I oversaw a team responsible for McDonald's always on social media pages, during which time they achieved their highest ever engagement rates and I developed an unhealthy obsession with memes and emojis.
As well as the business-as-usual, reactive and calendar specific posts, we worked with online influencers on summer activations to help McDonald's connect and engage with the notoriously difficult to impress 16-24 demographic.
Here's some of the highlights, including one of my favourites: a piece of work we turned around in an incredibly tight timeframe to help celebrate Gay Pride. It proved to be so successful we took it from a social post to a digital OOH campaign that was shown at Pride marches across the UK.
The most successful social post, a simple optical illusion about McNuggets ended up being picked up by news agencies around the world. A Google search will give you articles on it from the LA times to the Times of India!...as well as for reasons we're not entirely sure of, Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue: Click here to take a look at how McNuggets made the world's eyes go a bit funny while I contemplate if that will be one of the defining moments of my career...
Original organic reach: 390k.
Target Organic: 1 Million.
ACTUAL ORGANIC REACH: 4.7 MILLION.
Awards:
Drum Content Awards: Best use of Content on a Social Platform
Drum Social Buzz Awards: Best Use of Facebook