Food & Beverage
Liquid Death: The $1.4B Canned-Water Brand
EPR's canonical Liquid Death reference — the $1.4B brand, the no-agency playbook, and the B2C PR case study every consumer brand should study.
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Liquid Death
Food & Beverage
How Liquid Death, Olipop, and Poppi Built Billion-Dollar Brands
Liquid Death — $1.4B. Olipop — $1.85B. Poppi — $1.95B PepsiCo exit. Three challenger beverages built billion-dollar valuations on three different digital PR machines. The tool-by-tool breakdown of how each one outflanked the soda incumbents.
Food & Beverage
Food PR Got Smaller. Authority Got Bigger.
Gourmet closed. Bon Appétit shrank. The audience moved to creator YouTube, Substack, Reddit, the cookbook market, and the AI engines. Food authority got bigger as legacy food media got smaller — and the brands that understand the shift are taking share.
CPG
CPG Isn't Dead. The Shelf Is Moving.
The most important shelf in consumer products is no longer inside a store. It sits inside an AI answer. CPG's discovery surface moved to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — and the brands building for that shift are growing share.
CPG
Winning The AI Shelf
The CPG shelf moved. The AI shelf is the shortlist a consumer receives when asking ChatGPT for category recommendations. The CPG Citation Stack, why NYT Food and Wirecutter set the anchor, why Reddit and Costco's community won CPG, and the brands competing well.
CPG
Digital PR Tools — How Liquid Death, Olipop, and Poppi Built Billion-Dollar Beverage Brands
Liquid Death — $1.4B. Olipop — $1.85B. Poppi — $1.95B PepsiCo exit. Three challenger beverages built billion-dollar valuations on three different digital PR machines. The tool-by-tool breakdown of how each one outflanked the soda incumbents.
Public Relations
CPG PR: How Liquid Death, Olipop, Poppi, Magic Spoon, and Athletic Brewing Built Category Leadership
CPG PR playbook — what Liquid Death, Olipop, Poppi, Magic Spoon, and Athletic Brewing actually did to build category leadership, plus where CPG PR breaks in the AI-recommendation era.
Public Relations
Top PR Campaigns of the 2020s
Top PR campaigns of the 2020s — Spotify Wrapped, Liquid Death, Patagonia, Heinz Draw Ketchup, IKEA, Dove Real Beauty, and Apple Shot on iPhone. What made each work, and why the playbook is being rewritten for the answer-engine era.
Marketing
The Value of Pepsi's PepsiMoji Campaign
Pepsi has launched PepsiMoji — a substantial marketing campaign featuring emoji-branded bottle packaging across more than 100 countries. The five-second video spot integration, the #SayItWithPepsi hashtag integration, the Ketchum and Porter Novelli PR partnership, and the broader strategic logic for Pepsi's symbolic communication strategy.
Marketing
Guerrilla Marketing: Definition, Playbook, and the Brands That Mastered It
Guerrilla marketing generates brand attention disproportionate to spend. Ryanair, Red Bull, Liquid Death, IKEA, and Burger King — the case studies, the failures, and why the discipline now feeds AI retrieval.