Watch: Bud Light Boycotted by Baseball Fans as Sales Drop 35% Amid Ongoing Fallout From Dylan Mulvaney Debacle
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 continued. The Mail has the story.
Mulvaney, 26, posted himself drinking Bud Light at the start of April 2023 using the hashtag #budlightpartner. He posted the content to coincide with the NCAA March Madness tournament, before joking he didn’t know what sport he was promoting.
The disastrous marketing bid has seen sales for the American flagship beer plummet 26%, despite Anheuser-Busch reporting first-quarter earnings of $1.65 billion.
Luis Tejada, a local realtor, showed a possible effect of the backlash by many conservatives against the promotion, showing a completely empty stand for the famous blue cans at Boston’s Fenway Park.
“Fenway Park Bud Light stand Ghost Town!” Tejada captioned the video, which has received over one million views on TikTok.
“Guys, this is so funny and bizarre,” he said in his thick Boston accent as The Zombies ‘Time of the Season’ played in the background.
“Look at that. That is the Bud Light… that is every single Bud Light stand here at Fenway Park in Boston,” he exclaimed, showing the empty countertop…
Todd Allen, most recently the Global Vice President of Budweiser, has been announced as the new Vice President of Marketing for Bud Light – after [Alissa] Heinerscheid and [Daniel] Blake took a leave of absence.
After the post on April 1st, Anheuser-Busch lost more than $6 billion in market capitalisation in just six days.
The beer giant’s stock roughly traded at just over 5% decrease in the total share value and the company’s market capitalisation stood at $113.33 billion…
Bud Light is the largest beer brand in the U.S., but [Heinerscheid and Blake’s] decision to work with Mulvaney has seriously affected the company.
During the NCAA basketball tournament from March 18th to April 1st, it was the clear leader of all Light beers, up 15%, according to Brewbound.
Following the Mulvaney campaign, it trailed other beers by at least 6% in bars and restaurants.
Between April 2nd and April 15th, Beer Board says that their overall volume of sales at bars and restaurants dropped by 34.7%.
Bud Light has now declined into the fourth spot of the most popular draft beer during the second week of the controversy – losing out to Coors Light.
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Heinersheid and Blake “Taking a leave of absence?” Any top management worth their salt would have fired their asses!
Even a full rovelling apoloy to their former consumer base isn’t going to be enough here – not that they’re going to apogise, as it would have too much impact on their ESG rating.
‘rovelling apoloy’…….from someone called Laptop Maestro?? LOL!
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Was it intended to be an April Fools Day joke that the fans entirely missed?
Good to see the Mail not pandering to the trans-activists and referring to Mulvany as “he/himself.”
Which is factually correct.
Looks like BudLight could be going the same way as Ratners. That’s what happens when you disrespect your consumer-base.
What’s really odd about this is that even though I have absolutely no experience in marketing – and I don’t even drink beer – as soon as I heard Dylan Mulvaney was advertising Bud Light, I knew this would happen. It didn’t take a genius to foresee it. The only requirement was to be in touch with reality.
But this is totally the wrong perspective. Sales in the targetted DEI community have probably increased massively, it will make for a great read in the Annual Corporate Sustainability Report, and will attract new investment from a BlackRock ESG fund. The world has moved on from the old paradigm. It’s what people want, isn’t it?
(Meanwhile, I’m going to be toasting with BudLight expecting it’s imminent Royal Seal while “my” new King Chas III takes his secret oath behind the curtains at Westminster Abbey. All hail the regime.)