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Tinker Hatfield ‘Not For Sale’
Collabing with sneaker legend Tinker Hatfield to release a beer like the year’s hottest sneaker drop.
We subverted sneaker culture at every turn — delighting fans from announcement to release.
We announced our collab with a barrage of exclusive Tinker Hatfield interviews.
We hosted Tinker Hatfield’s first-ever Reddit AMA to talk about the collab and his other work. His answers took the internet by storm.
We subverted the collab ‘countdown’ cliche by using the game-clock as our countdown clock. Our collab released the moment the final buzzer sounded.
Instead of first-come-first-serve which favors bots, we turned our drop into a random selection, driving more people to participate and pushing our campaign to trend on Twitter after the final game.
Now that the world could get their hands on the bottle, we had one of the worlds biggest sneaker influencers unbox our collab live.
Then, at the championship parade, we celebrated the winning city with free beer along the parade route, denoted by a ‘Tinker Tap’ handle in the bars.
Michelob ULTRA x Tinker Hatfield ‘Not For Sale’
Live Unboxing with Jacques Slade
Selected Press
Forbes - Legendary Sneaker Designer Tinker Hatfield Creating Special-Edition NBA Championship Michelob Bottle
Hypebeast - Michelob ULTRA and Tinker Hatfield Unveil Collaborative “Not For Sale” NBA Championship Bottle
CBS Sports - Legendary Designer Tinker Hatfield Discusses Revolutionary Impact on Sneaker Culture, Latest Project
ESPN Boardroom - Tinker Hatfield’s Michelob NBA Championship Bottle is for Winners Only
UPROXX - Nike Design Legend Tinker Hatfield On Storytelling In Shoes And Why He Still Doesn’t ‘Understand Why Everybody Is So Crazy Over Sneakers’
Kicks on Fire - Tinker Hatfield Teams Up With Michelob ULTRA To Create a Limited NBA Championship Bottle
FoodBeast - Michelob ULTRA and Tinker Hatfield Reveal Exclusive “Not For Sale” NBA Championship Bottle
Baller Status - Michelob ULTRA & Legendary Sneaker Designer Tinker Hatfield Drop A Collab NBA Championship Bottle
HipHop Wired - Michelob ULTRA & Tinker Hatfield To Drop Limited Edition Championship Bottle
Culture Curators - For The Champs! Michelob ULTRA & Tinker Hatfield Reveal “Not For Sale” NBA Championship Bottle
Creative Credits:
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy NY
Matt Mulvey, Creative Director
Blair Warren, Creative Director
Tommy Woods, Copywriter
Jacob Mehringer, Art Director