Disruption gets
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Back in February, Hilton and TBWA\Chiat\Day NY released a 10-minute TikTok video that took viewers on a sprawling journey, spanning dozens of locations, multiple genres, and featuring appearances from half a dozen beloved TikTok creators. The spot earned 4 million views within its first two days and set the bar for how brands should engage with their audience.

TBWA\NEBOKO and TBWA\X have turned every streaming service into a McDonald’s Delivery platform by making it possible to order the brand’s iconic products in films or series simply by scanning them. The campaign perfectly taps into the content streaming culture, leveraging the iconic McDonald’s products that appear in countless movies and series. From big blockbusters to popular sitcoms, ‘Order That Scene’ is the biggest McDonald’s product placement campaign to date without spending anything on product placement or copyright.

180LA and Cox Communications created “Visiting Hours,” a pilot program reimagining visitation in the American prison system, seen through the lens of three inmates.

TBWA\Hakuhodo has launched a new project that utilizes the metaverse to revitalize the agency’s internal communication. Titled “The Escape”, the game features the TBWA\Hakuhodo office and enables team building activities through evacuation drills.

TBWA has 27 nominations across our global collective this year, from TBWA\Media Arts Lab, TBWA\Chiat\Day LA, TBWA\Sydney, TBWA\Singapore, TBWA\X, TBWA\Santiago Mangada Puno and 180LA. Cast your vote by April 20th.

SXSW Sydney is a week-long event where the tech and innovation, games, music and screen industries converge. This year, TBWA has 6 proposed panels. Make sure to vote on what you’d like to see!

The prejudices of AI are at the heart of a Wired Italia campaign, produced with TBWA\Italia. Using Midjourney, a generative AI system capable of creating images based on text prompts, the campaign conducts an experiment asking the AI to generate images of “lovers”, “parents”, and a “manager” among other things. Without fail, the images of lovers and parents were exclusively depicted as heterosexual couples, and the manager as a white male, signifying the bias of AI and the importance of human intelligence behind these tools.

TBWA’s innovation practice, NEXT, distills the 8 major shifts from CES 2023 that will change human behavior, culture, and the future of brand experience.

TBWA\Worldwide’s Global Director of Product and Marketing, Deepthi Prakash notes that TBWA is “continually investing in understanding culture and consumer behaviors while expanding our offerings across the total brand experience.”

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has named its Jury Presidents for 2023. This year’s line-up includes Brent Anderson, Global Chief Creative Officer at TBWA\Media Arts Lab, judging the Entertainment Lions.

This part of Adweek’s series covering fellowship programs at agencies recognizes TBWA\Chiat\Day’s Youngbloods program, which welcomes recent graduates or career changers to operate across various agency departments.

Janni Widerholm is TBWA\Chiat\Day LA’s award-winning Creative Director, specializing in turning cultural insights into ideas that earn their engagement and fight against conventions.

TBWA\RAAD partnered with Abu Dhabi Investment Office and Weber Shandwick to giveaway $1 million worth of Web3 domains so that women could have the resources necessary to start a Web3 business.

TBWA\HAKUHODO and Sarufutsu village in Japan took note of mountains of discarded scallop shells and suggested a way to reduce the waste in the area by recycling the shells and turning them into sturdy helmets.

The campaign “Virén Chair,” designed by TBWA\Helsinki for Fortum, made it to the Eurobest competition shortlist in the Innovation category. Made of recycled Fortum Circo plastic, the chair’s specialty is its ability to always stand up.

If you went missing, how much press would you be “worth”? The Columbia Journalism Review and TBWA\Chiat\Day NY unveiled a tool on Thursday that calculates the number of stories your disappearance would net, based on demographics.

“I believe the true power of these technologies and tools is not to replace creatives, but rather make us more efficient,” says Ben Williams, TBWA Global Chief Creative Experience Officer.