LET’S END FAST TECH
Brand
BACK MARKET
Entrant Agency
MARCEL
Category
Print & Publishing
Award
Gold
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
Back Market - Let's End fast Tech (Case Study) | Campaign
Credits:
- Client: Back Market
- Creative Agency: Marcel, Paris
- Agency Network: Leo Constellation
- Holding Company: Publicis Groupe
- Archive Research: Les Artisans du Film
- Music Company: Midi Agency
Presentation Board
Let’s end fast tech
Because the only upgrade we really need is in our minds.
Consumer electronics already generate 4%
of global CO, emissions and could reach 14%
by 2040, surpassing aviation. The problem is,
nobody knows that and we keep replacing our
phones every two years. In a world suffocating
under ecological pressure, we can't afford to swap
our phones like fashion accessories anymore.
We refurbished the industry's iconic visual
standards to expose the hidden cost of Fast
Tech. By pairing powerful, unretouched images of
environmental collapse with the timeline of iPhone
upgrades (at the same season), we subverted
the «Shot on iPhone» format to turn the city
into a witness of the climate crisis. We revealed
an uncomfortable truth: while we upgrade our
devices, we downgrade our planet.
Each ad featured a QR code turning awareness
into action encouraging people to rethink their
relationship with technology through three
concrete alternatives to reduce its environmental
Cost: reuse, repair, refurbish.
Shot on iPhone & Shot on iPhone 13 Pro
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Lone Rock beach, Utah, USA, drying up of lake Powell, 2021
2 How many upgrades do we have left?
= Let’s end fast tech. Back Market
Lone Rock beach, Utah, USA, 2016
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The New York Times GubSian EL PAIS
T1IM+ 740K+ 5SM+ 200+
organic reach social interactions additional reach media coverages
on social media (through third party content) and influencers posts
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« This campaign
is about exposing the hidden
environmental cost
of our obsession with
the latest tech. »
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