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Mar 2022
37m 42s

How McDonald's NZ restaged an iconic son...

Fergus O’Carroll
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A Gold WARC award for effectiveness winner, we hear how, after a series of hate crime attacks, McD’s used an update of their iconic Kiwiburger song to drive an important cultural conversation in New Zealand, resulting in the best sales period ever recorded. 

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