolutionary

and notable campaign could be argued to rely solely on the ability to relate to the customer on the eye level.

Lucy Austin suggests that the success derives from the use of our name, the most personal thing we possess.

It's our fingerprint, our identity, in one word.

It can't get much more personal than seeing our name, our own unique identifier, on a bottle of Coke.

Their campaign capitalised on the global trend of self-expression and sharing, but it did so in an emotional way.

Coke's advertising team have released its fair share of interesting campaigns, some with more success than others.

but few could be called an outright disaster, with the possible exception of New Coke.

The continued pursuit of alluring and revolutionary advertising tactics by Coke is sure to assist the sales of their products worldwide, and will not be likely to go anywhere anytime soon.

As you can see, Coca-Cola have shown that by engaging with their customers, and not just shouting from the rooftops about how great they are,

they're able to grow year on year and build a brand loyalty

and a brand awareness that you just don't see in many other sectors.

And it's a lesson that a lot of companies could do with learning.

We hope you've enjoyed this video.

If you'd like to see more of what we do, please remember to like, share and subscribe, and we'll catch you again next time.

Goodbye.

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Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “The Secret Behind Coca-Cola Marketing Strategy”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: coke, Coca, campaign, Cola, advertising. Questo video contiene 79 frasi e 1311 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 8:13. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 160 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 78% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
coke sostantivo	/koʊk/	coke
soda sostantivo	/ˈsoʊdə/	soda, carbonato di sodio
broaden verbo	[ˈbɹɔː.dn̩]	ampliare, allargare
carbonated aggettivo	/ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/	gassato, effervescente
tactic sostantivo	/ˈtæktɪk/	tattica, stratagemma
possess verbo	/pəˈzɛs/	possedere, avere
tactics sostantivo	/ˈtæktɪks/	tattica
revolutionary sostantivo	/ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/	rivoluzionario, rivoluzionaria
allure verbo	/əˈlʊɚ/	attrarre, sedurre
astronomical aggettivo	/ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/	astronomico
diminish verbo	/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/	diminuire, ridurre
disruptive aggettivo	/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/	frantumante, disgregante
fingerprint sostantivo	/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/	impronta digitale
nostalgic aggettivo		nostalgico
overwhelm verbo	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	sommergere

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
blow up verbo	saltare in aria, esplodere
go through verbo	attraversare

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	was spent · is called · can be twisted
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	has expanded · have become · has been

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 12 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, they're, we'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/, rendition /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: carbonated /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/, astronomical /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/, purposefully /ˈpɝ.pəs.fə.li/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

/h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hugely /ˈhjuːd͡ʒli/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/, headline /ˈhɛd.laɪn/
Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: coke /koʊk/, advert /ædvˈɝt/, carbonated /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/, tactic /ˈtæktɪk/, possess /pəˈzɛs/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: advert /ædvˈɝt/, tactic /ˈtæktɪk/, tactics /ˈtæktɪks/, astronomical /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/, hashtag /ˈhæʃˌtæɡ/

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Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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