Facebook Turns Focus Group With Splenda Product-Sampling App

Sixteen-thousand samples distributed, 3,100 fans professing their admiration and 1,500 product surveys completed. Those are the results from a first-of-its-kind campaign conducted by Splenda for its Splenda Mist prototype, a pocket-size spray form of the sweetener, which has yet to hit the market. Traditionally, marketers in that situation might peddle freebies at grocery stores, embrace street sampling or organize focus groups. Splenda instead turned to Facebook...