This activity uses KFC’s fried‑chicken–flavored toothpaste (launched in 2025) to explore how novelty products can generate viral buzz, earned media, and support brand positioning. This task helps students with identifying the marketing objectives, consumer behavior triggers, and success behind the use of novelty product brand extensions.
KFC Toothpaste Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This Starbucks case study focuses on their longstanding “third place” concept, which has been a key component of their success and differentiation. However, your students will need to assess whether this “third place” offering remains a viable strategy in today’s marketing environment, considering trends like remote work, increased competition, cost of living concerns, and shifting consumer expectations.
Starbucks Third Place Positioning – Still Relevant? Review the Teaching Activity
This activity focuses on the Snickers “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign as a mini case study. Students will explore the campaign’s creative use of humor and the role of classical conditioning in creating brand associations through the integration of cohesive IMC strategy.
Classic Case Study: Snickers You’re Not You When You’re Hungry Review the Teaching Activity
While smoking may be going out of fashion and cigarette advertising has been banned in many parts of the world, cigarette brands do provide marketers with an excellent introduction to how to position a brand in a cluttered and competitive market. This is primarily a visual-based activity for students and a great opportunity to learn more about positioning.
Experts in Positioning: Cigarette Brands Review the Teaching Activity
This is a great exercise for connecting target market needs and positioning. Students are presented with profiles of 5 consumer segments and the positioning of 9 competing supermarkets. Helpful activity for connecting the STP dots.
Matching Positioning and Target Market Needs Review the Teaching Activity
In this video-based task, students review an ad for McDonald’s UK where they are promoting their McCafé offering, as compared to visiting a “trendy” coffee shop. This is considered a classic case study for marketers as it clearly shows the concepts of positioning and differentiation.
In this activity students will consider the value of a brand (Specsavers) utilizing a long-term tag-line. While tag-lines are often helpful for communicating positioning and guiding IMC campaigns, they may need to be refreshed at times to keep the brand modern and adaptive.
Do Tag-Lines Eventually Wear Out? Review the Teaching Activity
Students are faced with five challenging pricing scenarios or dilemmas. There are arguments for different price points, given the competitive and marketing environment situation. A good activity to learn the practicalities of pricing and to find out that price is much more than just a number.
Handing Challenging Pricing Decisions Review the Teaching Activity
Students evaluate the effectiveness of tag-lines by being presented with a series of slogans for different types of businesses and choosing which ones would influence them the most. Therefore, this teaching activity is like a fun experiment that you can run in class.
Are You Influenced by Tag-Lines? Review the Teaching Activity
Diamond Shreddies 2008 campaign is another classic marketing case study. It plays on the idea that Shreddies, which were traditionally square-shaped, had been “transformed” into a new, diamond-shaped version. But nothing changed except for their sales.
Classic Case Study: Shreddies Cereal Review the Teaching Activity