Jones Soda Contest Hits the Road for Travel Photo Ops

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Premium soda brand Jones Soda, which styles itself “the Official Soda of the Roadtrip,” wants to see where people are going on their own driving vacations this summer and will put the finalists of a North American travel photo contest on an international run of its product bottles

Former Dr Pepper Marketing Exec Advises for TracyLocke

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

TracyLocke has hired Rady Gier, a former chief consumer officer of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, as an advisor to the CEO and other top executives. In addition to CEO Ron Askew, Gier will also advise Beth Ann Kaminkow, recently promoted to COO and Stewart Campbell the agency’s CFO

News Briefs

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COCA-COLA: is today unveiling a 49-foot-tall Coca-Cola Contour bottle at Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves

US Ad Spending Recovery Will Lag Behind World’s

Recent figures released by ZenithOptimedia show that 2009 will be worse than expected, and while a worldwide recovery will begin in 2010, the U.S. won't see black again until 2011.