{"id":464,"date":"2006-02-13T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:33:23","slug":"how-do-you-pitch-a-marketing-idea-to-mcdonalds-or-burger-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/how-do-you-pitch-a-marketing-idea-to-mcdonalds-or-burger-king\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you pitch an idea to McDonald&#8217;s, Burger King?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publicity Hound Jon Merz of Albany, New York writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;I have an idea for a great publicity campaign for McDonald&#8217;s or Burger King that involves a joint venture with my business. The problem is, these companies say they don&#8217;t accept unsolicited publicity ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;My question is this: how do I get some type of audience with them to pitch this idea? I know movies somehow partner with these big companies all the time, so there must be some system to it.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t know what it is.\u00a0 Can you or any of your other Hounds help?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publicity Hound Jon Merz of Albany, New York writes: \u00a0&#8220;I have an idea for a great publicity campaign for McDonald&#8217;s or Burger King that involves a joint venture with my business. The problem is, these companies say they don&#8217;t accept unsolicited publicity ideas. \u00a0&#8220;My question is this: how do I get some type of audience\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/public-relations\/how-do-you-pitch-a-marketing-idea-to-mcdonalds-or-burger-king\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":28,"wds_primary_category":606,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[427],"class_list":{"0":"post-464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-public-relations","7":"tag-marketing","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40950,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/40950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}