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In “Ingroup and Outgroup,” David G. Myers discusses how
identity is often understood in terms of our
differences from others. More particularly, he notes how we
understand ourselves as members of groups
that are different from other groups. If it is true that our
identities are a product of these perceived
differences, what does that mean for how we interact with one
another across those group differences?
What is the attitude that best informs a positive dialogue
between or among diverse groups?
In a clear, well-written, thesis-driven essay, discuss how what
Myers sees as the ineradicable fact of our
social diversity informs our efforts to work and live together .
Your essay should build this discussion with
reference to at least two other pieces from the Human
Experience Reader.
Bud Light is ailing— can a new agency fix it?
Springer, Jon . Advertising Age ; Chicago Vol. 93, Iss. 11,
(Jul 11, 2022): 16.
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ABSTRACT (ENGLISH)
Behind the prestige of an association with beer's biggest U.S.
brandand creative control of one of the country's
most iconic and famous advertiserslies a formidable challenge
for the advertising agencies vying to win the Bud
Light creative account. Volume of the core Bud Light beer
(known inside the company as Bud Light Blue), has
decreased for 13 consecutive years, falling from an all-time
peak of 42.4 million barrels in 2008 to 26 million last
year, according to beer trade publication Beer Marketer's
Insights, which bases its analysis on shipments to
distributors. What this all means for Bud Light Bluestill
America's best-selling single brand with 11.8% U.S. market
share, according to Beer Marketer's Insightsmay not be the
message that its distributors necessarily want to hear.
Bud Light's 1.7% decline, Beer Marketer's Insights data shows
(Lite was the only of the three to gain overall beer
market share). [...]the agency that wins its business may be the
one that tells that story best to the young audience
Bud Light the beer has seen steadily drain away, while latching
onto the legacy strengths that once defined
ittransforming a youthful and fun-loving brand of low-calorie,
sessionable beer that's dying into a youthful and fun-
loving family of low-calorie, sessionable things that can
growbeers, cocktails, seltzers, health-focused beers and
perhaps other expressions still waiting to be invented, along
with new ways to promote them.
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Behind the prestige of an association with beer's biggest U.S.
brandand creative control of one of the country's
most iconic and famous advertiserslies a formidable challenge
for the advertising agencies vying to win the Bud
Light creative account. Can they help save a brand whose
signature product is stuck in a long sales slump?
Anheuser-Busch InBev, parent of the Bud Light brand, initiated
the review last month after eight years with
Wieden+Kennedy, which has chosen not to defend. Agencies
pitching the business include Anomaly, Johannes
Leonardo, Gut, WPP's Cavalry and the Martin Agency,
according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Other
shops may still join the chase.
The winnerexpected to be revealed this fallwill inherit a brand
with massive sales and a long legacy of memorable
advertising, but also a world of troubling trends to overcome.
Volume of the core Bud Light beer (known inside the
company as Bud Light Blue), has decreased for 13 consecutive
years, falling from an all-time peak of 42.4 million
barrels in 2008 to 26 million last year, according to beer trade
publication Beer Marketer's Insights, which bases its
analysis on shipments to distributors. And while a post-
pandemic hospitality rebound helped to slow the rate of
decline in 2021, the pace of its downfall had essentially doubled
in the five years before that, the publication's
figures show.
Worryingly, this came despite some wildly popular advertising,
such as Wieden+Kennedy's viral "Dilly Dilly"
campaign, first introduced in 2017.
Experts in the beer and advertising industries say Bud Light is
struggling to keep up amid a combination of
industry trends. They include an explosion of newer brands and
styles developed for ever-narrowing tastes and
occasions, including seltzers and canned cocktails that more
effectively draw in today's new drinkers than legacy
beer brands, including many under a growing Bud Light banner.
"Premiumization, fragmentation, innovation, varietythese were
all things that were antithetical to everything Bud
Light is," said Benj Steinman, president of Beer Marketer's
Insights.
Some say Bud Light's problems worsened while its parent AB
InBev was busy assembling and integrating
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acquisitions and "optimizing" its portfoliomoves they
interpreted as the big company's indifference to the fate of
any one brand, particularly stalwarts such as Budweiser and Bud
Light. These carry lower profit margins than
sibling brands like Michelob Ultra, or any number of seltzers,
cocktails and imports also in the AB InBev stable that
can support higher prices, and potentially, at least, better reach
the young audience that's long been Bud Light's
lifeblood. This dynamic might have been best expressed in a
2018 earnings conference call exchange between AB
InBev's then-CEO, Carlos Brito, and an analyst asking about the
company's ailing U.S. brands. "What's working best
is that we're playing a portfolio game," Brito said, according to
a Sentieo transcript. "Not a Bud and Bud Light
game."
In recent years, this approach has made winners of some AB
InBev portfolio brands Michelob Ultra and Cutwater
canned cocktails for exampleand losers of stalwarts like Bud
Light. AB InBev "fully understands" this dynamic, said
Robert Ottenstein, a financial analyst for Evercore who has
followed AB InBev for years. But the brand's rate of
decline, he cautioned, "is a very significant challenge for the
company."
"There's nothing wrong with trading upa Bud Light drinker in
his 30s becoming an Ultra drinker in his 50sthat's a
natural and really healthy development for the company,"
Ottenstein added. "What you need to do is prevent the
leaky bucketyou don't want the Bud Light drinker moving over
to [U.S. rivals] Corona or Modelo." [Constellation
Brands controls Modelo and Corona in the U.S., while AB
InBev owns them globally.]
AB InBev declined to comment for this story, and has said it
would not comment on the agency review beyond a
statement in early June, confirming it was taking place, which
read in part: "As the brand marks its 40th
anniversary, Bud Light will be reviewing its creative business
as it continues its mission to build authentic and
engaging connections with its consumers."
'Bad or nonexistent'
But there's some reason to believe the agency review could be a
small part of a new dawn for Bud Light. It comes
in the wake of a new CEO at AB InBev, Michel Doukeris, who
ascended from president of the company's North
America zone to succeed Brito on July 1, 2021. In a December
investor seminar, Doukeris acknowledged many of
the trends that have contributed to Bud Light's ailing health,
and had already begun showing up in the form of new
products with big ambitionslike the Super Bowl-advertised,
high-profile Bud Light Next, an 80-calorie, zero-carb
beverage that can be seen as an interpretation of Michelob
Ultra, only marketed for Bud Light's younger audience.
A new U.S. chief commercial officer, Kyle Norrington,
previously led AB InBev's beer strategy in Canada as
president of Labatt Breweries. He intends to replicate in the
U.S. what he has described as a transformative
prescription to reignite growth in the Great White North that
aligns with Doukeris' vision for developed beer
marketsinnovation, premiumization and "beyond beer."
Andy Goeler, a longtime Anheuser- Busch employee who has
recently steered Bud Light as the brand's marketing
VP, recently announced his retirement, and a fresh duo of
executives are getting started at the brand: Alissa
Heinerscheid, who has the role of marketing VP, head of Bud
Light Blue; and Steve Wolf, who is marketing VP
overseeing Bud Light brand extensions.
The company has also recently acknowledged a willingness to
make big marketing breaks with its past, declaring
that it would surrender a longstanding practice of pursuing
exclusivity among alcohol rivals in Super Bowl in-game
ads.
What this all means for Bud Light Bluestill America's best-
selling single brand with 11.8% U.S. market share,
according to Beer Marketer's Insightsmay not be the message
that its distributors necessarily want to hear.
Multiple people with deep knowledge of the brand who spoke to
Ad Age say the best outcome they would hope for
from new brand creative is only to slow the rate of its decline
and absorb more share currently finding its way to
rivals.
Bud Light's two biggest light lager category rivals, Molson
Coors-owned Coors Light and Miller Lite, are victims of
the same long-term industry trends. But both of those brands
outperformed Bud Light last year, increasing
shipment volumeCoors Light by 1.1% and Miller Lite by
3.8%vs. Bud Light's 1.7% decline, Beer Marketer's Insights
data shows (Lite was the only of the three to gain overall beer
market share). AB InBev's distributors are keenly
aware of these figures.
"The [agency] change is welcome news because the effort
behind Bud Light for the past year or more has been
either bad or nonexistent, and I'm sure would you get the same
response from every distributor you hear from," one
longtime AB InBev distributor, who asked not to be identified,
told Ad Age. "Having a new agency is a good first
step, but what we need to see is commitment and follow-through
from the top."
Goeler's departure elicited a "gasp" among distributors who
long viewed him as "their friend at the company," said
Kimberly Clements, co-founder of beer business consultancy
Pints LLC, whose family ran the Tucson, Arizona,
Budweiser distributor Golden Eagle Distributors before selling
it six years ago. In reflecting on the radical evolution
of the U.S. business since its merger with InBev, Clements
relates a story that many with long memories of
Anheuser-Busch history reliably recall: That influential former
CEO August Busch IIIthe grandson of A-B founder
Adolphus Buschwas particularly wary of the concept of line
extensions on "workhorse" brands like Bud Light.
Distributors, Steinman adds, were "certainly underwhelmed" by
the initial performance of Bud Light Next, a brand
the company said had been 10 years in the making and got a
Super Bowl introduction, although he personally is
taking a "wait-and-see" attitude. "They're trying for something a
little different here, and despite a slow start, I'm not
ready to write it off yet." As for Bud Light Blue, Steinman
described distributor sentiment this way: "Even if you
can't get it to grow, if you just improve the trend, it would mean
so much for the business."
Inside AB InBev, the action indeed appears to be around "a
little different," and would seem to point toward
expanding Bud Light not as a beer, but as a kind of lifestyle
platform. And the agency that wins its business may
be the one that tells that story best to the young audience Bud
Light the beer has seen steadily drain away, while
latching onto the legacy strengths that once defined
ittransforming a youthful and fun-loving brand of low-calorie,
sessionable beer that's dying into a youthful and fun-loving
family of low-calorie, sessionable things that can
growbeers, cocktails, seltzers, health-focused beers and perhaps
other expressions still waiting to be invented,
along with new ways to promote them.
Whether that can work is a matter of still further debate. What
observers agree on, however, is whatever's been
done over the last 13 years for Bud Light has not.
Guy walks into a bar
Perhaps Bud Light's first significant creative victory was the
1985 "Gimme A Light" campaign that promoted the
brand's bar-friendly name change from its founding as
Budweiser Light to Bud Lightestablishing for the first time a
personality separate from its parent and going directly after the
then-category leader it would soon vanquish, Miller
Lite, with humor and understated cleverness.
The ads featured a series of "guy walks into a bar" jokes, with
variations on the same punch line over and over
again: A customer in a bar orders a "light"only to be presented
with a table lamp, a flare, a flaming branding iron
and so onforcing them to say, "I meant a Bud Light."
The same campaign, if run today, would make the brand itself
the prop punch line. There are 26 different versions
of Bud Light currently listed on the brand's website, under any
of six subcategories: There's Bud Light; four citrus-
flavored malt beverages (FMBs) now known as Peels; four
versions of Chelada, a Clamato-infused Bud Light
popular with Hispanic consumers; a 6% alcohol version known
as Bud Light Platinum; the new Bud Light Next; and
18 different seltzers: four fruit "classics"; four hard sodas; three
"Retro Tie Dye" soda flavors; four "Cocktail Hour"
malt seltzers meant to mimic mixed drinks; and three flavors of
Platinum seltzers. (Some of these are available
only as part of retail multipacks, so the number of varieties is
something less than the number of flavors.)
Steinman estimates the line extensionseverything but Bud Light
Blueaccounted for between 3 million and 3.5
million shipped barrels last year, or roughly eight times less
than Bud Light Blue.
The degree to which this constitutes a thoughtful, consumer-
centric and potentially lucrative approach to a core
brand in decline, an embarrassment of "brandspreading"
inadvertently contributing to diluting equity, or a little of
both is a key question among observers. All generally agree it
has added to the complexity of a brand that once
upon a time was so simple it could be explained in two short
words.
'More Cheers'
To understand how it got this way is to understand the evolution
of AB InBev's overarching strategies, and further
underscores the big transitional moment that the Bud Light
agency review accompanies.
In a December seminar, Doukeris referenced the company's
newly defined purpose"To a Future With More
Cheers"while discussing its broader strategic approach. In
developed markets like the U.S., this strategy intends to
accelerate the company's growth and financial health by leaning
into opportunities in premium products and
extending further into so-called "beyond beer"
categoriesflavored alcohol beverages, seltzers and canned
cocktails
designed to reach new consumers and occasions by addressing
perceived barriers to beer adoption. Those
barriers, according to Rosie Coppiano, AB InBev's global VP,
category strategy and insights, include "bitterness,
masculinity, and high carbs," according to a transcript of the
event.
In Doukeris' vision, AB InBev is poised to take advantage of
these trends through a massive array of global brands,
and the superior supply chain and distribution muscle,
developed under the strategies of Brito, who led the wave of
industry consolidation. The "More Cheers" strategy also
contemplates achieving industry leadership in e-
commerce, ambitious ESG goals and prescribes separate
marching orders for global markets where beer is less
developed than in the U.S.
"As the industry consolidated and we became the largest global
brewery, we took our eyes off consumer trends
and innovation," Doukeris said in the investor seminar.
The loudest flavors
While timeand presumably, the right creative touchwill tell if
AB InBev's bold strategies ultimately succeed, it's safe
to say that when it comes to Bud Light, industry watchers are
skeptical.
Some see such an array of brands assembled around a large but
fast-falling anchor as a recipe for disaster and
interpret the whole thing as a kind of dressed-up apology for
arriving late to innovations that other companies
pioneeredand still lead. Top-sellers in seltzerWhite Claw and
Trulyaren't appendages of existing brands but new
entities founded by Mark Anthony Brands, the parent of Mike's
Hard Lemonade; and Boston Beer Co., the maker of
Sam Adams, respectively. Bud Light's traditional rivals in light
lagerCoors Light and Miller Liteare conspicuous for
pursuing far less than Bud Light in the way of line extensions, a
phenomenon that some ascribe to their having
maintained a tighter focus on their core brand propositions.
Steinman notes that closely aligning seltzers and beer brands in
the way AB InBev has, and Coors for a time did,
might have come at the expense of its potential to grow that
segment more than it has. Bud Light Seltzer provided
"a real shot in the arm" for the overall brand in 2021, although
Steinman projects the seltzer category is likely to
decline overall this year. "I think that a lot of people who
gravitated toward seltzer were explicitly rejecting beer, so
for some, to go to a beer brand seltzer was a heavy lift. Some
70% of seltzer today is White Claw and Truly; beer-
branded seltzers are 20% of the marketmaybe," he said.
Bob Lachky, who spent nearly 20 years (1990-2009) in
Anheuser-Busch advertising roles, joining the brewer
directly from the agency behind the "Gimme A Light"
campaign, then known as Needham Harper &Steers,
maintains that Bud Light's line extensions have tended to be
more focused on shelf visibility than actual consumer
trends. Bud Light's great size allows for its line extensions to
bash into trends with considerable strength and
speed but, in Lachky's view, doing so ultimately serves to dilute
its parent's equity.
"It's death by a thousand paper cuts," Lachky said. "When you
have a new product launch, you jam it down that
distributor's throatyou make them take it ... but [distributors and
retailers] will just take another Bud Light facing
off the shelf," he said. "Here comes Bud Light Next. Here
comes Bud Light Platinum. And that's one more facing
that Bud Light doesn't get. It's one more endcap that Bud Light
doesn't get. And eventually, you've killed the brand
yourself. You've killed it by your own strategy of flanking the
hell out of it."
The notion that too many line extensions have damaged Bud
Light is a "risk," but also difficult to prove, said
Ottenstein. He noted some beverage alcohol brandslike Jack
Danielshave done a lot of extensions without
seemingly hurting its core equity.
One clue that at least some of Bud Light's extensions aren't just
clumsy bandages on a wounded brand can be
seen in how AB InBev is approaching another brand whose
flagship is troubled very little by existential threats:
Michelob Ultra, the low calorie/low-carb brand that's been
arguably the beer industry's biggest success story in 20
years. That brand too is now flanked with flavored versions and
seltzers that viewed alongside their Bud Light
siblings spotlight AB InBev's "premiumization" strategy and the
brands' respective focus on demographics.
Where Bud Light's Peels FMBs include a lime flavor, Michelob
Ultra's FMB, called Infusions, highlights a more
exotic lime and prickly pear variety. And whereas Ultra's
seltzers are certified as organic and boast that they
contain ingredients like coconut water and real fruit juice, this
year's Super Bowl commercial starring Guy Fieri
promoting Bud Light's Hard Sodas seized on a simpler
emotional idea: that they represented "the loudest flavors
ever."
'A solution to the wrong problem'
However they creatively approach the brand with their pitches,
the agencies now busy preparing to win Bud Light's
business are going into it well aware of a single daunting fact:
Years of memorable campaigns have failed to move
the needle on a light beer category in freefall, and Bud Light
most dramatically.
Emblematic of Bud Light's dilemma was the 2017 campaign by
Wieden+Kennedy known popularly as "Dilly Dilly."
Meant to cash in on a then-sizzling cultural property popular
with Bud Light's desired audiencethe "Game of
Thrones" franchisethe ad was meant to show the beer was fun to
share with friends, and playfully trip up the
notion that it had become uncool compared with craft beer.
"Our mission was to reinvigorate the Bud Light brand and make
it a beer that people would be proud to hold again,"
according to a blog post examining the campaign, published on
the Wieden+Kennedy website. "To do that, we first
had to put Bud Light back in the cultural conversation in a big,
positive way."
Time would reveal the spot was wildly successful in W+K's
latter goalbut nearly ineffectual in the first. "Dilly Dilly"
indeed took offfirst within the cultural properties where Bud
Light's desired fans were: It got coverage on ESPN's
"SportsCenter" and an in-game audible from Steelers
quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, then barreled into wider
culture: According to Wieden's post, "Dilly Dilly" for a time
was the third-most-popular Google autofill following the
phrase "What does..." The phrase got 395,000 mentions on
social media and more than 900 million earned media
impressions.
Energized by having a such big creative winner on its hands, the
brand and Wieden plowed it into a full-blown
campaign that lasted for two years. The theme culminated in a
2019 Super Bowl campaign aiming not at vague
microbrews but big competitors such as Lite and Coors Light
over a controversial allegation they used corn syrup
in brewing. Bud Light sales continued to slide.
Reflecting on the "Dilly Dilly" saga in retrospect, one agency
executive with experience in beer marketing diagnoses
it failed due to a fundamental disconnect between the brand and
its goals. "'Dilly Dilly' made a brand famous that
wasn't struggling for fame," said this person, who asked not to
be identified. "Of course it didn't work. It was a
solution to the wrong problem."
Another veteran beer marketer, on the campaign's four-part corn
syrup Super Bowl epic remarked, "Not a single
beer drinker in the country cared. But boy, did they spend a
couple hundred million dollars."
"Dilly Dilly" demonstrated that Bud Light's marvelous ability to
produce an unforgettable advertising moment was
still somewhere in its bag of tricks, even if making the brand
cool again required a different kind of magic it may
still be seeking. In a 2021 Super Bowl spot, the characters from
Bud Light's "Dilly Dilly" universe were joined by the
famous ad phrasemakers who proceeded them"Yes I Am, "
"Wassup?" "I love you man" and morein a zany meta
plot where "Bud Light legends save the day," (naturally, the
line was sung by the "Real Men of Genius" singer). The
great irony is that they didn't save the day, at least for the
brand.
In Clements' view, the revamped Bud Light portfolio, whose
future now seems staked to disparate items ranging
from the health-and-fitness ingredient-backed Next to the high-
alcohol, sexy nightlife elicited by Bud Light's
Platinum entries, may no longer be appropriate for the
megabrand's traditional reliance on humor. Moreover, she
said, "the kind of humor they traditionally relied ontongue-in-
cheek and not so seriousI'm not sure that people see
that as so funny anymore," putting Bud Light at a positioning
disadvantage vs. some growing brands such as
Corona and its consistent "find your beach" tagline, or the high-
performing Modelo, which has found success
behind its "fighting spirit" message.
Clues as to what Bud Light ultimately wants can be seen among
the perceived strengths of the agencies known to
be pitching. All five have declined to comment.
Four of them have recent experience with AB InBev brands. The
Martin Agency, known for its Geico campaigns, is
a current AB InBev roster shop. Anomaly has been the brewer's
partner in Canada, and would presumably have the
attention of Norrington, the client's new U.S. chief commercial
officer. Gut's work with the brewer recently included
an eye-opening campaign for Michelob Ultra in Mexico.
Cavalry has extensive beer experience, including a recent
gig helping AB InBev introduce a high-end line extension to its
Budweiser family, Budweiser Supreme.
Johannes Leonardo would be the only newcomer to AB InBev,
but has previous experience helping its rival
MolsonCoors launch its fighter in the seltzer wars, Vizzy.
The winning agency has a complex challenge in front of it,
changing the trajectory of an entity that itself is rapidly
changing, to meet a consumer landscape rapidly changing, while
rescuing its big but long-struggling star.
"In some ways, [Bud Light] is a victim of its success,"
Ottenstein, the Evercore analyst, said. "It was an
extraordinarily successful brand. At one time it had over 20%
market share, which is extraordinary, but at a certain
point, the consumer changes."
Today, Ottenstein continued, "I'm not sure how clear it is to a
lot of consumers what the brand stands for, and if
what the brand stands for is still as relevant to certain portions
of the population."
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Calories; Market shares; Breweries;
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Corporation: Anheuser-Busch InBev; Industry: 31212 :
Breweries 54181 : Advertising
Agencies
Location: United States--US
Company / organization: Name: Wieden + Kennedy; NAICS:
541810; Name: Anheuser-Busch InBev; NAICS:
312120
Classification: 31212: Breweries; 54181: Advertising Agencies
Publication title: Advertising Age; Chicago
Volume: 93
Issue: 11
First page: 16
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: Jul 11, 2022
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  • 1. In “Ingroup and Outgroup,” David G. Myers discusses how identity is often understood in terms of our differences from others. More particularly, he notes how we understand ourselves as members of groups that are different from other groups. If it is true that our identities are a product of these perceived differences, what does that mean for how we interact with one another across those group differences? What is the attitude that best informs a positive dialogue between or among diverse groups? In a clear, well-written, thesis-driven essay, discuss how what Myers sees as the ineradicable fact of our social diversity informs our efforts to work and live together . Your essay should build this discussion with reference to at least two other pieces from the Human Experience Reader. Bud Light is ailing— can a new agency fix it? Springer, Jon . Advertising Age ; Chicago Vol. 93, Iss. 11, (Jul 11, 2022): 16. ProQuest document link ABSTRACT (ENGLISH)
  • 2. Behind the prestige of an association with beer's biggest U.S. brandand creative control of one of the country's most iconic and famous advertiserslies a formidable challenge for the advertising agencies vying to win the Bud Light creative account. Volume of the core Bud Light beer (known inside the company as Bud Light Blue), has decreased for 13 consecutive years, falling from an all-time peak of 42.4 million barrels in 2008 to 26 million last year, according to beer trade publication Beer Marketer's Insights, which bases its analysis on shipments to distributors. What this all means for Bud Light Bluestill America's best-selling single brand with 11.8% U.S. market share, according to Beer Marketer's Insightsmay not be the message that its distributors necessarily want to hear. Bud Light's 1.7% decline, Beer Marketer's Insights data shows (Lite was the only of the three to gain overall beer market share). [...]the agency that wins its business may be the one that tells that story best to the young audience Bud Light the beer has seen steadily drain away, while latching onto the legacy strengths that once defined ittransforming a youthful and fun-loving brand of low-calorie, sessionable beer that's dying into a youthful and fun- loving family of low-calorie, sessionable things that can growbeers, cocktails, seltzers, health-focused beers and
  • 3. perhaps other expressions still waiting to be invented, along with new ways to promote them. FULL TEXT Behind the prestige of an association with beer's biggest U.S. brandand creative control of one of the country's most iconic and famous advertiserslies a formidable challenge for the advertising agencies vying to win the Bud Light creative account. Can they help save a brand whose signature product is stuck in a long sales slump? Anheuser-Busch InBev, parent of the Bud Light brand, initiated the review last month after eight years with Wieden+Kennedy, which has chosen not to defend. Agencies pitching the business include Anomaly, Johannes Leonardo, Gut, WPP's Cavalry and the Martin Agency, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Other shops may still join the chase. The winnerexpected to be revealed this fallwill inherit a brand with massive sales and a long legacy of memorable advertising, but also a world of troubling trends to overcome. Volume of the core Bud Light beer (known inside the company as Bud Light Blue), has decreased for 13 consecutive years, falling from an all-time peak of 42.4 million barrels in 2008 to 26 million last year, according to beer trade publication Beer Marketer's Insights, which bases its
  • 4. analysis on shipments to distributors. And while a post- pandemic hospitality rebound helped to slow the rate of decline in 2021, the pace of its downfall had essentially doubled in the five years before that, the publication's figures show. Worryingly, this came despite some wildly popular advertising, such as Wieden+Kennedy's viral "Dilly Dilly" campaign, first introduced in 2017. Experts in the beer and advertising industries say Bud Light is struggling to keep up amid a combination of industry trends. They include an explosion of newer brands and styles developed for ever-narrowing tastes and occasions, including seltzers and canned cocktails that more effectively draw in today's new drinkers than legacy beer brands, including many under a growing Bud Light banner. "Premiumization, fragmentation, innovation, varietythese were all things that were antithetical to everything Bud Light is," said Benj Steinman, president of Beer Marketer's Insights. Some say Bud Light's problems worsened while its parent AB InBev was busy assembling and integrating https://login.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.co m/trade-journals/bud-light-is-ailing-can-new-agency- fix/docview/2689212581/se-2?accountid=10920
  • 5. https://login.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.co m/trade-journals/bud-light-is-ailing-can-new-agency- fix/docview/2689212581/se-2?accountid=10920 acquisitions and "optimizing" its portfoliomoves they interpreted as the big company's indifference to the fate of any one brand, particularly stalwarts such as Budweiser and Bud Light. These carry lower profit margins than sibling brands like Michelob Ultra, or any number of seltzers, cocktails and imports also in the AB InBev stable that can support higher prices, and potentially, at least, better reach the young audience that's long been Bud Light's lifeblood. This dynamic might have been best expressed in a 2018 earnings conference call exchange between AB InBev's then-CEO, Carlos Brito, and an analyst asking about the company's ailing U.S. brands. "What's working best is that we're playing a portfolio game," Brito said, according to a Sentieo transcript. "Not a Bud and Bud Light game." In recent years, this approach has made winners of some AB InBev portfolio brands Michelob Ultra and Cutwater canned cocktails for exampleand losers of stalwarts like Bud Light. AB InBev "fully understands" this dynamic, said Robert Ottenstein, a financial analyst for Evercore who has followed AB InBev for years. But the brand's rate of
  • 6. decline, he cautioned, "is a very significant challenge for the company." "There's nothing wrong with trading upa Bud Light drinker in his 30s becoming an Ultra drinker in his 50sthat's a natural and really healthy development for the company," Ottenstein added. "What you need to do is prevent the leaky bucketyou don't want the Bud Light drinker moving over to [U.S. rivals] Corona or Modelo." [Constellation Brands controls Modelo and Corona in the U.S., while AB InBev owns them globally.] AB InBev declined to comment for this story, and has said it would not comment on the agency review beyond a statement in early June, confirming it was taking place, which read in part: "As the brand marks its 40th anniversary, Bud Light will be reviewing its creative business as it continues its mission to build authentic and engaging connections with its consumers." 'Bad or nonexistent' But there's some reason to believe the agency review could be a small part of a new dawn for Bud Light. It comes in the wake of a new CEO at AB InBev, Michel Doukeris, who ascended from president of the company's North America zone to succeed Brito on July 1, 2021. In a December
  • 7. investor seminar, Doukeris acknowledged many of the trends that have contributed to Bud Light's ailing health, and had already begun showing up in the form of new products with big ambitionslike the Super Bowl-advertised, high-profile Bud Light Next, an 80-calorie, zero-carb beverage that can be seen as an interpretation of Michelob Ultra, only marketed for Bud Light's younger audience. A new U.S. chief commercial officer, Kyle Norrington, previously led AB InBev's beer strategy in Canada as president of Labatt Breweries. He intends to replicate in the U.S. what he has described as a transformative prescription to reignite growth in the Great White North that aligns with Doukeris' vision for developed beer marketsinnovation, premiumization and "beyond beer." Andy Goeler, a longtime Anheuser- Busch employee who has recently steered Bud Light as the brand's marketing VP, recently announced his retirement, and a fresh duo of executives are getting started at the brand: Alissa Heinerscheid, who has the role of marketing VP, head of Bud Light Blue; and Steve Wolf, who is marketing VP overseeing Bud Light brand extensions. The company has also recently acknowledged a willingness to make big marketing breaks with its past, declaring
  • 8. that it would surrender a longstanding practice of pursuing exclusivity among alcohol rivals in Super Bowl in-game ads. What this all means for Bud Light Bluestill America's best- selling single brand with 11.8% U.S. market share, according to Beer Marketer's Insightsmay not be the message that its distributors necessarily want to hear. Multiple people with deep knowledge of the brand who spoke to Ad Age say the best outcome they would hope for from new brand creative is only to slow the rate of its decline and absorb more share currently finding its way to rivals. Bud Light's two biggest light lager category rivals, Molson Coors-owned Coors Light and Miller Lite, are victims of the same long-term industry trends. But both of those brands outperformed Bud Light last year, increasing shipment volumeCoors Light by 1.1% and Miller Lite by 3.8%vs. Bud Light's 1.7% decline, Beer Marketer's Insights data shows (Lite was the only of the three to gain overall beer market share). AB InBev's distributors are keenly aware of these figures. "The [agency] change is welcome news because the effort
  • 9. behind Bud Light for the past year or more has been either bad or nonexistent, and I'm sure would you get the same response from every distributor you hear from," one longtime AB InBev distributor, who asked not to be identified, told Ad Age. "Having a new agency is a good first step, but what we need to see is commitment and follow-through from the top." Goeler's departure elicited a "gasp" among distributors who long viewed him as "their friend at the company," said Kimberly Clements, co-founder of beer business consultancy Pints LLC, whose family ran the Tucson, Arizona, Budweiser distributor Golden Eagle Distributors before selling it six years ago. In reflecting on the radical evolution of the U.S. business since its merger with InBev, Clements relates a story that many with long memories of Anheuser-Busch history reliably recall: That influential former CEO August Busch IIIthe grandson of A-B founder Adolphus Buschwas particularly wary of the concept of line extensions on "workhorse" brands like Bud Light. Distributors, Steinman adds, were "certainly underwhelmed" by the initial performance of Bud Light Next, a brand the company said had been 10 years in the making and got a Super Bowl introduction, although he personally is taking a "wait-and-see" attitude. "They're trying for something a
  • 10. little different here, and despite a slow start, I'm not ready to write it off yet." As for Bud Light Blue, Steinman described distributor sentiment this way: "Even if you can't get it to grow, if you just improve the trend, it would mean so much for the business." Inside AB InBev, the action indeed appears to be around "a little different," and would seem to point toward expanding Bud Light not as a beer, but as a kind of lifestyle platform. And the agency that wins its business may be the one that tells that story best to the young audience Bud Light the beer has seen steadily drain away, while latching onto the legacy strengths that once defined ittransforming a youthful and fun-loving brand of low-calorie, sessionable beer that's dying into a youthful and fun-loving family of low-calorie, sessionable things that can growbeers, cocktails, seltzers, health-focused beers and perhaps other expressions still waiting to be invented, along with new ways to promote them. Whether that can work is a matter of still further debate. What observers agree on, however, is whatever's been done over the last 13 years for Bud Light has not. Guy walks into a bar Perhaps Bud Light's first significant creative victory was the
  • 11. 1985 "Gimme A Light" campaign that promoted the brand's bar-friendly name change from its founding as Budweiser Light to Bud Lightestablishing for the first time a personality separate from its parent and going directly after the then-category leader it would soon vanquish, Miller Lite, with humor and understated cleverness. The ads featured a series of "guy walks into a bar" jokes, with variations on the same punch line over and over again: A customer in a bar orders a "light"only to be presented with a table lamp, a flare, a flaming branding iron and so onforcing them to say, "I meant a Bud Light." The same campaign, if run today, would make the brand itself the prop punch line. There are 26 different versions of Bud Light currently listed on the brand's website, under any of six subcategories: There's Bud Light; four citrus- flavored malt beverages (FMBs) now known as Peels; four versions of Chelada, a Clamato-infused Bud Light popular with Hispanic consumers; a 6% alcohol version known as Bud Light Platinum; the new Bud Light Next; and 18 different seltzers: four fruit "classics"; four hard sodas; three "Retro Tie Dye" soda flavors; four "Cocktail Hour" malt seltzers meant to mimic mixed drinks; and three flavors of Platinum seltzers. (Some of these are available
  • 12. only as part of retail multipacks, so the number of varieties is something less than the number of flavors.) Steinman estimates the line extensionseverything but Bud Light Blueaccounted for between 3 million and 3.5 million shipped barrels last year, or roughly eight times less than Bud Light Blue. The degree to which this constitutes a thoughtful, consumer- centric and potentially lucrative approach to a core brand in decline, an embarrassment of "brandspreading" inadvertently contributing to diluting equity, or a little of both is a key question among observers. All generally agree it has added to the complexity of a brand that once upon a time was so simple it could be explained in two short words. 'More Cheers' To understand how it got this way is to understand the evolution of AB InBev's overarching strategies, and further underscores the big transitional moment that the Bud Light agency review accompanies. In a December seminar, Doukeris referenced the company's newly defined purpose"To a Future With More Cheers"while discussing its broader strategic approach. In developed markets like the U.S., this strategy intends to
  • 13. accelerate the company's growth and financial health by leaning into opportunities in premium products and extending further into so-called "beyond beer" categoriesflavored alcohol beverages, seltzers and canned cocktails designed to reach new consumers and occasions by addressing perceived barriers to beer adoption. Those barriers, according to Rosie Coppiano, AB InBev's global VP, category strategy and insights, include "bitterness, masculinity, and high carbs," according to a transcript of the event. In Doukeris' vision, AB InBev is poised to take advantage of these trends through a massive array of global brands, and the superior supply chain and distribution muscle, developed under the strategies of Brito, who led the wave of industry consolidation. The "More Cheers" strategy also contemplates achieving industry leadership in e- commerce, ambitious ESG goals and prescribes separate marching orders for global markets where beer is less developed than in the U.S. "As the industry consolidated and we became the largest global brewery, we took our eyes off consumer trends and innovation," Doukeris said in the investor seminar.
  • 14. The loudest flavors While timeand presumably, the right creative touchwill tell if AB InBev's bold strategies ultimately succeed, it's safe to say that when it comes to Bud Light, industry watchers are skeptical. Some see such an array of brands assembled around a large but fast-falling anchor as a recipe for disaster and interpret the whole thing as a kind of dressed-up apology for arriving late to innovations that other companies pioneeredand still lead. Top-sellers in seltzerWhite Claw and Trulyaren't appendages of existing brands but new entities founded by Mark Anthony Brands, the parent of Mike's Hard Lemonade; and Boston Beer Co., the maker of Sam Adams, respectively. Bud Light's traditional rivals in light lagerCoors Light and Miller Liteare conspicuous for pursuing far less than Bud Light in the way of line extensions, a phenomenon that some ascribe to their having maintained a tighter focus on their core brand propositions. Steinman notes that closely aligning seltzers and beer brands in the way AB InBev has, and Coors for a time did, might have come at the expense of its potential to grow that segment more than it has. Bud Light Seltzer provided "a real shot in the arm" for the overall brand in 2021, although Steinman projects the seltzer category is likely to
  • 15. decline overall this year. "I think that a lot of people who gravitated toward seltzer were explicitly rejecting beer, so for some, to go to a beer brand seltzer was a heavy lift. Some 70% of seltzer today is White Claw and Truly; beer- branded seltzers are 20% of the marketmaybe," he said. Bob Lachky, who spent nearly 20 years (1990-2009) in Anheuser-Busch advertising roles, joining the brewer directly from the agency behind the "Gimme A Light" campaign, then known as Needham Harper &Steers, maintains that Bud Light's line extensions have tended to be more focused on shelf visibility than actual consumer trends. Bud Light's great size allows for its line extensions to bash into trends with considerable strength and speed but, in Lachky's view, doing so ultimately serves to dilute its parent's equity. "It's death by a thousand paper cuts," Lachky said. "When you have a new product launch, you jam it down that distributor's throatyou make them take it ... but [distributors and retailers] will just take another Bud Light facing off the shelf," he said. "Here comes Bud Light Next. Here comes Bud Light Platinum. And that's one more facing that Bud Light doesn't get. It's one more endcap that Bud Light doesn't get. And eventually, you've killed the brand
  • 16. yourself. You've killed it by your own strategy of flanking the hell out of it." The notion that too many line extensions have damaged Bud Light is a "risk," but also difficult to prove, said Ottenstein. He noted some beverage alcohol brandslike Jack Danielshave done a lot of extensions without seemingly hurting its core equity. One clue that at least some of Bud Light's extensions aren't just clumsy bandages on a wounded brand can be seen in how AB InBev is approaching another brand whose flagship is troubled very little by existential threats: Michelob Ultra, the low calorie/low-carb brand that's been arguably the beer industry's biggest success story in 20 years. That brand too is now flanked with flavored versions and seltzers that viewed alongside their Bud Light siblings spotlight AB InBev's "premiumization" strategy and the brands' respective focus on demographics. Where Bud Light's Peels FMBs include a lime flavor, Michelob Ultra's FMB, called Infusions, highlights a more exotic lime and prickly pear variety. And whereas Ultra's seltzers are certified as organic and boast that they contain ingredients like coconut water and real fruit juice, this year's Super Bowl commercial starring Guy Fieri
  • 17. promoting Bud Light's Hard Sodas seized on a simpler emotional idea: that they represented "the loudest flavors ever." 'A solution to the wrong problem' However they creatively approach the brand with their pitches, the agencies now busy preparing to win Bud Light's business are going into it well aware of a single daunting fact: Years of memorable campaigns have failed to move the needle on a light beer category in freefall, and Bud Light most dramatically. Emblematic of Bud Light's dilemma was the 2017 campaign by Wieden+Kennedy known popularly as "Dilly Dilly." Meant to cash in on a then-sizzling cultural property popular with Bud Light's desired audiencethe "Game of Thrones" franchisethe ad was meant to show the beer was fun to share with friends, and playfully trip up the notion that it had become uncool compared with craft beer. "Our mission was to reinvigorate the Bud Light brand and make it a beer that people would be proud to hold again," according to a blog post examining the campaign, published on the Wieden+Kennedy website. "To do that, we first had to put Bud Light back in the cultural conversation in a big, positive way."
  • 18. Time would reveal the spot was wildly successful in W+K's latter goalbut nearly ineffectual in the first. "Dilly Dilly" indeed took offfirst within the cultural properties where Bud Light's desired fans were: It got coverage on ESPN's "SportsCenter" and an in-game audible from Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, then barreled into wider culture: According to Wieden's post, "Dilly Dilly" for a time was the third-most-popular Google autofill following the phrase "What does..." The phrase got 395,000 mentions on social media and more than 900 million earned media impressions. Energized by having a such big creative winner on its hands, the brand and Wieden plowed it into a full-blown campaign that lasted for two years. The theme culminated in a 2019 Super Bowl campaign aiming not at vague microbrews but big competitors such as Lite and Coors Light over a controversial allegation they used corn syrup in brewing. Bud Light sales continued to slide. Reflecting on the "Dilly Dilly" saga in retrospect, one agency executive with experience in beer marketing diagnoses it failed due to a fundamental disconnect between the brand and its goals. "'Dilly Dilly' made a brand famous that wasn't struggling for fame," said this person, who asked not to
  • 19. be identified. "Of course it didn't work. It was a solution to the wrong problem." Another veteran beer marketer, on the campaign's four-part corn syrup Super Bowl epic remarked, "Not a single beer drinker in the country cared. But boy, did they spend a couple hundred million dollars." "Dilly Dilly" demonstrated that Bud Light's marvelous ability to produce an unforgettable advertising moment was still somewhere in its bag of tricks, even if making the brand cool again required a different kind of magic it may still be seeking. In a 2021 Super Bowl spot, the characters from Bud Light's "Dilly Dilly" universe were joined by the famous ad phrasemakers who proceeded them"Yes I Am, " "Wassup?" "I love you man" and morein a zany meta plot where "Bud Light legends save the day," (naturally, the line was sung by the "Real Men of Genius" singer). The great irony is that they didn't save the day, at least for the brand. In Clements' view, the revamped Bud Light portfolio, whose future now seems staked to disparate items ranging from the health-and-fitness ingredient-backed Next to the high- alcohol, sexy nightlife elicited by Bud Light's Platinum entries, may no longer be appropriate for the megabrand's traditional reliance on humor. Moreover, she
  • 20. said, "the kind of humor they traditionally relied ontongue-in- cheek and not so seriousI'm not sure that people see that as so funny anymore," putting Bud Light at a positioning disadvantage vs. some growing brands such as Corona and its consistent "find your beach" tagline, or the high- performing Modelo, which has found success behind its "fighting spirit" message. Clues as to what Bud Light ultimately wants can be seen among the perceived strengths of the agencies known to be pitching. All five have declined to comment. Four of them have recent experience with AB InBev brands. The Martin Agency, known for its Geico campaigns, is a current AB InBev roster shop. Anomaly has been the brewer's partner in Canada, and would presumably have the attention of Norrington, the client's new U.S. chief commercial officer. Gut's work with the brewer recently included an eye-opening campaign for Michelob Ultra in Mexico. Cavalry has extensive beer experience, including a recent gig helping AB InBev introduce a high-end line extension to its Budweiser family, Budweiser Supreme. Johannes Leonardo would be the only newcomer to AB InBev, but has previous experience helping its rival
  • 21. MolsonCoors launch its fighter in the seltzer wars, Vizzy. The winning agency has a complex challenge in front of it, changing the trajectory of an entity that itself is rapidly changing, to meet a consumer landscape rapidly changing, while rescuing its big but long-struggling star. "In some ways, [Bud Light] is a victim of its success," Ottenstein, the Evercore analyst, said. "It was an extraordinarily successful brand. At one time it had over 20% market share, which is extraordinary, but at a certain point, the consumer changes." Today, Ottenstein continued, "I'm not sure how clear it is to a lot of consumers what the brand stands for, and if what the brand stands for is still as relevant to certain portions of the population." DETAILS Subject: Marketing; Beer; Advertising; Trends; Audiences; Calories; Market shares; Breweries; Advertising agencies Business indexing term: Subject: Marketing Advertising Market shares Breweries Advertising agencies; Corporation: Anheuser-Busch InBev; Industry: 31212 :
  • 22. Breweries 54181 : Advertising Agencies Location: United States--US Company / organization: Name: Wieden + Kennedy; NAICS: 541810; Name: Anheuser-Busch InBev; NAICS: 312120 Classification: 31212: Breweries; 54181: Advertising Agencies Publication title: Advertising Age; Chicago Volume: 93 Issue: 11 First page: 16 Publication year: 2022 Publication date: Jul 11, 2022 Publisher: Crain Communications, Incorporated LINKS Linking Service, Linking Service Terms and Conditions Contact ProQuest
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