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When a Brilliant Campaign Impacts More Areas Than Intended (Bayer Presented ‘Tattoos More Alive Than Ever’)
Goal: To visually communicate the benefits of skin care through tattoo art
Claim: Preserving the ink's color
Media: Graphic campaign
Summary: Bayer launched the 'Tattoos More Alive Than Ever' campaign in collaboration with Dentsu, featuring hyper-realistic tattoos that can fool animals like hummingbirds and cats. The campaign transforms a technical benefit—ink color preservation—into an easily understandable metaphor, using art and urban culture codes to capture attention.
When a Brilliant Campaign Impacts More Areas Than Intended (Bayer Presented ‘Tattoos More Alive Than Ever’)
Goal: To creatively showcase tattoo care and preservation
Claim: None
Media: Graphic advertising
Summary: Bayer launched the 'Tattoos More Alive Than Ever' campaign in collaboration with Dentsu, showcasing highly realistic tattoos that can fool animals like hummingbirds, cats, and insects. Instead of focusing on the product, the campaign tells a visual story where care is seen as a natural extension of a tattoo artist's work. It transforms a technical benefit of preserving ink color into an easily understandable metaphor, demonstrating how a traditionally skin care-related category can adopt elements of art, design, and urban culture to capture attention creatively.
Lumo opens 2026 Pixel Awards
Source: https://stoppress.co.nz/awards/lumo-opens-2026-pixel-awards/
Goal: To reward original thinking and support bold creative ideas in outdoor advertising.
Media: Digital outdoor advertising
Summary: Lumo Digital Outdoor has opened entries for the 2026 Pixel Awards, in partnership with 2degrees, Vistar, and Latch. The awards encourage creative and media agencies to submit unmade, ambitious campaign concepts, providing them with the chance to win cash and media value to bring their ideas to life. The program has expanded to include Australian agencies and now features a Programmatic Pixel category, highlighting the growth of data-driven outdoor advertising.
Škoda turns crude graffiti at the Tour de France into spotlight for women’s peloton
Goal: Promote women’s cycling and increase visibility of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift
Claim: #WatchTheFemmes
Media: Race route displays, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
Summary: Škoda and AMV BBDO have creatively transformed crude graffiti on the Tour de France route into artistic expressions promoting the women’s peloton, aligning with their support of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. By utilizing stencils designed by female artists, the campaign aims to leverage the visibility of the men's race to increase viewer engagement with women's cycling.