18.05.12

LAURA SLATTERY

MEDIA & MARKETING:  Still here and still low-cost is the message from the fast-food chain

NEW YEAR, new diets, and yet to fixture the television spot that’s attracting most attention from “patronize-screening” tweeters comes courtesy of McDonald’s Ireland. Featuring football pundit and recently departed Newstalk presenter Eamon Dunphy, the new 30-shift instalment in McDonald’s Ireland’s euro-saver throw is called – no offence intended – “Antique”.

The ad, created by McDonald’s Ireland’s advertising medium Cawley Nea TBWA, is the latest in a year-old futuristic phase of the wish-running campaign for the euro-saver menu, the fast food set’s value platform.

The Dunphy ad shows a group of Dublin lads devouring the “undying value” of the euro-saver menu in the year 2222, when the Irish superior is reassuringly still functioning, as is the euro itself. Inflation has kicked in, however, as one of the lads has picked up “an old-fashioned radio” on sale for €30,000 that displays Dunphy’s employer in a glass bowl talking about dribbling – the ball, that is, not the milkshake. Still here and still cheaply is the message from McDonald’s, though it’s Dunphy’s making one's adieus line, “give us a bite there baby”, that seems to be garnering the most visceral reactions.

Source: Irish Times

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