TBWA\London

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Disciplines

  • Advertising/Creative
  • Brand strategy
  • Integrated marketing

About

We are The Disruption® Company.

If you’re not disrupting, you’re conforming. If you’re conforming, you’re going unnoticed.

So we disrupt.

Disruption is our starting point and our guiding light. It’s a unique TBWA way of thinking. A proven, successful, collaborative business tool that helps us forge a unique path for the growth of our clients’ brands. It’s the art of asking unexpected questions in order to get to a place nobody else has discovered. Ask the same old questions, you get the same old answers. And old gets you nowhere.

The status quo is there to be upset. Let’s upset it. Let’s disrupt it.



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Hilton

By TBWA\London

How do we celebrate Hilton’s newly-established partnership with The BRIT Awards? Simple; we disrobe a high-rise building-sized BRIT Awards statuette, followed by hanging a gigantic ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign from London Hilton on Park Lane the morning after the night before.

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McVitie's

By TBWA\London

How do you launch a masterbrand to celebrate McVitie’s iconic status in the biscuit world, claiming its crown as the one and only TRUE ORIGINAL? Easy; you shoot a bunch of Elvis impersonators, get Sir Trevor McDonald, a big biscuit and a Little Simz.

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Ginsters

By TBWA\London

Potatoes. Onions. Swedes. And truckloads of effort. That's what goes into making Ginsters so delicious. Just ask Merryn - a farmer who goes to unusual lengths to grow premium veg for her pasties. Basically, she's not mucking about. Get stuck in.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

Eye-popping skills, jaw-dropping goals and a host of next gen icons ready to take the Women’s World Cup by storm. That’s what our latest adidas campaign is all about. Launched across TV, social, digital and retail, we created adidas’ biggest Women’s World Cup campaign to date.

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Connection Crew

By TBWA\London

Have you been headhunted?… In our campaign for award-winning social enterprise Connection Crew, we’ve set out to disrupt the recruitment process and turn headhunting on its head by using mysterious cards and an enigmatic user journey to specifically target lower-income workers.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

Gen Z aren’t like other football fans. They don’t follow the rules set by generations before them. So for the 2022 World Cup, we ripped up the rulebook and set Gen Z’s identities free with a campaign that saw us leak, not launch, adidas’ official World Cup kits.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

Football. The planet. Not two things you'd usually tie together. But when it came to launching adidas' Women's World Cup away kits, we had a powerful story to tell. With designs raising awareness of environments under threat, these are the away kits inspired by home.

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Nissan ARIYA

By TBWA\London

We created a campaign for the all-electric Nissan ARIYA that launches the brand into the Metaverse for the very first time. Delivering a visual and interactive ‘electrified art’ experience, the artwork allows you to enter Nissan’s metaverse by scanning the available QR code.

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Ginsters

By TBWA\London

Central to our first campaign for Ginsters is a selection of out-of-home posters, celebrating the Ginsters Cornish pasty as well-earned comfort food. The campaign pays homage to the heart-warming and flavoursome Cornish pasty, enjoyed by those braving the wild elements.

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Ovarian Cancer Action

By TBWA\London

To mark World Ovarian Cancer Day, we launched a social campaign that thrives on being ignored. #FollowedbyCancer for Ovarian Cancer Action represents how easily the signs of the disease can be ignored as they are mistaken for less life-threatening everyday ailments.

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McVitie's

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McVitie’s has rolled out its TV sponsorship for Britain’s Got Talent with a campaign that is an ode to the quirky talents showcased on the beloved ITV show. In the homes of friends and family, one person offers another a McVitie’s biscuit, which are simply too good not to share.

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McVitie’s Blissfuls

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Our campaign for McVitie’s, ‘Now That’s Blissful’, draws inspiration from ASMR and dramatises the treat-like nature of the product through the lens of the ‘making of’ story, a nod to the originality of the snack and the baking mastery in every bite. Now that really IS Blissful!

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Pearl & Dean and DCM

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Remember the cinema? It’s back! And they really are the best place to watch a film. That’s what our latest campaign celebrates as we invite people to remember the magic of going to the cinema. After all, nothing says entertainment like a chair that holds your drink!

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Jaffa Jonuts

By TBWA\London

The love child of Jaffa Cakes and Donuts is here. McVitie's have launched the all-new Jaffa Jonuts proving you really can 'Be what you want to be' – after all, if a Jaffa Cake now wants to be a Jonut, who would want to stand in its way?

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HUN Wine

By TBWA\London

Let's face it, non-alcoholic drinks have a bad rep. We needed to show people that non-alcoholic doesn't mean boring, it means no more rules. Cue HUN's Wine & Drive. The UK's first drink drive-thru serving up HUN's latest offering, non-alcoholic canned wine.

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Mini Cheddars

By TBWA\London

Welcome to Cheddar Town: an animated world where cheese and townsfolk live together in harmony… until someone gets hungry for Mini Cheddars­­, the snack baked with REAL cheese. That’s when our cheeses go from friends to food in the eyes of the townspeople.

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Nissan

By TBWA\London

We needed a BIG announcement that the All-New Nissan Qashqai with Mild Hybrid POWER was launching in June. So we devised a huge 6-meter, four-sided cube that hosts a 3D video of an epic storm. From this tempest, an All-New Nissan Qashqai dramatically emerges.

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Portal from Facebook

By TBWA\London

Our latest campaign for Portal from Facebook is an acknowledgement of the difficulties faced by all new mothers during the past year of Coronavirus restrictions, that have hampered their normal support networks.

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Jaffa Cakes

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We created a new brand platform for pladis-owned McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes, which launched across TV and social media on Friday 26th February. The new brand platform was inspired by the snack’s continuing defiance of categorisation as a biscuit or a cake.

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AMD

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TBWA partnered with AMD on the opening film for Dr Lisa Su’s keynote at CES 2021. Dr Su, the AMD CEO, hosted the presentation as part of CES’s first ever virtual event.

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Go Ahead

By TBWA\London

We created a new brand platform and campaign for the pladis-owned low calorie snack brand ‘Go Ahead’ which pokes fun at the extremes of the health fads people take on in January and the lengths people go to in order to be “healthy”.

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AMD

By TBWA\London

AMD and TBWA reveal the ground-breaking tech behind the Xbox Series X in a new spot. AMD provides the processing power behind the next generation of gaming, including the Xbox Series X and S.

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Portal from Facebook

By TBWA\London

This Christmas, we teamed up with Portal from Facebook - a video calling device that makes you feel like you’re together from anywhere.

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McVitie's

By TBWA\London

We devised a new creative platform for McVitie’s as part of a masterbrand relaunch. The idea for the long-running campaign is that McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives biscuits are so overwhelmingly tasty, they're ‘too good not to share’.

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McVitie's

By TBWA\London

TBWA\London has created a tongue-in-cheek campaign for McVitie’s, which launches a new range to market, namely the V.I.Bs (Very Important Biscuits).

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Mini Cheddars

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TBWA\London has created a taste-bud tantalising campaign for Jacob’s Mini Cheddars and its new Mexican inspired products. The campaign harnesses the colour, energy and big-hitting taste credentials of Mexico, by introducing a trio of Mexican wrestling characters.

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Ovarian Cancer Action

By TBWA\London

TBWA\London has created a campaign for Ovarian Cancer Action urging women that lockdown shouldn’t get in the way of a visit to the GP if someone has symptoms of ovarian cancer. The work goes live this week on Ocean Outdoor’s iconic Piccadilly Lights screen.

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HUN Wine

By TBWA\London

TBWA\London has created a new campaign that no one will see, to launch a new drinks brand that no one has ever heard of. The campaign for HUN Wine, the first Fair Trade wine in a can in the UK market, was devised and media was bought after the country had gone into lockdown.

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Omniwomen

By TBWA\London

TBWA\London has created a campaign for Omniwomen which celebrates outdated stereotypes of female leadership qualities previously unwelcomed in the workplace, such as empathy, vulnerability, kindness and generosity, calling for everyone to celebrate these leadership qualities.

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Nissan

By TBWA\London

Nissan's cover-wrap for The Metro followed the news that the Mayor of London has upped the value of its scrappage scheme, in which small businesses are given a increase grant to replace older, dirty cars for newer, greener vehicles.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

TBWA has created a new campaign for adidas to celebrate how running can help manage the stresses of daily life and improve mental wellbeing. The campaign ‘Run to Reconnect’ focuses on the art of ‘mindful’ running, where running is approached as a form of meditation.

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Naz and Matt Foundation

By TBWA\London

People who come out to unaccepting parents are 2.7 times more likely to experience anxiety and depression. To combat this, we created the world’s first #OutAndProudParentsDay, an annual moment for proud parents of LGBT+ youth to match the bravery of their child and ‘come out’.

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BECO

By TBWA\London

#StealOurStaff is our biggest campaign to date for BECO, the social enterprise that makes environmentally-friendly toiletries with an 80% disabled or disadvantaged workforce. Our work invites businesses to steal BECO's staff and help close the UK’s disability employment gap.

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Nissan

By TBWA\London

We launched a new campaign for the Nissan Qashqai, which saw real Qashqai owners become sales people for the day. Besides, who better to showcase how the Qashqai leads and sets the bar, then the people that know the best.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

We collaborated with London influencers, alongside street cast Londoners, to curate and style adidas with a truly hyper-localised approach. We took over the city with 50 look and over 700 executions covering an end-to-end experience spanning across OOH, online video, social, CRM.

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BECO

By TBWA\London

We wanted to spell out BECO’s environmentally friendly creds whilst unashamedly communicating how the majority of the brand’s employees are visually impaired, disabled or disadvantaged. The brand platform ‘as clean as humanly possible’ helps us to communicate this authentically.

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Plastic Oceans UK

By TBWA\London

Did you know by 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish? To highlight the urgency of the threat to the oceans if the current rate of plastic pollution continues we served up battered plastic in a local chippie.

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Lidl

By TBWA\London

Our OOH Christmas campaign for Lidl highlights the retailer’s strongest festive food offering yet. We take a swipe at M&S and Waitrose, by 'upgrading' their ads with posters by Lidl, boasting award-winning mince pies and a more matured Christmas pudding for cheaper.

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Harvey Nichols

By TBWA\London

This year for Harvey Nichols we brought Instagram to real life with the world’s first shoppable Christmas carolers all wearing fabulous Harvey Nichols party outfits that are available to buy via Instagram. 10% of sales proceeds were donated to charity partner Smart Works.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

A series of TVCs where Lidl customers have nailed Christmas food but gone too far with entertainment

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Openly News

By TBWA\London

Openly is the world's first newswire for impartial LGBTQ+ news, in a world that isn’t.

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Harvey Nichols

By TBWA\London

We invited women's rights champions to smash the windows at Harvey Nichols to celebrate #Vote100.

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Harvey Nichols

By TBWA\London

We rebranded London landmark Harvey Nichols to Holly Nichols to launch a new Women's fashion floor.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

This campaign is in support of Lidl's 3 year partnership with the FA skills and coaching programme.

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PlayOJO

By TBWA\London

We created a campaign to inspire online casino fans to ditch unfair casinos and find their OJO.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

For the launch of Lidl’s new baby range, Lupilu, we gave a voice to those who can’t even talk yet.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

A TV parody and 360 campaign in which we challenge the conventions of retail at Spring

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Airbnb UK

By TBWA\London

Animals, perfectly at home in homes you wouldn’t associate them with.

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eos UK

By TBWA\London

A ballsy way to disrupt the lip balm category and break away from the traditional tubes and sticks

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

Turning trolls into fans by relaxing the truth about where Lidl's food comes from.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

From cheeky Double Dippers, to those crazy rebels who do beef, Lidl has you covered this Christmas.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

Schoolkids plan an Easter egg hunt in the latest instalment of our #LidlSurprises campaign.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

Our new Christmas campaign for Lidl invites the public to 'The Lidl School of Christmas' to learn how to tackle the trickiest of festive tasks.

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Airbnb

By TBWA\London

To bring Airbnb's 'Belong Anywhere' philosophy to London, we created a fairytale-like house that floated on the River Thames.

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Coco de Mer

By TBWA\London

To engage people in a new, liberated conversation around desire, we created a striking film for Coco de Mer in collaboration with Rankin.

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Ataxia UK

By TBWA\London

Awareness of Ataxia is currently at 9% in the UK, so we created a striking film to communicate the severity of the condition.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

To continue the #LidlSurprises campaign, Easter was a new opportunity to surprise the public with Lidl's remarkable prices.

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Airbnb

By TBWA\London

To launch their first ever TV and digital campaign, we helped create a film to celebrate Airbnb's unique philosophy.

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Harrods

By TBWA\London

The story of Peter Pumpernickel, a tiny mouse who just wants to help Father Christmas

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

We treated the locals of Hertfordshire to a festive feast, and the guests are all surprised when told that the food is in fact from Lidl!

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adidas

By TBWA\London

To launch the latest edition of adidas’ iconic Predator football boot, TBWA\London created the world’s first real-life video game.

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Lidl UK

By TBWA\London

We created an pop up market in East London to change the perceptions of Lidl's quality produce

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Nissan UK

By TBWA\London

‘Personalise Your Thrill’ is brought to life in a visually compelling film with Jenny Jones snowboarding down a personalised mountain

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Nissan UK

By TBWA\London

To build up excitement for the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, we created a bold interactive film

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Lidl

By TBWA\London

The Lidl Surprises campaign humorously pivots on the premise of people being more astonished by Easter bargains than life-changing news.

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Nissan

By TBWA\London

To build up excitement for the Olympic Games and to reinforce Nissan’s unique partnership with Team GB, we created a bold spot feat. Chris Hoy

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Aquafresh

By TBWA\London

To highlight the problem of tooth-decay for the families of Britain, we created a cool new superhero to capture their imagination.

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adidas

By TBWA\London

Where do you take the world’s biggest basketball player, when he’s in the UK? We created #jumpwithdrose, an electrifying live event in Hackney.

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Original Source

By TBWA\London

We relaunched the cult brand to a mass market and with a positioning that exploited the awe inspiring power of nature.

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tpexpress.co.uk

By TBWA\London

Continue to promote leisure travel in the North and drive people to book at tpexpress.co.uk

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Mum & Me

By TBWA\London

We launched a new product in a market where Johnsons Baby dominates and broke convention with a down to earth and honest take on Motherhood.

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Virgin Gaming

By TBWA\London

To launch Virgin Gaming using the most popular title FIFA 13, encouraging product trial amongst committed FIFA fans.