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Founded in 2018 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester, OLIPOP set out to reinvent a category owned by century-old incumbents. We built the narrative engine to match — securing business, brand, and consumer coverage in tandem, and turning cultural moments into category leadership.
Every engagement runs on a shared scorecard — reach, share of voice, sentiment, and message pull-through. Here's the OLIPOP partnership by the numbers.
Total media impressions across 2025 to date.
Placements secured since partnership kickoff.
Impressions in the first four months of working together.
Feature placements in the opening campaign window.
How do you launch “a new kind of soda” into a shelf set defined by century-old brands with billion-dollar marketing budgets?
OLIPOP needed more than a product launch — it needed a category launch. The challenge was positioning a functional beverage in a way that spoke simultaneously to business press (where the investor story lived), lifestyle media (where the habit was formed), and health editors (where the science had to hold up).
Traditional PR playbooks treat those audiences sequentially. We needed to move them in parallel — and move them fast enough to stay ahead of the copycats that were certain to follow.
We built an integrated media program designed to compound rather than layer. Business storytelling created credibility that lifestyle press could borrow from. Consumer placements created demand that business reporters could later reference. Every lane fed the next.
Positioning OLIPOP as the leader of a redefined category — founder profiles, category explainers, and investor-grade coverage in business press.
Simultaneous placements across food, wellness, and lifestyle media — building the habit and cultural footprint underneath the top-line business story.
Moving at the speed of the news cycle. When Sleepy Girl Mocktail broke, our team had OLIPOP in the conversation within hours, not weeks.
Building Ben Goodwin into a category voice — speaking opportunities, podcast circuits, and the trades where the industry conversation happens.
Coverage isn't the goal — it's the consequence. The narrative we built showed up in editorial, retail, and culture: founder profiles in the trades, product moments on the shelves of the stores that sets the agenda, and brand campaigns that turned new buyers into repeat habit.
When Bloomberg ran the $1.85B valuation story, the OLIPOP foundational campaign was already the way the brand looked everywhere else — not a launch ad, but the steady-state.
When the Sleepy Girl Mocktail trend broke across TikTok and cascaded into legacy media, our team moved in hours. We placed OLIPOP into the origin coverage, not the post-hoc roundup — and rode the wave into business, health, and lifestyle outlets simultaneously.
Most agencies would have filed a trend report. We turned a cultural moment into a quarter of category leadership.
A selection of the outlets that have covered OLIPOP during the partnership — business, lifestyle, health, and culture, landing the same week.
Plus 3,000+ additional placements across broadcast, trade, podcast, and newsletter.
Any agency can get news on news. Only a great agency creates news when there isn't any — and turns the news there is into category leadership.
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