Burger King France Will Throw 600 Birthday Parties for Kids After Lockdown Ends
Parties will come complete with food, cake, gifts, invitations and decorations
There are a lot of things about quarantine that are a huge bummer, especially if you’re a kid. And if you’re a kid whose birthday happened to fall during these “unprecedented times,” that’s an even bigger downer.
To soften the blow, Burger King France worked with agency David Madrid to create a promotion offering free post-lockdown birthday parties—complete with food, cake, gifts, invitations and decorations—to 500 kids whose parents uploaded a photo of their birthday cakes to social media, tagging Burger King.
Within 24 hours, all the parties had been claimed, with more than 2,000 people participating. After such a strong response, the burger chain expanded the promotion to 100 more winners this week.
“Our priority during the crisis has always been to make ourselves useful through simple and concrete actions,” said Burger King France CMO Alexandre Simon. The singular goal of the campaign, he said, is “to show our attachment to families.”
The campaign was accompanied by a 30-second spot featuring several kids exuding a lot less enthusiasm than normal for a birthday celebration. (They’re still cute, though.)
“Containment is difficult, and it is even more so for children who have waited a whole year to be able to celebrate their birthday!” said Saulo Rocha, executive creative director at David Madrid. As an “ally of French families,” Burger King simply wanted to “make these children’s birthdays a little happier,” he added.
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