New ideas are often sourced from previous approaches. Miller Lite has returned to the old ‘It’s Miller Time’ tagline (now it has a new meaning) to encourage Americans to spend more time with their friends—not only for a beer. While in the previous campaigns under this slogan, which was used by Miller High Life in 1970’s and then returned for Miller Lite from 1997 to 2002, beer was positioned as a reward after hard work, now the focus got shifted to sociability. The new U.S. campaign, which is set to roll across multiple platforms including TV, social media and print, is to help the Miller Lite beer, which is the fourth biggest-selling beer brands in the USA, revive since its overall shipments dropped by 4.3 percent last year, CNBC reports.

March sees the launch of Stella Artois’ latest TV advertising campaign for its premium 4% variant, simply entitled ‘Lift’. The fifth installment of the Triple Filtered, Smooth Escapades campaign takes the viewer on a journey from the ground floor of a chic hotel up the stairs to the rooftop terrace in one man’s race against the lift. True to form, the advert transports the viewer back to 1960’s Continental Europe, the artistic home of Stella Artois 4%, taking them on a smooth and humorous journey of transformation in three stages, reflecting the brand’s triple filtered brewing process.