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INT R P D N A ME D IA G N I H S I L & PUB TITLE: MCWHOPPER AGENCY: Y&R NZ AUCKLAND CLIENT: BURGER KING MOBILE TITLE: NYT VR AGENCY: T BRAND STUDIO NEW YORK CLIENT: GOOGLE, GE, MINI, NEW YORK TIMES R O O D T U O TITLE: BREWTROLEUM AGENCY: COLENSO BBDO AUCKLAND CLIENT: DB EXPORT The campaign, which invited Burger King’s archrival McDonald’s to make peace by uniting a Big Mac and a Whopper, eventually spread around the globe and involved six other agencies. McDonald’s said no to the McWhopper idea, but others, including Denny’s, Krystal, Wayback Burgers and Giraffas, joined Burger King to create the “Peace Day Burger.” NYT VR app grew out of the shared vision of The Times’ newsroom, its advertising department and brand partners to realize virtual reality as a mainstream form of storytelling. The NYT VR launch not only put VR software in the hands of a larger audience than ever before, but it allowed them to fully engage with the technology by distributing Google Cardboard headsets to 1.3 million New York Times subscribers. We were briefed to create a TV ad to try and address this decline but we soon realised that Kiwi blokes didn’t need another clichéd beer ad. What they needed was a brilliant reason to re-embrace (and drink more) beer. So that’s what we gave them. We set about creating a way that men could save the planet by doing what they love. July - August 2016 | adobo magazine 51