Cannes Lions

Whopper Gate

BUZZMAN, Paris / BURGER KING / 2018

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Description

We created a simple voting website. When people arrived on the site, it urged them to elect the true King of the land. They had to choose between King Philippe and Burger King. If people tried to vote for Philippe, there were a few jokes to try to dissuade them. And when the Palace reacted (what we actually had dreamed of), we had to be quick. We were hoping they would react, but we didn't think they'd be that mad. So we had to make things right, and we decided to abdicate by removing the "KING" in our logo.

Execution

As Burger King is a major player on Social Media, we used this to promote the website. We decided to launch it a month before the first opening. The link was posted on their Facebook page and their Twitter account, along with a press release. We also used wild postering to promote the campaign with funny words and a link to the website.Then, when the Palace reacted, we had to act fast. And two days later, we issued another press release and posted the "new logo" on our Facebook & Twitter. But we knew this wasn't sufficient, so we put the new logo everywhere we could, including a few local ads and the construction panels on the coming restaurants.

Outcome

More than 1 billion impressions (we lost count of the PR releases, there were articles in major newspapers all across Europe, the USA, in India, in Saudi Arabia, Israel, Japan...). And most importantly, one of the most successful openings in Europe, as the kitchen was out of food by 8pm.

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