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RE:Store Launches First Free Ad Campaign for LA-Based Black-owned Business Hurt by COVID-19

The company lends the hardest-hit Black-owned businesses of Los Angeles much-needed creative advertising execution, including credits provided in part

Syn Reimagines Billy Joel’s A Matter of Trust For New CNN Promo That Call For Healing Broken Bonds

Creative music agency Syn has collaborated with CNN on a new promo video that aims to inspire audiences to rebuild broken bonds and believe in the goo

There will be no Budweiser ads in super bowl - but this ad will run online.

Budweiser will not be running an in-game Super Bowl ad, this is the the first time in 37 years that the audience will not see Clydesdales or puppies f

Burger King France use their Instagram channel to promote other eateries to help during lockdown.

A social media campaign that will run on Instagram until January 21, 2021.

Marvel Comics - Real nurses, Real stories / Allegheny Health Network (2020) 2:00 (USA)

Using real nurse stories as inspiration, AHN teamed up with Marvel Comics to create and publish a comic book to show our nurses as modern-day heroes
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Etsy - Nana / Grandma / Gift like you mean it (2020) :30 (USA)

Etsy joins the Christmas ad fray with a campaign called "Gift like you mean it".

Die Bundesregierung - The Sachsen front, winter 2020 (2020) :95 (Germany)

Anton Lehmann is being interviewed, sometime in the future about his "Einsatz" at the front, during the winter of 2020.

Tesco - Little changes / Shop alone - (2020) :30 (UK)

We've all made little changes this year.

Amazon - The show must go on (2020) 2:00 (UK)

Lucky Generals tells this story of a ballerina practicing for a show during Corona times.

CINFA Laboratories - For the pharmacies, paper bags that turn into soap - covid awareness (2020)

The work done by pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies during the health alarm generated by the coronavirus has become more evident than ever.

Berlin Tourism pulls middle finger ad aimed at anti-maskers.

The ad got the pearl-clutchers screaming and a ton of earned media, which is what it was designed to do.

Mediterranean Towers - “Alive & Kickin’ (2020) Israel

“A few old people is no reason to shutdown a whole country” – that’s how our latest campaign for the “Mediterranean Towers” Senior Living Residence ki

JavaScript billboard headline tells you to mask up against covid - forever.

Santa Clara County have come out with a very odd choice of billboard headline as Covid information.

Commute — Photo Series by Cut+Run Editor Stephen Jess Explores the New York Subway During the Pandemic

Cut+Run’s Stephen Jess unites his dual passions for editing documentary style projects and still photography in a series of striking images capturing

Heineken - "Back To The Bars. Night Out" (2020) :30 (Italy)

In this fun little ad, Heineken welcomes us back out to the bars and clubs, even though things may have changed quite a bit.

Rio Carioca - there is no virus that can break the spirit of rio - 2020 :30 (Brazil)

Marca puts all focus on delivery and launches new actions on social networks.

Burger King re-opens post quarantine in France and have a safety video for you.

Ladies and Gentlemen, BURGER KING® and Buzzman are writing to announce the reopening of its restaurant rooms in France while paying attention to hygie

“I Happen to Like New York” - A Loving Tribute to New Yorkers and the City’s Front-Line Workers

Arts & Sciences’ new PSA film for United Way New York City celebrates the city’s innate ability to retain its essence, even in the face of a globa

Yard and SpeakUpAfrica Promote Hygiene and Social Distancing in Africa Through Pop Culture and Influencers

Yard (part of the Sid Lee Paris collective) created this for NGO SpeakUpAfrica to educate African youth on social distancing gestures.

Rupert Neve enlists producers to help you #washandlearn

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Brits in a pandemic - There's something going around (2020) 3:00 (UK)

Anthony Rubinstein has directed this sort of digital scrapbook of life in lockdown 2020, accompanied by Syeshia Sweeney's words.

ChowNow #OrderBetter" (2020) 1:00 (USA)

Mazda "Your getaway car" (2020) :30 (Israel)

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Mazda "Rules for the road" (2020) :30 (USA)

How Mazda thought parroting CDC talking points in a voice over (and titles, in case you were dumb) and putting them over repurposed footage from last

Quirky upcycled propaganda posters from Engine tell Londoners to stay home

So many campaigns have been launched to encourage people to stay home during lockdown, and like the upcycled propaganda posters w
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Adland's podcast ep 5: Marc Lewis, SCA Dean on launching an online creative school

The Dean of the Scool of Communications Arts 2.0, Marc Lewis, is the guest on Adland's Podcast today.

Regions Bank - From one bank to another" - shifting ad media to food banks during this time.

Ad agency Luckie and client Regions Bank, today announced the donation of 100% of their advertising inventory (:15 and :30 TV, digital ads, paid soci

Excelsior #EverUpward, a Short Film Directed by Elle Ginter and Stephania Dulowski, is a Love Letter to New Yorkers During Quarantine

Directed by Elle Ginter and Stephania Dulowski, Excelsior #EverUpward is a three-minute film that is the culmination of numerous sleepless nights spen

"Don't Touch Your Face." #Stopthespread (2020) 1:30 music video

Remember the creative briefs released by the UN to spread information about Coronavirus?
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The Creative Singularity

The following was written by Mike Hughes on his Linkedin and is reprinted with permission.
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Every Covid-19 Commercial is exactly the same

It is not blatantly obvious that you haven't increased the creativity during this time of quarantine. In fact, it's the exact opposite.

Dutch government pay social media influencers for "alone together" Covid-19 campaign, but how much?

Don't you worry about those poor social influencers, in times of quarantine when they can't pose in sunsets on the beach or do yoga with a v
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Every car commercial during COVID

It's so brutally honest and so spot on, it makes me cringe

ROM Chocolate bar - We miss you Romanians / easter message (2020) Suflete tari. Românești

The Rom Autentic chocolate bar, famous for being wrapped in the colors of the national flag and its punchy, patriotic campaigns, has changed the brand

Castrol - Hang Up Your Key (2020) :60 (UK)

Ahead of a long and sunny Easter weekend, Castrol, the brand that has kept people moving for 120 years, launched a social film to encourage drivers to

Doritos - One Dorito and two weeks till delivery left? (2020) :30 (Israel)

If you’ve tried recently tried lacing a grocery delivery order, you may have discovered that the more this health crisis drags on, the longer the groc

A most uncreative Apple advert called "Creativity goes on" (2020) USA)

Apple show us their products used in quarantine and the ad is as predictable as can be.

Uncle Ben's "Special Guests" (2020) :45 (USA)

Yet another COVID-19 brand ad, brought to you by Uncle Ben's. Shot safely from a distance, it features a real family.

Fitbit "We're all in this together" (2020) :30 (USA)

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CNN - Go There Thank you - first responders (2020) :30 (USA)

Syn Supports CNN's "Thank You" With Music

Fledge - "STUCK" short film - Belgium 2020

Belgian production company FLEDGE are feeling frustrated, because the COVID-19 lockdown means we can't do anything anymore.

Domino's "We're hiring" :30 (2020) (USA)

Dominos is hiring. They need workers, full-time and part-time. To make and deliver pizzas. And they are doing so in a safe and sterilized environment.
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Wu-Tang and Steak-umm: A tale of two brands

While every last brand and their mother has jumped on the repetitive k e e p y o u r d i s t a n c e bandwagon, some are doing so in a relevant way
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Your tech overloads want to monitor your every move.

Not content to merely harvest your private information, your driving whereabouts, music listening tastes and spending habits, as well as recognizing y
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#Fakehunter – world’s largest anti-infodemic system has launched

The Polish Press Agency and GovTech Polska (Polish Prime Minister’s Office) have released the #FakeHunter web application – a new tool to combat disin
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Coronavirus is a sign for us to end the open office floor plan

I got to thinking about the atrocity that is the open office plan, and it led me to tweet this.
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Updating your LinkedIn. During a Pandemic.

Updating your LinkedIn resume--during a pandemic I don't mean to brag, but I've gotten out of bed, made meals for my family, went for wal
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The One Club Offers Free COVID-19 Jobs Board to help global industry during pandemic

Simple resource created to help global job seekers find openings at agencies, design studios, production companies and brands.

200 brands modified their logo to encourage social distancing

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Thrive wants you to know you can still get your weed delivered

THRIVE Cannabis Marketplace, is the largest independently owned cannabis retailer in Nevada.
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Silent London: The Sound of our Isolated Capital

Haunting and beautiful but in sound and vision. Have to say I love this idea.
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Cannes Lions 2020 cancelled due to Coronavirus

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the ad industry’s major awards festival and conference held in France each summer, has been can
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Taskade announces 6-month free upgrade to its Pro version to help teams working from home.

Taskade, a Y-Combinator backed startup, launches a real-time organization and collaboration platform for distributed teams.

Corona Cards: Greeting cards for lockdown living.

When one of them had to spend their birthday alone, these students made greeting cards for social distancing.

Doner : "When the Motor Stops." (2020)

With COVID-19 spreading in Michigan, ad agency Doner, headquartered in Detroit since the 1930s, chose to send a message of strength and resilience t

Burger King changes signs to "Stay home"

Yet another brand promotes corona social distancing

Jack Daniels "With Love, Jack" (2020) 1:00 (USA)

I remember when IW as five and putting on my best dress just meant "pull it on over my head and go", I lived in the cutest dresses all day e
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Can we stop with the coronavirus ads already

My LinkedIn feed is polluted with dozens upon dozens of brands (or students making spec ads for said brands) all manipulating their logos in an effort
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A Creative Director wrote the Joy of Pandemic Cooking to help us through these times

As many people adjust to working from home, one creative decided to turn lemons into lemonade, literally.

Everybody is separating their logos due to Corona virus.

As the Olympics of 2020 are cancelled, we may as well expect Cannes Lions and a dozen other awards shows to be as well.
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