Samsung, ESPN, Netflix, Aviation, Xbox & Cyberpunk: How getting meta led to mega impact

Samsung, an electronics company, launched a campaign for the release of the 2017 QLED TV in America.

Campaign details

Brand: SamsungAgency: adam&eveDDB

Executive Summary

This is the story of a tech giant's transformation from identikit advertising to the opposite end of the spectrum - less promoting speeds & feeds, more advertising gin - and how it helped cut-through America's Black Friday carnage.

It's the story of account planning's role in such a transformation, how we charted a course out of an advertising sea of sameness towards breakthrough creativity.

It's the story of how Ryan Reynolds applied his internet-breaking appeal not to one of his own brands but to a global TV manufacturer.

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