News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
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by Will Jones
Doritos sacked a transgender influencer after finding out he had written social media posts threatening to do "thuggish things" to a 12-year-old girl.
A growing boycott of Bud Light over its partnership with trans 'influencer' Dylan Mulvaney has hammered parent group AB InBev, where sales fell 17.4% in Q4 2023 on top of 16.6% in Q3.
Freedom at the till is proving a formidable battleground as retail giants like Target, Anheuser-Busch and Disney get the cold shoulder from consumers for introducing social activism into their marketing.
Target's sale of LGBT+ merchandise to 'celebrate pride month' has backfired spectacularly, prompting a boycott and a collapse in sales.
Anheuser-Busch's attempt to make Bud Light more 'cool' by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney has resulted in a 10.5% drop in revenues for the first quarter of 2023. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Joe Rogan's $100,000 vaccine debate offer to RFK Jr. and Peter Hotez, Howard from Take Take getting cancelled and Laurence Fox burning a Pride flag.
In this week's London Calling, the talking points are Ron DeSantis's entry into the presidential race, the Target boycott, whether George Lazenby was a good Bond and why Ant-Man 3 may be the worst Marvel film yet.
"It took us 20 years to take Bud Light to the No 1 beer in the country and it took them one week to dismantle it" – marketing guru behind the iconic Budweiser ads slams the company for its catastrophic missteps.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the arrest of Coronation protesters – where was the same outcry for lockdown protesters? – Tucker Carlson going nuclear and whether the Tories are finished.
A video shows Boston Red Sox fans avoiding Bud Light at all costs during a packed Major League Baseball game as the backlash to the Dylan Mulvaney advertisement continues.
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