
Burger King
There’s a new king and it’s you.
CreativeStrategy
01
The Stakes
Over the past decade, Burger King just… fell off. The food, the service, the restaurants — eventually, the sales too. A third of customers disappeared, creating a problem no ad campaign could fix
02
The Unruly Idea
Instead of marketing our way out of it, we started listening. Literally. We gave out the Burger King president’s cell phone number and asked America what needed to change. Then we acted on it — improving the food, bringing back fan favorites, reinventing packaging, reinvesting in restaurants and team members, and even firing the King so we could crown the customer instead. What followed wasn’t really a campaign. It was a years-long, documentary-style rebuilding of the brand in public.
Telling our award-winning story
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
03
The Uncontained Impact
# 2 burger chain in sales (overtaking previous #2 Wendy's)
# 1 in QSR traffic growth for four straight weeks.
+ 5.8 %growth in U.S. sales.
500 +Burger King restaurants that set weekly sales records in March.
30K +real calls and texts received by Burger King President Tom Curtis from guests.
4.5MM additional people engaged via social
7.2B +earned impressions.
“This campaign represents much more than a new ad - it reflects the transformation Burger King has been driving over the past five years. The most important part of that journey has been truly listening to our guests and the millions of people rooting for this brand. So it felt only right to officially hand them the crown. ”— Joel Yashinsky, CMO, Burger King US and Canada





