4/20 marketing—how brands are getting lit

As cannabis legislation makes headlines, more brands continue to roll up for the weed holiday.

Listen to Adweek’s Most Powerful Women in Sports Podcast

Childhood sports and other interests can serve as formative aspects of professional careers and leadership qualities. This is exemplified by Johanna Faries, general manager of Call of Duty at Activision Blizzard who dabbled in martial arts, soccer, basketball and music during her time in primary school and then at Harvard University. During their conversation, Faries…

FaZe Clan’s Matt “Bk” Augustin on Staying Curious and Hungry

Like many marketing leaders, Matt “Bk” Augustin started out in the agency world, working on just about everything imaginable–from Tinder to the NFL to Supercuts. However, when “the Social Nerd” (as people have come to know him) had the unique opportunity to join revolutionary gaming brand FaZe Clan, it was something he couldn’t pass up….

Affirm Solves Life’s Awkward Moments With Buy Now, Pay Later

Buy now pay later (BNPL) platform Affirm wants shoppers to say yes to the dress–and the home furnishings and anything else they might need to purchase for major life moments–without worrying about paying the full cost upfront or getting hit with fees later. And it wants them to know it is uniquely situated to help…

Backlash Against Consent Pop-ups Is a Misleading Argument

The future is zero- and first-party data. Audiences must regain a central role in the digital advertising ecosystem. But the industry is facing one of its biggest challenges to date, and it’s not on the technical and regulatory fronts. There is a clash between the need to regain credibility by embracing society’s expectations around privacy…

Swapfiets: The Blue Tire

wapfiets is the world’s first bicycle subscription service with nearly 260,000 members and the bikes are famous for their blue front tire. The fast growing Dutch scale-up has set itself the mission of making cities more liveable, cleaner and greener. The bicycle is the means of transport that can contribute to this. By offering a bike that always works, Swapfiets ensures a higher penetration of this means of transportation.

?To accelerate it’s growth, Swapfiets teamed up with world’s best cycling team: Team Jumbo-Visma. Another iconic Dutch bicycle brand that has the same passion for cycling. The shared goal of the three year partnership is to promote cycling in daily life and to draw attention to the fact that cycling is still the best means of transportation in cities around the world. A logical match, given the team’s reach and the popularity of professional cycling in Swapfiets’s main markets (the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and France).

France Parkinson's: Living with Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease in France and in the world. However, it remains poorly understood by the public and is still too often associated with tremors alone, which tend to be trivialized when patients are elderly.

However, people with Parkinson’s don’t just suffer from tremors, but from a multitude of symptoms that greatly hinder their daily lives: slowness of movement, stiffness in the muscles, tremors at rest, sleep disorders, difficulty speaking, concentrating, writing, etc. And they have no choice but to cohabit with the disease, a forced cohabitation that can be burdensome and painful.

While the lack of consideration of the subject in public opinion hampers the mobilization and support needed by the 200,000 people suffering from Parkinson’s in France, France Parkinson and its agency TBWAParis wanted to raise public awareness about “the most unknown of all known diseases”.

In a film with a poetic aesthetic and direction, TBWAParis and France Parkinson explore the deprivation of freedom of movement through dance, an expression by excellence of the freedom of movement of the body, which is here impeded, …

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SeatGeek hires Wavemaker as its first media agency of record

The win comes the same week that the brand reported a company record $82.5 million in revenue for its fourth quarter of 2021.

Ilabb: 'Unhinged'

Ilabb is for a collective of outsiders who live an unhinged existence.

This film, from award winning international Director Michael Dole and production company Daughter, captures the belief of a tribe of people who have the conviction to let go of external forces. To go inside yourself, find your own perspective and be unapologetically you. To live ‘unhinged’.

Video of Ilabb ‘Unhinged’ film

Messenger: How to Use the Coachella Chat Theme

The second weekend of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival runs April 22-24. To mark the occasion, Messenger released a Coachella chat theme that adds a pastel landscape background to users’ conversations. When a user activates the Coachella chat theme on a conversation, the conversation’s emoji will automatically be updated to the ferris…

Twitter’s Q1 Report Shows It’s on Track to Meet Its 2025 Representation Goal

On Tuesday, Twitter released its Q1 2022 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) report. It says the platform is on track to meet its TweepForce five-year goal of having more diverse talent at the company. The company believes it can meet these milestones a full two years early. The platform also announced two new plans…

Switch TV: Anytime. Anywhere.

Switch TV Print Ad - Anytime. Anywhere.
Switch TV Print Ad - Anytime. Anywhere.
Switch TV Print Ad - Anytime. Anywhere.

Switch TV provides linear channels you can consume from your mobile phone or tablets, accessing it anywhere and anytime.

The idea behind our campaign is to bring to life two elements at once:

The live TV layer comes to life with a frameless TV shape only composed by the action and type of content you could be watching. And the versatility of it, showing people enjoying Switch TV in the most random of spots since it’s Live and can be accessed anywhere and anytime.

We have adapted that thinking to three different fields of channels one can enjoy, Sports, Animal documentaries, And action movies with a Sci-Fi twist.

Messenger: How to Use the Earth Chat Theme

To mark Earth Day April 22, Messenger released an “Earth” chat theme that adds vines and bees to a conversation’s background. When a user activates the Earth chat theme on a conversation, the conversation’s emoji will automatically be updated to the Earth emoji. In addition, six word effects will automatically be added to the conversation…

The Man Company: #ScentOfAGentleman

Valentine’s day has always been that one day where all brands celebrate love, love in relationships, love for women, gifting and what not. But not much conversations have happened about the contribution of gentlemen in our lives, who make the day special for us.

So, through the campaign’s digital film – ‘Scent of a gentleman’, we celebrated the less talked acts of goodness and kindness by the gentlemen around us. The ‘scent’ here, portrays the lingering effect of their goodness that gets remembered not just on this Valentine’s Day but for years to come.

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TCL: The Diver

Through dazzling underwater cinematography and an electrifying soundscape (Speakman Sound), this spot for the TCL 20 Pro mobile phone campaign immerses viewers into a dreamlike seascape, showcasing the cinematic flair and light-hearted humour that Fearlessly Frank and Deadbeat Films bring to the world of commercials.

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NFT company names Wieden+Kennedy agency of record

The agency will help Boss Beauties extend its brand to mainstream audiences.

Elysian Brewing Appoints Action Bronson as ‘Director of Dank’ for New Experimental IPA

When you crack open a frosty can of Elysian Brewing’s new Dank Dust IPA, its initial, prevailing aroma signals only one thing: a stash of potent, rather loud weed. While there isn’t a hint of THC to be found in the brand’s pine-forward India Pale Ale, the scent is convincing enough to inspire some excitement…

Earth Day Canada: Remedy Together

To highlight the negative effects of climate change on mental health, Earth Day Canada is launching the 2022 campaign “Remedy Together.” Created in collaboration with the creative agency Sid Lee, this campaign invites everyone with eco-anxiety to call in sick on April 22. Participants are encouraged to take care of themselves and others on Earth Day, by taking action.

As many feel distressed and hopeless when thinking about the future of our planet, this mobilization campaign offers a support platform to ease the despair through collective actions such as group therapy, going to conferences, or other initiatives like participating in clean-ups.

Video of Earth Day 2022 – Remedy Together

eCapital: Money is Everything

To truckers, money is everything and everything is money. That’s how they see the world. Life on the road isn’t the dreamy freedom we think it is. Truckers see it as a tough, lonely, and dangerous way to make a living. With eCapital, however, at least they can get paid on the spot. It doesn’t matter what happens on the road. If they deliver, they’re paid immediately. Because money is everything.

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Honda: Vertical Bike

Every year, more than 1 million trees are indiscriminately felled in the Peruvian Amazon, which is equivalent to 800,000 professional soccer stadiums, because of the aguaje harvest.

This fruit, which stands out for having a high content of vitamin A, grows on palm trees that are usually up to 35 meters high, making it very difficult to reach. That is why cutting down trees is considered the fastest way to get to the fruit.

Therefore, Ogilvy Perú devised “Vertical Bike”, the first creative solution that simplifies the harvest of aguaje and avoids cutting down trees, contributing significantly to protecting the ecosystem.