“In 2010, the company launched the Pepsi Refresh Project, its main marketing campaign for the brand. PepsiCo promised to give away twenty million dollars. . .to people with ‘refreshing ideas that change the world.’ . . . In part, the strategy was to use social media to promote the image of PepsiCo as the good company. . . . It was heartening to see so many worthwhile projects get funded. . .and maybe you thought better of PepsiCo for it. But the campaign didn’t sell Pepsi. In 2010, the number of cases of blue-can Pepsi that were sold declined by 4.8 per cent from the previous year. During that same period, PepsiCo also lost 2.6 per cent of the over-all carbonated-drink market. More disastrous, on a symbolic level, regular Pepsi fell behind Diet Coke in sales—a Battle of Bosworth Field-like event in the war of the colas. It appears that hearing about all of the good things PepsiCo is doing to help make the world a better place doesn’t tempt you to down a Pepsi.”