Background

When McDonalds released their new McWrap, the first non-campaign product at McDonalds for a looong time, we got to work with Apegroup and DDB on the campaign. The tagline for the campaign was "Too good to put down" and the app revolved around that concept. The user had to keep a finger pointed at the screen while getting to the closest McDonalds, to upon arrival be rewarded with a free McWrap.

What we have done

We created the backend API that the iPhone and Android app communicated with, as well as the administrative interface for McDonald's where they could schedule drops of wraps, and follow the activity in real time. The system also communicated with McDonalds API which stored all data about their shops, coordinates and such.

The system was built upon the Google App Engine infrastructure to handle all the scaling challenges with such a high profile brand as McDonalds.

The system also exposed some metrics, for example how many wraps that were close to a specific store, that were shown to the customers on the stores' displays.