Rajesh Chakravarthy Profile picture
Vice President - Product Marketing
Mar 9, 2021 17 tweets 7 min read
The @BurgerKingUK tweet! Was it a PR disaster or did it work as it was intended to?

A thread! 2/ Background

@BurgerKingUK tweeted that "Women Belong in the kitchen". It's now deleted, but I have saved a screenshot. I am sharing it here. Screenshot of Burger King's original tweet that read "W
Mar 8, 2021 26 tweets 7 min read
.@BurgerKingUK is doing it again! This tweet has become both convroversial and is being praised as a piece of clever #marketing.

What do you think this is? Clever Marketing or Terrible Marketing? An appreciation!

Mar 4, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
#brandjacking: A Thread

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Recently @PassPass_Pulse and @LAYS executed campaigns that involved other brands like @swiggy_in, @StuckByFevicol, @pepsi and @Paytm. They cleverly chose an occassion like #WorldComplimentDay and #valentinesweek to invoke a sense of camaraderie. 2/
Historically Brandjacking started on a wrong footing. Here's the wikipedia entry that shows it as an unethical and fraudulent practice. As recently as in 2013, Oxfam Brandjacked Coke's ads to draw public attention to unsustainable business practices.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandjack…