There will be Blood: Brand Activism gets Messily Effective

In this talk hosted by WARC at Cannes Lions 2019, several speakers discussed the challenges and impact of investing in a meaningful strategy at scale.

About the speakers

In 2018, Nicholas helped AMV BBDO rank second in the world at Cannes. In his career he has won almost 30 Lions, including two Titaniums. With his art director Nadja Lossgott, they are responsible for creating #Bloodnormal, a campaign for Bodyform that normalises periods. It made normality revolutionary and became the first campaign in ad history to show period blood. In 2017, their podcast series for the London Metropolitan Police, which tells the “heart-stopping” true stories of foiled UK terror attacks, reached number two in the iTunes podcast charts.

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