Do you subscribe to and read email newsletters?

Most craft brewers send out an email newsletter.  Craftbeer.us subscribes to quite a few of them and reads some of them – but we’re wondering if we’re the only ones.  Please take our poll below and let us know if/how you use them.  We’ll report the results in a week.

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Written by on Tue, June 29 2010 » Marketing

How NOT to Execute a Sponsorship

I was in an unnamed city last night and went to a “open-mic-style” show that was sponsored by an unnamed craft brewer.  I have been to this show, which happens once a month a few times now and it’s been sponsored by the same craft brewer every time.  And unfortunately, executed the same way every [...]

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Written by on Tue, June 29 2010 » events, Marketing

Widmer Does TV Too

Widmer is also in the small group of craft brewers who advertise on TV.  Widmer is pretty aggressive with advertising altogether.  Along with TV, they have been running Outdoor and Print for at least a few years now. Here’s their most recent as.  A whopping 132 views on YouTube at the time of this blogpost.

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Written by on Mon, June 28 2010 » advertising

Zane Lamprey wants to buy the entire Travel Channel craft beer

Zane Lamprey likes to drink. A lot. He had this HD show called Three Sheets (it’s a travel show about the World’s drinking customs) on the MOJO HD station until it shut down a while back and he’s been shopping it to various networks ever since. Zane posted on his website last week that the [...]

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Written by on Tue, June 22 2010 » Marketing, social media