Eyebrow raising McDonald's advertising - Chaka Sobhani, Leo Burnett
Uncensored CMO12 Apr 2023

Eyebrow raising McDonald's advertising - Chaka Sobhani, Leo Burnett

Chaka Sobhani is Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett London. With 20 years of experience as an award winning director, writer and creative director, she has worked for the biggest broadcasters, brands and agencies worldwide. She hasn’t had a conventional advertising career, having spent over 10 years as a film maker and in television. Chaka was recruited by ITV to set up and ECD their first in-house creative agency, production company and design studio. She has worked on countless brands including McDonalds, Boots, Coca Cola & more.

Watch the McDonalds ad.

Talking points:

  • Celebrating Campaign Creative Leader of the Year
  • Getting rejected 200 times before breaking into the industry
  • Setting up ITV’s in-house creative department
  • Learning production techniques at ITV
  • How to make great work on a budget
  • What its like being a global Executive Creative Director
  • Helping others being successful
  • Getting industry acclaim and audience success for McDonalds
  • Where the ‘raising your arches’ idea came from
  • System1 Test Your Ad scores for McDonalds Raise Your Arches
  • The subtle branding for McDonalds that stood out
  • The challenge of casting eye brow raising
  • How Raise Your Arches became a Tik Tok sensation
  • The state of diversity and inclusion in the industry
  • How advertising doesn’t reflect the society we live in
  • Treating diversity with the same passion as new business
  • Telling one persons story well
  • The diversity dividend of representative advertising

Episoder(251)

How confused.com challenged the meerkats on smaller budgets - Sam Day

How confused.com challenged the meerkats on smaller budgets - Sam Day

Now in this episode, we're talking about one of the most competitive markets in the world - insurance comparison. Anyone who's followed this market will know just how intense it is. And how do you bui...

3 Jan 202452min

Reloaded: How to be a successful challenger - Adam Morgan (2020)

Reloaded: How to be a successful challenger - Adam Morgan (2020)

Today I'm revisiting episode 3, with Adam Morgan, founder of eatbigfish and author of Eating The Big Fish, The Pirate Inside and A Beautiful Constraint to find out what it takes to become a successful...

27 Des 202356min

Top 10 marketing and behavioural science insights with Nudge host, Phill Agnew

Top 10 marketing and behavioural science insights with Nudge host, Phill Agnew

Today I'm joined by Phill Agnew, senior product marketer at Buffer and host of Nudge, the only podcast dedicated to consumer psychology, and the other podcast that regularly hits the top spot of the U...

18 Des 20231h 2min

How Just Eat used celebrities and jingles to help them become market leader - Susan O'Brien

How Just Eat used celebrities and jingles to help them become market leader - Susan O'Brien

Today I'm joined by Susan O'Brien, who is the VP Brand at Just Eat Takeaway. Just Eat are famous for their ads with celebs such as Snoop Dogg and Katy Perry, but are even more well known for their cat...

13 Des 202343min

No GUT no glory; from startup to Cannes Lions agency of the year in 5 years - Anselmo Ramos

No GUT no glory; from startup to Cannes Lions agency of the year in 5 years - Anselmo Ramos

Anselmo Ramos is the co-founder and Creative Chairman of GUT, a global independent creative agency with offices worldwide. He, along with his co-founder Gaston Bigio, opened GUT in 2018 with the goal ...

6 Des 20231h 7min

Creativity, Christmas and a Cardiac Crisis - Vicki Maguire, Havas

Creativity, Christmas and a Cardiac Crisis - Vicki Maguire, Havas

Vicki Maguire is the Chief Creative Officer at Havas London, responsible for some of the best ads of all time. Notably Asda's Elf ad in 2022 which is the happiest ad we've ever seen at System1, and th...

29 Nov 202352min

How Airbnb bounced back from losing 80% of their business with long term brand building - Nancy King

How Airbnb bounced back from losing 80% of their business with long term brand building - Nancy King

Nancy King is the VP of Marketing at Airbnb. She leads Airbnb's global brand marketing team, performance marketing, marcom and social media teams. Prior to Airbnb, Nancy 20 years working across a mix ...

22 Nov 202344min

The divided brain, attention and how we see the world - Dr Iain McGilchrist

The divided brain, attention and how we see the world - Dr Iain McGilchrist

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided B...

15 Nov 202348min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
stopp-verden
dine-penger-pengeradet
e24-podden
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
pengesnakk
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
finansredaksjonen
pengepodden-2
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
utbytte
rss-sunn-okonomi
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen
liberal-halvtime
lederpodden
rss-markedspuls-2
okonomiamatorene
rss-politisk-preik