5 Steps to Building an Audience with #Hashtags
5 Steps to Building an Audience with #Hashtags
12 Steps to Create Videos

Jaguar dubbed ‘Bud Light 2.0’ after releasing modernist rebranding ad with androgynous models, no cars [Video]

Categories
Corporate Identity

Jaguar could be facing its own Bud Light moment after online backlash to a new ad Tuesday.

The car brand released a new promotional video debuting its reimagined logo on its X account under the slogan “Copy Nothing.”

The ad featured androgynous models in brightly colored, over-the-top outfits, including one man wearing a dress, along with other slogans such as “create exuberant,” “live vivid,” “delete ordinary” and “break moulds.”

The ad did not feature a car throughout its entire 30-second run.

HOW TARGET, BUD LIGHT TURNED OFF LOYAL CUSTOMERS IN 2023

Shortly after the ad premiered, X users piled onto the company for releasing what they called a “Bud Light 2.0” campaign by appearing to focus on wokeness and modernism over selling cars.

“This just made me want to sell my Jaguar and I don’t even own a Jaguar,” conservative corporate activist Robby Starbuck joked.

Columnist Jon Gabriel wrote, “This is so the wrong timing for this. I can understand the C-suite being conned into this in …

How Desire Paths can Transform your Branding and Public Relations
How Desire Paths can Transform your Branding and Public Relations
5 Steps to Creating Successful Ads