List of McDonald's marketing campaigns

This is a list of marketing promotions by McDonald's restaurants.
Here is a partial list of slogans:
Perhaps the best-known jingle was "You deserve a break today" a song sometimes incorrectly attributed to a young Barry Manilow, (who did sing it in one version of the commercial and thus included it in his "Very Strange Medley" of product theme songs, with others he had written) was in fact, written by jingle singer/songwriter Kenny Karen. The melody was either used in, or originates from, a song called "We're Together", credited on The Brass Ring S/T album as being composed by A. Ham/K. Gavin/N. Kipner/S. Woloshin. In the accompanying TV commercial, there was almost no mention of food. Instead, the ad featured an all-male McDonald's cleaning crew, singing after-hours about their individual tasks, and emphasizing that "at McDonald's it's clean!" just before launching into the almost operatic chorus: "You deserve a break today / So get up and get away / To McDonald's!"
Another well known jingle was the "McDonald's is your kind of place / It's such a happy place / Hap, hap, hap, happy place..." from 1967, sung to the tune of "Down by the Riverside".
There is also a full version used in one commercial.
There is also a full version sung by Ronald McDonald, some kids, and the McDonaldland gang in one commercial.
There is also a full version used in one commercial.
There was also an extended version used in one commercial which goes like this:
There was also a full version used in 25 years of The best of McDonald's on TV VHS which goes like this:
There was also a Canadian version that also promoted the Big Mac.
This campaign was used in Sweden in 1996 and was recorded by Swedish band Ultima Thule.
This campaign was used in Germany in 1999 and was originally recorded by Billy White and Patricia Darcy Jones. The campaign was also used in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Hong Kong. "Every time a good time" song was written by: David Buskin, Janet Fox, Susan Hamilton and published by TUTTAPANNA MUSIC.
There are also two full versions sung by Justin Timberlake. The first one was used in one commercial.
The second one was used in one commercial.
The McDonald's $1,000,000 Menu Song was an instant-win promotion created as part of an advertising campaign, which ran from 1988 to early 1989. As the name suggests, the song, which was based on Reunion's 1974 hit single "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)", incorporates all of the items (at that time) on the McDonald's menu: sandwiches, other lunch/dinner items, breakfast items, dessert items, and drinks, in that order.
Either flexi-discs or cardboard records containing the song were attached to advertising inserts and distributed within newspapers across the United States. On all but one of the issued recordings, the chorus was not able to recite the song perfectly from start to finish; when the chorus made a mistake, the record was over. On the unique, prize-winning recording, the singers were able to complete the song; this record was a $1,000,000 instant winner.
Approximately 80 million records were distributed, and only one of them was a winner. The promotion was won by Galax, Virginia, resident Charlene Price, who used the money to purchase the convenience store where she worked.
In the United States, the lyrics read as follows:
In Canada, the lyrics were as follows:
In Hong Kong, the lyrics were as follows:
Around the same time (1989–90), a French version of the ad campaign was produced for Quebec; however, no promotion was attached.
The order given in this version was sandwiches, other lunch/dinner items, dessert items, drinks, and breakfast. The Québec lyrics were as follows:
The McDonald’s menu song was also versioned in Australia around 1990. The Australian lyrics were as follows: