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Bud Light Plans to 'Spend Heavily' on Re-vamped Marketing Campaign After Dylan Mulvaney Controversy
Radaronline ^ | 4/27/23 | Aaron Johnson

Posted on 04/28/2023 5:27:44 AM PDT by Libloather

Bud Light is expected to "spend heavily" on marketing in the wake of backlash from its brief partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The popular beer company was heavily ridiculed by conservatives after Mulvaney, 26, a TikTok creator and transgender woman, posted an Instagram with the adult beverage in a sponsored post.

After celebs like Kid Rock and Travis Tritt rallied fans on social media to boycott Bud Light over the partnership, the beer's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, has prepared to dramatically increase its marketing budget to recoup losses.

After beer sales plummeted, Anheuser-Busch distributors feared for their livelihoods and job security.

According to Benj Steinman, editor of Beer Marketer's Insights, Bud Light's parent company vowed to make up for economic losses.

In a closed-door meeting on Monday, Anheuser-Busch executives told distributors from across the country that they planned to "spend heavily on the brand after spending fell off a cliff last year," Steinman told the Post.

Steinman stated that the new marketing efforts would be rolled out as early as this week.

In a report to clients in regard to the meeting, Steinman said that Anheuser-Busch "did promise to spend lotsa dough on Bud Light [marketing] this spring and summer, starting with big push this week for the NFL draft."

As Bud Light's parent company worked overtime to repair its public image - and relationship with partners impacted by drop in sales - Anheuser-Busch also hosted private Zoom meetings with distributors nationwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at radaronline.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: budweiser; marketing; mulvaney; oops
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To: Libloather

isnt cindy mccain an AB distributor?

a twofer


61 posted on 04/28/2023 6:40:37 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Libloather
With swift, decisive action A-B got rid of their infirmative action marketing "expert" ... but have they dissociated their company and their brand with the seriously mentally ill pitchman?
62 posted on 04/28/2023 6:46:08 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Libloather

Suddenly Bud-Light ads will feature cowboys, welders and weight lifters.


63 posted on 04/28/2023 6:49:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
Suddenly Bud-Light ads will feature cowboys, welders and weight lifters.

Kinda like The Village People, you know, it takes a village to raise the government child.

64 posted on 04/28/2023 6:52:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

Watched the draft and never saw an ad or even a logo for Bud Light.

Only beer commercials were one for Corona and one for Modelo.


65 posted on 04/28/2023 6:54:33 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Libloather

The real issue is that a lot of Bud Light drinkers, having tried a real beer over the past two weeks, might never go back.


66 posted on 04/28/2023 6:54:45 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing )
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To: Libloather

hey AB

get a clue

its about the children

you are throwing in with a movement that is coming after our children


67 posted on 04/28/2023 6:56:20 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: 1Old Pro

What’s your favorite beer?


68 posted on 04/28/2023 6:59:08 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Libloather
After beer sales plummeted, Anheuser-Busch distributors feared for their livelihoods and job security.

The thugs and perverts running AB want to play a a guilt trip on us...

69 posted on 04/28/2023 7:00:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (best definition of WOKE/socialism is simply “The endless war against merit. ”Victor Davis Hanson )
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Start dropping kicking them right in the nuts heh.


70 posted on 04/28/2023 7:00:16 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Libloather
People drink many beers because of image. Girls drink Amstel Light and Heineken for the cultured European image. Men drink Bud, Coors, PBR and other American lagers for their manly, blue collar image. Sam Elliot's voice (or Lorne Green's in years past) is the voice of American beer. Deep masculine voices with images of cowboys, lumberjacks and strong men doing manly jobs advertise men's beers. Huge, powerful Clydesdales pulling giant beer wagons was the Bud image.

Now, some skinny gay tranny cannot be erased from our minds. Since it isn't the actual taste of the beer that matters, it's just as easy to say Miller Light or Yuengling or PBR. I think Coors Light will be the winner here because they have Sam Elliot under contract. Personally, I'm partial to Yuengling when I want an American style lager.

71 posted on 04/28/2023 7:10:00 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Bulwyf
What’s your favorite beer?

Allagash White

72 posted on 04/28/2023 7:13:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Libloather

Screw the ad campaign, NEVER FORGET who these people are, what your money is supporting every time you buy a Budweiser product.


73 posted on 04/28/2023 7:15:21 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Libloather

The only way to fix this mess would be to hire Kid Rock as spokesman.


74 posted on 04/28/2023 7:22:00 AM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Libloather
In a closed-door meeting on Monday, Anheuser-Busch executives told distributors from across the country that they planned to "spend heavily on the brand after spending fell off a cliff last year," Steinman told the Post.

But the one, single thing that they absolutely refuse to do is be honest with their customers. They won't EVER admit that they F'd up or that they betrayed customer loyalty.

For that sin they must die.

75 posted on 04/28/2023 7:22:22 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now... )
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To: Poser

Compare and contrast this Bud Light nightmare with a Hamm’s commercial from the 70s: a guy driving in a jeep with his bear to a lumberyard at the end of a hard day’s work to knock back some cold ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2xsxlNlRc


76 posted on 04/28/2023 7:29:30 AM PDT by lado
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To: CatOwner

Why? They showed their undercoat for all to bare witness of their woke company. To me that beer will always be known as a queer beer for queers,! They sure made that known. Maybelline is the next one to fall. I was, past tense, was a big Maybelline customer not anymore. Their makeup I guess only caters to the queer community. All other BORN women need not apply. See how far that gets them.


77 posted on 04/28/2023 7:38:20 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Westbrook

Without an obsequious apology and complete disavowel of any support for normalization drag queens, NO SALE.


This is actually their only way out. But they won’t do it.

This is fatal wokeness. When the jihadis were gunning down people in France a few years ago, one bar’s security system captured a conversation between two bartenders hiding under the bar as shots were fired in the street:

“You don’t KNOW they’re islamic...”

About to die, and still PC. That’s AB today.


78 posted on 04/28/2023 7:52:42 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: CatOwner

And SWILL it still, is. No matter the labeling. Who the hell drinks bud light, run by Belgians. Someone should do a reverse takeover of InBev.

Real American Beer is still available- and all should buy American. Not “nato-beer” from Brussels management of tranny ‘soldier’ “men”. Not buying it or them.


79 posted on 04/28/2023 7:52:50 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Libloather

Last night I was streaming a show on the History Channel and a Stella Artois advertisement played multiple times at every break. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV is desperate to recoup their losses through their other brands too.


80 posted on 04/28/2023 7:58:37 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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