THE FANDOM COMEBACK
Brand
TECATE
Entrant Agency
LEPUB
Category
Social & Creator
Award
Bronze
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
In 2019, Tecate Titanium disappeared from shelves. But it never disappeared from the conversation. For six years, thousands of Mexicans kept asking for it back through tweets, comments and memes. You only had to search "Tecate Titanium" to find years of people asking the same thing: WHEN IS IT COMING BACK?
We tracked six years of social media conversations looking for the people who had asked for Titanium's return the most. We found them, contacted them and invited them to become the faces of its comeback. The same people who had spent years posting "Bring Back Tecate Titanium" appeared in the ads, were the first to announce it was back and sparked a wave of organic conversation on social media that became a phenomenon across Mexico.
Presentation Board
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