August 7th 2020 was International Beer Day, but pandemic-related travel restrictions had made drinking beer internationally an impossibility. Or so we thought. We invited everyone to have a Miller Lite on us, but only in American cities named after foreign countries. 80+ cities. Thousands of beers. And a whole bunch of Miller Time.
We launched the idea on social and with a Travel + Leisure exclusive. Both regional news and national publications picked it up and soon the news of free "international" beer spread across the country.
On the big day, we sent a whole truckload of Miller Lite to Scotland....South Dakota. The whole town of 800 people showed up to what was undoubtedly the biggest event of the year, as we gave out free beer to every drinking age adult we could. Even the mayor of Scotland himself. And I got to cross the font page of The Scotland Journal off my bucket list.
RESULTS
This scrappy little idea earned over 1 billion impressions on a $17k budget, and got featured in national publications like Forbes, Fox Business, Delish, and of course...CDL Life.
Agency: DDB
ECD: Ben Wolan
Creative Directors: Alejandro Juli, Nick Howard, Nick Stoner
Art Director: Shelby Bass
Copywriter: Nick Garfield
