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OLG's Dream Drop sells LOTTO MAX tickets as a Mr. Saturday fashion line that sells out
To reach young adults who spend on fashion, OLG and FCB Canada made a clothing line where every tag is a year's worth of LOTTO MAX tickets.
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG)
What it had to solve
Young adults under-index when it comes to playing the lottery, preferring to spend their money elsewhere — like on fashion. OLG needed a new way to play the lottery for a new generation of players.
How it works
Young adults under-index when it comes to playing the lottery, preferring to spend their money elsewhere — like on fashion. For the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the challenge was not a better ad but a different way for a new generation to play.
In partnership with sought-after designer Mr. Saturday, OLG released an exclusive clothing line with a unique garment tag on each item, redeemable for a year's worth of LOTTO MAX tickets — making it potentially the most valuable clothing line in the world.
By turning fashion into lottery tickets, FCB Canada created a new way to play for a new generation of players. The fashion line sold out in record time, and the work entered the D&AD awards archive under commerce.
Why it lands
- It met the audience's preference instead of fighting it: young adults who would not buy a lottery ticket would still choose fashion.
- Every garment was itself the lottery entry, so buying the clothes was playing the game — the product and the promotion were the same object.
- A sought-after designer gave the drop credibility inside fashion culture that a lottery brand alone could not borrow.
- Scarcity and value did the talking: a limited line whose tags held a year of tickets became potentially the most valuable clothing line in the world.
What it did
The fashion line sold out in record time, proving that lottery play could reach a generation through fashion rather than against it — turning garments into the entry point.
What you can take
When a category under-indexes with an audience, enter through the category they already spend on: the lottery wasn't made more fashionable, it was made wearable.
Since then
The Dream Drop line sold out in record time and the work sits in the D&AD awards archive under commerce, standing as a reference for repackaging a low-interest category into the culture of a younger audience.
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