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Liquid Death and beverage branding
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- 0:00He put plain water in a beer can and
- 0:02called it liquid death. Investors called
- 0:04it a unicorn. Mike Cerio was an
- 0:07advertising creative director. He
- 0:09noticed that healthy products are
- 0:11marketed politely while junk food gets
- 0:13all the fun. So he flipped it. Mountain
- 0:16water in a tall boy can with a heavy
- 0:18metal skull. The tagline, murder your
- 0:21thirst. Before he had a product, he made
- 0:24a cheap commercial to test the idea. It
- 0:26went viral. The first cans shipped in
- 0:292019. Skaters, punks, and festival
- 0:31crowds picked it up. Then Whole Foods,
- 0:34Target, Walmart. In March 2024, Liquid
- 0:38Death was valued at $1.4 billion.
- 0:42It's just water. The joke was the
- 0:44product.
- 0:45>> Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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Original YouTube title: “Water in a beer can. Valued at $1.4B.”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
Upload date, duration and captions were retrieved from the public YouTube record on 2026-10-16. Dates are day-level, not an asserted exact upload time. Market values, audience totals and references to “today” belong to the original publication context.
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