Company Overview
- tagline - “murder your thirst”
- mission - make people laugh and get more of them to drink more water more often, all while helping to kill plastic pollution.
- “water is deadly”
- “bring death to plastic”
- marketing start small - first shot a commercial for $1,500 and spent about $3,000 on paid Facebook ads - 3 million views within months - proactive reach out from distributors
Target Customers
- At first, easiest crowd - heavy metal, punk rock, and this world of weird
- Gen Z
- Gen Zers were drinking 20 per cent less alcohol per capita than millennials
- pro sustainable product
- averse to advertising and less tolerant of online advertising
- kids
- drink more water bc it’s cool
Products
- water
- 12 pack design - featured detailed graphic drawings of different melting or decaying skulls and zombies on the bottom of the packaging
- conversation starter
- aluminum can downside
- could not be recapped or closed once they had been opened.
- limited size
- not so portable
- merchandise
- accounting for $3 million of their $45 million sales in 2021
- urban outfitter distributing
Distribution
- online: Amazon
- offline major: Whole Foods Market, 7-Eleven, Target, and Walmart
- special: bars, venues, tattoo parlors, barbershops, and coffee shops
- live entertainment company collab
- Live Nation Entertainment
- commercials, services, venues, festivals