Emotion
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HYUNDAI | COQUÍ ALARMED | 2026
Puerto Rico's car theft alarm sound turned out to be the call of the island's beloved frog. Once people realized it had been quietly borrowed, they were not happy about it.
PEDIGREE | CARAMELO | 2026
There's an ad that went as far as genetic research to create a "breed" for mixed-breed dogs with no official pedigree certificate. Its name: Caramelo. That brown mixed-breed dog you see on streets all over Brazil.
Cathay Pacific | Back to Kai Tak | 2026
Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998. It was known as the world's toughest landing, with planes banking 47 degrees between high-rise buildings before touching down. Twenty-seven years later, Cathay Pacific flew that sky once more. This time, though, it wasn't a landing — it was a flypast.
Snack Jack Ring | Mother Strike | 2026
A mother steps straight into her son's video game. Just that premise alone makes you want to watch. This film from Thailand pulls it off well, layering the story of a family finding its way back into the same circle over the round shape of the snack itself.
Vi (Vodafone Idea) | Guardian Beads | 2026
Maha Kumbh Mela draws 500 million pilgrims, and every day 5,000 people go missing. When they bathe, phone numbers written on their palms simply wash away. Vi came up with a way to turn family phone numbers into something people wear instead — a string of prayer beads.
CLUB DEPORTIVO MUNICIPAL | THE THOUSAND SPONSORS OF MUNI | 2026
Put 1,000 companies' logos on a jersey. It sounds like a joke, but it actually saved a club.
OREO | OREO COWS | 2026
A black-and-white photo of a cow that looks like nothing but an Oreo. A hundred years of what the brand has been saying, wrapped up in a single image.
ADIDAS | Original Forever | 2026
The Gallagher brothers, who hadn't appeared together in more than ten years, showed up side by side on screen. What made it happen wasn't even the news that the band was reforming—it was an adidas ad.
HEINEKEN | THE PUB THAT REFUSED TO DIE | 2026
In a small village in Ireland, the only pub in town was about to close. Instead of shooting a commercial about it, Heineken went and actually saved the place.
DOVE | Real Beauty Redefined for the AI Era | 2025
20 years ago, Dove fought against the idea of "beauty" in advertising. This time, the enemy is AI. The "beautiful women" that generative AI spits out turned out to be the same narrow, mostly white, thin ideal all over again. What Dove did this time wasn't complain—it was re-educate the algorithm.
VIATRIS | MAKE LOVE LAST | 2025
This is a condom ad—actually, no, it's an ad for Viagra. And it doesn't even look like an ad. In China, you can't advertise medicine directly, so this piece was released into the world as a work of "art."
DOVE | Real Beauty: How a Soap Brand Created a Global Self-Esteem Movement | 2025
An ad for soap has spent 20 years picking a fight with the definition of "beautiful." In 2025, it won three Grand Prix at Cannes. This isn't really an ad campaign anymore—it's bigger than that.
UN LIVE, SPOTIFY | SOUNDS RIGHT | 2025
On Earth Day 2024, a brand-new artist called "NATURE" showed up on Spotify. Ocean waves, birdsong, the rustle of a rainforest. Every time one of her songs gets played, she earns royalties, and that money goes straight into conservation. The campaign was built by UN Live and Spotify together with AKQA Copenhagen, and it won the Grand Prix in the Innovation category at Cannes in 2025.
PARIS 2024 | Olympic Games Opening Ceremony | 2025
No stadium for the opening ceremony. Instead, the stage was 6 kilometers of the Seine River. On 7/26/2024, the athletes traveled down the river on 160 boats. 300,000 people stood along the banks, and 1.5 billion were watching on TV.
Battleground Mobile India | The Great In-Game Wedding | 2025
Meet in the game, marry in the game. On BGMI's battleground Pochinki, a couple held a real three-day Indian wedding, complete with Mehendi, Sangeet and Phere. Two hundred million people watched what became "India's Biggest In-Game Wedding."
Chicago Deaf Society | Caption with Intention | 2025
From 1971 to 2025, captions were always white. Nobody ever questioned it. Learning this story, I felt ashamed of my own lazy thinking.
DSP Mutual Fund | Garuda Rakshak | 2025
In 2025, 663 million people gathered for India's Kumbh Mela. In past events, more than 250,000 children had reportedly gone missing, some never reunited with their families. In this crowd where even phones barely worked, DSP Mutual Fund and Dentsu Creative India sent up drones shaped like Garuda.
CHOROGUSAN For Children | The Life-Saving Receipt | 2025
In South Korea, there are about 200,000 children from immigrant families. Vaccines are free for them up to age 12, but only 55.2% actually get vaccinated. This campaign used receipts as a way to deliver the information people needed and try to close that gap.
Colgate | Not Every Smile Starts as a Smile | 2025
A toothpaste ad showing kids crying and throwing tantrums, side by side. Instead of the perfect family photo, it shows the real struggle of getting kids to brush their teeth.
PlayStation | Project: MEMORY CARD | 2025
For PlayStation's 30th anniversary, the star wasn't the brand—it was players' memories. 26,000 submissions became a single song, thanks to YOASOBI.
WhatsApp | Baatan Hi Baatan Mein (Love in a Few Words) | 2025
How do you reach people who can't read with technology? WhatsApp's answer was to load a 9-minute film onto a truck and tour it village by village.
ROCKET | Own the Dream | 2025
The moment the Super Bowl commercial ended, 65,000 people in the stadium started singing. Millions of people watching on TV hummed along too. It wasn't the commercial, and it wasn't the halftime show—it was a 15-second live singalong that slipped right into the broadcast. Both the NFL and FOX had initially said it couldn't be done.
BILLBOARD ARABIA | THE SECOND RELEASE | 2025
Bringing back a forgotten diva with AI. And timing it to Saudi Arabia's National Day, no less. The moment I heard this, my first thought was "wait, is this a good idea?" But the result was a Cannes Lions Gold - in a category where only 0.78% of all entries win.
大塚製薬 | THE DAY #C105 | 2025
Just hearing the phrase "load-in day" at Comiket makes my heart beat a little faster. This ad captures that day through the lens of health management.
MASTERCARD | ABRACADABRA: FROM FAN TO FEATURED | 2025
Mastercard turned the music video for Lady Gaga's first new single in five years into the world's biggest audition. The star of the show wasn't Gaga — it was her fans.
サントリーホールディングス | 天然水「大自然を味方に」篇 | 2025
There's a scene where someone opens a bottle cap, but the product packaging stays blurry the whole time. And somehow, nobody minds. All eyes are glued to a small figure running down a mountain trail.
MASTERCARD | ROOM FOR EVERYONE | 2024
Two years after the war began, support among Polish people for Ukrainian refugees had dropped to 52%. As Ukrainians came to account for 10% of new businesses opening, they started being seen, almost without anyone noticing, as "competitors." This campaign used data to turn that mood around.
ERRATA AT 88 - | Errata at 88 | 2024
In 1962, a legendary concert at Carnegie Hall introduced bossa nova to the world. One of its founders, Alaíde Costa, wasn't on that stage. Now 88 years old, she finally got to stand there.
花王 メリット | 家族と愛とメリット | 2024
The concept and art direction here are just incredible. You can really feel a great team meeting a great client. I ended up buying Merit shampoo, hook, line, and sinker.
アクエリアス | NEW YOU キャンペーン 泳げるようになりたい | 2024
This is a video following a 75-year-old grandmother over 30 days, starting from when she could barely even put her face in the water, as she works toward swimming 25 meters freestyle. It's lovely to see swimmer Kosuke Kitajima coaching her wholeheartedly, showing that age doesn't matter when you want to swim. But what really makes this commercial so moving isn't that part.
SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS | Magnetic Stories（The Flying Train） | 2024
The roar of an MRI machine—louder than a military jet—was transformed so kids would hear robots, flying trains, and spaceships instead. That's just not fair (in the best way).
LOEWE | LOEWE x Suna Fujita | 2024
A husband-and-wife pottery studio in a small town in Kyoto, and LOEWE, the Spanish luxury brand. This pairing won the first-ever Grand Prix in the Luxury & Lifestyle category in Cannes Lions history.
HEINZ | IT HAS TO BE HEINZ | 2024
Ask an AI to draw ketchup, and a Heinz bottle shows up on its own. Ask a person, same result. Behind the scenes at restaurants, fake ketchup gets refilled into Heinz bottles. The work that spent five years collecting proof of this blindingly obvious fact won the Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix at Cannes in 2024.
PETPACE | ANIMAL ALERTS | 2024
Earthquakes can't be predicted, even with today's most advanced science. But dogs might be able to do what science can't. "ANIMAL ALERTS," launched in Lima, Peru, is the world's first early warning system that uses dogs' physical data to predict earthquakes.
APPLE | Fuzzy Feelings | 2024
I was on the verge of tears for the whole four minutes. When stop-motion and live action melted together and George Harrison's "Isn't It a Pity" started playing, I was completely gone.
PGLANG | WE CRY TOGETHER | 2023
A six-minute film that won the Grand Prix in Film Craft at Cannes in 2023. Kendrick Lamar and Taylour Paige play a couple in a brutal argument. It was shot in a single take, with live vocals, in March 2020. The intensity makes you forget to breathe the whole time you're watching. This is less an "ad" than a "work" — but at the same time, it's also the piece that showed the world the overwhelming filmmaking craft of pgLang, the creative company Kendrick and his partner Dave Free launched in 2020.
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | Working with Cancer | 2023
We're living in an age where one in two people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. But what's truly frightening might not be the disease itself—it's being found out at work. The fear of losing your job gets tangled up with the fear of losing your life.
APPLE | THE GREATEST | 2023
Seven people with disabilities drive a car, check the color of their clothes, and just go about their day, all using iPhone. That's it, that's the whole film. And it swept the Emmys, the Cannes Grand Prix, D&AD, and One Club Best in Show. The amazing part isn't the advertising. It's the people in it.
クラシエホームプロダクツ | 日本の四季 | 2023
A camera slowly circles a cherry tree as the seasons pass by. There's a commercial that took over 80 days to shoot, all for this one tree. The moment I heard about the plan, I thought, "This is going to be tough" — and I found myself admiring the trust it took to actually pull it off.
マクドナルド | 家族といっしょに。「約束のハッピーセット」篇 | 2023
All I cared about was "what's in the Happy Meal right now," but the opening shot already had me hooked. A 60-second ad where the setting, the cast, and the direction all click together perfectly.
東京ガス | 母の推し活 | 2023
There are a few ad series I look forward to every year, wondering "what will they do this time" — and Tokyo Gas's brand ads are one of them. Their "Family Bonds" series, running since 2008, has delivered one gut-punch after another straight to the Japanese heart, starting with the famous "Lunchbox Email" spot. I admire their work. The 2023 entry, "Mom's Fan Life," tells in 90 seconds the story of a mother who falls for a K-pop idol thirty years younger than her and watches her life open up as a result. It became a huge hit, racking up over 5 million views on Twitter within three days. This time, though, I found myself thinking "it's good, but..."
DOORDASH | Self-Love Bouquet | 2023
Eleven roses arrive for Valentine's Day, and the 12th is "Rose™" — the rose-shaped sex toy that went viral on TikTok. DoorDash slipped it into bouquets and sold them. They sold out in three days and won the Grand Prix in PR at Cannes Lions.
MICHELOB ULTRA | DREAMCASTER | 2023
Cameron Black was born blind, but he had one dream: to call an NBA game. Michelob Ultra spent a year making that dream actually come true.
SOTETSU | A TRAIN OF MEMORIES | 2023
Two minutes, one continuous shot. A story that unfolds entirely inside a train. A father and daughter drift apart and grow close again across 12 years, all while the train car sways around them. That's all it takes to bring you to tears.
PENNY | The Wish | 2022
At Christmas 2021, German supermarket PENNY made a three-minute film. A son asks his mother an offhand question, and she answers: she wishes he could get his youth back. All of it—the late nights, the heartbreak, the adventures sneaking out—everything the pandemic took away.
JR東海 | 会うって、特別だったんだ。 | 2022
In 1988, Eri Fukatsu waited on a station platform for her boyfriend. In 2022, she had become a businesswoman taking the bullet train to Osaka on a work trip. JR Central quietly captured these 33 years of change in just 60 seconds.
一般社団法人ABJ | STOP! 海賊版「ありがとう、君の漫画愛。」 | 2022
I cried so hard it hurt. That was my first reaction, and it still is.
エフエム群馬 | 思い出話キヌヨさん | 2022
The moment I saw the title "Reminiscing with Kinuyo," I felt something nostalgic and warm. How did a local radio station turn "reminiscing" into an ad? Winning the GRAND PRIX means something must have really clicked.