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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Jul 24;39(9):1766–1774. doi: 10.1111/acer.12811

Table 3.

Top-five class indicators and proportion of ads of each product type and brand belonging to a class

Class 1: “Partying” Class 2: “Quality” Class 3: “Sports” Class 4: “Manly” Class 5: “Relax”

Indicator Prob. Indicator Prob. Indicator Prob. Indicator Prob. Indicator Prob.

Humor 0.73 Quality 0.55 Humor 0.78 Manly 1.00 Artistic 0.77
Friends 0.34 Friends 0.31 Sports 0.75 Humor 0.63 Relax 0.70
Partying 0.32 Artistic 0.30 Friends 0.73 Artistic 0.58 Friends 0.65
Love 0.26 Taste 0.25 Manly 0.09 Luxury 0.57 Sexy 0.40
Sexy 0.23 Tradition 0.12 Relax 0.08 Friends 0.42 Taste 0.35

% of ads (n=581)
 Total 41.5 24.3 16.7 9.8 7.7
Type of alcohol
 Alcopops 74.1 14.8 11.1 0.0 0.0
 Flavored Spirits 66.7 20.5 10.3 2.6 0.0
 Liqueur 63.2 21.1 0.0 0.0 15.8
 Beer 40.5 24.4 21.3 10.9 2.9
 Spirits 30.7 29.5 9.1 15.9 14.8
 Flavored Beer 0.0 21.7 0.0 0.0 78.3
Brands
 Malibu Rum 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Stolichnaya 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Corona 91.7 0.0 4.2 0.0 4.2
 Captain Morgan 84.0 0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0
 Mike's Hard Lemonade 77.8 5.6 16.7 0.0 0.0
 Jose Cuervo Tequila 71.4 28.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Heineken 66.7 11.1 22.2 0.0 0.0
 Bacardi 60.0 0.0 40.0 0.0 0.0
 Smirnoff 60.0 40.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Jim Beam 54.5 27.3 0.0 18.2 0.0
 Bud Light 52.1 9.6 18.1 0.0 20.2
 Baileys 50.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Miller 46.7 20.0 17.3 13.3 2.7
 Michelob 41.7 33.3 8.3 0.0 16.7
 Sam Adams 0.0 93.8 0.0 0.0 6.3
 Jack Daniels 0.0 90.9 0.0 9.1 0.0
 Crown Royal 25.0 75.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Absolut 33.3 66.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Southern Comfort 0.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 50.0
 Budweiser 31.4 47.1 17.6 3.9 0.0
 Stella Artois 27.3 36.4 0.0 9.1 27.3
 Patron Tequila 14.3 28.6 57.1 0.0 0.0
 Coors 27.3 13.6 56.1 3.0 0.0
 Dos Equis 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0
 Ketel One 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0
 Guinness 14.3 21.4 14.3 50.0 0.0
 Grand Marnier 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0
 Grey Goose 0.0 22.2 0.0 5.6 72.2