Boards of Change brought America’s disenfranchised voices from the streets to the polls. Plywood boards that barricaded storefronts during the Black Lives Matter protests, filled with messages of unity and justice, were turned into voting booths. They inspired residents in dozens of Chicago’s low-turnout neighbourhoods to create systemic change through the power of their vote and enabled them to register. Amplified by outdoor, social media, and national PR, Boards of Change empowered Black Americans to know their vote counts and helped Chicago attain a record number of registrations and voters.
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Credits
Client: City of Chicago
Campaign: Boards of Change
Agency: FCB Chicago
Client: City of Chicago, USA
Production Company: Lord + Thomas, Flo Creative
Music & Sound Production: JSM Music
Experience Design: Absolute Production Services
Video Production Company: Stoptime Live

This footage isn’t real but the threat is. It’s time to put country over party and protect our democracy.

“For decades, America has been gerrymandered, votes have been suppressed and voters purged, money has taken over our political system. In 2020, we’re seeing it all come home to roost,” said Joshua Graham Lynn, co-founder and President of RepresentUs. “By featuring two leaders who have a vested interest in the collapse of our democratic system, we are putting the American people face-to-face with just how fragile our democracy really is. We hope it inspires Americans to come together to fight for this one issue that unites us all.”

RepresentUs has an urgent message for the American people: Our democracy lives and dies with you. If we do not stand up and fight for it, it could be the end of democracy as we know it. Ahead of November’s critical elections, the unprecedented obstacles that Americans face casting their ballots safely and securely during the ongoing pandemic are aggravated by countless other election threats. Among them, a dramatic shortage of poll workers, interference with the United States Postal Service, and widespread misinformation to undermine the security and validity of mail-in voting, and now a President who refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should results not end up in his favor.

“Deepfakes are an entirely new kind of threat to democracy and the integrity of the media. This ad exposes the threat for all to see,” said RepresentUs co-founder and CEO Josh Silver.

Credits
Brand: RepresentUs
Advertising Agency: Mischief

This campaigns is about:
Anti-Corruption Act, Deepfake Technology, US Elections, Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, nonprofit organization, NGO, America, United States

Credits
Brand: The New York Times
Campaign: The Truth Translator
Advertising School: Miami Ad School, Toronto
Art Director: Tara Magloire, Rachel LeBlanc, Lee I
Copywriter: Marwa Hassan, Mirabelle Eze

Tags:
Innovation, Technology, AI, Machine Learning, Clio Awards, Best use of technology

There’s a gun violence epidemic in America. Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are dying – more than 100 every day. While our leaders and the NRA send thoughts and prayers, we bury loved ones taken from us by senseless violence.

Now is not the time to stand by and accept that daily gun violence is just the reality of life in America. Now is the time to fight. We need you to fight with us.

“The Most Vicious Cycle,” a music video for the single, “Safe,” depicting the endless cycle of gun violence in America. To stop this cycle, we must hold Congress accountable and lobby for gun violence prevention legislation.

Safe” is the debut single from the artist Sage. Sage wrote the song while in his senior year of high school after the tragic mass shooting in a high school in Parkland, Florida. He played the first version of the song for his older sister, the music artist Kesha, who instantly felt the power of the track and wanted to help the cause by lending her voice to the song and movement. Chika, independent female rapper known for her vicious flow and fearless lyrics, contributed verses to finish the song.

The song is being released in partnership with March For Our Lives which is a non-profit organization aimed at ending senseless gun violence, founded by a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Florida. Together these students and artists are asking Americans to take to the polls this fall to vote for candidates who support common sense gun laws.

McCann, The Mill+, Wool & Tusk, Mellow Media, Sound Lounge and production crew and cast, including former students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, have donated their services to help March For Our Lives and the musical artists. Together, they produced “Safe”—a groundbreaking new music video, which encourages people to vote for politicians who support sensible gun legislation. A portion of the proceeds from the song will go to March For Our LIves.

Credits
Agency Network: McCann Worldgroup
Holding Company: Interpublic Group
Production Company: The Mill
Advertiser Brand: March for Our Lives
Advertising Agency: McCann New York
Entrant Company McCann New York
Music/Sound Company: Sound Lounge
Production Company (additional): Wool + Tusk
Chief Creative Officer: Sean Bryan
Chief Creative Officer: Tom Murphy
Creative Advisor: Joyce King Thomas
Chief Production Officer: Nathy Aviram
Senior Art Director: André De Castro
Senior Copywriter: Nick Larson
Producer: Gaby Levy
Executive Creative Director: Susan Young
Executive Creative Director: Daniela Vojta
Chief Communications: Jeremy Miller
President: Devika Bulchandani
Senior Social Strategist: Jorden Berger
Director: Ben Smith
Executive Producers: Ian Bearce
Executive Producer: Christina Thompson
Producer: Tia Perkins
VFX Production: Christina Thompson
Producer: Grace Tober
Line Producer: Roshni Kakas
Chief Creative Officer: Angus Kneale
Creative Director: Ben Smith
Executive Music Producer: Rob Kaplan
Executive Music Producer: Aaron Mercer
Sound Designer: Marshall Grupp

Super Bowl is an annual football championship of National Football League (NFL). The game was created as a merger between NFL and American Football League. Super Bowl is identified using roman numbers like Super Bowl I, Super Bowl II and so on.

America is much more than just apple pie, baseball and a controversial electorate! What inspires America’s “greatness” is its people, and talking about what it means to be American had inspired media brand Fusion to create its “As American As” campaign. In collaboration with its creative agency SS+K, Fusion’s campaign shows through its short videos and photographs of Americans of all colors, backgrounds and cultures, that America is amazingly diverse as it paints a beautiful picture of reality untainted by politics or belief systems.

Stephen Leps, Vice President Executive Creative director of Fusion states, “This campaign celebrates the diverse and inclusive America we live and breathe every day and how we are all a product of many different cultural influences… We want a new generation, the rising mainstream, to put their fingerprints on this quintessential expression of Americana because we are no longer simply as American as apple pie.”

The campaign started off as just an attempt to showcase America’s amazing diversity. However, Fusion and SS+K were unprepared for the outright rejection they faced in some of the country’s most cosmopolitan areas. They were quick to respond with a new billboard in Manhattan, where they crossed the censored images out with the line “X marks the spot of censorship.”

Award Winning filmmaker and photographer Gillian Laub’s apparent “controversial” images featured a cheerleader in a hijab, two men kissing, a Hispanic serving in the military, an older woman using medical marijuana and a woman dancing in the West Indian Day Parade.

Fusion says that the images are purposefully provocative and carries a subtitle that says “Calling All Voices”, implying that every American has a say in this proud country. A recent college campus tour saw the culmination of the campaign that is all set to include out-of-home placements on billboards in Stamford and Philadelphia apart from wild posting in other cities.

Credits:
Brand: Fusion
Advertising Agency: Ss+K, New York, USA
Partner: Bobby Hershfield, Rob Shepardson
Chief Creative Officer: Bobby Hershfield
Creative Director: Armando Flores
Art Director: Malika Reid
Copywriter: Margaret Webber
Design Director: Jesse Raker
Lead Designer: Chris Peck
Director Of Production:John Swartz
Innovation: John Swartz
Executive Producer: Jamie Appelbaum, Liz Mistriel
Photography: Jamie Appelbaum
Video:Liz Mistriel
Founder: Rob Shepardson
Account Lead:Rob Shepardson
Account Supervisor:Gisell Galan
Account Coordinator:Jason Fishkin
Strategy:Claudia Cukrov
Production Company:Freebird Production
Director: Gillian Laub, Verbatim
Photographer: Gillian Laub, Verbatim
Director Of Photography:Rick Gershon, Verbatim
Photography Assistant: Yoav Friedlander
Producer: Tali Magal, Katya Pavlova
Assistant Producer:Jessie Jobst
Casting: JV8, Inc, Planet Pre Pro
Video Edit: The Mill
Post Production Company: The Mill
Editor: Ryan Mckenna
Colorist: Damien Van Der Cryussen
Event Production: Chris Wayne, Associates
Owner: Chris Wayne
Chief of Staff: Tim Biba
Account Manager: Marc Gross
Technical Director: Danny Huebsch

• It shows how love unites people together
• The caring attitude towards friends and colleagues
• The bond of friendship that remains strong and unaffected by an individual’s religion, caste or race
• Understanding of one’s problem and providing a solution in order to resolve it
• The value of friendship in one’s life

Heal America – A Priest and Imam meet for a cup of tea.

In this time of unrest where the minority communities are living in fear because of few members of the dominant community that are trying to create social problems amazon takes the perfect initiative to promote the message of unity among all citizens. In today’s world even though there is a lot of violence and chaos due to religious conflicts, there still exists a large group of people who are always trying to promote the message of love peace and unity in order to make this world a better place. The bond and value of friendship should never be broken because of one’s religions, caste or race.

Judging America: Artist Captures Country’s Prejudices.

We all judge people and label them on the basis of their race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status and sexual orientation. Joel Parés, a US Marine-turned-photographer from Puerto Rico, has highlighted these prejudices in his new photo series, Judging America. The message is simple enough: Don’t judge a book by its cover. Every black man is not a gangster, every Muslim is not a terrorist, every southern, white man isn’t a Ku Klux Klan member AND successful, talented and good souls come in all professions, nationalities, and colors.

“I just wanted to clarify that it is that many of us judge incorrectly by someone’s ethnicity, by their profession, and by their sexual interest. The purpose of this series is to open our eyes and make us think twice before judging someone, because we all judge even if we try not to. The first image is not necessarily what you actually see, but it is what you categorize them in your head without knowing who they truly are. The second image explains the truth about the person and how incorrect they were judged initially,” Joel told Huffington Post.

“The way I like to show the series is where you view the judged image first, to fuel the fire inside of some of us, and then the reality image to cool down the fire and open the eyes of those who think in a negative way while judging individuals. My inspiration for this series is the fact that America is a country that is very diverse with many ethnicities that together create the United States of America. I believe every individual deserves a chance at a normal life without being judged in a negative way. I wish everyone could be treated equally, and this is my voice crying out for change,” he told photography blog, Fstoppers.

Credits:
Joel Parés

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