{"id":2849,"date":"2026-08-21T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:14:02","slug":"dave-portnoy-praises-pizza-huts-rebrand-as-brilliant-advertising-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2849","title":{"rendered":"Dave Portnoy praises Pizza Hut&#8217;s rebrand as &#8216;brilliant&#8217; advertising move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy joins Stuart Varney to discuss Pizza Hut&#8217;s rebranding, Scottie Scheffler&#8217;s career earnings, Nike&#8217;s declining stock, potential international NFL teams, and the English Premier League kickoff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;One Bite&#8221; pizza reviewer and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy threw his support behind Yum! Brands&#8217; campaign to temporarily rebrand Pizza Hut, praising the pizza chain&#8217;s strategic marketing move as &#8220;brilliant&#8221; while pitching company executives on directing advertising dollars toward Barstool Sports during football season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first, I didn&#8217;t really get it. But I&#8217;ll say this, Stuart. We do business with Pizza Hut. And we want them to spend lots of money with Barstool. So I think it&#8217;s a brilliant move. Whoever came up with that, I like it,&#8221; Portnoy said on &#8220;Varney &amp; Co.&#8221; Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re thinking smart. It&#8217;s football season. There it is, the football with the &#8216;Hut.&#8217; And you know, they&#8217;re gonna spread this message. They gotta find some new media vehicles that cover football,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;and maybe do a little bit of an ad spend to let people know what&#8217;s going on so they don&#8217;t get confused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CANCEL ME IF YOU CAN: DAVE PORTNOY TAKES AIM AT CANCEL CULTURE CRITICS WHO \u2018ALREADY DECIDED\u2019 THE VERDICT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FOX Business host Stuart Varney replied: &#8220;And Barstool Sports is ideally situated to pick up a little pizza business, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/343\/192\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/686\/384\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/672\/378\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1344\/756\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/931\/523\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1862\/1046\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/720\/405\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1440\/810\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/931\/523\/dave-portnoy-pizza-nj.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Dave Portnoy takes bite of pizza\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>David Portnoy of Barstool Sports on May 11, 2019, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<\/span><span> (Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t say!&#8221; Portnoy responded.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the chain announced that it will go by &#8220;Hut&#8221; for the next 25 weeks, coinciding with the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can just call us HUT for the next 25 weeks,&#8221; Pizza Hut wrote in a social media post announcing the temporary rebrand.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy weighs in on Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s grocery store plan, Nantucket&#8217;s viral &#8216;No Influencers&#8217; sign, stay-at-home boyfriends and why money isn&#8217;t an excuse for dating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The company showed off the change at a restaurant in Plano, Texas, where a banner featuring a football covered the word &#8220;Pizza&#8221; on the restaurant&#8217;s exterior sign. Pizza Hut, which is headquartered in Plano, also changed its social media profile images to a logo without the word &#8220;Pizza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>READ MORE FROM FOX BUSINESS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>FOX Business&#8217; Brittany Miller contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Dave #Portnoy #praises #Pizza #Huts #rebrand #brilliant #advertising #move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barstool Sports founder Dave P&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3074,5375,1134,5374,233,1534,1135,5373,1673],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-advertising","tag-brilliant","tag-dave","tag-huts","tag-move","tag-pizza","tag-portnoy","tag-praises","tag-rebrand"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dave Portnoy praises Pizza Hut&#039;s rebrand as &#039;brilliant&#039; 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