The document outlines key themes from the 2016 Cannes Media Lions, emphasizing the importance of meaningful connections, unexpected touchpoints, rogue strategies, data-driven media execution, and innovative use of technology in advertising. It highlights winning campaigns that demonstrate these themes, such as Snapchat's support for LGBTQ youth, Burger King's 'McWhopper' proposal, and 'Breakvertising' by Continental Foods. Overall, it showcases how brands are redefining their identities to align with social causes and consumer values, using creativity to engage audiences effectively.

1. 2016 Trends
CANNES MEDIA
LIONS

2. 2016 Key Themes: Cannes Media Lions
#1 MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
#2 UNEXPECTED TOUCHPOINTS
#3 ROGUE STRATEGY
#4 DATA FOR MEDIA EXECUTION
#5 TECH: A HIJACKING WEAPON

3. #1 MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
With attention drawn towards social commentary,
societal change, peace, equality etc., brands
have had to redefine themselves beyond the
drive for consumption and that of drive for cause.
Havas has understood for years that
meaningfulness is crucial to a brand’s identity
from our study. Some companies are catching
on and have managed to achieve both by finding
the balance between social cause & brand
purpose by providing meaningful connections
through media touchpoints.
Winning examples:: Snapchat from the Closet, Pay with
Blood, Slow Down GPS, Brewtroleum

4. https://youtu.be/uhUZlfJT_xc
SNAPCHAT FROM THE CLOSET:
Oogachaga
MEANINGUL
CONNECTIONS
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video
Results: Silver-Media (1)
Aimed to assist teens in Singapore with
advice regarding their sexuality, the
channel was a safe and confidential outlet
for support with messages disappearing
within 3 seconds after their appearance.

5. PAY WITH BLOOD
Untold Festival and National Institute for Blood Donations
• This campaign offered attractive incentives to the biggest
music festival in Transylvania to those who donated blood: a
free one day pass for donations in mobile centres in Bucharest
and Cluj-Napoca or a 30% ticket discount in any other location
in Romania
• Silver: PR (1), Bronze: Media (1)
MEANINGFUL
CONNECTIONS
ADDITIONAL CASES
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SLOW DOWN GPS
IF Insurance
• Based on the insight that people are programmed to react to
children’s voice’s, a voice navigation app was created where the
navigation voice automatically switches to a child’s voice whilst
driving in child-dense areas, urging hasty drivers to slow down.
• Gold: Promo & Activation( 1) ; Silver-:Direct; (1) Bronze: Media
(1), Mobile (2), Digital Craft (1)
BREWTROLEUM
DB Export
• Surplus yeast leftover after brewing DB Export Beer was used
to create a biofuel- Brewtroleum. This biofuel emitted 8% less
carbon than petroleum, urging consumers to “help save the
world by drinking beer.”
• Grand Prix : Outdoor (1) Gold: Media (1) Promo & Activation
(3) Direct (2) Outdoor (2) Titanium-(1)
https://youtu.be/MQQTRTeCe2I
https://youtu.be/xxhc7wpoWKE
https://youtu.be/CzRxFmChi8w

6. #2 UNEXPECTED TOUCHPOINTS
Brands are finding new spaces for
media in innovative places. They’re
reinventing approaches of targeting
audiences by provoking relevant
connections and enlarging choices in
unexpected touchpoints.
Winning examples: Life Saving Stickers, LEGOLAND
Dollars, Donate the Bars, The Second Scoreboard

7. https://youtu.be/ZdVzf1OW_zw
LIFE SAVING STICKERS:
Australian Road Safety Foundation
UNEXPECTED
TOUCHPOINTS
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video
Results: Gold- Media (1); Bronze- (1)
Despite multiple road safety signs, drivers
in Australia refused to slow down in
residential areas. In order to change
behaviour, stickers resembling small
children were placed on rubbish bins to
urge drivers to be more cautious in child-
dense areas.

8. LEGOLAND DOLLARS
Legoland
• LEGOLAND put itself on the map in a cluttered theme park
environment by introducing a new form of currency for foreign
exchange at locations within airports and listing LEGOLAND
as a country on the exchange board. The exchange rate was
1 LEGOLAND dollar to 1 USD and could be used at all
LEGOLAND shops and the LEGOLAND theme park
• Silver: Media (1)
UNEXPECTED
TOUCHPOINTS
ADDITIONAL CASES
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https://youtu.be/JRepbjRQyq0
THE SECOND SCOREBOARD
Teletica, Inamu, Fedefutbol
• As domestic violence increases during football matches
in Costa Rica, two scoreboards were placed during the
match, one that reflected the goal count, and another that
tracked the number of domestic violence reports made
through 911, bringing awareness of this issue to the
forefront of people’s minds.
• Gold: Media (2) Creative Data (1); Bronze: PR (1)
Creative Data (1)Watch video https://youtu.be/e-ZiDrM_0bY
DONATE THE BARS
Atados
• This campaign leveraged unused space from vertical Youtube
videos (the black bars often seen on the sides of smart phone
videos) and converted them into ad opportunities for NGOs. They
became free digital billboards. Simple tech for a cause
• Silver: Mobile (1), Cyber (1), Bronze: Direct (1), Mobile (1), Cyber
(1)
https://youtu.be/zhaxg9rz09Q

9. #3 ROGUE STRATEGY
Brands challenge the approval of their
consumers and competitors in the name
of social causes. This, in turn, garners
widespread media attention that disrupts
the hierarchical approval process and
provokes brands to push the boundaries
to send a message.
Winning examples: McWhopper, Behind the Leather,
Mirrors of Racism, #OptOutside

10. https://youtu.be/BrKtAYaaDb4
MCWHOPPER:
Burger King
ROGUE STRATEGY
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video
Grand Prix: Media (1) Print and Publishing
(1); Titanium- 1; Gold- Integrated (1),
Promo & Activation (2), Direct (2); Silver:
Direct (1), Promo & Activation (1), Outdoor
(1); Bronze: Cyber (1), PR (1),Outdoor (1)
Burger King launched a very public
proposal to McDonalds in the name of
peace , the collaboration of their two most
famous products to produce The
McWhopper. The proposed burger would
combine key ingredients of each
restaurant’s signature product and would
be prepared solely on United Nations
Peace Day. Though McDonald’s declined,
the campaign garnered a lot of public
attention and copy cats.

11. ROGUE
STRATEGY
ADDITIONAL CASES
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MIRRORS OF RACISM
NGO Criola
• By using geo location data and monitoring the activities of racist
offenders on social media, culprits were forced to face the scale
of their insults as they were placed on billboards near their
homes and geo-targeted ads on mobile and desktop. Virtual
racism: real consequences.
• Silver: Cyber (1); Bronze: PR (1), Outdoor (1); Creative Data (1)
https://youtu.be/FLkoeXCgHwI
BEHIND THE LEATHER
PETA Asia
• Animal cruelty was brought to life at a pop-up high end
boutique in Bangkok that sold seemingly authentic luxury
fashion items. Upon opening handbags, coats, and wallets,
unassuming shopper’s hands were covered in blood and
slime.
• Silver: Media (1)
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#OPTOUTSIDE
REI
• Retailer REI set an unprecedented stand by shutting its
doors on America’s biggest shopping day, Black Friday.
Instead of having it’s employees and consumers spend
the day in stores, it urged people to enjoy the outdoors.
• Grand Prix: Titanium (1), Promo & Activation (1); Gold:
Integrated (1), Cyber (1), Direct (2), Promo & Activation
(1); Mobile (1), PR (1), Design (1); Bronze: Mobile (1)
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Watch video https://youtu.be/lMsxrJeJ8lU

12. #4 DATA FOR MEDIA EXECUTION
Whilst using data for media execution is
still a challenge for most, there are a few
stellar companies at Cannes this year
that managed to outshine all others in
the a sparse field.
Winning examples: Grab a Seat It’s Pimm’s O’Clock, Now
We Are All Beliebers, Kleenex. Someone Needs One,
House of Clicks

13. GRAB A SEAT, IT’S PIMM’S O’CLOCK:
Diageo
DATA FOR MEDIA
EXECUTION
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Results: Silver- Media (1)
Thirsty drinkers were guided to nearby
pubs from sensors installed in bars that
gauged-in real time- how many seats were
available. The sensors fed data to a digital
outdoor campaign that changed course
depending on the weather: outdoor
gardens on sunny days, and indoor pubs
for cloudy ones.
https://youtu.be/dnUcQWVryMY

14. NOW WE ARE ALL BELIEBERS
Universal Music Group
• Capital FM created an innovative campaign that urged
listeners to actively engage with their music. Whenever Justin
Beiber's tracks played on the station, digital billboards across
London told listeners which song was playing, and the album
the song comes from, prompting them to buy the track or
stream the album from their phone.
• Shortlist: Media (1)
DATA FOR MEDIA
EXECUTION
ADDITIONAL CASES
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KLEENEX, SOMEONE NEEDS ONE
Kimberly-Clark
• Kleenex triggered perfectly targeted meaningful moments via
Facebook by repurposing itself as a gesture of care. By utilising
empathy via social media, it identified audiences predisposed to
positive content based on Facebook insights and data and
launched videos to their newsfeed accordingly.
• Shortlist: Media (1)
https://youtu.be/YHH6oQl9z5k
https://youtu.be/B3G7ppPssU4
HOUSE OF CLICKS
Hemnet
• Hemnet converted big data into brick and mortar. Data scientists
analysed over 200 million clicks to the website and gave the
information to two revered architects who, in turn, designed a 1.5
storey home.
• Gold: PR (1); Silver: Media (1), Cyber (1); Bronze: PR (1)
https://youtu.be/P6Y74yZArSI

15. #5 TECH: A HIJACKING WEAPON
By tweaking the technology and
hijacking the conversation or the media
space, brands were able to create new
advertising moments. They demanded
the attention of consumers by enriching
interactions with existing platforms.
Winning examples: Twitter Refugees, Breakvertising,
Celebrity Tantrum, Don’t Look Away

16. TWITTER REFUGEES:
Passop
TECH: A HIJACKING
WEAPON
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video
Results: Silver- Media (1)
Passop built an automated engine to hijack
the conversation surrounding the global
refugee crisis. It found comments on
Twitter containing the word “refugee” and
replaced it with the words “human being”,
tweeting it back to the sender, and
reminding the world of the weight of our
words.
https://youtu.be/UaSkCFswS4I

17. TECH: A
HIJACKING
WEAPON
ADDITIONAL CASES
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BREAKVERTISING
Continental Foods Belgium
• Instead of watching a frozen frame during paused on
demand, live, or recorded content, Continental Foods
showed viewers amusing ads of a fictional character
“Royco”. An entirely new ad medium was developed, as
the technology hadn’t yet existed, and ‘pause ads’ were
born.
• Silver: Media (1)
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DON’T LOOK AWAY
Usher
• To symbolise the way media and the public quickly move
on to the next news story instead of acknowledging lives
lost from racial profiling and violence, Usher created a
music video that stopped playing when people looked
away. Using facial recognition technology, activated
through a webcam, viewers were forced to stare victims in
the eye to fully grasp the gravity of the situation.
• Gold: Entertainment for Music, Bronze: Media (1), Radio
(1), Film (1)
https://youtu.be/yV74OYkLa7Q
CELEBRITY TANTRUM
Samsung Australian
• Samsung created device detecting technology to directly target
people using a competitor device and deliver the message that only
the Tab S2 had a screen worthy of quality entertainment. Thanks to
the technology a specific tantrum was tailored to the device
providing a highly specified experience.
• Silver: Media (1), Promo & Activation (1); Bronze: Mobile (1)
https://youtu.be/AFrlNgWiOnc
https://youtu.be/zVpQVDizGI8

18. HAVAS WINNERS &
SHORTLISTED
CANNES MEDIA LIONS

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SMS LAST WORDS:
Global Road Safety Partnership
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Results: Gold- Media (1)
Global Road Safety Partnership created
a campaigned that brought the tangible
reality of texting and driving to life.
They collected 350 mobile phones from
actual people who had died from doing
so, and displayed them, revealing the
specific text conversations at the
moment of the accident, in an outdoor
exhibition.
HAVAS WW
SHANGAI

20. https://youtu.be/Ve3CmniqMog
HOLIDAYS ON DEMAND:
Transavia
LES GAULOIS
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Transavia Airlines partnered with
CanalPlay, the leader of SVOD in France,
to create Holidays on Demand, a simple
viewing option available alongside each
movie in the platform catalogue. Those
who selected the option discovered they
could not only watch the movie, but also
instantly get the plane ticket and live it.
Gladiator would lead to Rome, Notting Hill
to London, and Casablanca to…
Casablanca. Overall, more than 120
movies were linked to Transavia
destinations.
Results: Bronze- Media (1)

21. https://youtu.be/p2yIzYHNNtM
PIZZA LEGENDS:
Domino’s
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Results: Shortlist- Media (1)
Domino’s developed a more exciting way
to personalise a pizza. It allowed
customers to choose their own toppings,
while also naming, faming, and entering
their pizza in the Legends Hall of Fame.
Their unique Pizza Legend code could
then be shared with friends and
purchased.
ARENA MEDIA- UK

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