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Real Beauty Sketches

Practitioner:
Dove

Date:
Apr 14 2013

Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” campaign is the new face of viral marketing success. The uplifting promotional video generated record-breaking online interest, yielding more than 114 million views the first month. This was thanks in part to the Unilever brand’s efforts…

The Scarecrow

Practitioner:
Chipotle

Date:
Apr 14 2013

Fast-casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long-running “Food With Integrity” sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award-winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase…

Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building

Practitioner:
Oceanic Preservation Society

Date:
Apr 14 2013

In July 2015, the Empire State Building’s famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected…

“From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in Cairo

Practitioner:
Matthew Conners, Photo Journalist by John Otis, Reporter

Date:
Apr 14 2013

Matthew Connors spent much of 2012 in Lower Manhattan making portraits of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a chance encounter during the course of that project made him do a 180-degree turn after meeting some Egyptian…

#EverydayIran

Practitioner:
Everyday Iran

Date:
Apr 14 2013

“Everyday Iran”, inspired by “Everyday Africa”, is the most widespread mobile photography project based on social networks in Iran which started since early in 2014. We in Everyday Iran ask the whole people who live and work in Iran to…

#LikeAGirl

Practitioner:
Lauren Greenfield

Date:
Apr 14 2013

The #LikeAGirl campaign was aired as a commercial during the 2015 SuperBowl. In the commercial, young girls were asked to act out certain phrases. They were told to “fight like girl”, “throw a ball like a girl”, “run like and…

Arruinados

Practitioner:
O Teatrão/Companhia Fantasma

Date:
Apr 14 2013

In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…

The Panama Papers

Practitioner:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Date:
Apr 14 2013

A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/

What If We Switch Positions With Whales?

Practitioner:
Rémi Gaillard

Date:
Apr 14 2013

What would it be like if we switched positions with whales in captivity? Nothing like this – but at least prankster Rémi Gaillard had some fun trying to recreate the scenario. The actor and some of his friends dressed up…

#NoMásMáscaras – campaña contra ataques con ácido

Practitioner:
Fundación Natalia Ponce de León

Date:
Apr 14 2013

Entre el 2004 y el 2014 se registraron 982 víctimas de ataque con ácido en Colombia. En el 41 por ciento de los casos, el agresor no fue identificado. El aumento de casos llevó a que en enero pasado se…