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The best April Fools' jokes from the world's biggest businesses

The best corporate April Fools' Day pranks
The BBC fools Britain
Taco Bell rings in the changes
A Whopper April Fool from Burger King
Tesco sells whistling carrots
Qualcomm flies into controversy
Google tricks with Google Motion
Richard Branson snaps up Pluto
Warby Parker presents a sight for paw eyes
Sony goes with the Flow
Tinder makes a match with Uber
National Geo covers up animals
H&M launches the minimal Mark Zuckerberg collection
Google fools with the weather in the Netherlands
IKEA introduces couples' counselling
Paddy Power takes a punt on seahorse racing
Mall of America marks out texting lanes
Honda steers lovers together
T-Mobile brings a whole new meaning to unlimited coverage
hulu introduces eight-second TV shows
Amazon creates Petlexa
Duolingo launches an emoji course
Pizza Hut enters the spa business
BMW tech meets the dog bed
IKEA (doesn't) take to the skies
Burger King unveils the Chocolate Whopper
PayPal pranks with money printing app
Lego invents a vacuum to fix every parent's nightmare
Google cleans up with its “Screen Cleaner” feature
Tinder’s height verification hoax
Lego launches brick-finding feature
Prime Video UK releases a hound hoax
Hitched.co.uk launch wedding 'un-invitations'
McDonalds kicks off April Fools' Day with the McNugget Boot
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The best corporate April Fools' Day pranks

Every April Fools' Day, businesses and well-known institutions step up to the challenge of pranking their customers – and some attempts have been more outlandish than others.

From the Chocolate Whopper to covered-up cats​, discover some of the best April Fools' shenanigans pulled off by the world’s biggest companies. 

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Alice Cattley

01 April 2025

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