Best Year For Latin Market Includes a Press Grand Prix for The Community
The U.S. Hispanic market had its best year yet at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, with seven agencies winning 18 Lions, including a Grand Prix in the Press category for The Community (formerly La Comunidad).
The Community's Miami office picked up one-third of the U.S. Lions, all but one for the City of Buenos Aires' Public Bike System.The idea of this fun, illustrated print and out-of-home campaign "Never Stop Riding" was to demonstrate that the bikes are now available 24 hours a day, rather than just during the day. To convey that non-stop message, a bike's two wheels are personified as familiar "partners" in a chase: a baby and a breast, a dog and its tail, and a squirrel and a chestnut.
In addition to the Grand Prix, the campaign won two golds in the press category and a gold and a silver in outdoor. The Community's other Lion, a Press bronze, was for another City of Buenos Aires program, for blood donations, and highlights three cultural icons including Andy Warhol whose lives were saved by transfusions.
The other gold Lion winner was Bravo/Y&R in Miami, with a Radio gold and silver award for Popclik headphones.
Conill, Saatchi & Saatchi's U.S. Hispanic agency, won a PR silver and an Outdoor bronze Lion for its "Mas Que un Auto" ("More Than a Car") campaign for Toyota, featuring a small, symbolic badge that Toyota owners could place on their cars bearing the unique nicknames of their automobiles.