Old El Paso launches Street Vibes campaign

Old El Paso has burst onto laptops, phones and smart TVs across the country with their new "Turn it Up" campaign, designed to amplify the launch of the brand’s Street Vibes range, via a bespoke channel mix built with smaller households in mind.

Running until November, the campaign is backed by over £1.1M investment and is live across BVOD, OLV, social and digital – a bespoke plan to reach a younger audience, with less than half of Gen Zs now watching broadcast TV. The campaign hinges on the idea that the buzz and vibrancy of Mexican street food restaurants offer a feast for the senses, that in turn amplifies the eating experience beyond the norm. The brand new, fast-paced creative therefore captures these fun and flavourful Mexican Street Food ‘vibes’, that the range can unlock any night of the week.

There are over 8.3 million two-person households in the UK yet surprisingly 75 per cent of those yet to buy into the category are made up of one to two person households. As smaller households are often a younger, pre-family shopper with a taste for adventurous flavours, Old El Paso’s new campaign cleverly taps into the opportunity; research shows younger consumers typically enjoy a wider range of global tastes at home and one in three Gen Z and Millennials are looking to try new things.

Out-of-home street food flavours are also increasingly infiltrating retail, with one in two global consumers seeking products, such as Street Vibes, which are inspired by the street food flavour. Street Vibes is one of Old El Paso’s biggest launches to date, putting street-style soft tacos on the menu in just 20 minutes – with a wide range of soft taco kits, delicious sauces and spice mixes. Centred around the brand’s first ever meal kit for two people, the range is perfect for duos looking to turn up the vibes on a date or mates night at home with two popular street-food inspired flavours: Barbacoa and Al Pastor.

Disruptive in-aisle activations will be live through the autumn, designed to invite new shoppers into the world of Mexican meals and help retail partners cater to a wider range of people. In addition, the brand will be executing a bumper couponing plan to get the product into as many hands as possible.

“With Street Vibes all about turning flavour, fun and vibes up a notch, we are buzzing to bring a campaign to life that follows suit," said Aditi Hilgers, Head of Meals at General Mills UK.

“The creative calls out what makes Street Vibes different from the rest of our much loved, well-known core range. Coupled with the message that Street Vibes is the ticket for ‘turning up’ the flavour on a date or mates night, we’re confident of its massive potential to attract new younger, smaller households into Mexican who have been petitioning us to do something different. “