The Most Creative Campaigns, Brands
and Agencies in Tech

 
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Surprisingly, despite all the buzz about AI last year, the term doesn’t feature in the top five most awarded campaigns. Nor does the “metaverse”, by the way, which now feels so 2022. Instead, these projects aim to assist and empower different communities. The exception is the amusing Clash of Clans campaign, which – unusually for a gaming brand – trades in nostalgia. Samsung was the most awarded brand overall, pushing Apple into second place. That said, Apple’s “The Greatest” was one of the most uplifting films of 2023.

Most awarded
campaigns, brands &
agencies in
Tech in 2023

Most awarded
campaigns, brands and
agencies in
Tech in 2023

CAMPAIGNS

Brand, Title, Agency
1
Serviceplan Germany, Munich
2
Marcel, Paris
3
Somesuch, London
4
Wieden + Kennedy, New York
5
Cheil España, Alcobendas
6
VML, New York
7
Squarespace
8
McCann New York
9
Cheil Hong Kong
10
BETC Paris, Pantin
11
TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles
12
CHEP Network, South Yarra VIC
13
TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Shanghai
14
BBH USA, New York
15
Neverland, London

BRANDS

Brand
1 Samsung
2 Apple
3 Dot Pad
4 Squarespace
5 BackMarket

AGENCIES

Name
1 Marcel, Paris
2 TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles
3 Serviceplan Germany, Munich
4 Somesuch, London
5 Squarespace

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TitleDot Pad. The first smart tactile graphics display.
Agency
Campaign Dot Pad
Advertiser Dot Incorporation
Brand Dot Pad
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 5
Business Sector Mobile Telephones & tablets
Story While most people rely on visuals to understand complex topics, the 285 million blind and visually impaired people worldwide are left out.Dot Pad. The first smart tactile graphics display for the visually impaired. It can display any visual content from any source.The Dot Image Processor analyzes and segments visual content, and then translates it to tactile graphics on the display which is made of 2,400 dots realized by the unique Dot actuator technology. There is also an in-built text panel for braille translation.Thanks to a partnership with Apple, Dot Pad integrates seamlessly with iOS and iPadOS, thereby giving users access to the 2.2 million apps on the App Store, out of the box. Launched in early 2022, Dot Pad has earned huge interest from the media with millions of dollars in orders. Dot Inc. is partnering with educational and governmental institutions to make the device available worldwide.
Philosophy  Dot Inc. continues blind and visually impaired communities worldwide with the Dot Pad, whose tactile display to create innovative tech to improve the lives of makes images touchable. While most people rely on visuals to understand complex topics, the 285 million blind and ople worldwide are left out. Tactile books are scarce, expensive, and impractical. Audio descriptions fail because sometimes words just aren’t enough to explain complex information. Dot Inc. with creative direction by Serviceplan Innovation launched the Dot Pad, a game changer in accessibility tech. 
Dot Pad is the first smart tactile graphics display for the visually impaired. It can display any visual content from any source because the innovative Dot Image Processing technology uses Al to analyze and understand visual input and present it most accurately on Dot Pad’s tactile display of 2,400 dots. In partnership with Apple Thanks to Dot’s collaboration with Apple, Dot Pad integrates seamlessly with iOS and iPad OS, thereby giving users access to the 2.2 million apps on the App Store, out of the box. Dot Pad reduces dependence on tactile textbooks and audio description for graphical content which sighted people are used to freely enjoying. For the first time, visually impaired people can access any visual content on the internet. Dot Pad encourages independent learning, creates further employment opportunities, and empowers diverse artists and creators. Hardware and software innovation in sync Until now, the development of functional tactile graphics devices was hindered by both hardware and software. Conventional tactile devices use piezoelectricity to power their actuators, making them bulky and expensive. Furthermore, translation of visual content into tactile one is complex. Simple vectorization or edge detection algorithms aren’t capable of producing tactile graphics that are suitable for blind users. It requires intelligence to understand what’s in an image and decide what’s important to the audience. Dot Pad solves these problems with a combination of innovative hardware and software. Dot Actuator At the core of the Dot Pad sits the third generation of the innovative Dot actuator technology. While conventional tactile devices use piezoelectricity to power their actuators, Dot Pad uniquely relies on electromagnetism, which reduces size, weight, power consumption and price by more than ten times. This dramatically increases usability and makes the Dot Pad affordable for majority of blind and visually impaired users. While the Dot actuator technology is protected by 30 patents, it’s licensed to other manufacturers to give as many people as possible the chance to benefit from it. Dot Image Processor It requires intelligence to understand what’s in an image and decide what’s important to the audience. To create comprehensible tactile content, Dot Pad relies on the innovative Dot Image Processor. It’s an AI that was trained with millions of existing visual and tactile graphics, to be able to analyze, understand and segment visual content, and translate it to tactile graphics most suitable for blind users. Supported by big tech, universities, and governments Launched in early 2022, Dot Pad has earned huge interest from the media as well as public and private institutions worldwide, with millions in dollars in orders. The Dot Pad technology is even being shared with competitors to give visually impaired people all around the world access to tactile graphics. Dot Pad technology is permanently installed in public kiosks in Busan, South Korea. Dot Pad has disrupted the field of accessibility technology with tactile graphics. To create further software and hardware support for tactile graphics, Dot Inc. is in touch with major tech companies such to create a unified tactile graphic file format and a dedicated open database of tactile graphics. Dot Inc. is partnering with many educational and governmental institutions like UC Berkley, Carnegie Mellon University, McGill University, Columbia University, Busan Public Transportation, and National Museum of Korea to name a few.
Media Type Case Study
Length
Agency Serviceplan Innovation
Production Company
Production Company
Production Company
Agency Serviceplan Korea
TitleHack Market (eng)
Agency
Campaign High tech – Low impact
Advertiser Back Market
Brand Back Market
PostedJuly 2022
Business Sector Online Retail, E-store
Story On Earth Day, April 22, 2022, and to help people change their minds, Back Market and its Paris-based agency Marcel (part of Publicis Groupe) took our last chance to convince those who were about to buy a new device. Say hello to Hack Market. An operation in which we used Apple's own technology, AirDrop, to broadcast our messages inside the temples of new tech: the Apple Store, directly on Apple's best sellers: iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. The operation took place in 6 different stores in Europe (Paris, Berlin and London), letting each customer know that there is a more ecological and cheaper way to consume technology, by buying the same model, but refurbished at Back Market. A way to turn iPhones into a brand-new medium to promote an alternative consumption model.
Media Type Case Study
Length
President
Executive Creative Director
Copywriter
President
Technology Team
Art Director
Motion Graphics Artist
Art Director
Copywriter
Associate Director
Account Director
Technology Team
Technology Team
Copywriter
Motion Graphics Artist
Social Media Manager
Managing Director
Executive Creative Director
Director
Editor
Project Manager
Traffic Team
Traffic Team
Creative Director
Producer
Producer
Strategy Lead
Copywriter
Art Director
Post Production ADF L’atelier
TitleThe Greatest
Agency
Campaign The Greatest
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Web Film
Length
Editing Company
Post Production
Production Company
Director
Producer
Cinematography
Production Designer
Choreography
Casting Director
Performer
Performer
Performer
Performer
Performer
Performer
Costume and Wardrobe
Hair, Makeup and Prothetics
Editor
Colorist
Sound Production
Music
TitleClash From The Past
Agency
Campaign Clash From The Past
Advertiser Supercell
Brand Clash of Clans
PostedApril 2023
Business Sector Internet Sites (Excluding ISPs) / Apps.
Story Released in 2012, Clash of Clans is one of the most popular mobile games in the world, with 300 million daily players and millions of subscribers to its YouTube channel. For our 10th Anniversary, we wanted this global community of fans to feel like the game they loved was as iconic a gaming franchise as Mario, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and the other video games that have shaped our culture and lives. Our goal was to create a campaign that went beyond celebrating 10 years, and instead re-engaged our fans in a way that reminded them how much they really love this game, and keep them invested for the future.
Media Type Digital
Length
Post Production
Post Production
Executive Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Creative Director
Producer
Design Director
Retoucher
Group Media Director
Business Affairs Manager
Production Service Company
Executive Creative Director
Managing Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Creative Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Group Brand Director
Brand Director
Brand Director
Brand Manager
Brand Executive
Executive Producer
Producer
Designer
Designer
Designer
Designer
Designer
VFX Creative Director
Business Affairs Manager
Business Affairs Manager
Business Affairs Manager
Production
Production
Production
Fabrication
Retoucher
Motion Producer
Production
Production
Production
Copywriting
Copywriter
Copywriter
Retoucher
Fabrication
Fabrication
Motion Design Lead
Motion Design Lead
Motion Design Lead
Group Strategy Director
Strategist
Associate Media Director
Associate Media Director
Creative Operations Manager
Creative Operations Manager
PR
PR
Motion Design Lead
Production Company Spark & Riot
Design Producer
Design Producer
TitleUnfear App
Agency
Campaign Unfear App
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2023 / 4
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Philosophy Samsung Espana and Cheil Worldwide Spain have created a ground-breaking AI app for people with autism that autonomously turns down the volume on fear-triggering sounds they find disturbing without isolating them by cancelling out noise altogether. The app is the first ever smart noise-management app that works in real-time to enable people to manage individual sounds to suit their needs. Autism affects around 70 million people globally and many people with autism have auditory sensitivity which can lead to discomfort and anxiety in reaction to certain sounds. The solution is often noise-cancelling headphones that block out all sounds which leads to complete audio isolation. Samsung’s advanced-AI app, called Unfear, works with Samsung Galaxy Buds to filter known trigger sounds, including sounds personalized to the user, in order to protect, calm and assist people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and hearing disorders. Being able to filter certain sounds, as opposed to cancelling out noise altogether, allows people with autism to continue to feel more connected in their everyday lives. Through machine learning, an algorithm scans thousands of audio libraries in real time, reducing the volume of specific pre-selected noises that cause stress to the individual user, such as sirens, metro noise, street works, barking dogs, ambulances, or crying children - going beyond noise cancellation which isolate users. Unfear continuously listens, pinpointing every sound to suppress only the noises that affect the user. As well as external environment sounds, Unfear filters sounds in all forms of content coming in from within devices and mobile phones across gaming, streaming, movies, music and social media content. For emergency situations, the app can be voice controlled, allowing users to immediately seek a ‘calm mode’ in particularly stressful moments. There is also an SOS option where users can automatically call their emergency contact to get help. Research and testing for the app was conducted in partnership with ten Spanish autism organisations - Autism Madrid Federation, Catalan Autisme Federation, Asperger New Life, Nuevo Horizonte Association, Cepri Association for the Research and Study of Mental Deficiency, ADISGUA, Guadarrama Association for People with Disabilities, SumateA and Sur Madrid Autism Spectrum Disorder – as well as over 100 ASD patients and their families. UnFear is endorsed by the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health. The app, conceived of, designed and developed by Cheil Worldwide Spain, launched during World Autism Acceptance Week and is available in Spanish and English language. It will be rolled out globally over the course of 2023. The app was created by Cheil and Samsung Electronics Iberia, as part of Samsung’s ongoing ‘Technology with Purpose’ program.
Media Type Case Study
Length
Global Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Officer
Creative Director
Creative Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Copywriter
Copywriter
Copywriter
Copywriter
Copywriter
Account Director
Account Director
Agency Producer
Director
Producer
Producer
Editor
Development
TitleI will always be me (Case)
Agency
Campaign I Will Always Be Me
Advertiser Dell Technologies and Intel
Brand Dell Technologies and Intel
PostedJuly 2022
Business Sector Computers, PDAs & Calculators
Story A special book that helps people living with motor neurone disease (MND) keep their voices – by reading a story that helps explain what they’re going through. Created in partnership with the MND Association and Rolls-Royce
Media Type Case Study
Length
Music
Digital Agency
Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Director
Advertising Manager
Executive Creative Director
Regional Chief Creative Officer
Global Chief Creative Officer
Creative Director
Group Executive Producer
Senior Producer
Digital Developer
Managing Director & Executive Producer
Executive Creative Director
Senior Producer
Director / DOP
Director / DOP
Colorist
Color Producer
Managing Director Of Strategy & Insights
SVP Global Brand Management
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Senior Content Production Business Manager
Executive Business Lead
Music Composer
Creative Lead & Chief Engineer
Executive Music Producer
Music Executive Producer
Group Director Of Production
Creative Director
Strategy Director
Senior Producer
Group Director, Client Engagement
Music Composer
Post-production Producer
Senior Account Manager
Production Manager
Music Composer
Frontend Developer
Director Of Production, Experience Innovation
Music Production Assistant
Account Supervisor
Director of Client Engagement
Associate Account Manager
Advertising Manager Sonia Sharma
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Project Manager
Project Manager
Production Assistant
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Technology Officer
Advisor
Associate Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Technical Project Manager
Creative Director & Experience Designer
Senior Interactive Designer
Senior UX Designer
Technical Director
Music Composer
Music Composer
Music Composer
Color Assist
Author
Illustrator
Post Production
Audio Post Production
Production Company
Production Company
TitleThe Singularity
Agency
Campaign Big Game Commercial 2023
Advertiser Squarespace
Brand Squarespace
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2023 / 2
Business Sector Internet Sites (Excluding ISPs) / Apps.
Media Type Television & Cinema
Length
Music / Sound Design
Post Production
Post Production
Production Company
Music / Sound Design
Post Production
Art Director
Copywriter
Creative Director
Designer
Editor
MOTION DESIGN
MOTION DESIGN
Photographer
Design Director
Developer
Senior Designer
Senior Designer
Business Affairs
Business Affairs
Chief Creative Officer
CEO, Copywriter
Design Lead
Head of Production
Production Designer
Senior Producer
Senior Producer
Senior Producer
Retoucher
Retoucher
Assistant Photographer
Creative Vice President
Web Development
TitleADLaM
BriefTo help preserve the Pulaar language — and help fight illiteracy within the community — we worked with the Barry brothers to rebuild ADLaM for the digital age and put it in the hands of the 60 million Fulani across the globe connecting through technology.While alphabets usually take hundreds of years to evolve into their final form, we were able to speed the process, using real-time community feedback to revise ADLaM’s outdated letterforms.Taking inspiration from Fulani visual culture, we researched hundreds of traditional textile patterns and designs, uncovering their unique meanings to define the final form of the characters. By weaving their heritage into the solution, the Fulani saw themselves in their very own alphabet.This new version of the alphabet is being made accessible on over one billion devices around the world, enhancing the Fulani’s access to educational, business and social tools—ensuring both the language and culture ADLaM represents live on for generations.
Agency
Campaign ADLaM
Advertiser Microsoft
Brand Microsoft
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2023 / 4
Business Sector IT Solutions & Professional Networks
Story A new alphabet for an ancient people promises to preserve their culture and connect their community.
Philosophy The language of the Fulani people of West Africa, known as Pulaar, is spoken by over 40 million people, so it’s not in immediate danger. However, for most of its history, Pulaar never had an alphabet. Fulani are increasingly doing business, finding information, and expressing themselves via text on mobile devices. And if they can’t communicate digitally with an alphabet that reflects the language they speak, they will use other writing systems, and one day, other languages.
For languages that have no digital script, the writing is on the wall.
Thirty years ago, two Fulani brothers took it upon themselves to reverse this inevitability. They created an alphabet that would one day spread across the global Fulani community and beyond. It would come to be known as ADLaM, an acronym using the alphabet’s first four letters, which stands for Alkule Dandayɗe Leñol Mulugol, or “the alphabet that protects the people from vanishing.”
Problem What does it mean to lose a language? Deep knowledge, passed down over millennia—gone. Ways of thinking about the land, the sea, the sky, and the flora and fauna that inhabit them. Rituals and recipes. Myths and memories, erased. And for those who spoke the language, it means losing a part of themselves.
Media Type Digital
Length
Music
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Client Global Creative Director
Client Senior Creative Director
Client Creative Director
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Producer
Strategist
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Regional Chief Creative Officer
Chief Creative Officer
Chief Creative Officer
EVP, Global Executive Creative Director
EVP, Global Executive Creative Director
EVP, Head of Design
Design Director
Designer
Designer
Senior Creative technologist
Senior Art Director
Senior Copywriter
Associate Creative Director / Art Director
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter
Group Creative Director/Art Director
Group Creative Director / Copywriter
EVP, Chief Production Officer
SVP, Executive Integrated Producer
Senior Integrated Producer
Senior Integrated Producer
Junior Producer
Videographer
Senior Music Producer
Junior Music Producer
Chief Strategy Officer
VP Strategy Director
Associate Strategist
Post Production
Director
Director/Photographer
Photographer
Announcer
Creator
Creator
Typeface Design
Typeface Design
Typeface Design
Textile Expert
TitleQUEST FOR DYSLEXIA
Agency
Campaign Quest For Dyslexia
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung Mobile
PostedJune 2022
Business Sector Mobile Telephones & tablets
Media Type Case Study
Length
Market Hong Kong
Production Company
Chief Creative Officer
Copywriter
Executive Creative Director
Group Creative Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Associate Creative Director
Associate Creative Director
Copywriter
Director
Editor
Production (Agency) Cheil PengTai
TitleTattoo Duo-Over
Agency
Campaign Tattoo Duo-Over
Advertiser Duolingo
Brand Duolingo
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 3
Business Sector Other Online Services
Story In honor of World Tattoo Day, Duolingo, the world’s #1 language learning app, offered the world a unique new social service: to check and correct their foreign language tattoos. For two weeks starting on March 21st, we invited anyone with a foreign language tattoo to post a photo of their ink to social media with the #TattooDuoOver (or to email us if they were feeling shy), and then invited the worst, most horrible, borderline unforgivable translation mistakes to Paris to receive a cover-up with the phrase they really wanted.
Media Type Digital
Length
Production Company
Director
Producer
Creative Director
Copywriter
Art Director
TV Production
TV Production
TV Production
TitleFIFA 23 x TED LASSO
Agency
Campaign Believe In Ted Lasso
Advertiser EA Sports + Apple
Brand Apple TV+ x FIFA 23
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 9
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Case Study
Length
VP of Brand
Director of Strategy
Vice President (VP) Furniture Clearance Centre
Vice President (VP)
Chief of Creative
Director Brand Marketing
Senior Vice President
Vice President (VP)
Vice President (VP)
TitleWelcome to Flipvertising
Agency
Campaign Flipvertising
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 8
Business Sector Mobile Telephones & tablets
Media Type Digital
Length
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Production Company
Director
Executive Producer
TitleShot on iPhone 13 Pro: Chinese New Year - The Comeback
Agency
Campaign Shot on iPhone 13 Pro: Chinese New Year - The Comeback
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 1
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Web Film
Length
Director
Director of Photography (DOP)
Music
TitleBlack-owned Friday Every Day
Agency
Campaign Black-owned Friday Every Day
Advertiser Google
Brand Google
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022
Business Sector Search Engines
Media Type Case Study
Length
VFX Company
Production Company
Editing Company
Digital Agency Rehab Agency
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Head of Design
Creative Director
Creative Director
Senior Art Director
Senior Copywriter
Senior Designer
Senior Designer
Group Account Director
Account Director
Account Supervisor
Group Executive Producer
Executive Agency Producer
Executive Agency Producer
Executive Agency Producer
Agency Producer
Agency Producer
Strategy Director
Strategist
Director of Business Affairs
Associate Director of Business Affairs
Associate Business Affairs Manager
Director
Executive Producer
Producer
Photographer
Photographer
Editor
Assistant Editor
Senior Editorial Producer
Senior Editorial Company Executive Producer
Senior VFX Executive Producer
VFX Supervisor
VFX Shoot Supervisor
VFX Creative Director
VFX Producer
HOP
Senior Account Director
Senior Producer
Head of Development
Technical Architect
Developer
Creative Technologist
Developer
Developer
Developer
Test Engineer
Digital Creative Director
Designer
Strategy Director
UX Designer
Head of Digital Production
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artist
Artists
Artist
Artist
Artist
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
Business Owner
TitleRocky
Agency
Campaign Rocky
Advertiser Ladbrokes
Brand Ladbrokes
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2022 / 8
Business Sector Online Gambling
Story Ladbrokes are on a journey to evolving their business to become an entertainment brand. To own entertainment, Ladbrokes need to be entertainment, so we turned to cinema for the biggest, most iconic scene we knew would resonate with our audience, Rocky’s run. We built on this incredible scene by inviting in Ladbrokes’ world of play to follow in our favourite boxer’s footsteps. The result is a Hollywood first, an epic film paired with a technical prowess, one for players and fans alike to enjoy and share, together.
Media Type Television
Length
Soundtrack Gonna Fly Now
Editing Company
Audio Post Production
Director
Executive Creative Director
Creative Team
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Director of Photography (DOP)
Editor
Sound Engineer
Sound Designer
Strategist
Head of Production
Design Director