THE GOLDEN ZONE
Brand
MCDONALD'S
Entrant Agency
TBWACOLOMBIA
Category
Direct
Award
Silver
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
Una mirada rápida a The Golden Zone, una estrategia de marketing deportivo que convierte un hallazgo en los circuitos de la Fórmula 1 en una experiencia interactiva para los fans
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Background
Fast food brands have sponsored Formula teams,
But never Formula itself McDonald wanted to
_go beyond sponsorship visbilty and become part
of the race in away fans could instantly respond to,
Idea
We tooka closer look at al24 Form
‘and found something unex
App downloads
in the first month
+2.7M
CANADA
MEXICO
Execution
During every race, fans openéd the McDonalds
‘309 to play areal-tine game and catch jive deals.
‘And every time the race jeader entered aGo'den
Zone, alive offer dropped for just afew seconds
while the leader passed throughit. Every lap:
brought anew offeranda new momenttoact,
letting fans play and catch multiple coupons
throughout each race. Top Formula 1streamers.
encouraged fans to take partlive The idea
launched at intertagos, Brazil then expanded
across differentraces in Argentina, Mexico,
Colombia and Peru during thefinal threeraces
‘of 2025and the fist three of 2026, withrolout
Continuing throughout the rest of the year.
The Golden Zone turned McDonalds from,
a sponsor around the race into realtime
bbrand fans could instantlyrespondto.
Digital reach
in sogial media
+1.6M
all Formula 1 circuits and a rnd them nt
gam ite commerce exper ienc
+7%
Incremental in daily
digital app sales
1. Entortheapp when
tho acestars,
Me \
‘Regional Partner of Formuia1*
2 Catch the coupon as the leader
‘rossga The Golden Zone.
BAHRAIN
3. Complete your purchase
‘using this code
+688K:
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BRAZIL
Viewers across
platforms
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ITALY
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UNITED KINGDOM
Vines
SINGAPORE
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ABU DHABI
+2.3M
Active users
during the races
