Winners & Shortlists

WHOPPER FANATIC

TitleWHOPPER FANATIC
BrandBURGER KING
Product/ServiceBURGER KING
Category C04. TRAVEL, LEISURE & RETAIL (INCL. E-COMMERCE & RESTAURANTS)
Entrant Company BUZZMAN Paris, FRANCE
Advertising Agency BUZZMAN Paris, FRANCE
Production Company FRENZY Paris, FRANCE
Credits
Name Company Position
Georges Mohammed Chérif BUZZMAN Ceo/Creative Director
Thomas Granger BUZZMAN Vice President
Julien Levilain BUZZMAN Associate Director
Mickael Krikorian BUZZMAN Art Director
Victor Sidoroff BUZZMAN Art Director
Mickael Krikorian BUZZMAN Copywriter
Victor Sidoroff BUZZMAN Copywriter
Ugo Guillermo BUZZMAN Artistic Director Assistant
Aurélie Femenias BUZZMAN Artistic Director Assistant
Pierre Guengant BUZZMAN Account Manager
Loïc Coelho BUZZMAN Account Executive
Julien Scaglione BUZZMAN Head Of Social Media
Thomas Schmitt BUZZMAN Social Media Manager
Cyril Paglino BUZZMAN Head Of Communication/Pr
Clara Bascoul Gauthier BUZZMAN Communication/Pr Manager
Bérénice Charles BURGER KING Marketing Project Manager
Carole Rousseau BURGER KING Marketing Project Manager
Anna Perrin BURGER KING Marketing Project Manager Assistant

The Brief

That’s a fact: Burger King fans are well known in the world for their passion and love for the brand. And after 15 years of absence, the least we can say is that France is no exception to the rule. To them, nothing can beat Burger King and its most famous and iconic burger: the Whopper. With this campaign, we wanted to prove this love and fanaticism from our fans who can do everything for a whopper.

Creative Execution

This was the most relevant execution to answer our brief because its original and disruptive approach allowed the brand to be visible during the highly covered and ambushed Fifa World Cup. The diversion we made about the tension that usually prevail during the World Cup allowed us to reclaim this event on our way, place our brand and our fans at the highest point possible (most important than the world cup) and reinforce the awareness of our mythic burger: the whopper.

Describe the creative solution to the brief/objective.

During the highly expected and passionate Fifa World Cup, we asked our fans to chose between their team or the WHOPPER. To do so, we built an horribly crual promotion in restaurants: WHOPPER® FANATIC. If you are ready to miss a match of your team for a whopper, you get it for free. From June 12th to July 13th 2014, we then asked our fans this impossible challenge. To get a free whopper, they had to come to Burger King wearing their favorite team’s shirt while they are playing and then miss their game.

Results

After 3 weeks of competition and without paying to be an official sponsor of the Fifa World Cup, we succeeded in reaching potentially more than 14 million people, get more than 38 000 shares about the campaign and obtained about 3 million euros in earned media.