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Mountain Dew: Selecting New Creative
Introduction
“Do the Dew!” This was a long time tag line for the Mountain Dew brand. In 1995 marketing managers for Mountain Dew realized the tag line had lost consumer interests, understanding this they changed the direction of the creative. Though the creative changed, the target market for Mountain Dew remained in line. Mountain Dew’s ad campaign between 1995 and 1999 did not fare extremely well. PepsiCo decided that in 2000 Mountain Dew would be featured during the Super Bowl rather than Pepsi. This was an enormous feat, as the Super Bowl had been an influential event for advertisers for decades. It was already October 1999 for the marketing executives and decisions had to be made to get the production started. Only three advertisements were going to be chosen, two to be played during the Super Bowl and all three throughout the year 2000. There were ten initial concepts proposed and five remained. Scott Moffit, the Marketing Director for Mountain Dew, was the least senior executive and first to evaluate the concepts. This essay will clarify the problems leering Mountain Dew, give several strategic alternatives, alternative recommendations, and a rationale point of the alternative chosen.
Statement of the Problem
Mountain Dew’s current marketing strategy, “Do the Dew,” has become stagnant. A new marketing concept must be developed to rejuvenate consumer appeal towards Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has a chance to be featured during the Super Bowl in two advertisements with only 3 to 4 months to do so.
Alternatives
Alternative One
With not even four months before the advertisement debu ...