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AUTISM SOCIETY | Language of Bedwetting | 2026
There was no word to explain bedwetting in any AAC app in the world. Noticing this gap, this campaign went ahead and built an entirely new "language" out of more than 100 symbols.
CARITAS | VEHICLE OF HOPE | 2026
They turned the Pope's official car into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza. And it took not one but two popes to say yes. Has any other ad ever cast actual popes—plural—in its campaign?
SICKKIDS FOUNDATION | THE COUNT | 2025
It's a film celebrating a 150th anniversary, but what you see isn't the hospital's history—it's kids running with everything they've got. What's being celebrated isn't the past, it's the next birthday.
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.
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.
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).
UN WOMEN | Child Wedding Cards | 2024
A budget under $1,500. No AI. No celebrities. No special effects. Just wedding invitations drawn by girls aged 5 to 15. They sent them to members of parliament—and the law changed.
TELENOR | NAMING THE INVISIBLE PAKISTANIS | 2020
In Pakistan, 60 million children had no birth certificate. Without one, they couldn't get medical care or go to school — children the country essentially didn't recognize as existing. What changed that was an app that took just 10 minutes to use. At the 2021 Cannes Lions, it won Grand Prix in two categories, a first for Pakistan.
WARNER MUSIC GROUP | SAYLISTS | 2020
One in twelve children has a speech sound disorder (SSD). The key to therapy is repetition — but for kids, that's just plain boring. So what about music? Or rather, isn't music itself the ultimate form of repetition? Starting from that simple question, Warner Music and ad agency Rothco used an algorithm to analyze a 70-million-song Apple Music catalog and created "Saylists," playlists with genuine therapeutic value.
SANDY HOOK PROMISE | Back to School Essentials | 2020
A cheerful back-to-school shopping scene slowly turns into a nightmare over 66 seconds. Binders and shoes are, for American kids, just tools to survive school — and this ad hits you with that reality when you least expect it.
REGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC | PARKSCAPES | 2020
Instead of "receiving" donations, why not "earn" them? Kids learning music ended up standing on the same ground as the pros who make a living from it.
KRAFT | LEGAL-ADE | 2019
A kid opens a lemonade stand, and the police shut it down. In America, this isn't an urban legend. It actually happens.
WHIRLPOOL | Care Counts | 2017
In America, one in five children don't have access to clean clothes. That alone makes them miss school more often, putting them at seven times the risk of dropping out. What Whirlpool did was put washing machines in schools. That's it.
JAXA | KIBO SCIENCE 360 - A Space Experiment with Google | 2017
Just assemble a single piece of cardboard, and you can become an astronaut. "KIBO SCIENCE 360," created by JAXA, Google, and Dentsu, is a project that recreates the Kibo experiment module on the ISS in VR.
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AFGHANISTAN | IMMUNITY CHARM | 2017
When I heard a beaded bracelet won the Grand Prix, I didn't quite get it at first. But the judges called it the "ultimate wearable," and eight of the top ten entries that year were this one piece of work.
AP PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED | The Unusual Football Field | 2017
The assumption that soccer fields have to be rectangular gets broken here with an L-shape and a zigzag. In Khlong Toei, a densely packed slum area in Bangkok, a real estate developer built soccer pitches in oddly shaped lots. The moment you see it, you think "oh, this actually works" — that's how strong the idea is.
ITC SAVLON | Healthy Hands Chalk Sticks | 2017
Kids wrote on the blackboard with chalk, and that same chalk let them wash their hands. Here's the story of how soap reached children in rural India.
キリン プラズマ乳酸菌 | SPECIAL STUDENT | 2016
Dekushi! Barrier! Short sleeves and shorts! There was always one of those kids in your elementary school class. The "Dekushi master" who whips out mysterious sound effects, the "short-sleeves-and-shorts kid" who shows up 365 days a year—snow or storm—in short sleeves and shorts, the girls who perform the hand-clapping game Alps Ichimanjaku at lightning speed. It's so nostalgic I can't stop laughing.
ACジャパン（公共広告機構） | IMAGINATION／WHALE（黒い絵） | 2016
Almost the entire film is made up of footage that leaves you feeling uneasy, and then, right at the very end, your whole perspective flips. It feels like watching a team on the verge of a crushing defeat suddenly turn the game around with one stunningly brilliant move. This is a masterpiece that hasn't aged a bit—if anything, it feels like it's only grown heavier with time.
AUSTRALIAN ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION | Life-Saving Stickers | 2016
Just stickers of children stuck on trash bins. But when 850,000 of them hit the streets every week, that's basically the biggest billboard in town.
銀のさら | 秘密篇 | 2016
I honestly can't understand why Ginnosara made this commercial. But that's exactly what's great about it. The world would be a richer place with more things like this in it.
JR東日本 | 北海道新幹線開業 | 2016
I caught this 30-second spot on TV after a long while of not watching, and it made me go "oh!" For a boy, the shinkansen coming to his town is super big news—he can't just sit still, and before he knows it, his body is already moving. That's the feeling this ad captures.
NYT VR | THE DISPLACED | 2016
The New York Times tucked one million Google Cardboard viewers into copies of its Sunday paper. Inside was an 11-minute VR documentary called "THE DISPLACED." Readers who opened it up found themselves standing right in the middle of a refugee camp. The following year, it won two Grand Prix at Cannes.
SAVE THE CHILDREN & SANTILLANA | Paper Glasses | 2016
You open your textbook, and there's a pair of glasses waiting for you. They're made of paper, and they can even test your eyesight. It's so simple it's almost moving.
JOHN LEWIS | Monty the Penguin | 2015
Every November, the whole of Britain starts getting restless. That's because it's the season when John Lewis's Christmas ad arrives. The star of 2014 was a stuffed penguin named Monty. Why did this two-minute tale of friendship with a boy named Sam strike such a chord?
BAOBEIHUIJIA | Search for Free WiFi, Search for Missing Children | 2015
What if the WiFi network you were about to connect to was named "Help, Find Me"? In China, more than 200,000 children go missing every year, and this was the answer TBWA/Shanghai came up with.
John Lewis Insurance | Tiny Dancer | 2015
A girl who's a bit chubby, wears glasses, and isn't even that good at ballet dances through the whole house. That's all it takes to win millions of hearts.
RESPIRATORY APP | Alvio | 2014
Kids with asthma hate breathing exercises. But what if your breath itself became the controller for a game? Alvio made a game where a pufferfish swims just by you breathing in and out.
WATER IS LIFE | BUCKET LIST | 2014
When you hear "bucket list," you probably think of things you want to do before you die—a luxury that assumes you'll live a long life. But in sub-Saharan Africa, one in five children doesn't live to see their fifth birthday. There really is a world where a four-year-old needs a bucket list.
BAND-AID | MAGIC VISION | 2012
The instant a kid starts to cry from a scrape, Kermit pops up right on the Band-Aid and starts singing. Just hold up your phone, and an ordinary bandage turns into a tiny stage.
TOYOTA | BACKSEAT DRIVER | 2012
A kid in the backseat who used to just whine "are we there yet?" now grips their own steering wheel inside an iPhone app that's linked by GPS to the real car. Boring travel time spent just tracing a parent's driving got turned into a whole game.
VOLKSWAGEN | The Force | 2011
A kid dressed as Darth Vader racked up 15 million views on YouTube and became one of the most beloved ads in Super Bowl history.
UNICEF | TAP PROJECT | 2007
Esquire magazine challenged the creatives it named to its "Best and Brightest" list to build a brand using just one page of the magazine. What David Droga came up with wasn't an ad at all — it was a mechanism that changed the world.
NSPCC | Ventriloquist | 2005
"What's 9 times 8?" The one who answers is a ventriloquist sitting behind a little girl. No one notices him at all. I still get chills watching this 70-second film NSPCC made back in 2005.
NSPCC | EXCUSE | 1992
In 1992, a public service ad ran in British cinemas. It opens with nearly a full minute of darkness, then photos of children and the "excuses" given by their abusers appear one after another. Quiet, dark, and impossible to look away from.
YMCA SUMMER CAMP | SLEEPING IN | 1991
An ad for YMCA Summer Camp from 1991, back when videotapes were still the norm. The title is "SLEEPING IN." It means sleeping late in the morning. Somehow that one phrase seems to capture both kids' summer vacations and what parents are secretly thinking.
TVE | SCOOTER | 1989
1989. Spain's state broadcaster TVE said something about itself: "Our shows are great, but watching too much isn't good for you." An advertiser telling people to consume less of its own product? That shouldn't happen. But they did it.