Social Media

After a nationwide Facebook search, the company selects winners to celebrate its award-winning Arm & Hammer Diaper Pail's odor controlling powers.

General Mills manages its content publishing and consumer engagement across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn, with a solution from Spredfast.

When it comes to marketing, most consumer goods companies have turned their attention toward integrated digital marketing campaigns.
P&G has certainly jumped on the bandwagon, but it hasnt given up on the good old-fashioned ways of marketing either with social tie-ins of course. Earlier this month, P&G set out to prove the superiority of its products with a freebie bonanza on the streets of NYC.

A whopping 52 percent of U.S. consumers are buying directly online from brands they trust, proving that CPG companies now have far greater opportunities to walk alongside shoppers. Experts from Hershey, GMA and PwC weigh in on how digital channels, mobile adoption and D2C are rewriting the rules of retailing and CPG manufacturing.

The acquisition, Nestls first investment in an online content property, is a major step in the companys efforts to better serve and enhance the lives of consumers through digital technology and content.

Sales and marketing trailblazers from Mondelez, Unilever, J&J and Kellogg joined more than 225 consumer goods executives in NYC this week for the 2013 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit. This year, New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur since birth Gary Vaynerchuk kicked things off with a provocative presentation on the need for consumer goods companies to adapt in the Internet era. Get a recap of the event here.

In just a month since launch, Unilever's Dove Real Beauty Sketches film became the No. 1 viewed online video advertisement of all time. It has also been uploaded in 25 languages to 33 Dove YouTube Channels and has been viewed in more than 110 countries. Find out why and how the campaign evoked an unmatched emotional reaction in millions of consumers worldwide.

Kraft Foods Group brand, Oscar Mayer, is leveraging a groundbreaking new mobile application, MONTAJ.