List of Burger King ad programs
This is a list of the various advertising programs fast food restaurant chain Burger King has employed over the course of its history. It includes promotional slogans, jingles and media tie-ins.
Slogans
This is a partial history of BK advertising slogans:- Have it your way
- *Your Way Right Away
- *If you ask us, it just tastes better
- *When you have it your way, it just tastes better
- *Burger King, where you're the boss!
- *Be Your Way
- *Your Way
- The Whopper is BKs signature product, and it has produced several ad campaigns promoting it:
- *Home of the Whopper
- *It takes two hands to handle a Whopper
- *In the land of burgers, Whopper is king
- *Eat Like a Man, Man Used globally; and in the US to promote the Texas Double Whopper
- *"The Whopper says:"
- *The one and only Whopper
- As part of its campaign to differentiate itself by its cooking method, 'Flame Broiling', BK has emphasized it in several slogans:
- *Fuel Your Fire
- *Feel the Fire
- *The Fire's Ready
- *Earl: Employee of the Month
- *We do it like you'd do it!
- Wake up with the King
- Stack it high, tough guy
- @ BK You Got It!
- The taste that beat McDonald's fries
- Get Your Burger's Worth
- Where value is King
- BK Tee Vee: I love this place!
- Sometimes, you gotta break the rules
- We do it like you do it
- The Best Food for Fast Times
- At Burger King, you not only get change, you get change
- King Me!
- We know how burgers should be
- This is a Burger King town
- Where's Herb?
- Mo Beef, Betta Taste
- Aren't your doubly hungry for Burger King now?
- Aren't your thirsty for Burger King now?
- Aren't You Hungry?, Aren't you hungry for Burger King now?
- Who has the best darn burgers?
- The Burger King and I
- We're America's Burger King
- Bigger, Better, Burger King!.
- Eat like a king. Not a clown.
- You're no clown with the Crown.
- Got the Urge?/Got the Urge? Get to Burger King!
- BK4U
- Quality Just Tastes Better!
- Taste Is King
- Have a Pepsi at Burger King now.
- Give your hunger a Texas Double Whopper
- Eat Like Andy''
Children's advertising
- Imagination is King
- Burger King Kids Club, Where it's cool to be a kid!
- Great food, cool stuff, kids only
- Just for fun, and just for you!
- Its always something special when you're with Burger King
- Magic makes it special when you're with Burger King
- Burger King: Where kids are king
- Taste Rules!
- Burger King Kids Club, It's a cool place
- Burger King Kids Club, I Love This Place!
- Burger King Kids Club, Where Kids Rule!
- The Burger King Kids Club! It's just for fun, and just for you!
- Home of the real, Big Kids Meal!
International Slogans
Canada
- You're gonna love us!
Quebec
- Les burgers, c'est notre affaire
- Au rhythms et au gout d'aujourd'hui
- Laissez-vous fêter!
- Mets-en que c'est bon!
- Je préfère Burger King
- Le Restaurant du Whopper
- Je préfère le gout de Burger King
Latin America
Mexico
- Así lo quiero
- Simplemente sabe mejor
Hungry Jack's
- Got the Hungry's
- The Burgers are Better at Hungry Jack's
- Aren't You Hungry?, Aren't you hungry for Hungry Jack's...now?
- We're all about fresh at Hungry Jack's
- Love it at Hungry Jack's
- Home of The Whopper
- Oh Yeah!
- Tastier burgers and more funner!
- Gotta get back to Jack's
UK
- There's OK, And there's BK!!
- The original flame-grilled taste
- It's Flaming Tasty
- No sun, no fun
New Zealand
- Burger King- It just tastes better
Germany
- Der König der Hamburger
- Weil's besser schmeckt
Sweden
- Grillat ÄR Godast
Jingles
The Burger King jingle
In 1973, BK introduced a jingle in response to McDonald's Big Mac song. The lyrics proclaimed that Burger King would serve you a customized product, according to its slogan Have it your way, and that it would happily do so:The jingle was used for several years in the '70s, and has been modified several times and reused: during the 80s the phrase at Burger King today was added at the end of the song. A commercial with Shaquille O'Neal had different tempos of jingles as Shaq goes into a 1950s malt shop, then '60s and '70s styles and finally a 1980s neon theme, each line reflecting music styles of said decade. During a 2006 commercial called the Whopperettes featuring Brooke Burke, the performers sang a modified version of the song during a musical number overseen by the King.
Promotions
CP+B
Crispin Porter + Borguski created a series of web-based advertisements to complement the various television and print promotional campaigns on sites such as Myspace and various BK corporate pages. These viral campaigns coupled several other new advertisement campaigns drew considerable positive and negative attention to BK.- ; The Subservient Chicken
- ; Coq Roq
- ; Chick Flix
- ; Sith Sense
- ; Dr. Angus
- ; Manthem
- ; Ugoff
- ; Earl, Employee of the Month
McGarryBowen
- ;Fries King
Mother
- ; John the Manager
Free Burger Survey
Media tie-ins
The following movies and shows were promoted in store as Kids' Meals or other promotional products.4Kids Entertainment
Lionsgate
20th Century Studios
Bitsy Entertainment Co./[PBS]
Name | Date | Studio 2 | Notes |
Teletubbies | BBC |
Disney">The Walt Disney Company">Disney/[Pixar]
Jim Henson Company
Name | Date | Studio 2 | Notes |
Muppets from Space | UK only | ||
The Dark Crystal |
Marvel
Name | Date | Studio 2 | Notes |
Fantastic Four | 20th Century Fox | ||
20th Century Fox | |||
The Incredible Hulk | Universal Studios | ||
Iron Man | Paramount Pictures | ||
Iron Man 2 | Paramount Pictures | ||
Spider-Man 2 | Sony Pictures | ||
Spider-Man 3 | Sony Pictures | ||
Ghost Rider | Columbia Pictures | International markets only | |
Thor | Paramount Pictures | ||
20th Century Fox | International markets only | ||
Film Roman |
DreamWorks">DreamWorks Animation">DreamWorks
[Fisher Price]
[Funimation Entertainment]
[Hasbro]
[Jada Toys]
[Konami]
Manhattan Toys
Microsoft
[Nintendo]
[Paramount Pictures]
[Peanuts]
[Playmates Toys]
[Sony Pictures Entertainment]
[Universal Studios]
[Warner Bros.]
[The Weinstein Company]
[Viz Media]
Misc.
Cross promotions
- AOL
- DirecTV
- Konami
- Major League Baseball Players Association
- Maxim Magazine Hometown Hotties Flash based section on the US Burger King website that allows visitors to engage in a "conversation" with some of the Maxim's Hometown Hotties models and drivers from Waltrip Racing.
- MTV In December 2005, Burger King teamed with MTV for a "Have It Your Way" rap contest. Burger King and MTV selected Anthony DeSean Stokes out of 400 entries to star in a commercial. Part of his winning rap was "You can have it your way, there's nothin' to it / If you can dream it, you can do it!" The commercial ran for a short time, exclusively on MTV.
- NASCAR
- *Dale Earnhardt
- *Joe Nemechek's 87 Chevrolet in the mid-1990s
- *Michael Waltrip Racing BK co-sponsored the 00 Toyota driven by David Reutimann with Domino's Pizza in 2007, and Bill Elliott in 2006.
- *Tony Stewart
- *BK Racing BK is one of the Primary Sponsors of the Team, and Co-Sponsor of 83 Toyota driven by Matt DiBenedetto with Cosmo Motors and Dustless Blasting
- Formula One
- *Sauber
- NFL
- *Jacksonville Jaguars
- Nintendo
- Microsoft Windows 7 and Xbox
Celebrity spokespeople