Burger King Truckvertising

Due to strict laws, 13,000km of the German motorway network is ad-free. So to convince truckers in Germany to buy freshly grilled Whoppers, Burger King with their agency Grabarz & Partner created ads that only the truckers could see. The ads were place on the roof of multiple cars that then took turns overtaking the truckers.

–> “Hey, you up there!”
–> “You look hungry!”
–> “Why don’t you try out the Whopper?”
–> “Fresh and flame grilled”

Once the first few cars got the truckers attention, the remainder then guided the truckers to the next Burger King.

–> “If yes, then wink”
–> “Follow me to Burger King”

As a result many truckers gave into their temptation and followed the cars to the next XXL Burger King Drive-In.

Whopper Sellout

Handing out your competitors product for free may sound like marketing suicide, but Burger King Norway did exactly just that in order to further social engagement with their fans.

On noticing that some of its 38,000 Facebook fans weren’t real fans. They decided to find out exactly how many of them were “true” fans by offering them a Big Mac from McDonalds to go away. From the 38.000 fans, Burger King lost 30.000 and with their new dedicated fan base of 8.000, they received 5x higher engagement.