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WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING THE FIFA WORLD CUP //05 Our team have been following the children on their 4-day experiences, filming and editing A lucky handful of our sponsorship team are content for real-time social media updates currently in Rio de Janeiro directing, across Europe. managing and overseeing a number of McDonald’s FIFA World Cup projects; #FryFutbol relating to McDonald’s Player Escorts, Crew McDonald’s real time Facebook campaign World Cup, Ultimate Fan and benchmarking ‘FryFutbol’ is another key focus for the team for EURO 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup. in Brazil and one which demands long nights and early mornings to co-ordinate. McDonald’s Player Escorts McDonald’s recruit children from all over the This online campaign uses McDonald’s fries World (75 countries) to walk out onto the pitch as the players and packaging as the props to with the players – 1408 lucky children (and recreate iconic moments from each day’s many more proud parents)! A once in a World Cup matches, providing engaging lifetime experience.. content to share on Facebook & YouTube world wide. OUR THOUGHTS ON… Through the group stages, the top spots have been dominated by Nike and adidas whilst mid BRANDS IN THE WORLD CUP table has seen a lot more movement. Official To coincide with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, we during the tournament, their levels of launched the Brandtasy League. This league recognition have been shown to increase. sponsors of the World Cup will be happy as table, created by Arc, tracks the success of brands, both sponsors and non-sponsors during The importance of activating during the the tournament. tournament is also notable. After each of Paddy Power’s stunts (Terry the Traitor and The league table is formed by two waves of giving the Amazon Rainforest a Brazilian) quantitative shopper, social media and their ranking is increased. sponsorship research, some of which is even conducted during live matches. Further findings are will be released in the next few weeks so keep a look out for updates. The research and “match reports” showing live brand research can be seen at www.brandtasyleague.co.uk