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Pepsi rebrand told by Alex (Jason) and Jordan (Jacob) part 3
What if we told you that Pixar's beloved Toy Story franchise has layers of depth that many might overlook? Join us as we reexamine the heartwarming yet somber themes of Toy Story 3 and revisit the adventurous setting of Toy Story 2. This episode is packed with nostalgia and fun as Alex and Jordan make a lively appearance to discuss our mutual love for Wild Cherry Pepsi over a playful game of rock-paper-scissors. We also share some delightful memories from our visits to the Coca-Cola museum and the vibrant Coke shop in Las Vegas, where we sampled Coke flavors from around the globe.
Get ready to dive into Pepsi's bold visual identity overhaul that’s stirring up the market. From its humble beginnings as Brad's Drink in 1898 to the fresh, modern look today, we break down the significance of Pepsi's rebrand. With its new logo featuring bold, uppercase typography reminiscent of the 1980s and 90s, Pepsi is blending its rich heritage with contemporary vibes. Tune in as we navigate the quirks of reading scripted dialogues designed for a single host but split between two, and discuss how AI-generated content can sometimes miss the mark, underscoring the indispensability of the human touch in creative endeavors.
Lastly, we delve into the playful yet competitive world of brand rivalries, focusing on the lighthearted jabs between giants like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Wendy's. Using Pepsi's recent rebranding efforts and Arby's modernization as case studies, we explore the challenges and potential impacts of rebranding. As we wrap up, we spill our excitement for the upcoming release of Deadpool 3 and tease our plans to analyze its marketing campaigns in future episodes. Don't forget to share your thoughts on Pepsi's rebrand and your brand loyalties with us!
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Speaker 3:and they remember that was it.
Speaker 1:Toy story four they got really dark it was toy story three.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it was. Toy story two was a little bit dark and that one dealt with like they're actually in a toy store and like that's where the other buzz light years were coming across to him, being like, hey, you're just a toy. He's like no, for the Galactic Empire I'm.
Speaker 1:Okay, on this episode of the NerdBrand Podcast, alex and Jordan make a comeback and we're talking about another rebrand or a popular brand that you may have heard of and maybe you like drinking. Half the population likes it, the other half doesn't. Stay tuned to find out what it is. Welcome back to the nerd brand podcast. In this episode we're covering pe're covering Pepsi's rebrand, and Alex and Jordan make a comeback. It's almost like the beginning of a football game. Do you want to flip a coin Heads? I'll be Alex Tails, not.
Speaker 3:No, you could be Alex, I'll be Jordan.
Speaker 1:Well, let's do rock paper scissors. I don't have any coins. Who carries coins anymore? Ready. All right, here we go Ready. Jacob, you have to finish with a thing, right, yeah? I know it was rock, you were rock. Oh well, all right, you win, all right, well, I'll be Jordan. Most people finish with the thing in their hand, not up in the air, like you finished up in the air. We're going to have to explore that from a psychological perspective at some point.
Speaker 3:I grew up with two older brothers, yeah, so you're waiting to swing.
Speaker 1:If you lose, you're fighting for it. Okay, if you hit me, you're fired. That's how this works.
Speaker 3:All right, I'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 1:You know, for those that listen to this show and you know us and you see us tell Jacob that when he plays rock paper scissors and he chooses rock, leave his fist in his palm of his hand, not in midair like he's going to strike you.
Speaker 3:In my defense, I'm reaching around my microphone in a weird, awkward positioning, so that was my you know I can see past the mic.
Speaker 1:You're just like three feet away from me?
Speaker 3:Yeah, but where I'm sitting, it made more sense.
Speaker 1:Anyhow, we're moving on. Are you a Pepsi or Coke guy? So, are you a Pepsi or Coke guy? So I'm actually pretty weird when it comes to that, after what I just watched, you play rock paper scissors.
Speaker 3:I believe it. Well, I'm actually. I enjoy Coke by itself over Pepsi by itself, but I prefer the other Pepsi flavors better than the other Coke flavors.
Speaker 1:I like the cherry Cherry Pepsi oh yeah, wild cherry Pepsi coke flavors.
Speaker 3:I like the cherry. You know cherry pepsi. Oh yeah, wild cherry pepsi. Uh yeah, anyone can say anything they want. Um, that is easily the best cherry flavored soda yeah, but I'm not a cherry coke fan.
Speaker 1:That's what's weird.
Speaker 3:Yeah, see I can see that I I feel like there's definitely a difference in the flavor for those two. Um, I would totally agree with that you ever been to the coke museum?
Speaker 1:no, oh man. I went years ago. It was in atlanta and, uh, they had the water dynamics thing going but it looked like a projector. So it didn't really look like it was real. But what it would do is when you would get a sample of a coke product. Of course you could taste test around the world fyi, stick to america. Um, but because they have other flavors in other countries except fanta, that's awesome, the it would shoot out in this huge arc over a 10 foot span from the fountain and it would hit a plate, this big giant metal plate, and then it would, like you know, fill your cup and you drink it. That was kind of neat. I don't know if that still does that or not.
Speaker 3:That was like we're talking 20 years ago so I went to vegas and they have a Coke shop there where you can basically just buy a tray of all the different Coke mixtures. I had that, yeah. No, I would agree with you on that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fluid Dynamics is a really crazy wicked-looking thing.
Speaker 3:It's also like there's just different flavors, like you said, in different countries. With Coke you can almost tell where it's from because of how I mean, it's like what you very sour, very bitter yeah, a lot of bitterness. Yeah, there's like other ones. Those is a mixture of random flavors and stuff. A few of them they had like an r&d and a few of them were from other countries. Just how it tastes. How, yeah, the r&d stuff.
Speaker 1:I'd never tried that because I always felt like I could be drinking battery acid. It's like I don't want to A-B test and find out that it's positive, negative charged.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or it's like something in there to get that herpiganosipilates or something.
Speaker 1:It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. All right, moving on, right, moving on. Uh. So welcome to this is the. They, the robot named a digital pulse again, which I think it's. It's just repeating as I'm keeping it in the same conversation on chat gpt. Fyi, if you do use chat gpt and you create a new conversation every time, it's like starting a conversation with a brand new person you just met every time. So if you stay in the same thread with the what you just asked previously, then it it remembers what you guys talked about it's that smirk.
Speaker 3:Yeah, treat it like an email thread. By the way, it's just following that conversation.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not just that, it's just equated to. I talked to you the other day about blah blah and you're like, oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah, and I saw this, that you know it's doing that. It's it's a. It's really kind of it's moving along and we're kind of using this podcast and this series as a, I guess, a tool to temperature check it. Make sure it's kind of get an idea of what in the world is actually happening. Jonathan, what happened to Mitch? Well, they're busy. They're really busy personally and professionally. John is hitting me up right now on Slack and he's got a new phone, so he's having fun right now. His other one broke. Yeah, we tend to wait until things break before we nerds replace them, kind of like my car. If anyone's ever seen that thing, you just have to lay hands on it. The duct tape's still working for it.
Speaker 3:Yeah I mean that, that hundred mile per hour.
Speaker 1:Duct tape, man, I'm telling you, it's something uh, you can only get that in texas. Texas and the space shuttle right anyways, welcome back to this episode of the nerd brand podcast, as I said, and so let's shift gears to the digital realm of the world of branding, with a focus on a household name.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna be jordan this time oh, I was gonna say you totally took my line, all right so I guess it didn't even matter that I won the oh yeah, I did do that.
Speaker 1:All right, whatever, no no, no, you're fine, just keep it going, that's fine, I mean, it says I'm hovix and then it says we will dive into the latest trends and updates and stuff. It's just a boring intro. Anyways, fine, you go ahead, you start.
Speaker 3:Wait, you already started. Go number two.
Speaker 1:Go ahead Not number two Don't do that. No one wants to hear or see that.
Speaker 3:All right, I'm Jacob. Today we're world of branding, with a focus of household name that has been around for over a century pepsi for those thinking they're always one of their over. They just launched a major rebrand and they're here to break it all down yep say hard, sentences this thing really it really writes hard sent.
Speaker 1:That's the big. You know from the, from the people out there that asked me about seo. This is why you pay for a good copy, because the robot like no offense, jacob, but if you're having a hard time, I mean I'm not the best like most people will reader anyways, but yeah, it definitely just comes across weird it's a hard sensor.
Speaker 1:They've just launched a major rebrand and we're here to break it all down. Well, I can read that, and perfectly fine, because I'm actually reading it, but no one says that or talks that way. So big difference there. Kind of helps there's a distinguish between what was pre-written as a script, a robot and a person just kind of you know, right, naturally speaking yeah, feels more natural, I guess yeah, yeah, at least we don't have the that's right howdy, which we do have.
Speaker 1:That next up, that's right, jordan. Pepsi, one of the most iconic brands in the beverage industry, has unveiled a new look. This isn't just a minor tweak, it's a comprehensive overhaul of their visual identity.
Speaker 3:Let's start with some context pepsi was first introduced in 1898 as brad's drink, before becoming pepsi cola in 1903. So for all you trivia fans, those are some significant numbers. Or if your name is brad or brad, yeah, give me some of that brad's drink. Over the years, the brand has gone through numerous transformations and keeping and keep up with changing times and consumer preferences. The last major rebrand was in 2008. So this new update is quite significant.
Speaker 1:I'm drinking a Red Bull and I was trying to see like, is it Pepsi Cola in there on it anywhere? And he's like no, just Red Bull. Um, yeah, the new rebrand is designed to reflect Pepsi's evolution while staying true to its roots. It aims to balance a nod to the brand's heritage with a fresh, modern look. Let's dive into the key components of the brand. Also, let's pause here for a minute. Do you realize what this thing is doing? It's like this is a single person hosted show narration that has been purposefully split up for two people to read.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's almost like it should have been its own. Like half of this looks like it could be just its own person, like one person doing its own talk.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, so you can see now where the human factor is not here anymore because the robot's just like. Well, I'm gonna give this part to Jordan, this part to Imagine if you had a popular song that was not made as a duet, sung as a duet but completely, like in the wrong order. It's kind of what this feels like reading it. It feels like we are the world sung by three times the amount of people, which means that people would only have like three words to sing each. We are the Like wait, that's not where that ends. Anyways, that was for all the early 90s kids out there. You're welcome. So moving on, I think you're right, it aims.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, a little late on that sound effect. We do need an engineer for that. Wants to work for free to operate the board during the recordings. Just throwing that out there.
Speaker 3:That's what I was doing. Then you're like oh, jake, talk on the mic.
Speaker 1:And I was like yeah, well, it's kind of like chewing gum and walking at the same time. I mean, we both can do it, but, um, you and I really are not the people to be doing the board and this it's, uh, been there, done that. It doesn't work for either one of us. Very well, and it comes across in the recording because everybody's like what's going on? Well, don't worry, multitasking when we shouldn't be, where do we leave off? Oh yeah, logo, new, new logos design. Is it me or you?
Speaker 3:no, it's uh, you're at the alexa. It aims to balance.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, I am, it aims to balance. Oh, oh, I am, it aims to balance.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you stopped halfway through the sentence.
Speaker 1:Oh, I did All right, cause this is a weird reading, um, and I've lost my place still. Oh, it aims to balance an odd to the brand's heritage with the fresh, modern look. Again, it's not really saying anything new that hasn't already been said.
Speaker 3:Let's dive into the key components of the rebrand. Yeah, that's the thing, yeah, here, all right, first up the logo pepsi's new logo is a is a reimagined, reimagined, reimagined, reimagined yeah, it's weird, weirdly yeah right. Like it's reimagined version of its classic design, it brings back the bold uppercase typography remnants of the 1980s and 90s, paired with the more streamlined and simplified globe icon yeah, again, this just keeps diving into why chat gpt should not be your final draft for anything yep or your website copy or anything, because especially for that do not die on that hill of living, on this for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need a shortcut. You need free help. No, you don't. That's the thing. It's like hey, I'm not crapping on AI or anything, I'm really not. No, it probably sounds like I am. I'm just saying you shouldn't use it for some of these reasons. It's just you know it's going to be great to figure out like genomes and stuff like that so we can cure cancer, but I just don't know about it right in podcast episodes.
Speaker 3:Anyway, the globe's red, white and blue color scheme remains, but with a more vibrant and dynamic look.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the new logo's designed to be versatile across various mediums. Okay, I'm just going to like kind of hijack that one, because I'm getting annoyed with it saying the same thing differently. It seems like it's just like a burp a derp, only now it says derp, a burp, and that's not really useful. Um, so the new logo is really I've, they've taken, they've actually changed their logo quite a bit over the years, and it's very surprising the last one was like a very simplified kind of look, uh, there's a great documentary out there for anybody.
Speaker 1:Again, I've talked about this a lot because it's such a hilarious story and it's a true story. They happened in 1995 where Pepsi had a campaign Pepsi Where's my Jet is the name of the documentary to watch the ad company. They did work for Britney Spears I guess there was Britney Spears and a bunch of other celebrities and famous brands and they were instructed to do the commercial the way it was done by them and they this is all in the documentary, so spoilers um and uh, it was really hilarious when I, when he said what was said in the boardroom, I was like my god, I've heard, we've heard that in all the years of doing advertising we've heard that. Um, so I know it's true. Um, sadly, but it ended them in a lawsuit. It got the department of department of defense involved.
Speaker 3:yeah, because he wanted it was a harrier jet yeah, you can't just give that to anyone.
Speaker 1:They they want to keep track of that yeah, they kind of want to know, like, where that hardware went. So he was like you can have it, you can buy one, but not with the radar weaponry, like okay, so he got. I don't know if he ever got it or not, but you know, um, he was about he's a year older than me but he got. I don't know if he ever got it or not, but you know, um, he was about he's a year older than me but he got an investor and you know Pepsi's ad campaign. I mean they had to. That's why you see all that fine print at the bottom.
Speaker 3:And uh and any commercial or ad, you always see all the the speed talk uh blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, $9.95, thanks. That's like even when you get into the pharmaceutical side with any drugs or pharmaceutical drugs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they spend a lot of time on the side effects. Oh yeah, they can get sued if they don't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because they got to go into so much the movie. That actually was kind of a flop but kind of hits on the point of that that's. It's really just tongue-in-cheek. Clever with it is uh, it's a movie called joe somebody it was with tim allen and basically in the background, every time there was a like he was at his house or something or there's a tv going on the background was conveying this commercial for a drug that basically would solve all the issues that he's dealing with, like in the in that scene, or like he's dealing with, like in the in that scene, or like he's dealing with like anxiety.
Speaker 3:So just reading off the side effects of all the stuff of all right, may cause anxiety, may cause stress, may cause you to be violent, may cause you to do this and like it's like each time it's just like what he's doing at that moment and it's just like a funny background thing that you don't really notice unless you're paying attention to it. And I was like halfway through the movie you're like is that the same commercial going Cause it's just like the commercials.
Speaker 1:Well, cause all this, every, every one of these drugs that I've ever seen, the side effects are all the almost all the same. They're not saying that because they can't, so they have to keep relisting all the quote, unquote potential side effects, which, basically, any drug you take is a risk to take, you know, which is why you go to a doctor. I mean, you'd be like people like my mom's age, like they just give you prescriptions to figure out because the other prescription started another symptom, instead of actually figuring out why the symptom started in the first place, which was the original prescription. Wild idea.
Speaker 3:Why would you want to do that?
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, I mean, they've even made movies and television shows that dealt with this issue, where people just kept getting new prescriptions and it was like, but you didn't fix the thing, you just get it, and I have high blood pressure now. Well, here's a blood pressure medicine but, what? I didn't have it before I started taking this other thing. They don't do that anymore. Um, anyway, side trail on that. Those brands are obviously all very, very careful about their advertisement. Oh yes very much and uh pepsi kind of oopsie dopsed on that one.
Speaker 1:They learned a hard lesson. Yes. But, like I said, it was back in 1995. Pepsi, where's my Jet is the documentary.
Speaker 1:It's an excellent watch and glimpse into our world of why we are so anal and methodical about what we do as a brand agency because we don't really want to be a part of these things or deal with those things. You know I don't need our name drug through that. No pun intended there. So anyways, yeah, they've updated the logo, the color palette They've shifted like Coke. They've shifted the red and the blue here and there around. The colors of the circle are different. They did a very big worldwide relaunch. I don't think Alex or Jordan are covering any of that. They're talking about the package design coming up. It goes beyond. I'll pick up, if you want to pick up, what Jordan says Pepsi rebrand goes beyond visuals.
Speaker 3:It goes beyond visuals. They're also launching a new marketing campaign to accompany the rebrand, which typically makes sense. Marketing campaign to accompany the rebrand, which typically makes sense. Um, the campaign focuses on the themes of celebration include inclusivity. Include inclusivity, yeah, thank you. And fun core values that pepsi has always stood for. They're leveraging social media, influencers and experimental marketing to reach a broader audience.
Speaker 1:Oh, experiential yeah so experiential is a fancy term. Experiential marketing is basically you have an experience. That's it.
Speaker 3:It makes more sense In a dumbed-down way. That's the mayor. It's oversimplified, but it is basically it's in the word Experimental makes more sense to do.
Speaker 1:Well, experimental would be like, hey, let's try a thing and hope it doesn't blow up in our face. But experiential is like I can interact, I can do things with it and have an experience with the marketing Creating memories almost.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was a part of the marketing. I was a part of the effort to get the word out. That kind of thing. It's oversimplification, like I said, anybody out there just Google experiential marketing. It's something that we can do, but it's a high-ticket dollar item because it takes so much work. You don't have a guarantee that people will respond the way they do. Everybody thinks that, well, I want to do this thing and create this thing and pay this agency to do this, and people are going to do X. No, they're not. They're probably going to do something else. We don't really know. That's why we always talk about, like you know, we like to walk in in as objectively as possible to know what we're getting into before just assuming any outcomes, because you know what assume means out how something so people can kind of tangibly um, interact with this thing, I think is what they were doing.
Speaker 1:And I saw like a giant, giant, inflatable pepsi can. It was in london, I think. There's a video on ad age about this uh article, so if you pay for ad age to read it online, you can see that, or you just google this term pepsi rebrand 2024 and find it. But, um, they went all out. That's a lot of money. I mean, this thing's like several stories tall, so this wasn't small you can say those are some big cans yeah, some big cans um anyhow, anyhow it's clear of course, it's clear that pepsi's aiming to stay relevant.
Speaker 1:A rapidly changing market, yeah, well. Well, everyone is.
Speaker 3:I mean, all the good brands are doing little tweaks here and there. I mean, it just makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have a doing a. This is never going to change, or I don't think there's a new inventive way to do it. But getting a new look is like getting a new haircut or new set of clothes. I mean, it's just. That's just the way it is with brands. You know you get a new look. It's something to pay attention to. A lot of people will either catch it or they won't. Mostly the fandom of the brand will be the ones that will advocate and say hey, check this out, they got new pants.
Speaker 1:People that don't follow Pepsi or drink Pepsi products. They don't care. Like I'm a Coke guy, I still drink a lot of Coke products. Dr Pepper is about as Pepsi-Cola as I go.
Speaker 3:What about Mountain Dew?
Speaker 1:No, because at my age I don't need to rush into diabetes, Just saying.
Speaker 3:That's why I got in here, actually, yeah. Anyways you're up. That was America. Of course, not everyone is on board with the changes. As with any major rebrand, there are mixed reactions. Some consumers love the new look and feel, while others are more skeptical, preferring the previous design. And with that being said, uh, for all you strikers about the new rebrand, um, we'll meet outside the pepsi headquarters.
Speaker 1:Give us back the old one. Yeah, bring your coolers of cokes. You know, have coca-cola products and just drink it in front of all the executives as they pull in see that would be pretty funny actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're for their parking spots.
Speaker 1:Do like a coca-cola sticker over employee parking, whatever I'm telling you like when burger king and mcdonald's and pepsi and coke would fight, it would be hilarious because even wendy's would get into it on the fast food side, because they would be like telling mcdonald you know? Mcdonald's would say like you know something about their frosties, and then wendy's would fire back well, at least our shake machine works, or something yeah well, it was.
Speaker 1:Mcdonald's ice cream machine was always broken yeah, yeah, and so they would just knock on that and everything. It was just hilarious because you know the tropes that everybody knew about. Um, anyways, uh, let's see. What does that say? That's to be expected. Change is always challenging. Um, you know, the key will be how pepsi navigates this transition. They're gonna be fine. It's a billion-dollar company.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean and that's where I go into with the next one looking ahead, Be interested to see how Pepsi's new brand impacts their market presence and consumer perception. Will it attract new customers? Will it reignite a love of long-term fans? Only time will tell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rebranding something is, you have to put it out there, see how people react. You could probably want to do a little bit of research before you do it. This is where Mitch will be like oh, I hate focus groups, and he'll pontificate for an hour about why not. But people are people. You don't know what they're trying to listen to the audience, but they're listening to two. It's called a focus group for a reason. It's focused. So you know when you're trying to do a broad audience, you can't do that. So I remember when arby's did a rebrand and, uh, I like the idea of modernizing it the way they were intending to do, making the hat a little shorter was one that I think they finalized eventually with, but they tried to work in like subtleties of meaning and things and didn't really come out.
Speaker 1:Everybody was just like it's a roast beef sandwich, I mean, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's roast beef, but it's good. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Arby's fan actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Especially, especially if I'm going on a road trip. Yeah, man, you get the Arby's, get it in a bag and then you dump all the curly fries in the bag and then you just eat out of the bag with the curly fries, all right. Well everybody just learned Jacob's temptation and you know vice, I actually had it earlier yesterday, actually some Arby's, it was good.
Speaker 1:Well, you have something in common with someone else that has sworn me to never say that he eats there or has eaten there.
Speaker 3:Oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of funny. I don't know what I ate yesterday. To be honest with you, I've had a really crappy diet this whole week. So yeah, we'll just play sympathy music in the background for me as we exit this episode of the Nerd Brand Podcast.
Speaker 1:If you've enjoyed this episode, take a look at Pepsi's new rebrand. What do you think of it? Do you notice a change? Is it different for you? Does it impact you buying Pepsi or Coke? And if you're a Coke fan or Pepsi fan, go on to our Facebook page and leave a comment. Say, hey, I'm a Coke person. Just don't write Coke head or anything appropriate, please Say Cola head. Yeah, you can say Coca-Cola Again. It is a legacy brand where the brand name is the name of the product.
Speaker 3:It's either CC or PC.
Speaker 1:Well, that's not what I meant, but thanks for that dad joke there. No, it's just back when we talked about giving a Kleenex. Even though it's not the brand Kleenex, everybody just says Kleenex. It's that kind of a thing with Coke Pepsi. But here's the thing Pepsi's got its own thing. It's doing okay, they're doing all right. They're a food company really.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think they got a better off-brand like Mountain Dew and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:They have a better selection over Coke in that they also got Minute Maid Doritos.
Speaker 3:Well, Minute Maid is Coke.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think, isn't it? No, I don't think, isn't it? Don't they have? Doesn't Pepsi own other like an orange juice brand?
Speaker 3:I thought they do. Maybe I'm mixing it up. I might be thinking no, Country Time is neither. I know Snapple and them are their own little level as well. That's where, like Dr Pepper is like a. Yeah, you got those other cross drinks like Dr Pepper, but you know just completely different like breakfast foods and other areas.
Speaker 1:Like Pepsi's got their fingers in a lot of stuff, see, and like Coke.
Speaker 3:I know they got like energy drinks, like Full Throttle and stuff like that as their products. Yeah, yeah. And vitamin water actually is another thing for Coke. That's one thing they have, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, A lot of these beverage companies. They're a beverage company, but then pepsi stands out because they're a food company they do have food products and things.
Speaker 1:I mean it's pepsi co is the main brand. Pepsi is the a drink of that brand. So that's kind of like saying mountain dew when you say pepsi. So it's not, but everybody still says pepsi even though it's pepsi co. One word, so it's out there. You can google that. Look that up, it's fun. Trust us, we do this all day just for giggles anyways. Anyways, if you like this episode of the Nerd Brand Podcast, go to nerdbrandagencycom slash podcast, listen to the latest episodes, like, subscribe, share, do all the fun things, let people know you heard about us, laughed with us, enjoyed this conversation about brands and then tune in soon. We are watching. As of this Friday, deadpool 3 comes out, so we're going to be talking eventually with all the guys at the table even if I have to duct tape them chairs to be here about Deadpool 3 and our thoughts on its marketing campaigns and what the results are.
Speaker 3:I'm excited.
Speaker 1:We're going to find out how well it worked after Friday by Friday next week. I think that's next Friday's episode actually is the Deadpool episode. So tune in next week for the Deadpool episode and we will see you later. Keep your nerve branch strong.
