10 Quotes by Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

I don't know that we're the absolute edge, but we want to be a leader.

Given that it's cheering her on to win, hopefully, and she is not competing, we didn't think the ad was still relevant.

With the timing of this new marketing campaign, it was just such a great fit to put more of the focus on Coke.

We view the Oscars as destination programming and a great place to feature advertising for our brands.

When we left the Oscars seven years ago we had never written off being associated again with the Oscars. We are looking more at entertainment lifestyle marketing as the way we market Diet Coke.

Those programs attract large audiences and are seen as showcases for advertising.

This is the ultimate guy event and with us having two guy-focused brands that we didn't have before, it was a great fit.

It's an obvious place to communicate the offer. It's also a great way to celebrate our tie-in with the Olympics.