McDonald’s and Leo Burnett London have launched a campaign called ‘Schnuggs’ celebrating the release of new spicy chicken McNuggets, the latest addition to its menu, available for seven weeks.
The campaign comprises a mixture of food focused content and short films showing models wearing custom made Spicy Chicken McNuggets apparel in aid of the collaboration – Spicy X Chicken McNuggets = Schnuggs. Drawing upon the love of chicken McNuggets, the campaign is targeted at 16-24year olds and aims to tap into the cult-like brands this age group is infatuated by.
With brands like Supreme having consumers queuing outside stores from the early hours of the morning for the latest product drop, the campaign draws upon this culture to create a spoof clothing brand modelling the spicy chicken McNuggets.
The social campaign will run across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Further supported on Snapchat with a spicy chicken McNugget face lens that allows users to turn their face into a fire breathing spicy chicken McNugget and a Snapchat marker tech, which will allow users to bring the OOH posters to life through Snapchat
A series of GIFs and stickers have also been created that will live across digital channels allowing consumers to engage and interact with one another using the social currency.
Liz Whitbread, Brand Manager at McDonald’s, said: “The Spicy Chicken McNuggets campaign is a very exciting product launch for us. An existing innovation to one of our most loved products and with Schnuggs, we’ve got a campaign to match.”
Graham Lakeland, Creative Director at Leo Burnett London, said: “We drew inspiration from these cult-like brands that have this young audience going crazy for their latest product. Therefore, creating a spoof ‘hype beast’ clothing brand to model our new Spicy McNuggets felt like a great fit. This, coupled with a mixture of food-focused posts helps us create a buzz to become one of the most talked about foods this year.”
