When we left the Oscars seven years ago we had never written off being associated again with the Oscars. We are looking more at entertainment lifestyle marketing as the way we market Diet Coke.
It was a great way to build awareness and it fit perfectly with the holidays. People always enjoy getting something for free. We saw high repeat usage scores as a result of consumers redeeming the coupons.
We view the Oscars as destination programming and a great place to feature advertising for our brands.
Those programs attract large audiences and are seen as showcases for advertising.
It's an obvious place to communicate the offer. It's also a great way to celebrate our tie-in with the Olympics.
With the timing of this new marketing campaign, it was just such a great fit to put more of the focus on Coke.
This is the ultimate guy event and with us having two guy-focused brands that we didn't have before, it was a great fit.
Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.
Given that it's cheering her on to win, hopefully, and she is not competing, we didn't think the ad was still relevant.
I don't know that we're the absolute edge, but we want to be a leader.