UBERLÂNDIA E.C.
Brand
UBER
Entrant Agency
WIEDEN+KENNEDY
Category
Social & Creator
Award
Gold
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Presentation Board
THE CONTEXT
In modern football, everythin
choose a team, buy their naming rights and change
everything — even the team's name. Clubs get rich.
Fans get mad. When Uber entered football, they
followed suit: bought the naming rights toa
century-old, 4th division Brazilian team and...
THE IDEA
We created a naming-rights deal that changed
nothing, and that changed everything. All by
changing UBERLANDIA E.C. to UberLANDIA EC.
No ownership claimed, no history erased, no
culture rewritten and no belonging imposed.
Just a new sponsorship model — designed to.
engage - that challenges sponsorships as we
know them.
THE EXECUTION
Simply.by revealing the brand within the name,
UberLANDIA became a social juggernaut.
The idea became a story so inevitable, it hit the
heart of football culture. The story didn't stay.
fixed, it spread and made the news. A regional,
4th-division club became everyone's second
team — and the entire nation rallied behind it.
1.27 Billion
IMPRESSIONS
6,000%
EARNED MEDIA RO!
8k
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Zero Fans
PISSED OFF
“Never seen before” “A perfect matc
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UberLANDIA
1922
The naming rights
without the naming wrongs
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Best naming rights ever. Finally somenaia
My Verdao is massive 5
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‘Born from respect” ResigSaiegire name
lance! @uoL Genius move lolololol
