The Most Creative Campaigns, Brands
and Agencies in Tech

 
THE WARMER SIDE OF TECHNOLOGY WAS ON SHOW WITH INNOVATIONS THAT AIDED ACCESSIBILITY AND EVEN SAVED LIVES. PLUS, A JOYFUL FILM.

Rivals Microsoft and Apple duked it out at the top of the ranking with Microsoft grabbing the most awarded campaign for “Changing The Game”, by McCann New York, for the Xbox. The game changer? Making the device more accessible for kids with disabilities – and making a beautiful film about it.
Despite that, Apple was the most awarded brand in this sector because it had four ads in the top ten – starting at number two with “Bounce”, its jazzy, literally uplifting film. Apple’s success bounced TBWA\Media Arts Lab to the top of the most awarded agency list, too.
But this was not a game for just two players. Also in the top five were Tinder with the interactive adventure “Swipe Night” from 72andSunny, Samsung with “BACK2LIFE” from Cheil China – showing gamers a life-saving first aid technique – and finally Wavio’s “See Sound” device, from Area 23, which visually alerts the deaf to sounds in their homes. Further down the ranking, Amazon, Spotify and Facebook completed the list of tech superstars with multi-awarded campaigns.

Most awarded
campaigns, brands &
agencies in
Tech in 2020

Most awarded
campaigns, brands and
agencies in
Tech in 2020

CAMPAIGNS

Brand, Title, Agency
1
McCann New York
2
TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles
3
72andSunny, Los Angeles
4
Cheil China, Beijing
5
Area 23, An IPG Health Company, New York
6
McCann London
7
Apple, Cupertino
8
Droga5, New York
9
10
BUCK + TBWA\Media Arts Lab
11
adam&eveDDB, London
12
Cheil Worldwide, Seoul
13
Spotify In-House
14
Droga5, New York
15
Apple, Cupertino

BRANDS

Brand
1 Apple
2 Microsoft
3 Samsung
4 Tinder
5 Wavio

AGENCIES

Name
1 TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles
2 McCann New York
3 72andSunny, Los Angeles
4 Cheil China, Beijing
5 Area 23, An IPG Health Company, New York

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TitleChanging the game
Agency
Campaign Changing the game
Advertiser Microsoft XBOX
Brand XBOX
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Story As the brand is committed to empowering everyone to achieve more, Microsoft designed the Xbox Adaptive Controller for gamers with limited mobility. With features like a row of 19 ports that connect to external switches, buttons, mounts, and joysticks, it is customizable to make gaming more accessible to all. The disabled community has a saying: “Nothing about us, without us.” So the agency collaborated with the community to create packaging as accessible as the product it holds.
Media Type Digital
Length
Sound Production
Production Company
Corporate Vice President of Brand
GM, Global Advertising
Director, Global Advertising
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Advertising Manager
Brand Manager
Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Director
Associate Creative Director
Associate Creative Director
Senior Art Director
Copywriter
Creative technologist
Business Leader
Executive Account Director
SVP, group account director
Account Director
Account Supervisor
Chief Communications Officer
EVP Global Strategy Director
SVP, Group Strategy Director
Director of Social Strategy
Head of Integrated Production
Producer
SVP Director of project Management
Project Manager
SVP Executive Music Producer
Music Business Manager
Business Manager
Director
2nd Unit Director
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Assistant Director
DP
Editing Company
Editor
Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
Editorial Producer
Craft, Editor
Craft, EP
Craft, Producer
Craft, Producer
Craft, Producer
Craft, Assistant Editor
Craft, Color
Craft, Flame Artist
Craft, Audio Mix
Flame Producer
Flame Artist
Flame Assistant
Colorization
Music Company / Composer
Music Composer
Music Composer
Executive Music Producer
Sound Engineer
Sound Producer
TitleBounce
Agency
Campaign Bounce
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019 / 7
Product Wireless charging airpods
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Television
Length
Production Company
Director
Post Production
Art Director
Copywriter
Creative Director
Creative Director
Group Creative Director
Group Creative Director
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Chief Creative Officer
Senior Producer
TitleSwipe Night
Agency
Campaign Swipe Night
Advertiser Tinder
Brand Tinder
PostedApril 2020
Business Sector Other Online Services
Story With over 43 billion matches to date, Tinder is the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. Swipe Night is an interactive miniseries that lives on Tinder and transforms the app by using Hollywood-standard entertainment as a way to match people, improve compatibility, and give the Tinder community plenty of icebreakers. It’s not just entertainment, It’s entertainment with purpose. The choices are the key: while fun on the surface, they reveal something deep about your personality, give you a pool of more compatible users to choose from, and serve as icebreakers after the experience. For example, will you save the frightened puppy or the injured girl? You only have seven seconds to decide.By bringing entertainment into the app to engineer compatibility, Swipe Night is a brand new way for people to match. It reimagines they way people can connect on a social media platform and uses entertainment to make that connection more meaningful.
Media Type Case Study
Length
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Chief Communications Officer
Sr. Director
Integrated Marketing
Product Lead
Product Designer
Sr. Product Designer
Engineering Lead
Sr. Counsel
Chief Creative Officer
Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Director
Designer
Sr. Designer
Sr. Writer
Designer
Designer
Copywriter
Jr. Designer
Jr. Writer
Sr. Film Producer
Producer
EP Interactive
Director of Partnerships and Legal
Partnerships and Legal Director
Partnerships and Legal Sr. Manager
Partnerships and Legal Jr. Manager
Executive Strategy Director
Sr. Strategist
Sr. Communications Strategist
Sr. Social Strategist
Jr. Strategist
Brand Director
Brand Manager
Brand Manager
Executive Art Producer
Art Producer
Production Company
Director
Director of Immersive ECD
Founder
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Executive Producers
Executive Producers
Production Company Producer
Head of Production Rebecca Davis
TitleBACK2LIFE
Agency
Campaign BACK2LIFE
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019 / 5
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Philosophy For Samsung’s 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility Project, Cheil launched a creative campaign to help young Chinese people acquire CPR skills: BACK2LIFE. In this campaign, Cheil cooperated with Blood River, which is one of China's most famous MOBA(Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game platform, and hacked in this game to get gamers to learn life-saving CPR. In China, less than 1% know how to perform CPR*. The BACK2LIFE campaign, created jointly by Cheil PengTai and Cheil Worldwide Hong Kong, aimed to solve this problem. Even though it’s a matter of life-and-death, most people only realize the importance of CPR when they’re faced with death. On the other hand, China is the world's largest game market. Therefore, the virtual moment of death in the game can be the best time for young people to get CPR training. When gamers lost their lives in the game, they unexpectedly found out that CPR can revive their role. After several times of virtual deaths in the game, the game player repeatedly receives training for CPR. That means, the more they play, the more CPR training they get. During the two-week hijack in the Samsung Galaxy Store, over 3 million gamers performed CPR training to bring their characters back to life. This fun and easy way to learn CPR skills has effectively promoted the popularity of CPR in China.
Media Type Case Study
Length
Creative Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Art Director
Copywriter
Copywriter
Account Director
Account Director
Director/Production co.
TitleSee Sound
Agency
Campaign See sound
Advertiser Wavio
Brand Wavio
PostedJune 2019
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Digital
Length
Chief Creative Officer
Group Creative Director
Creative Director
Art Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Photographer
Post Production
Account Director
Developer
Technology Director
Integrated Producer
Animation/3D
Account Planner
User Experience Architect
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Operations Officer
Chief People Officer
Agency Producer
TitleThe Birth of Gaming Tourism
Agency
Campaign The Birth of Gaming Tourism
Advertiser Microsoft
Brand Xbox / Microsoft
PostedApril 2020
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Story Although Xbox is an established brand amongst the gaming community, there was still a need to expand brand affinity beyond its hard-core audience and attract a new, more mainstream audience who didn’t care about action and weapons, traditionally the focal point of videogame marketing.We created the first-ever new reason to purchase games. Not to play. To visit.Because games had become so beautiful and detailed, we promoted them as genuine travel destinations. In a ground-breaking partnership with one of the world’s leading travel publishers, we created ‘The Rough Guide to Xbox’ – the first travel guide for virtual worlds, enabling people to engage with games in a brand new way. The transformation was completed with a range of online and offline multi-channel activations that all made people perceive videogames as viable tourist destinations, and created added utility once the world could no longer travel.
Media Type Integrated Media/360 Activation
Length
Production Company
Production Company
Production Company
Production Company
Chief Creative Officer McCann UK and Co President
Chief Creative Officer McCann UK and Co President
Executive Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Senior Planner
Senior Planner
Account Planner
Designer
Designer
Project Manager
Project Manager
Chief Creative Officer
Managing Partner
Senior Account Director
Account Director
Account Director
Senior Account Manager
Senior Account Manager
Senior Account Manager
Account Manager
Account Executive
Chief Production Officer EMEA
Lead Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Production Company Producer
Junior Producer
Production Company Producer
Print Producer
Production Company Producer
Art Buyer
Art Buyer
Studio Imaging Director
Senior Retoucher
Senior Editor
Senior Editor
Editor
Creative Researcher
Print Studio Manager
Creative technologist
Photography / Illustration
Photography / Illustration
TitleApple at work: the underdogs
Agency
Campaign Apple at Work
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple Ipad
PostedJune 2019
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Web Film
Length
Production Company
Editor
Director
Creative Director
Production Company Producer
TitleBefore Alexa
Agency
Campaign Before Alexa
Advertiser Amazon
Brand Amazon
PostedApril 2020
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Others
Length
Global Executive Creative Director
Campaign Lead
Project Manager
Chief Creative Officer
Group Creative Directors
Group Creative Directors
Creative Director
Lead Writer
Agency Producer
Line Producer
Joint Managing Director
Account Director
Strategy Director
Strategy Director
Contributing Writers
Contributing Writers
Contributing Writers
Frazer Price
Frazer Price
Production Company
Production Company
Director
Managing Director
Executive Producer
Production Company Producer
Production Manager
Director of Photography (DOP)
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Makeup
Makeup
Production Service
USA Celebrities
UK Celebrity
Edit
Editor
Production Company Producer
Post Production
Executive Producer
Senior Producer
Post Production Creative Directors
Post Production Creative Directors
2D Lead Artist
3D Lead Artist
3D Lead Artist
Finish Artist
Matte Painting
Animation/3D
Animation/3D
Animation/3D
Design
Design
Colour
Colorist
Colour Producer
Sound
Mix
Mix
Mix
Production Company Producer
Music Clearances
Music Composer
Music Composer
MD
Producer
Media Director
TitleAirPods Pro
Campaign Mac Pro
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Web Site
Length
Design Agency Apple
TitleWonderful Tools
Agency
Campaign Wonderful Tools
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple
PostedApril 2020
Business Sector Consumer Electronics & Audio-Visual
Media Type Others
Length
Design Firm
Agency
Media Director
Executive Creative Director
Executive Producer
Creative Director
Production Company Producer
Creative Team
Animation/3D
Chief Creative Officer
Executive Creative Director
Group Creative Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Art Director
Executive Producer
Account Manager
Account Manager
Account Manager
TitleAd-within-an-ad-within-an-ad (Film Case)
Agency
Campaign Ad-within-an-ad-within-an-ad
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019 / 11
Business Sector TV, Hi-Fi, Video, Personal Stereo & Accessories
Philosophy To promote the Samsung QLED TV, adam&eveDDB knew it had to stand out from the black-box category clutter. So it partnered with Netflix, Aviation Gin, and the undisputed king of social, Ryan Reynolds, to create a social film, specifically created for the meta world of the internet: the world’s first ad-within-an ad-within-an-ad. The social film dropped on Twitter and was promptly retweeted by Ryan, Netflix and Aviation Gin, promptly blowing up the internet at large, and resulting in category-leading sales in the run up to Black Friday.
Media Type Digital
Length
Creative Director
Creative Director
Copywriter
Art Director
Managing Director
TitleGalaxy Graffiti
Agency
Campaign Galaxy Graffiti
Advertiser Samsung
Brand Samsung – galaxy s10
PostedJuly 2020
Business Sector Mobile Telephones & tablets
Media Type Interactive Outdoor Experience
Length
Market Canada
Design Company
Design Company
Digital Agency
Production Company
Designer
Designer
Designer
Digital Artist
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Creative Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Creative technologist
Designer
Designer
Programmer
Programmer
User Experience Designer
User Experience Designer
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
TitleThe Decade Wrapped (Film Case)
Title (original language)Your 2019 Wrapped
Agency
Campaign 2020 Wrapped
Advertiser Spotify
Brand Spotify
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2019
Business Sector Online Leisure & Entertainment Services
Media Type Integrated Media/360 Activation
Length
Media Agency
Production Company
Art Director
Copywriter
Copywriter
Copywriter
Copywriter
Designer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Group Creative Director
Group Creative Director
Executive Creative Director
Strategist
Strategist
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Creative Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
Account Management Team
TitleNever Lost
Agency
Campaign Never Lost
Advertiser Meta
Brand Facebook
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2020 / 4
Business Sector Community Website
Tagline We're never lost if we can find each other
Media Type Web Film
Length
Soundtrack People's Face
More Information facebook.com/covidsupport
Post Production
Sound Mix
Creative Chairman
Global Chief Creative Officer
Co-Chief Creative Officer
Co-Chief Creative Officer
Managing Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Creative Director
Art Director
Art Director
Copywriter
Copywriter
Designer
Motion Graphics Designer
Chief Creation Officer
Director of Film Production
Executive Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Talent Manager
Graphic Studio Manager
Editing Company
Music
Artist
Art Director
Motion Graphics Designer
TitleCaught on camera
Agency
Campaign Caught on camera
Advertiser Apple
Brand Apple TV
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2018 / 9
Business Sector Mobile Telephones & tablets
Story On March 25th Hollywood descended on the Steve Jobs Theater for the announcement of Apple’s much-anticipated streaming service Apple TV+. 24 hours before, thousands of people were trolling the events page on apple.com looking for anything left unguarded. So Apple hid a link. If found, it appeared as if Apple had mistakenly turned the event livestream on early and you had gained access to the cameras inside the theater. The 24-hour ‘livestream’ contained cryptic vignettes meant to tease the shows, partnerships and celebrities that would be announced or appear at the event the following day.
Media Type Digital
Production Company Imposter