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#LITTLEMONEYBIGFUN

McCANN ERICKSON ROMANIA, Bucharest / KFC / 2015

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Overview

Description

The new KFC campaign challenged youngsters to take a stand, show the world that you don’t have to be swimming in cash to be rich in happiness. We decided to troll the ones who have most money, the rich kids of Instagram, teens that became internet famous for flashing their possessions. All Romanian teens had to do was to recreate the rich kids photos with their budget surroundings and props, upload it on our generator and get shared on all KFC social media.

In just days, our hashtag #littlemoneybigfun took over Facebook and Instagram with hundreds of photos where diamonds were replaced by diamond tattoos, lions by cats, infinity pools with inflatable ones and private jets with toy planes.

The campaign was picked by hundreds of media publications and generated other online trends mocking the rich kids: #littleparishilton and #richdogsofinstagram and got a response from the rich kids of Instagram.

Execution

A user generated campaign that proves you can have loads of fun with little money by trolling the rich, wealthy and opulent, none others than the #richkidsofinstagram.

The campaign encouraged teens to pick a rich kids photo, reshoot it in a fun, low budget way, upload it on our online generator and share the merged result on social media.

Outcome

#littlemoneybigfun was the no. 1 leading trending topic in Romania

Over 1 million euros in free media

During the campaign, KFC sales went up 21%

The Smart menu was the best KFC meal launch since 2009

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