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This case study details how PedidosYa, Argentina's leading delivery service, hijacked national euphoria after the country's 2022 World Cup victory without official tournament sponsorship. The campaign began by pushing a mysterious alert to millions of users: 'Your order is on the way.' After initial social media confusion and user panic over unauthorized charges, opening the notification revealed a live interactive map tracking Flight AR1915—the actual plane carrying Lionel Messi and the World Cup trophy from Qatar back to Argentina. By feeding real-time aviation tracking data directly into the app's native delivery UI, PedidosYa substituted a standard food order icon with the World Cup trophy. The narrative architecture follows a classic case study structure: launching with organic social media outrage, rewinding to establish context, detailing the technical execution, showing the emotional shift as users realized the prank, and detailing the zero-dollar media spend metrics. The work serves as a prime reference for real-time brand hijacking, native UI storytelling, and high-risk push notification marketing.