In these unsure instances—marred by political and financial turmoil, local weather change and the rise of synthetic intelligence—it’s exhausting to know what to belief. Restaurant chain KFC presents a easy reply to the misplaced and fearful lots: Consider in rooster.
The model will launch its largest ever marketing campaign within the U.Okay. right now, with an advert premiering throughout the UEFA Euro 2024 soccer championship’s opening match between Germany and Scotland. KFC, already recognized for its lighthearted voice, points an irreverent rallying cry for a youthful era inheriting an unpredictable world.
The movie, created by company Mom London, is about in a dystopian world the place radio and TV broadcasters report on unsettling developments in AI, with one information anchor asking, “What can we even imagine in anymore?”
A futuristic soundtrack kicks in and, like zombies, a metropolis’s inhabitants start following the hypnotic beat. As they transfer by abandoned streets, the strain builds and it turns into clear {that a} mysterious power is pulling them collectively.
Lastly, all of them take part a circle across the supply of that energy: a rooster. The group sways and dances across the fowl, their new deity.
The marketing campaign will run throughout TV, cinemas, on-line video and social platforms. Out of doors advertisements share the daring name to “Consider” alongside photographs of KFC menu favorites.
Within the week main as much as the launch, KFC teased the marketing campaign with unbranded advertisements chatting with those that’ve “misplaced all perception” with cryptic messages corresponding to, “Belief in herbs, imagine in spices.”
