Title | MCDONALD'S AUSTRALIA DAY |
Brand | MCDONALD'S AUSTRALIA |
Product / Service | AUSTRALIA DAY MENU |
Category | A02. Best Use of Merchandising/In-Store Marketing |
Entrant | DDB Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Entrant Company | DDB Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Advertising Agency | DDB Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Cameron Hoelter | Ddb Sydney | Creative Director |
Dylan Harrison | Ddb Sydney | Executive Creative Director |
Zipporah Allen | Mcdonald's Australia | National Marketing Manager |
Skye Oxenham | Mcdonald's Australia | Media Relations Manager |
Paul Pontello | Mcdonald's Australia | Senior Brand Manager |
Madeline Fitzpatrick | Mcdonald's Australia | Vp Director Of Marketing |
Mark Lollback | Mcdonald's Australia | Cmo Anz |
Nick Simkins | Jungleboys | Producer |
Scott Pickett | Jungleboys | Director |
Amy Hansen | Ddb Sydney | Tv Producer |
Domenic Bartolo | Ddb Sydney | Designer |
Chelsea Lamond | Mango Sydney | Account Executive |
Melinda Parris | Ddb Sydney | Senior Business Manager |
Sophie Collins | Ddb Sydney | Business Manager |
Sara Tomonari | Ddb Sydney | Senior Business Director |
Richard Morewood | Ddb Sydney | Managing Partner |
Tina Alldis | Mango Sydney | Head Of Media Relations Strategy |
Guy Lemberg | Ddb Sydney | Copywriter |
Adam Ledbury | Ddb Sydney | Art Director |
Richard Morgan | Ddb Sydney | Creative Director |
McDonald’s Australia was looking to use the Australia Day celebrations as an opportunity to increase brand relevance and sales among Australians. As a company synonymous with America, increasing relevance to Australians when the country celebrates what it means to be Aussie was always going to be a challenge.
With an ultimate goal of increasing sales, McDonald’s Australia’s overarching business objective for this campaign was to drive brand love and relevance among all Australians, by celebrating Australia Day at their restaurants across the nation. Social media listening and consumer research was undertaken to understand the ways in which Australians embrace McDonald’s as a part of the community, which the business has been involved with for more than 40 years. Results revealed that Australia was the one place on earth where consumers called McDonald’s, ‘Macca’s’.
Aussies loved the signage so much that the Central Coast community petitioned McDonald’s to have a Macca’s sign installed in their area. The entire campaign generated 272 stories globally, across traditional media channels, mass conversation in social media and 11,006,836,424 PR impressions. Importantly, key messages were included in 100% of coverage, with 99.7% positive in tone. By the end of January, one of the world’s most iconic American brands had become one of Australia’s most loved brands, leading to a year on year sales increase of 6.7% for January.
In Australia there’s no greater sign of acceptance than being given a nickname. Therefore, the best way for an American brand to become Australian was to embrace the nickname given to them by Australians – ‘Macca’s’. By handing the brand to the local community this American restaurant now felt owned by Australia.