Sydney Sweeney back with new American Eagle ad after controversy
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | People spent weeks calling the first ads problematic and the result was higher sales and a stock bump. |
| 0:12.5 | Turns out outrage is just free marketing. |
| 0:15.8 | She's back at it. |
| 0:17.3 | Sidney Sweeney being featured in a new ad for American Eagle. This time it is Gene Shorts. |
| 0:24.3 | Now, you might remember Nike stock jumped after the Jordan deal, the Michael Jordan deal in |
| 0:30.1 | 1985, never came back down. So now it seems like American Eagle has figured out a permanent |
| 0:35.9 | Sydney-Sweeney strategy they have found their Michael |
| 0:39.4 | Jordan. Look, Casey, I don't know why you keep putting these Sydney-Sweeney stories on the template. |
| 0:43.8 | I had to, but look, I power through last night. I was getting ready. I watched about two or |
| 0:50.5 | three hours of Sydney-Sweeney videos online just to make sure that I was up to date on everything. |
| 0:55.9 | She's been, you know what, |
| 0:57.7 | she's found herself a very interesting niche |
| 0:59.8 | to where she has turned |
| 1:02.2 | being controversial |
| 1:04.1 | into a massive money-making machine for her. |
| 1:07.9 | I mean, she's certainly enriched herself, |
| 1:09.7 | but also her partners like American Eagle on this. I mean, this, her video ad, by the way, got 150 million views. It's only been out about a week. The American Eagle stock price has gone through the roof. She's done an amazing, and look, she's very polarizing. There's a lot of people out there that like her. There's a lot of people out there that don't like her, but it's clear that economically, she moves the needle big time. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, and she's doing it again for American Eagle. And also something for good, |
| 1:34.8 | which we'll talk about in just a sec. Here is the ad. |
| 1:38.4 | What brand am I wearing? |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah. Yeah? |
| 1:49.3 | That one. |
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