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Heineken’s new ad campaign imagines a world with deserted influencers, zero likes, and more drinking

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25.04.2025

The average adult spends five hours and 48 minutes each day looking at their phones. Heineken thinks that’s way too much time and has launched a new campaign encouraging people to put their devices down and socialize more in person.

Ideally, with a beer of course.

With consumers spending 88 days per year scrolling on their phones, the Dutch brewer this week is kicking off a “Social Off Socials” marketing blitz that’s built around the premise that adults acknowledge they spend too much time online, but also feel trapped in a vicious cycle of social media addiction.

Heineken commissioned a study of 17,000 adults of legal drinking in the U.S., U.K., and seven other international markets and found that more than half of adults feel overwhelmed keeping up-to-date with social media. Nearly two-thirds say they are nostalgic for the 1990s when there were no smartphones.

“Social Off Socials” will include a TV ad spot—which counterintuitively, also appears on social media—and stars singer Joe Jonas and influencers including Dude with Sign, Lil Cherry, and Paul Olima.

The spot depicts empty highways with abandoned cars, quiet streets, and influencers who are freaking out because they aren’t getting any views or likes from their content. “Where is everybody,” Jonas screams. It turns out they are all at the bar, sans phones and having a great time.

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