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Owl's Brew
Owl's Brew

Spiked Pop Went Wholesale

Spiked Pop Went Wholesale

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Spiked Pop lives in a weird gap.

Spiked Pop lives in a weird gap.

Spiked Pop lives in a weird gap.

Product
Spiked Pop

Industry
CPG / Beverage

Objective
Sales tool for wholesaler meetings

Deliverables
60 sec hero film, key visuals

Outcome
Positioning landed, sales cycles shortened and deals closed faster.

The beverage aisle is bloated with spiked seltzers and RTD cocktails all chasing the same drinker. But there's a generation that got skipped. The ones who demanded functional soda. Now they're of drinking age. And nobody built anything for them. Owl's Brew made Spiked Pop. It's hard soda sitting at only 4.8% ABV.

The product made sense. The room didn't.

When Owl's Brew walked into wholesaler meetings, buyers kept hitting the same wall. Where does this live? Is it alcohol? Is it soda? When positioning lives between categories, buyers freeze. And nothing kills deals faster than confusion. So we built a 60-second hero film designed to close that gap before the pitch even started. AI-generated imagery and motion let us capture the product's world fast and without a bloated budget.

The story was dead simple: Gen Z grew up on functional soda. Spiked Pop is their next step.

The shift was immediate. Wholesalers stopped squinting. They started asking about cases. Meetings that used to stall started closing in one. Spiked Pop found its shelf. And the gap closed behind it.

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