Children of the World created a classic piece of advertising that Marshall McLuhan would have been proud of – the medium in this case, really is the message. With the insight that many street children in India who sell newspapers and magazines on street corners are illiterate, Children of the World played on that sad …
After learning that a stray dog is put down every hour in Australia because they aren’t adopted, Pedigree decided to do something about it. They realised that the issue wasn’t that people weren’t interested, it was that when a dog’s story was told personally, it became much more powerful. In order to tell these stories, …
In this campaign from Levi’s, we see Levi’s returning to their original market offering – rough and ready work wear for the common man. Confronted with the battles of blue-collar America, Levi’s decided to take on a battling steel town and turn it around with the help of the locals. Welcome to Braddock, Pennsylvania. Levi’s …
In November 2016 French NGO Aides launched a print ad campaign to promote the good news that HIV-positive people who are on effective treatment no longer transmits the virus. Today anti-retroviral drugs are so effective, they can make the virus undetectable in the blood and sexual fluids of affected people, and undetectable in this case means uninfectious. Aides Revelation …
In a radical move in 2010, Pepsi pulled out of advertising at the Super Bowl for the first time in 23 years. Rather than add to the noise of advertising, they decided to take twenty million dollars and do good with it. This became known as the Refresh Project. The Refresh Project provided social grants …
What do women really want? What is truly sexy? LifeStyles Condoms have found that it is much more than just looks and abs that make men attractive to women. With the introduction of the ”Smart is Sexy” campaign a closer look reveals that sexy is more about intelligence, ambition, confidence and openmindedness than what first …
Sometimes the most simple ideas can be powerful levers of change. Driving down the highway or being stuck in city traffic is rarely a visually pleasing experience an art project is about to change that. With a fleet of specially painted vehicles, the Truck Art Project is bringing some of the Spain’s best known artists …
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To get the World talking about peace on World Peace Day, Sep 21, 2015, Burger King made a proposal. They wanted to team up with their all-time biggest competitor, McDonald’s, to create the McWhopper, which would be sold at a pop-up store on neutral territory in Atlanta exactly between the headquarters of the two Fast …
Before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Channel 4 released this amazing campaign featuring 140 disabled athletes and superhumans. The campaign had to beat the very successful campaign of 2012, that first called the outstanding paralympic athletes superhumans. “Meet The Superhumans” form 2012 was the campaign that helped the Paralympics sell out for the first time, …
Japan has a surge in elderly citizens. Among its ageing population more than 4.6 million people suffer from dementia. There’s nothing new in people microchipping their pets, so they’re easily found when lost, but now a city in Japan wants to use a similar tactic on their elderly. Instead of microchipping the Japanese are looking …
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