In order to draw attention to the large deforestations of fir trees around Christmas, a renowned Romanian Choir interpreted a modified version of "Oh, Christmas Tree". The famous carol was rewritten in tone with the reality of cut-down forests in Romania and was interpreted during their Extraordinary Carol Concerts, inside a full-house Romanian Athenaeum. Content advertisement created by Friends, Romania for Fundația Conservation Carpathia, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

Summer can be a nightmare for teens in the city, watching their Facebook feed getting filled with happy vacation photos posted by their friends. To release that tension KFC is launching the Fakation concept – allowing everyone to take a fake vacation while staying at the city center. During the campaign, KFC branches would turn into resorts, tray liners and floor stickers in the restaurants would allow teens to troll their friends by faking a vacation photo using their regular mobile phone camera, and a website will show tips and tricks how to create the perfect vacation visuals – without getting there for real. Ambient advertisement created by McCann, Romania for KFC, within the category: Food.

Best served hot! Tasty Colors, the first painting set made entirely out of vegetables, is finally here! The first step into a kindergarten program aiming at making kids friends with veggies through play meant months of research, formula tests and a multidisciplinary team of chemists, producers and designers, all for a yummy reason to turn lunchtime into playtime. 100% Bonduelle vegetables, 110% teamwork. FCB Bucharest for Louis Bonduelle Foundation. Experiential advertisement created by FCB, Romania for Louis Bonduelle Foundation, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

A live video feed from a bbq 24 hours a day. Every now and then the grill gets filled with steaks and meat products. The rules are simple - be the first to grab a steak from the grill - and it's yours! The exact product you tagged yourself on gets packed and sent to your house in 45 minutes. Ambient advertisement created by MRM, Romania for Lidl, within the category: Retail Services.

Transhumance is the seasonal movement where shepherds transfer their livestock from the highest mountains to plaines. During their 30 days trip, shepherds walk hundreds of kilometers by foot. It’s an Eastern European tradition that dates back thousands of years, and even though it’s happening less and less all around the world, one Romanian shepherd still makes the journey twice every year. Ghiță, the social shepherd who decided to challenge the world by inviting everyone to join him during the transhumance journey. Digital advertisement created by McCann, Romania for Vodafone, within the category: Electronics, Technology.

In Romania, The Long Night of Museums can seem really long because of endless lines, crowds and fatigue. How could Samsung, the supporter of #DoWhatYouCant, improve this experience? We created a new standard for art enthusiasts: Samsung Art Portals. We took over various galleries across town and set up connecting portals. Characters from paintings came to life and held Galaxy S10 phones that connected the galleries, allowing visitors to see the exhibits through each other’s eyes. Whenever someone used the portal in a museum, they became a remote museum guide allowing the other person to see a live stream remotely as accurately as if they were present where it is recorded. The experience was enabled by the Galaxy S10’s revolutionary camera that tweaks display settings in real time. Experiential advertisement created by Cheil, Romania for Samsung, within the category: Electronics, Technology.

The existence of filter bubbles and echo chambers on social media platforms presents a wide variety of challenges to brands and people interested in reaching a wide audience across political allegiances and cultural divisions. The nature of the web is to reinforce what we already know and like. Algorithms are designed to show us content that aligns with our own predispositions, and people’s historical behavior online tends to prevent them from seeing or accessing material from opposing viewpoints and perspectives. This leads to customized internet experiences for everyone that rarely stray into the unexpected. Telekom Romania wanted to turn this tendency on its head. As a brand built on sharing content, it worked with Leo Burnett Bucharest to devise an attention-getting stunt that would open up young people’s eyes to communities and perspectives far from their ordinary inclinations. The brand launched Vloggers’ Swap. Vloggers’ Swap was built on a deep analysis of the data of different Vlog channels on Youtube. LB/Bucharest identified Vlog channels whose audiences did not overlap at all. These groups of young viewers had very little in common, and their viewing habits led them to inhabit very rigid filter bubbles. For one day, Telekom Romania initiated a “swap” of these Vlogs with their polar opposite vlogger, helping to introduce each specific audience to a perspective and vlogger far out of their normal comfort zone. This stunt drew massive interest in Romania, and helped Vlog channels to broaden their appeal to audiences they normally wouldn’t reach. Launched to coincide with Telekom Romania’s offer of unlimited video, this work serves up a fantastic example of how brands are helping people to build wider audiences in spite of the algorithms that would limit their reach and appeal. By helping millennials to broaden their viewing diet, Telekom Romania is cultivating a younger audience of viewers who cannot be restricted by the constraints of filter bubbles or echo chambers. As Telekom Romania has championed for years, “life is for sharing.” Digital advertisement created by Leo Burnett, Romania for Telekom Romania, within the category: Electronics, Technology.

Christmas is about magic and larger-than-life stories. In this case a weird story serves as a white lie on christmas eve. A lumberjack who lives in the misty mountains takes center stage in a father’s phantasy. Alone with nature he grows his own kind of trees. In his tree nursery the trees are all slanted. Even his small hut is full of objects and furniture which is bent in the same way. Nevertheless his son hesitates to buy into the story his dad came up with. It rather seems to be a nice white lie to excuse his failure. Film advertisement created by Publicis, Romania for Carrefour, within the categories: Food, Retail Services.

Direct advertisement created by Mercury 360, Romania for Romanian Police, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

Without a law regulating headphone use in Romania, traffic accidents related to headphone use have tripled in the last 6 years. Radio 21, Romanian hit radio station, changed its content to promote a new behavior: use just one headphone so you can hear the traffic around you. Working with famous Romanian artist Claudia Pavel, the radio station launched the Go Mono Anthem, the first song that has different genres in each headphone: rock if you use the left headphone and acoustic if you listen to it in the right headphone. Audio advertisement created by McCann, Romania for Radio 21, within the category: Media.

Direct advertisement created by Mercury 360, Romania for The Heart of Children Association, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

Vodafone Istori@ is the first mobile application that presents Romanian history as a comic book. When Romania turns 100 years old, Vodafone upgrades history classes for digitally-native children: from boring facts and figures to visual stories. Children scan textbook lessons with their smartphones, thus revealing history as fun, yet accurate comics on their devices. Istori@ includes 35 visual (hi)stories, brought to life by 40 historians, writers, illustrators, art directors and programmers. The amplification campaign turned Vodafone Istori@ learning tool into the coolest thing in school. Integrated advertisement created by FCB, Romania for Vodafone, within the category: Electronics, Technology.

Film advertisement created by Handsome, Romania for Scooterson, within the category: Automotive.

Apa Nova, the leading water management company in Romania, announces the launch of a fresh and innovative campaign meant to capture people’s attention regarding the correct use of the sewage system. ‘’Happy ending stories’’ is the concept by which Apa Nova brings to Bucharest’s attention that the sewage system is not a rubbish bin. The forbidden waste thrown in the toilet or in the drain affects both the sewer system and the environment. The campaign was developed by Porter Novelli, a communication agency based in Bucharest, Romania. The campaign was born out of the necessity for a more responsible sewage use: one without forbidden waste disposal such as fats, personal hygiene items, hair, detergents, food scraps and various other items that affect the sewer and the environment in the long run. ‘’Change your ways before your loved one changes their mind about you.’’ is the tagline that encourages the people of Bucharest to become better and more responsible. The campaign is centered around three types of waste which are frequently thrown in the sewer: hair, oil and condoms. These common-use items acquire symbolic value and become a behavioral catalyst for change. Film advertisement created by Porter Novelli, Romania for Apa Nova, within the category: Industrial, Agriculture.

We launched a massive fundraising campaign to collect 100,000 texts for 2 euro/each from people so we can build a flat for parents with children with cancer that are treated in Bucharest. So far, the campaign is a huge success and has rallied tens of thousands of people to support it. One of the most important aspects of the campaign is that we set up a chair and a hospital bed in downtown Bucharest and we are asking people to sit on that chair until we reach our goal of 100,000 sent texts. Hundreds of people, including celebrities, journalists, TV stars have taken a sit.o far, in just a couple of days 40,000 texts have been sent, so we still have a long way: 60,000 texts. For this we are kindly asking for your help to help us tell our story to the world.

Ambient advertisement created by McCann, Romania for Fundația Renașterea, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.

Black suit, gloves, oversized sunglasses. Does this outfit ring any bell? In the world of fashion, the most popular icons deliberately choose to wear the same clothes everyday and make it a personal trademark. How important is it to get out of your comfort zone and try new styles, then? To find out the answer, Baneasa Shopping City and Geometry Global Bucharest launched "The fashion experiment”. 2 characters, 30 days, more than 80 different outfits and 742 photos in order to build parallel Instagram accounts. Same characters, same locations, but different outfits, in order to answer the same old question: shall you keep a constant style or try something new every day? For a month, people decided what they like more, without knowing they are involved in a fashion experiment that will make the headlines for the brand's ATL Winter Sales campaign. The results? People who experiment with more outfits have twice the number of followers on Instagram and 55% more likes than those who display a constant fashion style. Experiential advertisement created by Geometry Global, Romania for Baneasa Shopping City, within the category: Retail Services.

Epic Society is about friends, music and beautiful memories. It’s the place where each and every person lives unforgettable feelings for a few hours. Those who come to this club are fun, smart and joyful and believe that it’s better to live than just to exist. Digital advertisement created by Mots, Romania for Epic Society, within the category: Recreation, Leisure.

SOCIAL ME is an online series about a Romanian character inspired by the authentic online behaviors we all have in common: staging perfect moments, filters over filters, carefully-scripted captions and the addiction to the instant gratification that the flood of “likes” provides. The series follows a fictional influencer and her struggles to reach the daily quota of posts and likes. To achieve these goals, she looks at the people in her life purely as a source of content. Her boyfriend = a human selfie stick; her childhood friend = a pretext for an emotional caption; her dog = the best like magnet she could ever find.

In Romania, a Hunting Law allowing, among others, the slaughter of song birds, was close to silently pass through. Many foreign hunters would come to Romania to shoot larks and sell them to European restaurants. Lark tongues are a 5 star dish. The lark is a symbol of Romanian music, many of our composers being inspired by this small, yet fascinating bird. People were not aware of these changes, so we wanted to create a public debate around the subject. The campaign generated huge PR and free media. Artists joined our campaign and donated parts of their songs for the cause. Digital advertisement created by Jazz, Romania for Salveaza Ciocarlia, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.