The Bud Light Fiasco Rocks the World of Marketing

The Bud Light Fiasco Rocks the World of Marketing
A six pack of Bud Light sits on a shelf for sale at a convenience store in New York, in a file photo. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The idea within Anheuser-Busch was that its traditional buyers were a given, a clan to be taken for granted. The whole point of marketing, as it’s taught in the high-end schools (as if professors know about this stuff) is that reaching new and underserved markets is always the way forward. So one has to keep one’s finger on the pulse of progress, recast the brand, get new eyes on the product, turn the kaleidoscope just a bit, toss out a few manipulative symbols, and boom, you capture another slice of the market.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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