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Burger King

Success Story

Pixie's layered fandom targeting drove success for Burger King's Star Wars Mandalorian campaign

Industry:

Food & Beverage

Platform:

YouTube

Key Outcomes:

+286%Search lift for “burger king mandalorian” queries
+72%Higher reach than originally planned, reaching 2.51M users
+5%Absolute Ad Recall lift, with 101K lifted users

The Challenge

Burger King set out to support its Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu cinema tie-in by driving high-completion attention and scaled reach among Star Wars fans across adults 18-34, layering in fast-food affinity signals to keep the message commercially relevant rather than purely entertainment-led.

With VCR as the primary KPI, and reach, brand lift, and search lift as secondary measures, the campaign needed to prove that a culturally relevant YouTube strategy – timed to the film’s release – could translate fandom into measurable brand recall and search intent.

Key Outcomes

Pixability implemented Non-Skippable, ER ad formats to maximize high-completion attention across devices. The campaign used four 15s creatives, with copy phased from pre-release to in-cinema timing to keep the Mandalorian and Grogu tie-in relevant throughout the flight. Pixability combined Pixie AI fandom signals, geek-culture contextual segments, QSR and food-delivery affinities, and custom search intent, layered with strict suitability controls to reach audiences most likely to connect with both the film and the brand. The result: strong attention across key audience, device, and targeting segments, plus measurable brand recall and search intent, proving a fandom-led YouTube strategy can turn cultural relevance into active consumer demand.

+286%
Search lift for “burger king mandalorian” queries
+72%
Higher reach than originally planned, reaching 2.51M users
+5%
Absolute Ad Recall lift, with 101K lifted users

“We wanted our Mandalorian tie-in to feel like a moment, not just a media buy. Pixability’s fandom-led targeting turned that cultural relevance into real consumer demand, we saw search interest for the campaign spike well beyond what we expected.”

James Brown Head of Digital Strategy

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