This list has Club Soda’s media mentions for 2019. Click here for current news (and all previous years).
31 December 2019 Refinery 29: A Beginners Guide To Mindful Drinking
29 December 2019 Sunday Tribune: Cheers to celebrating sobriety
23 December 2019 Londonist: 24 Cheery Things To Do In London In January 2020
23 December 2019 Conference & Incentive Travel: Is there more demand for drink-focused events?
22 December 2019 Total Health: ‘Alcoholic’ or ‘alcohol-free’? Rethinking addiction and recovery
20 December 2019 New Magazine: How to be a mindful drinker – even during party season!
December 2019 Pub & Bar: The alternative option [page 31]
19 December 2019 The Daily Mail: Father who spent his entire 20s drunk
17 December 2019 Happiful: Our Top 10 Picks for January
11 December 2019 Independent Online: Let’s make responsible drinking a trend this summer
10 December 2019 Dose: The best events to check out this winter
9 December 2019 Restaurant Industry News: Leading soft beverage event reveals 2020 F&B Ambassadors
10 December 2019 Winerist: Top Picks of Wine Events and Festivals for January 2020
Summer 2019 On Tap: Going low, flying high
2 December 2019 CNET: 5 sobriety support groups that aren’t AA
December 2019 Surf & Unwind: Wellness Expo and Yoga Festivals in the UK in 2020
28 November 2019 The Daily Mirror: How to cut down on alcohol this Christmas and still have a good time
28 November 2019 The Daily Express and The Daily Record: Anyone can be a mindful drinker (even during the festive season!)
27 November 2019 Aromi: Tiedostava juominen luo ravintoloille uuden markkinaraon [Mindful drinking creates a new market for restaurants]
November 2019 OK! Magazine: Lose the booze for a joyful life
20 November 2019 Drinks Retailing News: Buyer’s Guide to Mindful Drinking 2019
9 November 2019 Jersey Evening Post: Islander celebrates sobriety after hitting ‘darkest hour’
7 November 2019 Stylist: Alcohol free Christmas: “Why quitting alcohol was the best decision I ever made”
7 November 2019 City Matters: Square Mile could be first mindful drinking zone
4 November 2019 Imbibe: Sober thinking: The rise of functional drinks
3 November 2019 Die Presse: Eine Gin onhe Alkohol
25 October 2019 Vitality Magazine: Want to go alcohol-free? Here’s How
24 October 2019 Bristol 247: New Night Proves You Can Be Queer Without The Beer
23 October 2019 Cambridge Independent: Lose the booze for city pub crawl
23 October 2019 The Buyer: David Gluckman: Food for thought at the 1st ‘Lo and No Beverage Summit’
21 October 2019 Business Matters: UK workers set to call time on ‘boozy’ British workplaces
16 October 2019 The Drinks Business: Why sommeliers need to learn about non-alcoholic alternatives to wine
15 October 2019 Independent Online: SA’s first alcoholic-free festival is here
15 October 2019 The Book of Man: The Rise of Mindful Drinking
10 October 2019 Sheerluxe: 14 Drink Ideas For Sober October
October 2019 British Institute of Innkeeping News: Viewpoint – Laura Willoughby
7 October 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Pubs must promote benefits to sell low-and-no alcohol beer
3 October 2019 Chicago Tribune: ‘Sometimes you just don’t need to get tipsy.’ Millennials are trying to drink less, and bars and booze makers are getting on the wagon with spirit-free cocktails
2 October 2019 Daily Star: Freshers swap booze for knitting and milkshakes as students go sober
1 October 2019 Stylist: Sober October: “Why quitting alcohol was the best decision I ever made”
12 September 2019 Investors Chronicle: Putting the bottle down
September 2019 Diva Magazine: Sober curious
3 September 2019 Independent: Will Britain stay boozy now that the young are drinking less alcohol?
25 August 2019 Daily Star: Young revellers moan they have to drink booze as Leeds Festival runs out of coke
20 August 2019 Metro: Baby boomers are keeping booze Britain afloat — but the young are drinking less
10 August 2019 kk: Hørt om mindful drinking? [ Heard of mindful drinking?]
4 August 2019 Helsingin Sanomat: Krapula-ahdistukseen kyllästyneet nuoret julistavat sanomaansa sosiaalisessa mediassa: Perinteinen raittiusliike sai haastajan ”kokeilevasta alkoholittomuudesta” [Tired of hangover anxiety, young people share the word on social media: traditional sobriety challenged by “sober curious”]
27 July 2019 Basildon Canvey Southend Echo: Five tips to ditch the booze (or at least cut down) for a sober summer
26 July 2019 Braintree and Witham Times: Five tips to ditch the booze (or at least cut down) for a sober summer
25 July 2019 Evening Standard: How to go ‘clean partying’ when the sun is shining
23 July 2019 The Financial Times: Why work events are becoming a sober experience
22 July 2019 The Drinks Business: The owner of UK brewery Cloudwater is developing a low-calorie soda brand
19 July 2019 Lancashire Post: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
19 July 2019 Leyland Guardian: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
19 July 2019 Lytham St Annes Express: Here is how to avoid a hangover in the heat and enjoy an alcohol-free summer
18 July 2019 Healthista: Best mocktails and non-alcoholic drinks with the glam factor
17 July 2019 RTE: Ditch the drink: How to stay alcohol-free this summer in Ireland
17 July 2019 Beverage Business World: Club Soda: ‘It was still the crap coke and lemonade’
17 July 2019 Hackney Gazette: Drink it in! Club Soda’s booze-free festival is back
11 July 2019 Balance: Club Soda Summer Mindful Drinking Festival: The season of the botanical spirits
10 July 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Supermarket to take over pub with low-alcohol options
8 July 2019 Drinkpreneur: 13 Alcohol-Free Spirits At Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
5 July 2019 Londonist: The Best Beer Festivals In London: July 2019
July 2019 BarLifeUK: No-Alcohol Brands on Show at London Mindful Drinking Festival
2 July 2019 360 Grados Press: El ‘teetotalismo’ como estilo de vida [‘Teetotalism’ as a way of life]
27 June 2019 Evening Standard: How to have a booze-free summer
Summer 2019 Imbibe: Making zero the hero
25 June StreetZine: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
July 2019 The Psychologist: Finding moderation online
21 June 2019 The Sports Edit: The Healthy Hedonist’s guide to mindful drinking
16 June 2019 Psychreg: Drink Responsibly: Hangovers Steal Two weeks of Your Summer
11 June 2019 London TV: Glasto-who? The nation’s love of gin, beer and cats sparks steep rise in demand for boutique festivals
4 June 2019 SheerLuxe: How to drink less this summer
29 May 2019 Beverage Business World: Non-alcohol trend is ‘cross generational’
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: The boom of alcohol-free is a sticking trend
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: Low and No: How to Sell
20 May 2019 Morning Advertiser: Low and no: what to stock
May 2019 Essentially Catering: Mindful drinking goes digital [page 5]
4 May 2019 The Daily Mirror: Five easy ways to bin the booze — from tracking apps to alcohol-free G&Ts
29 April 2019 Gay Star News: LGBTI and sober? Here’s how you can socialize on the scene without alcohol
29 April 2019 Ipswich Star: Brewer helps launch of alcohol-free pub for Alzheimer’s patients to combat ‘sundowning’
29 April 2019 Drinks Retailing News: Lindeman’s joins no/low alcohol category
28 April 2019 The Times: Pubs tap into healthy trend for alcohol-free beer
28 April 2019 The Sun: GLEE-TOTAL Alcohol-free beer being rolled out on TAP across Britain to quench growing thirst of ‘dry drinkers’
April 2019 Blue Wings: Mocktails, please [page 15]
15 April 2019 The Daily Mail: The tipple that claims it’s booze free but not buzz free
12 April 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Club Soda and Budweiser to track drinking habits
10 April 2019 just-drinks: Anheuser-Busch InBev funds digital tool to help UK hospitality problem drinkers
10 April 2019 Venue Insight: Club Soda Announces Exciting Partnership With Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I to Create the UK’s First Digital Programme Around Mindful Drinking
9 April 2019 Inapub: Bud UK and Club Soda aim to help barstaff change their drinking habits
9 April 2019 Caterer Licensee Hotelier News: Club Soda Announces Partnership With Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I To Create Digital Programme Around Mindful Drinking
March/April 2019 Speciality Food Magazine: What’s new in drinks?
29 March 2019 Swindon Advertiser: Group of mindful drinkers help socialise sober in Swindon [Also appeared in This is Wiltshire]
14 March 2019 Virgin: Drinking for the taste, not to escape from life
13 March 2019 Sheerluxe: Where To Go In London For A Non-Boozy Night Out
8 March 2019 The Morning Advertiser: International Women’s Day – The women who lead in the on-trade
1 March 2019 The Temper: The Top 19 Sober Communities Beyond Traditional AA
28 February 2019 Gasholder: Mindful Drinking: Q&A with Club Soda’s Laura Willoughby MBE
28 February 2019 Gasholder: Mindful Drinking: a brief guide to alcohol-free
1 February 2019 Refinery29: How To Become A One-Drink Wonder
28 January 2019 The Drinks Business: How to go alcohol free when you work in the drinks industry
28 January 2019 The Morning Advertiser: Why Dry January is working for me
27 January 2019 The Business Post: No booze, please, we’re Irish
16 January 2019 The Guide Liverpool: Things You’ll Only Know If You’re Halfway Through Dry January [also on Xpose.ie]
15 January 2019 The Morning Advertiser: How can publicans look after their wellbeing?
14 January 2019 My Body+Soul: 15 ways to drink smarter if you have boozy-weekend regret
11 January 2019 Elle: Things to do in London this weekend
11 January 2019 East London and West Essex Guardian: What’s on in East London this weekend
11 January 2019 Conde Nast Traveler: How Dry January became a thing around the world
11 January 2019 Skint London: Top Skint Picks for the Weekend
11 January 2019 Campaign Live: Booming alcohol-free beer market jumps aboard healthy living bandwagon
10 January 2019 TimeOut London: Are Londoners really drinking less?
10 January 2019 Country and Town House: What’s On? Re:Solutions Festival
10 January 2019 City Matters: What’s on around the City of London this month
10 January 2019 SheerLuxe: What to do this weekend
10 January 2019 Londonist: Things to do this Weekend in London
10 January 2019 Bustle: 5 Ways Dry January Changes Your Brain, According To Science
9 January 2019 Urban Intention: Stick to being alcohol free this January with a mindfulness drinking festival!
9 January 2019 London on the Inside: Mindful Drinking Festival – What’s On
8 January 2019 Matador Network: The 6 best alcohol-free trips to take to kickstart your new year
8 January 2019 Belfast Telegraph: Sobriety is the new cool – and here’s the reason
8 January 2019 TimeOut London: Six totally free things to do in London this week
8 January 2019 TimeOut London: Things to do in London this weekend
7 January 2019 NBC News: Tend to get too happy at happy hour? Consider mindful drinking
7 January 2019 Matador Network: Where to go to expand your mindfulness in 2019
7 January 2019 Conde Nast Traveller: 10 cool things to do in London this weekend
7 January 2019 Cosmopolitan: Getting Sober Curious Is the New Dry January
7 January 2019 The Malestorm: The Weekly EDIT – Who’s having a Dry Veganuary?
5 January 2019 Londonist: Free and Cheap London Events This Week
5 January 2019 London North Western Railway: Top Ten Things to Do/London
4 January 2019 SheerLuxe: Doing Dry January? You need to read this
3 January 2019 Drinks Retailing News: Alcohol-free spirit sector sees new launch for Dry January
1 January 2019 The Week: Dry January: what is it and is it actually worth it?
1 January 2019 The Resident: 15 sober things to do during Dry January in London
1 January 2019 Good Web Guide: Dry January
1 January 2019 The Drinks Business: Top 10 Food Trends for 2019
12 December 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: Nihal Arthanayake
7 December 2019 BBC Radio Leicester
3 December 2019 BBC Radio Scotland: Mornings with Kaye Adams
15 November 2019 Hacking Happiness: Hacking Happiness with Laura Willoughby, Club Soda
29 October 2019: The British Beer & Pub Association – The Beer & Pubcast: Episode 4 – Low & No Beer
24 October 2019 Real Kombucha: 12 non-alcoholic drinks put to the test – a podcast with Club Soda’s Laura Willoughby
24 October 2019 Cambridge 105 Radio
18 October 2019 BBC Breakfast News
8 October 2019 Interpreting Wine Podcast: Episode 301 – Laura Willoughby, Club Soda, Mindful Drinking series (1 of 5)
1 October 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: 5 Live Breakfast Your Call
5 September 2019 Her Balanced Business Podcast: Purpose, Profit & Sobriety in Business with MBE Laura Willoughby – listen on Spotify; on ApplePodcasts
31 July 2019 BBC 3 Counties Radio
31 July 2019 The Law Society podcast: Calling time on booze culture
19 July 2019 Voice of Islam Radio
16 July 2019 East London Radio: Bread and Butter Show with Michaela Pontiki
13 July 2019 BBC Radio Kent: Weekend with Anna Louise
13 July 2019 BBC Radio London: Carrie and David Grant Show
10 July 2019 BBC Radio London
10 July 2019 BBC Radio Three Counties
10 June 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: Drivetime
16 May 2019 BBC Radio London: Vanessa Feltz show
16 May 2019 BBC Radio Essex
3 May 2019 BBC Radio Solent: Breakfast Programme
29 April 2019 Local BBC radio stations: Merseyside, Hereford and Worcester, Cambridge, Devon, Lincolnshire, York, Wales, Nottinghamshire, Kent, Berkshire.
9 April 2019 BBC World TV News
7 March 2019 The Food Talk Show: On the wagon
6 February 2019 Northern Public Radio and NPR Illinois: In Dry January, high demand for low-alcohol drinks
1 February 2019 BBC Radio Scotland: The Stephen Jardine Programme
January 2019 The Pubcast: Episode 2 – Drink up!
26 January 2019 BBC Radio 5 Live: Stephen Nolan
12 January 2019 BBC Radio London: Carrie and David Grant Breakfast Show
12 January 2019 Heart FM: Breakfast Show with JK & Kelly Brook
11 January 2019 BBC Radio London: Robert Elms Show
10 January 2019 Fermentation Beer & Brewing Radio: Alcohol Free Special podcast
30 December 2019 The Live Review: Amplify your Dry January in 2020
18 December 2019 Imperfectly Natural: Meet me at the Mindful Drinking Festival
3 December 2019 Tipaton: Herkullinen mocktail pikkujouluihin: kinuskikaakao ja ripaus suolaa
5 November 2019 Night Time Economy Solutions: How to reduce the alcohol content in your premises for the Christmas season
5 November 2019 Better Health, Better Care, Better Value: Year of Wellbeing Blog: Why change the habit of a lifetime?
25 October 2019 Leicester City Council: Event aims to start conversation about alcohol
8 October 2019 Real Kombucha: Sober dating? These places serve a range of amazing non-alcoholic drinks
1 October 2019 Real Kombucha: Shani’s Sober Diaries, Pt 3: Sober October
23 September 2019 Girl & Tonic: Thoughts on how to make sober friends (and how to find them!)
18 September 2019 Love British Food: Say Hello to No and Low
16 September 2019 Prettygreentea: Ellie, Founder Of Caleno Is On A Mission To Make “Not Drinking” Fun
13 September 2019 Big Society Capital: Connecting research and ventures to improve mental health
26 July 2019 Spitalfields: Mindful Drinking Festival Spitalfields 2019
25 July 2019 Silverbird: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
24 July 2019 Hel’s Angels: Mindful Drinking
21 July 2019 Sober is Fun: Club Soda Mindful Drinking Festival
23 June 2019 PinkCirrus: Mindful Drinking Festival
June 2019 Patchwork: How to Take Care of Your Non-Drinking Wedding Guests
11 June 2019 Drinks International: For low-no read low-yes
10 March 2019 Here East: #EastLondonInnovators with Club Soda
4 April 2019 Swiping in the City xo: Dating sober with Laura Willoughby from Club Soda
10 February 2019 Fermentation Online: Club Soda – Mindful Drinking Festival
31 January 2019 Voice of Calm – Awesome without Alcohol: 10 Best Alcohol Free Drinks
17 January 2019 Katie May: Alcohol free alternatives for Dry January
14 January 2019 Be Sober: Review of the Mindful Drinking Festival by Club Soda
12 January 2019 Pete Brown: My Guide to Low and No Alcohol Beers at the Mindful Drinking Festival
11 January 2019 Master of Malt: The Nightcap: 11 January – Non-alcoholic beer pioneer Adnams will be at the Mindful Drinking Festival
8 January 2019 Muddy Stilettos: Are you sober curious?
4 January 2019 Smart Beer Club: Dry January’s box
2 January 2019 Adnams: Not your usual festival
24 September 2019 Drink Coach blog: Mindful Drinking & Mindfulness
August 2019 SCPN: Mindful Drinking
8 July 2019 Alcohol Change: I don’t fancy alcohol – but what can I drink instead?
July 2019 Blenheim: What can I drink instead?
May 2019 Alcohol Change: Alcohol-free at the pub