Talk:List of McDonald's marketing campaigns/Archives/2016

Future promotions

Yes, there are movies coming out in the future. Yes, McDonalds will pump out plastic junk so that kids will beg their parents for "food" from McDonalds. That said, without reliable sources, we cannot add information on future films that might be promoted by McDonalds. As it is, this section COMPLETELY lacks independent coverage. At some point, I'm going to bit the bullet and just delete it as no one sees to be willing to provide sources or discuss the issue in any way. - SummerPhD^v2.0 17:42, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I've removed the whole mess. Yes, the corporation does use a lot of cross-promotion to sell their products. I'm sure some of them have received passing mention in sources about the films/TV shows/etc. That said, I have been unable to find any independent reliable sources discussing all of the various cross-promotional deals the corporation has used over the years. Blogs and forums for collectors certainly exist for just about any subject under the sun. These sources, however, are not reliable. We do not, for example, have a List of Russian postage stamps or List of Howard Johnson's place mats, though there are collectors of both and blogs/forums/books/etc. listing them. This list was fancruft. - SummerPhD^v2.0 13:12, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey @SummerPhDv2.0:, these can be easily cited via sources such as AdWeek and AdAge, the two largest publications dealing with advertising. They are considered reliable, and I have used them in the similar List of Burger King ad programs. These can also be found in Variety, the NY Times and WSJ in the business sections as product tie-ins are really big business, as is advertising.

I will give you this, the McDonald's versions of the parallel Burger King articles are really poorly done - knowing that they could easily be turned into the type of article you're railing against, I really tried to ensure they were properly cited. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 17:21, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

In addition to the usual unsourced claims for future promotions (maybe right, maybe not), there have been some that were clear vandalism (promotions for an unannounced film 3 years from now in support of a long dead TV series?). There have also been those somewhere in between (an announced film 2 years away. Having no easy way to differentiate the true from the speculative from the vandalism, I have been reverting all unsourced additions. As it happens, that has be every addition. Working like that for a few years, there has never been a response from any of the editors and a couple of blocks. Long story short, I can't begin to imagine anyone building and maintaining a comprehensive list of every tie-in the corporation has ever used. This leaves us with either an unreliable unsourced mess (which we had) or a skeletal selection, heavily biased toward the recent. Neither of those options seems encyclopedic. I could see this working as a category. - SummerPhD^v2.0 18:12, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

You Deserve A Break Today

I'm currently holding a copy of a 1974 band piece called "We're Together (You Deserve A Break Today)", credited to Nat Kipner, Al Ham, Sid Woloshin, and Kevin Gavin. The NYTimes credits Woloshin as co-composer of the jingle in his obituary at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/business/sidney-e-woloshin-72-writer-of-ad-jingles.html?_r=0. Would anyone like to unwind this a bit more and see how the tune should actually be credited? Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:58, 5 October 2016 (UTC)