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2001Platform Launch

Magic Kinder × Ferrero

The proposal that created Magic-Kinder.com, and the decade that followed it. Kinder already owned a moment of imagination — the second the egg opens. The pitch was that the moment should not end there. It became one of the world’s largest branded children’s edutainment platforms: 32 languages, 32 markets, 500+ published games, animations and activities, with licensed worlds from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros running inside a single Kinder safety frame, and a 25-person studio shipping to a weekly release rhythm. It was later rebuilt as Applaydu.

RoleHead of Digital Content · Creative Direction · Platform Launch
Year2001–2010
TypeClient work — Ferrero Group Worldwide
ScopePlatform vision and pitch
Brand and IP governance
Creative operating model
32-market localisation
Team leadership · 25+ people

Two versions of one pitch, shown back to back. The 2026 deck is how I would make the case now; the 2001 deck is the case as it was actually made, reconstructed from what survived of the original files.

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The pitch, as I’d make it today.

Same argument, current craft. If Ferrero walked in tomorrow with the same problem, this is the deck I would put on the table — written with twenty-five years of hindsight about what the platform actually became.

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The pitch that won it.

The argument that got the account: the surprise should live beyond the toy. One creative canon, thirty-two local doors, a central studio that owns the brand and market teams that own the nuance. Rebuilt from the surviving material — the strategy, structure and screens are the originals, the layout is new.

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