{"id":29936,"date":"2023-01-13T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/mcdonalds-feel-good-ad-is-an-80s-homage-without-any-food\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:00:15","slug":"mcdonalds-feel-good-ad-is-an-80s-homage-without-any-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/mcdonalds-feel-good-ad-is-an-80s-homage-without-any-food\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Feel-Good Ad is an \u201880s Homage Without Any Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some brands are\u00a0so familiar<\/a>\u00a0they don\u2019t need a logo or words to be recognized.\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0is one of them. In fact. it\u2019s latest spot doesn\u2019t feature any of its signature menu items or discernible restaurants.<\/p>\n

The uplifting campaign, created by agency Leo Burnett London, celebrates McDonald\u2019s iconic golden arches\u2013but not in their usual form. Instead, the arches are represented by people playfully raising their eyebrows.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaise Your Arches\u201d depicts a group of office workers who conspire to escape work and go to\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/a> together. Featuring no dialogue, the ad shows the employees making eye contact and smiling at each other across the office floor as they arch their eyebrows\u2013which everyone understands as an unspoken invitation to gather at the fast-food restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The soundtrack is the 1985 song Oh Yeah by Yello, perhaps best known as the soundtrack of the closing credits of the 1986 film Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

British filmmaker Edgar Wright, known for movies including Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead and Last Night in Soho, directed the ad through production company Moxie Pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s teased the campaign on social media with an activation encouraging employees, influencers and fans to get involved in the eyebrow-raising action. It also released Snapchat and Instagram lenses that will lift a user\u2019s brows. In stores, digital takeovers will transform McDonald\u2019s golden arches signs at two restaurants to resemble the raised eyebrows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The campaign is launching in the U.K., but over the next year McDonald\u2019s will continue the arches activity across 40 different markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a challenging time, our Raise Your Arches invitation to McDonald\u2019s provides the nation with a small but much-needed moment to let go and feel good,\u201d Michelle Graham-Clare, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at McDonald\u2019s UK & Ireland, said in a statement. \u201cWe hope the campaign raises arches and smiles across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Client:\u00a0McDonald\u2019s
CMO, SVP: Michelle Graham-Clare
Director of marketing & media: Steve Howells
Head of marketing \u2013 affinity, trust & gamily: Hannah Pain
Head of customer communications & partnerships: Louise Page
Brand manager: Amber Myers
Advertising agency:\u00a0Leo Burnett
CCO: Chaka Sobhani
Executive creative director:\u00a0Mark Elwood
Creative directors: James Millers, Andrew Long
Senior creative: Gareth Butters
Copywriter: Gareth Butters
Art director: Joe Miller
Creative director of design: David Allen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Designer: Jakk Breedon
Head of planning: Tom Sussman
Planning director: Joe Beveridge
Senior planner: Roxy Windisch
Head of account management: Sam Houlston
Business director: Jay Perry\u00a0
Account directors: Alice Pavey, Alex Light
Account manager: Carys Parry\u00a0
Account executive: Brittony Kelly
Head of project management: Jamie Teale
Head of McDonalds TV production: Graeme Light\u00a0\u00a0
Media agency: OMD
Media team: Mandy Arora, Tejal Maru
Production company: Moxie Pictures
Director:\u00a0\u00a0Edgar Wright
Editor: David Webb\/ Final Cut
Producer: Doochy Moult
Post-production company: Framestore
(Darran Nicholson (Flame), Alexia Paterson (Producer) and Stef Perry (Colorist)
Audio post-production: Sam Ashwell\/ 750mph
Photography and motion production: Prodigious
Head of art production: Jo Hodge
Photographer: Tom Van Schelven<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n