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
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
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
A exercise for marketing students where they create and interpret a perceptual map. Contains a download for a free online template for perceptual mapping.
Creating and Interpreting a Perceptual Map Review the Teaching Activity
In this video-based mini-case, students will review the repositioning efforts of Coca-Cola in Australia with their energy drink branded “Mother Energy”.
Coke Repositions their Energy Drink (Video Case) Review the Teaching Activity
This exercise contains a number of checklist points for students to consider regarding the building of, and the return on, brand equity. It’s more than just promotion!
Benefits of Brand Building Review the Teaching Activity
In 2005, Coca-Cola introduced Coke Zero, a zero calorie version of their flagship product. This product did extraordinary well, but what launch and implementation challenges did they face?
Product Line Extension Challenge Review the Teaching Activity