It’s Good to Live in a Two-Guinness Town

January 30, 2014

From our Late to the Drinking Party desk

The local dailies were on rare equal footing in the ad department yesterday, as both ran the same full-page Guinness advertisement.

Boston Globe, page 9:

 

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Boston Herald, page 3:

 

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There’s also a companion TV spot that’s a total knockout.

 

 

Except it will no longer appear on TV because “U.S. Olympic Committee rules generally ban marketers who are not official sponsors from featuring Olympic competitors . . .  This year’s ad blackout runs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 26,” according to The Drum.

Our loss.

Whose gain?

The Five-Ring Circus.