MassMutual ran the 'world's smallest ad campaign' at the Kentucky Derby
Johannes Leonardo placed 20 miniature ads around Churchill Downs — on roof beams, in the infield — sized for the one thing everyone holds: binoculars.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDMagners built Tinster, a dating app for lonely hipsters, ahead of Laneway
A tongue-in-cheek dating app from Host Singapore promising 'bespoke connections between bespoke people' — with Laneway Festival tickets as the prize.
Read the caseFlipkart opened a retirement home for old appliances ahead of its big sale
22feet's Big Billion Days idea: worn-out appliances retire to a 'Home for Old Age Appliances' — a film plus a walk-in version in Mumbai.
Read the caseNexus gave Energie AG's plug sockets karaoke voices for a Gen Z tariff
Johnny Kelly tracked 3D-animated lips onto real sockets singing 'Feeling Good' — the film launching Austria's first electricity tariff for under-28s.
Read the caseDuolingo turned its owl into a body pillow for a TikTok kissing game
'A Summer Fling with Duo': an UltraSuperNew Tokyo AR game where players sync kisses with Buff Duo to win a life-sized body pillow.
Read the caseDifferin made TikTok-native skincare ads where acne is the protagonist
Deutsch NY played acne as the antagonist in native TikTok formats — #RentFree, This or That, Telling Off — for the dermatologist-led gel brand.
Read the caseCloseup let the frog stay a frog for Kiss Day — and won a 4.7pt Meta brand lift
Drum Brazil retold the frog-prince tale for Closeup: the frog never becomes a prince — a good kiss is about the mouth and fresh breath, not a stereotype.
Read the caseChocolate Finance rolled a giant coin through Hong Kong before its launch
Ogilvy HK's pre-launch stunt made 'Happy money' literal — a giant rolling coin through Causeway Bay, Central and Tsim Sha Tsui before the March debut.
Read the caseBurger King spotted a Whopper hidden in football's heart-hands celebration
Conill's World Cup campaign 'Love or Whopper' compared the iconic goal celebration to how people hold a burger — TV, OOH and a VAR gag included.
Read the caseCollins kept Bose's 1960s wordmark and rebuilt the brand around its bars
'Sound is Power': the rebrand leaves the hand-drawn wordmark untouched except its bars, which became the basis of the typeface and an eight-note colour scale.
Read the caseAmplifyChange's butterfly identity turns a fund into a movement builder
Studio Sana gave the SRHR fund a line-drawn butterfly, an icon set and a palette drawn from South Asian and African textiles, where most partners work.
Read the caseA Rio supermarket swapped its produce shelves for pick-your-own garden beds
WMcCann turned Zona Sul's fruit-and-veg aisle into living garden beds where shoppers pull lettuce, basil, peppers and scallion straight from the earth.
Read the caseYHA's 'Stay Youthful' social test drove a 9,333% jump in paid social revenue
An eight-week Instagram test reframed England & Wales' youth hostels from cheap beds to experience-led travel — and lifted bookings 11%.
Read the caseFour Dutch museums merged into Wereldmuseum with a handwritten WM and peeling type
Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam's design studio united the Tropenmuseum, Africa Museum, Museum Volkenkunde and Wereldmuseum under one mark and one layered system.
Read the caseVisa's fake AI lamb posts unmasked themselves to teach scrollers about fraud
Marcel ran AI-generated tall tales from an anonymous account for Visa; anyone who commented got a personalised video revealing the trick.
Read the caseUEFA built the Europa League brand from its trophy's hammered metal
Turquoise's 2018 Europa League rebrand turned the trophy's triangular hammered sides into a jagged orange 'energy wave' that travels across broadcast.
Read the caseStandard Chartered had an iPhone 15 burst out of its HQ in a CGI film
Shadow Factory's CGI video lifted an iPhone 15 out of the bank's headquarters, drones streaming out with LED panels carrying its lending offers.
Read the caseStan turned its full stop into the 'Dynamic Dot' for its tenth-anniversary refresh
For its tenth year, Australian streamer Stan kept its name, dot and blue, and turned the full stop into a 'Dynamic Dot' device built for digital-first motion.
Read the caseSpotify threw Squid Game 2 fans a rave whose visuals answered their dancing
Immersive agency The Department turned Spotify's London fan experience into THE RAVE for Squid Game 2 — visuals responding to ravers' movements.
Read the caseRiot told Worlds 2023's underdog story as a 2.5D anime anthem film with NewJeans
Psyop directors Marie Hyon and HANZOHANZO turned DRX's Deft and his 'unbreakable heart' into the League of Legends 2023 Worlds anthem video.
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