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WestJet’s Charitable Christmas Campaign is Fueled by Holograms and Greenscreens
WestJet’s Christmas campaigns are legendary. Here’s just a taste of what the brand has pulled off over the last eight years: Delivering personalized gifts from “Blue Santa” at baggage claim, completing 12,000 acts of kindness in 90 destinations over the course of 24 hours, and throwing an epic community Christmas party for the residents of...
HBO Asks ‘Game of Thrones’ Fans to Literally Bleed #ForTheThrone at SXSW
Ahead of the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones,” HBO set out to see just how deep fans’ allegiance to the series runs by asking them to Bleed #ForTheThrone—literally. The global campaign, which kicked off in Austin during SXSW, supported the American Red Cross, which at the time was facing an emergency blood...
Tinder’s 30-foot Pride Slide Activation Raises Awareness for the Equality Act
Tinder’s 30-foot-tall Pride Slide activated in honor of World Pride in New York City was designed to rally support for the Equality Act. The rainbow-themed double-slide accessed via stairs and an upper deck was exactly 30-feet long, which represented the 30 U.S. states that at the time did not have non-discriminatory laws in place. Each...
Charity: Water Transports its Donors to Ethiopia with a 360-Degree Film
From an activation in San Francisco’s Mission District, Charity: Water transported donors to an Ethiopian village, where they could virtually experience the importance of access to clean water. The organization commissioned a 360-degree film to show the story of an Ethiopian woman’s daily journey for clean water and showed it off on a 40,000-pound HALO...