{"id":232788,"date":"2026-04-05T17:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/pepsi-reportedly-drops-wireless-festival-sponsorship-after-kanye-west-headliner-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:46:54","slug":"pepsi-reportedly-drops-wireless-festival-sponsorship-after-kanye-west-headliner-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/pepsi-reportedly-drops-wireless-festival-sponsorship-after-kanye-west-headliner-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi Reportedly Drops Wireless Festival Sponsorship After Kanye West Headliner Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pepsi <\/strong>is reportedly no longer sponsoring Wireless Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The company has allegedly pulled out of sponsorship of the London music festival following the announcement of<strong> Kanye West<\/strong> as a headliner.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2194239\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are multiple reports from British outlets, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp86942yj97o\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp86942yj97o&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, that Pepsi is no longer sponsoring the festival held at Finsbury Park, previously co-branded as \u201cPepsi MAX Presents Wireless\u201d since 2015. <\/p>\n<p>A specific reason was not named, but <strong>Ye<\/strong> was just announced as the headliner of the three-night festival, set to take place in July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Keir Starmer<\/strong>, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/38728493\/keir-starmer-slams-wireless-kanye-west-gigs-nazi-rants\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/38728493\/keir-starmer-slams-wireless-kanye-west-gigs-nazi-rants\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also just issued a statement after<\/a> the booking announcement: \u201cIt is deeply concerning<strong> Kanye West<\/strong> has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism. Antisemitism in any form is abhorrent and must be confronted firmly wherever it appears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Wireless Festival still features Pepsi branding and verbiage on the official website as of Sunday (April 5).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ye<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/26\/kanye-west-apologizes-for-antisemitism-selling-shirts-with-swastikas-offers-explanation-for-troubling-behavior-in-wsj-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took out an ad back in January<\/a> in an issue of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, where he addressed those he has hurt. If you don\u2019t know, he\u2019s made antisemitic statements in public in recent years, and as recently as 2025 was selling swastika t-shirts.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/05\/pepsi-reportedly-drops-wireless-festival-sponsorship-after-kanye-west-headliner-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepsi is reportedly no longer sponsoring Wireless Festival. The company has allegedly pulled out of sponsorship of the London music festival following the announcement of Kanye West as a headliner. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 There are multiple reports from British outlets, including the BBC, that Pepsi is no longer sponsoring the festival held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}