Reese’s Puffs once defined teen cool, but the brand had lost its edge with Gen Z leaving the cereal drifting toward irrelevance. We reignited the brand by repositioning Reese’s Puffs as a lifestyle icon. Instead of pushing product, we contributed directly to Gen Z culture across music, art, and fashion. By embedding the brand into the spaces where Gen Z creates and expresses themselves, Reese’s Puffs reclaimed cultural relevance and became craveable again.
We teamed up with world renowned street artist KAWS to bring together cereal, art and gaming in a first of its kind breakfast art experience. Working with Acute Art we launched KAWS PUFFS - a dynamically changing, AR game where users have to crunch puffs before they hit the ground in order to save their KAWS COMPANION from drowning in a milky puddle of doom.
Users were able to unlock special power ups, and exclusive breakfast events that allowed them to compete for limited edition Blue KAWS Boxes.
Photography by Linnea Bullion + Set Design by Gabriela Cobar
The limited edition run of 5,000 blue boxes sold out in minutes and were resold
on Stock X for $100’s more.
Crunch puffs and save your KAWS companion before from a milky puddle of doom. With different power ups and and dynamically changing game environments based on time of day, gamers kept coming back for more.
Brian Donnelly loved the collab so much he included the box art in his show
KAWS: FAMILY at AGO, Canada
All the usual suspects showed up for this one: HYPEBEAST, HIGHSNOBIETY, HYPEBAE, and Trend Hunter, and more garnering 465.5MM earned impressions with in the first 4 weeks of launch.
Puffs has the best fans including Justin Bieber, Kid Cudi, Nigo, Nina Chanel, NBA star Dwyane Wade, and creative legend / ex Global Executive Creative Director of Widen Kennedy John C Jay.
It even inspired artist RYOL to create tribute art - now being sold on artsy for over $4K
Another incredible team effort by: Will Lindberg (ACD), Jimmy Burton (ACD), Brian
Moore (CD), Matt Walton (CD), Isabella Lebovitz (Producer) and more at Anomaly LA