McDonald’s Launches ‘Schnuggs’ Hype Brand to Promote Spicy Chicken McNuggets

The campaign comprises a mixture of food focused content and short films showing models wearing custom made Spicy Chicken McNuggets apparel in aid of the hottest collaboration of the year – Spicy X Chicken McNuggets = Schnuggs. Drawing upon the love of Chicken McNuggets, the campaign is targeted at 16-24 year olds and aims to tap into the cult-like brands this age group is infatuated by.

With brands like Supreme having consumers queuing outside stores from the early hours of the morning for the latest product drop, the campaign draws upon this culture to create a spoof clothing brand modelling the Spicy Chicken McNuggets.

The combination of this affinity driving content is supported by a burn visual identity that hit press and social a week before the campaign to tease spice lovers of the latest product release from McDonald’s. The intrigue was over on Wednesday 7th August with mysterious burn holes in the Metro announced the launch of Spicy Chicken McNuggets at McDonald’s.

The social campaign will run across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Further support features on Snapchat with a Spicy Chicken McNugget Face Lens that allows users to turn their face into a fire breathing Spicy Chicken McNugget. The campaign will also feature Snapchat Marker Tech, one of the latest innovations in augmented reality, which will bring the OOH posters to life through Snapchat .

A series of GIFs and stickers have also been created that will live across digital channels, allowing consumers to engage and interact with one another using the hot social currency.

Liz Whitbread at McDonald’s said: “The Spicy Chicken McNuggets campaign is a very exciting product launch for us. An existing innovation to one of our most loved products and with Schnuggs, we’ve got a campaign to match.”

Graham Lakeland, creative director at Leo Burnett London, added: “We drew inspiration from these cult-like brands that have this young audience going crazy for their latest product. Therefore, creating a spoof ‘hypebeast’ clothing brand to model our new Spicy McNuggets felt like a great fit. This, coupled with a mixture of food-focused posts helps us create a buzz to become one of the most talked about foods this year.”