Australia is the home of natural disasters. More cyclones have hit in the last 20 years than in the preceding 100. Severe flooding strikes 30% more often than it did a generation ago. Bushfires start earlier and burn longer. By 2035, one in ten Australian homes is projected to be uninsurable. And yet nine in […]

For 150 years, Heinz ketchup and fries have been understood as inseparable. The brand did not need to prove the pairing. What it needed, as cheaper rivals began to take shelf space and inflation-weary shoppers started trading down, was to move the consumer’s mind from “fries need ketchup” to “fries need Heinz specifically.” Rethink Toronto […]

Marmite is the most English thing a person can pack for a trip abroad. It is also nearly impossible to find in the United States. For the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with England fans boarding long-haul flights for weeks of late-night matches, unfamiliar breakfasts, and the specific emotional turbulence that follows England through every tournament, […]

Kenya has the highest per-capita milk consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa. 80% of that milk comes from smallholder farmers, nearly two million of them, most of whom depend on daily milk sales to cover daily expenses. When a cow gets sick and needs antibiotics, Kenyan law requires the farmer to stop selling the milk for three […]

The beauty industry does not need to lie. It has something better: language that sounds scientific without being science at all. Words like “Medical Grade,” “Poreless,” “Fat Freezing,” “Age-Defying,” and “Wrinkle Erasing” appear on packaging alongside real dermatological ingredients, presented with the same authority, dressed in the same clinical aesthetic, but carrying none of the […]

60% of American men mistakenly believe prostate cancer screening begins with an invasive rectal exam. That single misconception is responsible for millions of eligible men avoiding a test that, when it catches the disease early, carries a greater than 99% five-year survival rate. Novartis and Fallon decided the largest television audience in the world was […]

Most cities have tactile paving on their pavements. The raised lines and dots guide visually impaired pedestrians forward and tell them when to stop. What they cannot tell a blind person is what is in front of them, whether the building beside them is a bank, a pharmacy, a restaurant, or a bus stop. In […]

ProMate and Ogilvy Sri Lanka noticed that a used notebook covered in ink is invisible to a blind student who reads by touch. During Sri Lanka’s 2022 economic collapse, when Braille paper became unaffordable, a nationwide donation drive collected used notebooks from households across the country and redistributed them to every government school. It became […]

Football sponsorship operates on an assumption so embedded in the industry that it is rarely questioned: meaningful partnerships require significant money, which means they are available only to large brands. Club Deportivo Municipal, a historic Peruvian club competing in Liga 3 after consecutive financial-pressure-driven relegations, and McCann Lima challenged that assumption with a pixelated grid […]

In 2026, the FIFA World Cup and Father’s Day landed in the same week. For Salchichería Alemana, Peru’s leading sausage and charcuterie brand, that coincidence was not a scheduling inconvenience. It was a creative brief. The Insight Football and the backyard grill share more than a weekend time slot. Both are collective rituals built around […]

When news broke that the password protecting the Louvre’s video surveillance system was simply “Louvre,” the story went global within hours. CNN, The Times, VICE, and ABC all covered the security failure as a punchline. Leroy Merlin and its agency BETC Paris, working with BETC Fullsix, saw something else: a free, ready-made promotional hook for […]

When Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election took place, opposition candidate María Corina Machado had already been barred from running against the country’s authoritarian leadership. International observers were excluded. Transparent verification mechanisms were denied to ordinary citizens. The opposition had disputed the legitimacy of Venezuelan elections for years without ever being able to prove it. In 2026, […]