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KFC campaign transforms fake ads into real, playable mobile games

The KFC campaign, brought to life by TBWA\Raad, Hearts & Science, and PLG, used a multi-platform approach for maximum reach, leveraging social media, digital ads, posters and in-app promotions to engage Gen Z gamers.

KFC has transformed misleading ‘fake game advertisements’ cluttering social feeds into actual, playable mobile games as part of its latest campaign called Original Fake Games.
The KFC campaign, brought to life by TBWA\Raad, Hearts & Science, and PLG (Power League Gaming), used a multi-platform approach for maximum reach, leveraging social media, digital ads, posters, and in-app promotions to engage players across various touchpoints.

In a statement to Campaign Middle East, the brand revealed that Gen Z often associated KFC with a restaurant that was more for their parents than for them – and in a region where Gen Z make up a significant chunk of the population, up to 22 per cent of


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.