Tiger Pistol Honored with AdExchanger Award for Best Social Media Campaign

Anheuser-Busch InBev's Localized Campaign Supporting its Worldwide Network of Local Bars, Retailers, and Restaurants Earns Top Prize

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Jun 17, 2020, 11:07 ET

AUSTIN, Texas, June 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Tiger Pistol, the only social advertising platform that delivers local activation at global scale, has been named the winner of "Best Social Media Campaign" in the prestigious AdExchanger Awards, based on the remarkable results from the campaign that localized Anheuser-Busch InBev's (AB InBev) national advertising, making the brand the toast of towns around the world.

Tiger Pistol has re-imagined CPG marketing, enabling brands to engage with the independent retailers they rely on to sell their products by providing them with high-performing Facebook ads they can publish on behalf of their location. This method allows AB InBev to reach consumers in an entirely new way, promoting their products in a decentralized retail model. AdExchanger has honored Tiger Pistol with its Best Social Media Campaign Award for the excellence and innovation of this initiative.

Through the Tiger Pistol platform, AB InBev shifted its budget to local social advertising, specifically Facebook and Instagram campaigns, aggregating touchpoints in communities around the world. This bottom-up approach generated larger and more meaningful results for its brand, drastically lowering advertising costs, increasing consumer engagement, and fostering loyalty among its worldwide network of bars, restaurants and retailers.

"For nearly a decade, Tiger Pistol has been obsessively focused on building the world's most effective and efficient social advertising platform for local activation at scale," said Paul Elliott, Tiger Pistol CEO. "This recognition by the AdExchanger Awards is high praise, and further validates our company's legacy of delivering 'first-evers' that drive client value. With our disruption-proof technology, we're able to pivot seamlessly for AB InBev, bringing the speed, versatility, and flexibility necessary for our current world situation, that's truly region by region and business by business."

Tiger Pistol powers AB InBev's Covid-19 local social strategy giving the brand's network of independent restaurants and bars, most of whom are suffering during this time, advertising power to help them drive business and reinforce the essential role restaurants and bars play in fostering memories and connections in the lives of consumers.

Pre-pandemic, AB InBev offered its establishments brand-funded, direct-response local social campaigns to drive foot traffic. Tiger Pistol continues to give AB InBev the opportunity to provide their establishments brand-level creative and messaging, but has shifted to ads structured around community building, gift cards sales, home delivery, or no contact curbside pickup in impacted communities.

"Our platform's capability is based on the flexibility and versatility needed to run more personalized, localized social campaigns," said Elliott. "In the thick of this pandemic and beyond, we're going to see some establishments open, some closed, some with varying business operations, and some that could even be closed for a day or two for cleaning. These fluctuating situations are highlighting the added benefits of our technology, as we empower our clients, like AB InBev, to function at a local level, which now has a much higher degree of importance in recovery and revitalization efforts."

AdExchanger, an award-winning integrated media company devoted to data-driven digital marketing, annually recognizes excellence, innovation, and the advertising and marketing world's brightest achievements through the AdExchanger Awards.

Learn more about Tiger Pistol and AB InBev's award-winning social advertising. Register now for the free Digital Food & Beverage Virtual Event, where Daniel Ingram, Global Director of Trade Innovation at AB InBev, and Talia Wachtel, VP Client Management at Tiger Pistol, will present together at 1:50PM ET on June 23.

About Tiger Pistol

Tiger Pistol is the world's #1 social advertising automation platform for local. For nearly a decade, the company has been obsessively focused on building the world's most effective social advertising platform for global brands, resellers, and agencies who realize the power of local activation at scale. As a preferred Facebook Marketing Partner and the largest third-party publisher of social advertising for local, Tiger Pistol creates, deploys, manages, and optimizes high-performance Facebook and Instagram ads at unprecedented scale, with over 800k Facebook and Instagram campaigns published to date. Tiger Pistol's first of its kind technology delivers meaningful and measurable business impact for brands, resellers, and agencies alike, helping to unlock value and efficiency through innovation-led social advertising automation. Tiger Pistol has been recognized by Digiday as the Best Social Media Marketing Platform, by Street Fight for Best Social Media Campaign and by Localogy as Best Localized Marketing Campaign. Tiger Pistol Ranks in the Top 100 on the Inc. 5000 List of Texas's Fastest Growing Private Companies and in the top 5 among advertising and marketing companies. To learn more, call (888) 400-8845, visit TigerPistol.com, or follow on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

About Anheuser-Busch InBev

Anheuser-Busch InBev is a publicly traded company based in Leuven, Belgium, with secondary listings on the Mexico and South Africa stock exchanges and with American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange. Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients. Our diverse portfolio of well over 500 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser®, Corona® and Stella Artois®; multi-country brands Beck's®, Hoegaarden®, Leffe® and Michelob Ultra®; and local champions such as Aguila®, Antarctica®, Bud Light®, Brahma®, Cass®, Castle®, Castle Lite®, Cristal®, Harbin®, Jupiler®, Modelo Especial®, Quilmes®, Victoria®, Sedrin®, and Skol®. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 170,000 employees based in nearly 50 countries worldwide. For 2019, AB InBev's reported revenue was 52.3 billion USD (excluding JVs and associates).