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10th Shorty Awards: QDOBA Queso Wars Gold

QDOBA won a Shorty Award for their #TheirWordsNotOurs campaign that leveraged user-generated content and animated GIFs to capitalize on negative sentiment around Chipotle's new queso launch on Twitter. The campaign strategically targeted Chipotle consumers through paid media amplification of fan tweets, turning social chatter into a competitive advantage.

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Summary

QDOBA won a Shorty Award for their #TheirWordsNotOurs campaign that leveraged user-generated content and animated GIFs to capitalize on negative sentiment around Chipotle's new queso launch on Twitter. The campaign strategically targeted Chipotle consumers through paid media amplification of fan tweets, turning social chatter into a competitive advantage.

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social-media · marketing-campaign · user-generated-content · twitter · brand-strategy · queso-wars · gif-animation

Key entities

QDOBA (organization, 0.99) · Chipotle (organization, 0.99) · Shorty Awards (event, 0.98) · Twitter (technology, 0.99) · queso (concept, 0.97) · user-generated-content (concept, 0.96) · #TheirWordsNotOurs (concept, 0.95)

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analysis · language en · status final

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claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 26 Oct 2026