The second-to-last day of the 2021 Cannes Lions brought another handful of Lion wins for Canadian agencies, led by five for Rethink.
In Brand Experience & Activation, the agency won two Lions for the “Heinz Ketchup Puzzle”: a Silver in the Branded Games sub-category and a Bronze in Food & Drink.
The agency also turned five nominations in Radio & Audio into three Lion wins. Two of those were for “The Lost Tapes of the 27 Club,” a campaign for mental health non-profit Over The Bridge. The campaign won a Silver Lion in the Non-profit/Charity/Government sub-category, as well as a Bronze in Use of Audio Technology.
Rethink rounded out its Thursday total with another Bronze Lion in Radio & Audio for IKEA Canada’s “Baby Proof Spotify Ads.”
FCB added to its totals for two previously awarded campaigns. FCB Canada added two Bronze in Brand Experience & Activation for “Project Understood,” while FCB/Six added a Bronze Mobile Lion for Lifestyles Condoms’ “Publicly Traded” campaign.
The Mobile Lions also brought the first Bronze wins of the festival for two campaigns.
Taxi won for “The #Unignorable Tower,” a campaign for United Way Greater Toronto that used AR to visualize how much housing was needed to address homelessness in Toronto, placing a building three times the size of the CN Tower in whatever part of the Toronto skyline someone happened to be looking at.
OneMethod’s first Bronze Lion of 2021 came for “Receats,” a project for Toronto restaurant Good Fortune that attempted to offset the expensive cost of food delivery during the pandemic by creating a “secret menu” of items that made them appear like office supplies that could be expensed during a work day.
Canadian agencies were shut out of two highly competitive categories awarded this morning, with no wins among the 15 Creative eCommerce Lions or the 11 Creative Effectiveness Lions.
Brand Experience & Activation (1 Silver, 3 Bronze)
SILVER
“Heinz Ketchup Puzzle”
Heinz Ketchup (Kraft Heinz Canada)
Rethink
Partners: Starcom, The Colony Project, Paus Inc, Salt XC, Vapour Music Group
BRONZE
“Heinz Ketchup Puzzle”
Heinz Ketchup (Kraft Heinz Canada)
Rethink
Partners: Starcom, The Colony Project, Paus Inc, Salt XC, Vapour Music Group
“Project Understood” (2)
Canadian Down Syndrome Society/Google AI
FCB Canada
Partners: Fuel Content, Alter Ego, Grayson Music, Outsider Editorial, Glossy PR, Bliss Interactive
Radio & Audio (1 Silver, 2 Bronze)
SILVER
“Lost Tapes of the 27 Club”
Over The Bridge
Rethink
Partners: Wave Productions, Old Man Canyon
BRONZE
“Baby Proof Spotify Ads”
IKEA Canada
Rethink
Partners: Vapor Music Group, Carat Toronto
“Lost Tapes of the 27 Club”
Over The Bridge
Rethink
Partners: Wave Productions, Old Man Canyon
Mobile (3 Bronze)
BRONZE
“Publicly Traded”
Lifestyles Condoms
FCB/Six
Partners: Married to Giants, Grayson Music, Wingman VFX, Theory Crew, Glossy PR
“Receats”
Good Fortune
OneMethod
“The #Unignorbale Tower”
United Way Greater Torotno
Taxi
Partners: Array of Stars, Lossless Films, Norm Li, Alter Ego, Berkeley, Saints Editorial
