Who’d have thought that male beer drinkers wouldn’t respond positively when being nagged by two middle aged women.
Posted on 10/31/2016 1:32:47 PM PDT by fungoking
Anheuser-Busch InBev has pulled the plug on its Bud Light ads featuring comedians Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen. According to Adweek, the beer giant pulled the ads "a little earlier than expected" after its beer sales declined in the third quarter. The Schumer-Rogen ads launched earlier this year before the Super Bowl and played off of the presidential election featuring a mock Bud Light political party. One of the advertisements dubbed "Equal Pay" received a lot of negative attention online. In the video, the comedians denounced the gender wage gap by saying Bud Light "costs the same, whether you're a dude or a lady." Comments on the video have since been disabled on YouTube....
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Madison Avenue’s millenials (likely educated in ‘elite’ colleges of the Northeast) discovering that angering 50% of the customer base is bad for business.
Amy is kind of cute, in a chubby sort of way, and I’ve seen a few vids of her where she was actually semi-funny.
That said, this kid needs a serious attitude adjustment — starting with having her mouth washed out with soap.
Freakin’ ad wizards. Hope they get axed too.
NOT a good sign when your sales DECLINE during a major national advertising campaign! Apparently InBev is clueless about the culture of the people who drink their swill.
I can’t think of two more detestable people I’d want to hawk my wares to the public than these two. Amy, IMO, is a horrible skank who isn’t even the first candidate for last call whore pick up at the sleaziest dive bar you can find, and that Seth Canadian Dude has just lucked up into making money off being what he is - a stoner idiot.
There is no value added with either of them unless you are high and want to make yourself feel better because someone is more pathetic than you are.
Wonder if the NFL boycott played into the drop in the 3rd quarter? About the same time football season started.
Axe that Heineken on while you’re at it...
To each his own.
Can
Not
Stand
Her.
The Goodyear blimp and an Al Franken clone?
I watched the ad at the link - t simply re-defines ‘lame commercial’...
You’re a hobo and it’s free?...
She would make me want to buy her silence.
Garbage, Garbage Light. You know it cant be better than the regular Garbage.
I agree w what someone said on twitter, “I don’t like two middle-aged women bitching at me.”
Redirecting our beer money to Yuengling
Smart move. Every time I saw those two, I swore I’d never drink that piss water again.
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