McDonald's $80,000 Twitter Ad Spend That Failed
Yet another Twitter ad purchase has gone awry for mega-fast food chain McDonald’s. Today the company purchased two promoted trends: #ANewMcDFavorite and #LoveMcDsSmoothies. The hashtags themselves appear pretty innocuous, and they’re promoting a new fun, summer smoothie. However, the Twitterverse wasn’t so happy to hear from everyone’s favorite yellow arches, and the backlash makes me wonder whether the $80,000+ ad spend was worth it.
Earlier today, #ANewMcDFavorite was trending on Twitter, and folks weren’t too happy about it.
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