Transforming a cost center into a profit center.

Much like many other large brands and groups, PepsiCo launched its own internal content studio recently. Staffed by a 7-person team, it is able to pump out short and longer form content on a daily basis.

What seems to set this one apart is the strategy behind it.

Brad Jakeman, president of the Global Beverage Group at PepsiCo, has a bold vision in how PepsiCo brands should approach content production: making money from it, not spending it.

Yes, you read that right.

The idea is that if the branded content produced is valuable enough and of interest to a large enough audience, it is an asset that can be sold to media properties and publishers.

Then end goal is quite bold indeed: “My ultimate goal is for our billion-dollar brands to actually fund their own marketing, so that we leverage the equity of the brand to produce content which we then sell [and] which we can then put back into the marketing for those brands,” says Jakeman.

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Pepsi, Gatorade, Doritos, what if all those brands created relevant content that you want to watch, and that you could watch on your usual media properties?

This is a 180 degree shift, where the people that bought media in the past are now in the market selling content.

Can your brand become a content seller? Can it become a content platform itself and sell content to others? Reach out to us if you would like to explore this further.