Spirits brands look to sports, sponsorship and celebrity playbook to convert younger consumers

Top-shelf whisky — and whiskey — brands are reaching for a familiar combination of ingredients as they seek to recruit younger consumers into category customers.

Premium blended Scotch brand Chivas Regal, a sponsor of Ferrari’s Formula 1 team since 2024, recently launched a new ad built around driver Charles Leclerc.

Running across TV, paid social and out-of-home, it showcases a limited edition of the whisky (aged for 16 years, a reference to Leclerc’s driver number) and a board game specially designed and manufactured for Leclerc; the driver is a chess nut when he’s away from the track.

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Can retail media networks survive the shift to agentic commerce?

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In a not so distant future, LLMs may become the first stop in the online shopping journey. For Tim Peterson, Digiday executive editor, video and audio, that trend has already started. 

“I’m very close to actually having AI do my grocery shopping,” Peterson said on a recent episode of the Digiday Podcast. Peterson’s agentic meal planning system includes platforms like Notion and Claude to generate meal plans and organize grocery lists.

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