“Show, don’t Tell” – An Example from this Tactic from the Swedish Housing Crisis

This article is taken from Famous Campaigns This 1.9-square-metre home makes Sweden’s housing crisis painfully real By James Herring on Thursday, August 20, 2026 Swedish housing developer Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics have turned the country’s housing affordability crisis into three micro homes translating a stark set of statistics into an experiential marketing campaign people can physically step…

Making your sponsors visible

      Deportivo Municipal of Lima launched the award-winning “The Thousand Sponsors of Muni” campaign. Facing a financial crisis and missing a main corporate sponsor, the historic Peruvian club turned its jersey into a crowd-funded mosaic, selling 1,000 micro-advertising slots to local small businesses and fans for roughly $60 each. How the Campaign Worked…

Turning Dispair into Hope

Iraqi artist Mokhallad Habib uses scars of warfare to create symbols of peace. A powerful tactic that reminds the one to reclaim slurs or hate messages, often used by LGBTQI campaigns. The reactions to these images are overwhelmingly positive, although the tactic can also be called out as naive. This shows the power of sincerity…

“Today I Am a Truck Driver”: An LGBT Activist Campaign in Support of the Truck Drivers’ Protest

Between 2015 and 2017, LGBT activists in Russia joined forces to defend the rights of an unlikely group of essential workers….truck drivers! In doing so,  they challenged stereotypes and helped reshape the narrative surrounding LGBT activism. This case offers a lesson in creative campaigning as described by campaign co-organiser Alexey Sergeev. Context: Truck drivers protest…

In Italy, life is \”Better in Colors\”

Although they now may seem antiquated to most people, attempts to forcefully change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity are still common in many countries, even in the heart of Europe. In Italy, a staggering 1 in 5 LGBTQIA+ people has been subjected to these conversion practices. As a reaction, the Italian queer movement came…