Singapore – Popeyes in Singapore has announced the launch of its first-ever dating show, which invites daters to crank up the heat with spicy questions based on the levels of spiciness of their menu items.

This campaign, conceptualised alongside Happiness Saigon, challenges contestants with 3 levels of spicy questions mimicking the intensity of 3 levels of Smoky Sriracha menu items. Just like Popeyes is making their normal menu items spicier with the Smoky Sriracha sauce, their spicy questions are adding some heat to normal conversations.

This dating show stint is also made in line with promoting Popeyes’ new Smoky Sriracha collection.

Moreover, the campaign–titled ‘Spice Up That Love’–succeeds not only in presenting the product in a fun and engaging way but also in building brand love for Popeyes as an entertaining and creative brand. 

Lien Sterkens, head of content at Happiness Saigon, said, “Audiences nowadays want to be entertained. Instead of competing in a saturated market of promoting new menu items, we let Popeyes create their own category: a dating show. The shift from brand to content creator is an important one for Popeyes in 2023.”

This is Happiness Saigon’s recent work with Popeyes Singapore, the previous one being related to launching a hotline to allow the customer to vent out their woes in exchange for chicken.

Singapore – Popeyes in Singapore has launched a new campaign to promote its new Buttermilk Chicken Nuggets—in a rather quirky way. The catch? The chain invites Singaporeans to call its hotline and bare their life vents and complaints, in exchange for chicken.

Conceptualised alongside creative consultancy agency Happiness Saigon, a hotline was set up which gives callers a six-piece chicken nugget order for free.

Jazz Tonna, partner and creative director at Happiness Saigon, said, “We know people love to vent about life’s little problems. It makes you feel better. With stress levels rising globally and good food being proven to reduce stress, we set up the Popeyes Chicken Hotline. Now when life gives you problems, Popeyes gives you chicken.”

Happiness Saigon is also the agency behind a recent campaign with Carlsberg in Vietnam, which rewards someone with a free pint of Carlsberg beer if they manage to say the brand name right. 

Vietnam – As Vietnamese find themselves having a hard time to pronounce the brand name ‘Carlsberg’ locally, the popular beer brand has teamed up with Happiness Saigon and BLISS Maker Studios to launch an AI that rewards bypassers with a free beer if they manage to say Carlsberg the right way. 

The AI was built using voice inputs from hundreds of people pronouncing ‘Car-z-berg’ and was trained to distinguish the most accurate entries possible. The Carlsberg AI doesn’t just power the voice activated tap, it also powers the campaign website.

In addition, a social video of the on ground activation, billboards across the city of Ho Chi Minh, YouTube pre-roll, and Spotify ads all lead to the microsite carlsberg.com.vn/vn where anyone in Vietnam can attempt to nail the difficult name themselves and win some ice cold beer.

“Carlsberg is one of the leading brewing companies in the world today. This year they are celebrating 175 years as ‘probably the best beer in the world’. But before doing that, the brand needs to properly (re)introduce themselves to the Vietnam market. A market where their unique name is practically unknown,” according to a press statement.

Meanwhile, Hoàng Vũ Hải, brand manager at Carlsberg Vietnam, commented, “Working on carlsberg for all these years, our team realised something: it is so difficult to pronounce. So difficult in fact, we want to reward anyone who can pull it off with a complimentary beer. We think it’s a fun and smart way to increase brand recognition and product trial, especially for the launch of the new product in Vietnam.”