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Coors Light Skipped FIFA Sponsorship and Bought the Goal Call Instead

Coors Light launched "The Coooors Call" on April 29, 2026: a World Cup campaign that adds an extra O to the brand name every time someone scores, anchored by a hero spot starring Spanish-language sportscaster Andrés Cantor. Coors Light is not an official FIFA sponsor. Budweiser owns that

Chipotle Hired the Moldy Whopper CMO. Brand Isn't the Sales Bottleneck.

Chipotle named former Burger King CMO Fernando Machado as Chief Brand Officer on April 27, 2026, with a June 1 start. The seat has been empty since Chris Brandt exited in January, during three consecutive quarters of comp sales declines and a fiscal 2025 close at -1.7%, Chipotle'

Spotify Folded Peloton Into Premium for the Daily Minutes Apple Fitness+ Owns

Spotify added a Fitness category on April 27, 2026, bundling more than 1,400 ad-free Peloton classes into Premium and pulling wellness creators including Yoga with Kassandra and Chloe Ting into a dedicated hub on mobile, desktop and TV. The move targets the daily-active minutes Apple Fitness+ has owned since

Made By Dyslexia Built a Jeremy Irons Short to Win the 'What Is Dyslexia' Panel

Made By Dyslexia, a UK charity, premiered an animated short titled What Is Dyslexia? at the BFI IMAX on April 25, 2026, with Jeremy Irons and Liv Tyler in the cast. The film is the marketing. A title matching the most-searched dyslexia query qualifies the project for a Google Knowledge

Columbia Dumped a Year of Rain on Two Hikers and Built an Ad AI Can't Fake

Columbia Sportswear emptied a year's worth of rain from a crane-suspended balloon onto two hikers in waterproof shells, then locked twin brothers in a desert sauna under a magnifying-glass ceiling with a flamethrower aimed at them. The campaign, made by adam&eve\TBWA and shot by Tim

Burger King Beat Nike at a Marathon Ad by Showing Runners Too Tired to Stand

Burger King's London Marathon out-of-home ad hit a 4.3 Star Rating on System1's effectiveness scale on April 22, 2026, placing it in the top 6.2% of all UK outdoor creatives. Nike's competing parkrun campaign got pulled the same week after parkrun UK

Marc Jacobs Adopted China's $9.4B Microdrama Format to Sell a Pre-Fall Bag

Marc Jacobs released The Scene on April 24, 2026: a three-minute scripted microdrama written by and starring Rachel Sennott, anchored to the new pre-fall Scene Bag launching April 30. The film opens Question Marc, a social-first storytelling platform run by CMO Kristin Patrick, and pulls a format that grossed $9.