Corona "Encore"

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Corona’s long-running TV campaign has deftly positioned the beer as a kind of tropical vacation in a bottle. Amid a recession in which fewer of us can afford a real tropical vacation, but most of us can still afford a sixpack of beer, that’s a pretty useful niche. But it’s not quite the focus of this new spot (via Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago), which features Kenny Chesney quietly strumming and singing on a beach at nighttime. Corona is sponsoring Chesney’s 2009 Sun City Carnival Tour, so the commercial aims to get mileage out of that connection.

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