The second day of the Cannes Lions awards netted 14 more medals for Canadian agencies, with BBDO Canada picking up a Gold and Silver Lion for the “Parkscapes” campaign for the Regent Park School of Music.
The campaign had students at the school create an album of samples. Whenever those samples get used in a song – such as when Taylor Swift used one in a track on her latest album – any residuals, licensing fees or royalties from radio and streaming play went directly to the school, creating a fundraising source that will generate revenue as long as the songs get played.
In the Direct Lions, FCB Canada added to its tally for “Project Understood” with a Silver and Bronze Lion, while Rethink also won a Silver Lion for the “Embarrassing Plastic Bags” it created for Vancouver’s East West Market.
Among the only 20 campaigns that won Lions in Creative Strategy were Cossette and Union. Cossette picked up a Silver medal for the “Friends Wanted” recruitment campaign for McDonald’s Canada that focused on encouraging friends to apply together, while Union won a Silver Lion for Interval House’s “Freedom Tampons” campaign, which created a line of menstrual products that gave women instructions on how to remove themselves from abusive relationships.
“Freedom Tampons” also netted Union a Silver Lion in the Media category, where Rethink also won a Bronze Lion for the “Brutal Postings” campaign for Foundation Emergence, which turned the hate speech easily found online into posters – and made a point about the moderation on social platforms when the ads were promptly taken down by officials in Montreal.
Taxi and media agency partner Media Experts also won a Bronze Media Lion for Covenant House’s “Shoppable Girls” campaign, which aimed to educate young people on human trafficking through a bait-and-switch ecommerce platform.
In the Creative Data category, FCB/Six won a pair of Silver Lions for two different campaigns. The first was for “Publicly Traded,” a campaign for Lifestyles Condoms that tracked the instances of searches for symptoms of STIs, creating something similar to a stock chart for each one, with the ups and downs corresponding to different prices for condoms so people can better protect themselves.
The second was for “Me Too Act Too,” which used blockchain technology to ensure the voices of sexual assault survivors could not be silenced or their allegations swept under the rug.
Rounding out the Canadian wins during Tuesday’s virtual ceremony were a pair of Silver Lions in PR. Rethink – along with PR agency Citizen Relations – won for the “Make It Canadian” campaign for Molson Coors that aimed to promote breweries across Canada by bringing them together in a single case of beer that could be purchased around Canada Day. Juniper Park\TBWA also won PR Silver for “Signal For Help,” a campaign that helped the Canadian Women’s Foundation create a secret signal that women could use to inform others during videos that they are being abused, created in response to an uptick in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social & Influencer (1 Gold, 1 Silver)
GOLD
“Parkscapes”
Regent Park School of Music
BBDO Toronto
Partners: Flare BBDO, Glossy PR
SILVER
“Parkscapes”
Regent Park School of Music
BBDO Toronto
Partners: Flare BBDO, Glossy PR
PR (2 Silver)
SILVER
“Make It Canadian”
Molson Canadian (Molson Coors Canada)
Rethink/Citizen Relations
Partners: Gimmick Studio, Vapor Music, ProPrint Services, Wavemaker, We Are Social
SILVER
“Signal For Help”
Canadian Women’s Foundation
Juniper Park\TBWA
Creative Strategy (2 Silver)
SILVER
“Friends Wanted”
McDonald’s Canada
Cossette
SILVER
“Freedom Tampons”
Interval House
Union
Partners: CJ Graphics, Clockwork Productions, Married to Giants
Creative Data (2 Silver)
SILVER
“Me Too Act Too”
Me Too
FCB/Six
Partners: Special Solutions Group, Stink Films, Alter Ego, Grayson Music, School Editing, IPG Mediabrands, J3, Current Global
“Publicly Traded”
Lifestyles Condoms
FCB/Six
Partners: Married to Giants, Grayson Music, Wingman VFX, Theory Crew, Glossy PR
Direct (2 Silver, 1 Bronze)
SILVER
“Embarrassing Plastic Bags”
East West Market
Rethink
SILVER
“Project Understood”
Canadian Down Syndrome Society/Google AI
FCB Canada
Partners: Fuel Content, Alter Ego, Grayson Music, Outsider Editorial, Glossy PR, Bliss Interactive
BRONZE
“Project Understood”
Canadian Down Syndrome Society/Google AI
FCB Canada
Partners: Fuel Content, Alter Ego, Grayson Music, Outsider Editorial, Glossy PR, Bliss Interactive
Media (1 Silver, 2 Bronze)
SILVER
“Freedom Tampons”
Interval House
Union
Partners: CJ Graphics, Clockwork Productions, Married to Giants
BRONZE
“Brutal Postings”
Fondation Émergence
Rethink
Partners: Content Content, Tok Communications
BRONZE
“Shoppable Girls”
Covenant House
Taxi/Media Experts
Partners: Arthouse / Saty & Pratha
