By Jeff Beer January 22, 2023 Ever since Pepsi first pitched itself to your parents and grandparents as a youth-focused brand back in 1963—“Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi Generation!”—there has been a steady stream of soda marketing and entire brand launches conceived for the sole purpose of enticing young, cool, (and lucrative) tastebuds. … Continue reading Pepsi’s new Gen Z soda and the futile quest to be the brand of a generation
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Why the future of soda is blue
By Adele Peters February 11, 2022 The vivid blue color of a new brand of Dutch soda doesn’t come from food coloring: The startup making the product, called Ful, makes the drink with spirulina, a blue-green algae that gives the soda more of a nutritional punch than the standard carbonated beverage. The company … Continue reading Why the future of soda is blue