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Associated Press
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
February Recap: 15 Top Consumer Press Releases
A roundup of the most newsworthy consumer and retail announcements from PR Newswire, including the launch of NikeSKIMS, Megan Thee Stallion's new tequila and the Greatest Lobsterfest® of All Time (GLOAT). NEW YORK, March 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each month, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help consumer and retail journalists and consumers stay on top of the month's most popular releases and newsworthy trends, here's a recap of some of the past month's most read- and engaged-with stories. The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download. Red Lobster® Declares This Year's Lobsterfest® the GLOAT: The Greatest Lobsterfest of All Time Red Lobster is doubling down on its lobster authority, rolling out 10 mouthwatering dishes alongside the ultimate Lobsterfest upgrade: a Create Your Own option. For the first time ever, guests can build their dream plate by selecting two or three lobster entrées, customizing their perfect Lobsterfest feast. The collection features six brand new fragrances inspired by some of the most beloved Disney Princess characters. The 85-product assortment is Bath & Body Works most extensive collaboration collection yet and consists of products ranging from $1.95 to $99.95. Carl's Jr. and Alix Earle are Helping Hangovers after the Big Game with a Free Carl's Jr. Hangover Burger Carl's Jr. collaborated with Alix Earle to upgrade the Hangover Burger, delivering a new twist that will satisfy any craving. The Hangover Burger features a charbroiled beef burger, folded egg, plenty of bacon, melty Swiss cheese, crispy hash rounds and special sauce on a seeded bun. 'Our new Creole Shrimp skillets appease guests with an appetite for fresh flavors and zest this season; for those wanting something a bit more indulgent, our new OREO® Stuffed Cheesecake Pancakes … are sure to delight,' said Sarah Moore, Chief Marketing Officer for Cracker Barrel. ALDI Announces Plans to Open a Record-Breaking 225+ New Stores in 2025 The new stores will open through a combination of organic growth and converting select Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores to the ALDI format. In total, ALDI will convert approximately 220 Southeastern Grocers locations to the ALDI format through 2027. Poppi Takes Center Stage at the Big Game with Top Creators in New Commercial poppi made a splashy return to the Big Game this year with their new Soda Thoughts TV commercial. A compilation of relatable everyday moments, poppi reminds consumers that a better soda exists, and can be enjoyed any time without second thoughts. 7-Eleven, Inc. Is Continuing the Fun with Free Slurpee® Drinks Every Friday in February"…We saw how much our customers loved a refreshing Slurpee drink to shake off the January slump,' says Dennis Phelps, Senior Vice President, Merchandising (Vault & Proprietary Beverages). 'So, we're keeping the fun going all month long.' Wendy's New Thin Mints Frosty is the Perfect Pairing for Girl Scout Cookie Season Beginning Feb. 21 Wendy's is giving fans another way to experience the flavor of a Girl Scout best-seller. The Thin Mints Frosty combines the Classic Chocolate or Vanilla Frosty, swirled and topped with a rich, minty cookie crumble sauce inspired by the flavor of Girl Scout Thin Mints®. Nike and SKIMS Launch New Brand, NikeSKIMS, Designed to Sculpt; Engineered to Perform The long-term partnership will introduce an extensive product line that invites more athletes and women into the world of sport and movement. NikeSKIMS will debut its first collection in the United States this Spring, available online and in select retail locations, with a global rollout planned for 2026. Crayola Brings Back Retired Crayon Color Collection for the First Time in Company's History The decision to unretire these eight colors for a limited time will delight and surprise consumers, increase the brand's available color palette and give a nod to the company's first iconic eight crayon box launched in 1903. Chili's® and Lifetime® Create a New Holiday Classic with the Television Event 'I'll be Home for National Margarita Day' Starring Maria Menounos and Taye Diggs 'National Margarita Day is the most important holiday of the year at Chili's, but we were all surprised that no feel-good stories have been made around this holiday,' said George Felix, Chili's Chief Marketing Officer. 'Lifetime is known holiday programs, so there is no better partner to finally give National Margarita Day the attention it deserves.' Megan Thee Stallion Introduces New Premium Tequila Brand, Chicas Divertidas, With Blanco & Reposado Offerings 'As someone who values good vibes and great memories, I knew I wanted to create a tequila that was designed to be shared and savored with my Hotties,' Megan said. 'Smooth, sultry, and premium. This process has been years in the making, and I'm so proud to take this next step in my journey as an entrepreneur and launch this brand.' Cue the Confetti! Taco Bell® and Milk Bar® Launch New Birthday Cake Churros Nationwide The perfect little treat for any occasion, Milk Bar Birthday Cake Churros are served in either a one-count or a bundle of two warm, crispy churros filled with birthday cake frosting and topped with bright pink confetti sprinkles. CeraVe Announces New 'Head of CeraVe' Hair Campaign featuring Charli D'Amelio, Anthony Davis and Paige Bueckers CeraVe's Anti-Dandruff Shampoo, formulated with 1% Pyrithione Zinc, effectively eliminates up to 100% of visible flakes when used regularly with the Anti-Dandruff Conditioner. This system features the brand's signature blend of three skin identical ceramides and helps eliminate flakes, itch, and irritation without disrupting the skin barrier. See's Candies and Kylie Cosmetics Collaborate to Celebrate the Launch of Kylie Skin's New Toasted Marshmallow Lip Butter See's Candies offered a Sweet-stakes giveaway from Feb. 8-26. Five winners each received an exclusive Kylie Skin x See's Candies collaboration box, filled with the new, limited-edition Toasted Marshmallow Scotchmallows signed by Kylie Jenner as well as a $200 gift card to Kylie Cosmetics. For more news like this, check out all of the latest retail-related releases from PR Newswire. Trending Topics Among the consumer news that was distributed in February, the PR Newswire team was able spot several larger stories that highlight the trends shaping the industry. Big Game Ads: While the Chiefs and Eagles were competing for the Big Game trophy, Ipsos was collecting data that showed Little Caesars, Pringles and eight other brands took home the win for Best Big Game ads of 2025. The ads were analyzed to determine their effectiveness based on responses from American audiences and online social conversation leading up to and during the game. But the ads weren't the only Big Game releases sent via PR Newswire. The food, the New Orleans events, the giveaways and more took over the headlines in early February. Valentine's Day: Love was in the air last month, but it was on a budget. Trustpilot's Valentine's Day Spending Trends' survey revealed consumers were prioritizing shared experiences, with 42% planning to go out to dinner, making it the most popular way to celebrate. Only 28% plan to celebrate by exchanging gifts like cards, jewelry, flowers, or chocolate. Catch up on all the Valentine's Day press releases, covering the gifts, trends, romantic getaways and more. Coming Up: In March, we anticipate seeing a surge of consumer releases related to the college basketball tournament, the 2025 New York Toy Fair and Mobile World Congress Barcelona. Plus, other calendar events like St. Patrick's Day, Paris and London fashion weeks, and Pi Day are sure to see their own time in the retail spotlight this month. Do you have a retail press release to distribute? 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Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump's political brand is everywhere at the Super Bowl
A Christian singer who faced backlash for a performance at a 2020 tour to protest the impact of COVID shutdowns on churches sang 'America the Beautiful' during the pre-show. An already-teased Super Bowl ad for a fast food chain featured a scantily clad TikTok influencer, marking the return of racy content for the franchise after an eight-year hiatus. Even Taylor Swift's boyfriend told reporters that he was 'excited' and that it was 'a great honor' to play with President Donald Trump — who posted 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!' on his Truth Social after the singer endorsed Kamala Harris — in attendance. They all factored into the overall picture of the Super Bowl, as Trump became the first sitting president to attend the NFL's biggest game. They were celebrated by the right, cultural wins after November's political victory. When it comes to the Super Bowl, there was something for everyone when it comes to proverbially owning the libs. 'We are simply in a backlash moment,' said Jessa Lingel, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies digital culture and gender. The Carl's Jr. ad with Alix Earle 'would look just fine in the '90s or even earlier,' she said. Advertising companies 'are feeling like they can go back to things that have worked very well in the past. You're seeing more hypersexualization. You're seeing a movement away from diversity campaigns.' The Carl's Jr. ad shows Earle, a TikTok star with 7 million followers and a recently inked podcast deal, provocatively eating the brand's Hangover Burger, sauce squirting out over passed-out men sports fans. It follows ads from Super Bowls past that showed Paris Hilton, Kate Upton and Kim Kardashian suggestively eating fast food items, though the company moved away from those in 2017, the year Trump took office the first time. Emily Contois, an associate professor at the University of Tulsa who studies gender, media and consumer culture, noted that this Super Bowl, and its ads, stand in stark contrast to the 2017 game. She described the first Super Bowl of the first Trump term as 'a moment of resistance when it came to women's rights and women's representation.' Carl's Jr. halted its 'burgers, bikinis and boobs' ad strategy in favor of one focused on food quality and its history as a company. 'The fact that we are again in a Trump presidency and we're not seeing big shifts to resistance is a big message that we are in a different conservative moment,' Contois said. Andrew Puzder, the former CEO of Carl's Jr.'s parent company, in 2017 defended the racy ads, saying they had saved the company. The interview followed Puzder's withdrawal of his nomination to be Trump's labor secretary after allegations of spousal abuse surfaced. He denied those allegations; Puzder is now Trump's pick to serve as ambassador to the European Union, one of a number of people in Trump's orbit to have been accused of sexual misconduct. Trump himself in 2023 was found liable for sexual abuse and has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He has appointed people to his administration who have embraced retro views of women's roles — including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said women shouldn't serve in combat, a view he didn't repeat during his confirmation hearings. The ads, and the fact that accusations against men in positions of political power aren't disqualifying, are part of a backlash against the advancement of women and people of color in exchange for a deep embrace of machismo. 'They're trying to read the room,' Lingel said of the advertisers, content creators and cultural figures that all swirled around this year's Super Bowl, while also signaling a certain kind of political value system. Many of the people who have championed Trump's vision for America also criticized the halftime performer, hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew his nomination to serve as Trump's attorney general amid mounting concerns about an alleged history of sexual misconduct, including having paid for sex with minors, shared on X last night: 'The halftime show you just watched is clearly the regime's response to Trump's historic gains with black men.' (Gaetz has denied wrongdoing.) Lamar's 12-minute-long set opened with actor Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam as means of introduction. Then Lamar gleefully shouted to the audience, 'The revolution about to be televised. You picked the right time but the wrong guy' — a reference to a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron. Jackson's Uncle Sam interjected, saying that Lamar and his all-Black crew of backup dancers were 'too loud, too reckless, too ghetto.' The backup dancers — taking the stage during Black History Month dressed in red, white and blue — frequently stood in formations that created an American flag. Lamar was the first solo rapper to headline the Super Bowl halftime show — and did it in the first year since 2021 where the words 'End Racism' did not appear in the Super Bowl end zones. Lauren Daigle's performance represented a different version of narrating the American experience. Daigle has described her Super Bowl appearance in New Orleans this year as 'vindication' for what happened when she made an impromptu appearance at the 'Let Us Worship' tour stop in New Orleans in November 2020 and was invited on stage to sing. Daigle said she was riding her bike when she happened to pass the event, organized by Christian singer and worship leader Sean Feucht to protest COVID-related restrictions on in-person gathering at churches and other houses of worship. The event had several hundred attendees, and local media reported many of these attendees came without face masks in defiance of local public health orders. Daigle's unplanned appearance led to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell asking for the singer to be removed from the New Orleans programming of the 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve.' (Daigle has confirmed that she was in negotiations to appear on the program, but was not a confirmed performer at that point.) Last week, Fox News celebrated Daigle's Super Bowl performance, as did Trump's second ex-wife, Marla Maples, who has posted multiple times to her Instagram stories about Daigle. Daigle, who has kept quiet about her own politics, told Raymond Arroyo on the 'Arroyo Grande' podcast that her goal for her performance was to sing 'America the Beautiful' in a way that 'will cut through to this generation, the age that we are living in right now, the political climate that we're living in right now' and to use the song 'to cut through to people who might be jaded toward our country or might not love what we have in this country or what we've built in this country.' Before the game, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, known to many women simply as 'Taylor's boyfriend,' told reporters, 'It's a great honor, I think, no matter who the president is. I'm excited because it's the biggest game of my life, you know, and having the president there – it's the best country in the world so it'd be pretty cool.' (In comparison, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts answered the same question by saying, 'He's welcome to do what he wants.') Kelce's comments were the latest reason that NFL fans had to perceive the Chiefs as being Trump's team, with the Eagles standing in for the so-called resistance. (Hurts also received a deluge of press in the lead-up for the game for his all-woman management team; Eagles Assistant Coach Autumn Lockwood is the first Black woman to coach a team to a Super Bowl win.) In May, Chiefs' kicker Harrison Butker delivered a commencement address urging men to 'fight against the cultural emasculation of men' and 'dangerous gender ideologies.' Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' wife, Brittany, faced intense media scrutiny over her liking of Trump-Vance and MAGA content on Instagram (Trump himself praised Mahomes in a pre-game interview with Fox's Brett Baier, saying, 'I watched this great quarterback, who has, by the way, has a phenomenal wife. She's a Trump fan. She's a MAGA fan, so I happened to love her, but she's a great person.') Meanwhile, Swift faced a roar of boos when she was shown on the Jumbotron at last night's game — whether for her switched allegiance from the Eagles to the Chiefs or for her political opinions is unclear, though. Either way, Trump celebrated the boos on his social media site. 'MAGA is very unforgiving!' he wrote on Truth Social of what happened to Swift at the game. (Neither Kelce nor Swift have given any kind of public response to Trump's comments.) In the first Super Bowl of the second Trump term, it felt like many cultural figures were angling for a piece of the Trumpian cultural pie, in ways both big and small. 'Sports are political,' Contois said. 'These ads are culture. They mean something. They say something. Some of them cost $8 million for 30 seconds. So they're the most expensive air time on American television. If they're going to speak, it's an opportunity to say something. And very few of these ads took that plunge.' Contois noted that even as Nike garnered headlines for its ad about women's sports, just 28 percent of celebrities featured in this year's Super Bowl ads were women — despite the Super Bowl historically and consistently having a 50-50 viewership among men and women watchers. 'The Super Bowl is our last mass media moment where a gigantic audience that is relatively diverse across every possible identity category tunes in. The ads, when it comes to gender in particular, do reflect some ambivalence of the moment that we're in — that women are making great strides in some areas…but it's also really clear to see the ways that some rights are being turned back,' she said. 'Women's representation is in an incredibly frustrating holding pattern and the same goes for masculinity, too.' Contois also stressed the significance that Trump's own presence at the game had. As the broadcaster of the Super Bowl, Fox promoted its own shows, including in spots for Fox News that used repeated images from the assassination attempt made on Trump over the summer. 'This was Fox News saying, 'These are the stories of America that we tell,'' Contois said. The post Trump's political brand is everywhere at the Super Bowl appeared first on The 19th. News that represents you, in your inbox every weekday. Subscribe to our free, daily newsletter.
Fox News
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Carl's Jr. brings back bikini model ads
Eight years after pivoting on advertisement strategies, fast food chain Carl's Jr. is bringing back its iconic bikini model advertisements for the upcoming Super Bowl. This year's ad features TikTok influencer Alix Earle in a campaign for the chain's new "Hangover Burger." Earle, 24, is presently in a relationship with Miami Dolphins player Braxton Berrios. Speaking to Fox News Digital, Earle said making the commercial was "a lot of fun" and that it was shot in Hollywood. "Just like seeing a set like that, it was like Wistera Lane, which is kind of an iconic set," she said, referring to the fictional location of the show Desperate Housewives. "Just being there in general was like, mind-blowing for me," she said. Earle told Fox News Digital she believes her commercial is a "modern twist" on some of the chain's past work, which featured Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton, and Heidi Klum. "I think Carl's Jr. is a great brand, and they have great burgers – especially the Hangover Burger – and they've done so many fun, iconic commercials with iconic girls in the past, so it was really fun to be a part of that and kind of do it in a new way." The ad depicts a bikini-top clad Earle walking through a neighborhood filled with the remnants of a party. "Let's be real. Everyone's going to be a hot mess after the big game," said Earle, who is originally from New Jersey. "Been there. Done that," said Earle. "And I've got just what you need to cure that post-party bug: the Carl's Jr. Hangover Burger," she said. The burger contains "egg, double bacon – yeah, you need that double bacon – charbroiled beef, hash browns, cheese, and sauce," said Earle, adding "just the way I like it." As part of a promotion, Carl's Jr. will be giving away free "Hangover Burgers" the day after the Super Bowl for all users of its app who belong to the chain's rewards program. Executives from Carl's Jr. praised Earle as someone who lives an "unapologetic, bold style – much like the Carl's Jr. brand." "Alix shares not just the highlights of life, but also the moments that are a hot mess, like the day after the big game. We wanted a partner who embraces all aspects of life, and Alix was a natural fit," said Kara Gasbarro, vice president of creative at CKE Restaurants, in a statement released by Carl's Jr. "Her fans and followers know she loves late-night burger runs and any cure for a fun night out, making this partnership a perfect match. We're excited about this uniquely delicious burger and the way Alix helps us bring this campaign to life," said Gasbarro. On YouTube, many seemed to have enjoyed Carl's Jr.'s new advertisement. For more Lifestyle articles, visit "We're soooo back! God bless you, Carl!" wrote one YouTube user. Others praised the return to the chain's old style of advertising. It feels like the 90s again! "A commercial with a hot girl talking about hangovers and burgers! It feels like the 90s again! The world is healing!!!" said one user. "This is such a throwback to the old Carl's Jr ads! I would love to see more commercials like this in the future!" said another. In 2017, Carl's Jr. announced that they would no longer feature scantily clad models in its advertisements, instead focusing on food quality and an all-American image, Fox News Digital previously reported.
