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Duh, Kids Don’t Talk Like This
By Marc van Gurp on 5 June 2015Read moreRecognize the signs of abuse is difficult but can be learned. That is the main idea behind this new campaign from the Center for Child Protection. Kids don’t talk shockingly straightforward language like in this campaign. It’s the ‘duh’ factor, an eye...
7Do you think holding your breath for 45 seconds is hard? Try 17 years.
By Marc van Gurp on 31 May 2015Read moreSave the Children Norway recently launched a campaign called Jeg er her (I’m here) aimed at creating awareness and discussion about sexually abuse of children. About the fact that victims hold in their experience for 17 years on average. Save the Children wanted to...
Anti-FGM campaign looks brutally familiar
By Tom Megginson on 22 May 2015Read moreThe first thought that crossed my mind, when people started asking me about this new anti-FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) campaign by Ogilvy, UK, was “didn’t Amnesty do it first”? Yes, they did. This iconic image, by Volontaire (Stockholm, Sweden)...
Will these “edgy” coaster ads just re-brutalize women? (TW: #VAW)
By Tom Megginson on 14 May 2015Read morePeople are talking about this new campaign by Ogilvy & Mather, Tokyo, for the Yaocho bar chain in Japan. But there’s another conversation we need to have about campaigns that address violence. It has become common practice to shock viewers with...
Transit anti-harassment campaign focuses on bystander intervention
By Tom Megginson on 6 May 2015Read moreNote: This is my own work, so I’m sharing it here simply as an example of a social marketing strategy. Feel free to critique it in the comments. (Reposted in edited form from our agency blog, Change Marketing.) Three years...
#AsAMotherSpeakOut – a campaign to challenge police brutality
By Marc van Gurp on 4 May 2015Read moreUnintentionally this video was launched in the week that the riots took place in Baltimore. Riots in which images of a mother and her son went around the world. And with more police brutality in mind this video seeks to challenge...
These anti-abuse PSAs shock you with what you don’t see
By Tom Megginson on 16 April 2015Read moreTRIGGER WARNING: IMPLIED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE These videos for DIF Zapopan, a Mexican nonprofit, are hard to watch. Even though they’re equally difficult to see. Created by Publicis México, they use special effects to reduce the actors to shadowy forms. These...
These human statues depict a scene you wouldn’t be able to ignore
By Arbie Baguios on 14 April 2015Read moreIf you’ve lived in a tourist-flocked city long enough, you’ve probably learned how to ignore the throng of street performers and their audience on your daily commute. Human statues are particularly easy not to pay attention to (they won’t...
One Knife, Many Victims
By Marc van Gurp on 7 April 2015Read moreThis is the story of Mark. Mark’s night kicks off like any other. But a decision he makes early on will turn his life upside down. And not his own life, his decision affects everyone round about him too. And that...
One in Five and the Fear of Facebook
By Marc van Gurp on 6 April 2015Read moreThis is the newest work from Cuban designer and artist Erik Ravelo, the man behind a lot or remarkable social campaigns like Los Intocables and #tooyoungtodrink. It is personal work about rape and the fact that one in five women...