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L’Oréal, Garnier

True Beauty

Branding Concept Creative CSR Digital OOH

Garnier has the ambition to use 100% recycled plastic in all their packaging by 2025. Our job was to create an awareness campaign and encourage people to recycle their plastic so we can limit the usage of “virgin plastics”.

We convinced the world’s biggest beauty brand to throw their products in the trash.

Make it right
When you’re a beauty brand, you want to make your products look as beautiful and sterile as possible when showing them to the world. But when the message of your campaign involves the part where you throw the product out, why not show that instead?

Make it magic
We made a series of films and prints showing Garnier’s products in the least likely way a beauty brand would present them: Empty, used and in the (right) trashcan.

Make it work
The different executions were widely distributed from instore material to the cinema with a short message encouraging people to recycle their plastic.

”It’s not often you see a brand promoting itself by throwing its own products in the trash. But that’s exactly what one of the world’s leading beauty brands, Garnier from L’Oréal, does in a new Nordic campaign”

Mediet Markedsføring, July 2022

Results

45.6%

uplift in Micellar Water sales and 19,3% uplift in Frutic Core sales

26%

more positive attitude towards Garnier after seeing the ad

50%

wanted to try the product, which is 21% over benchmark

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Elgiganten

Promocodes of conduct

Concept Creative Event OOH Social

Gaming should be fun, but with 76% of players experiencing online harassment, "toxic behavior" has become the industry's final boss. Elgiganten and Astralis wanted to trigger a cultural shift in the competitive gaming community. Leveraging the scientific insight that written, public promises increase the likelihood of behavioral change, we reinvented the most basic e-commerce tool: the promo code. Instead of short codes like "SPRING25," we launched "Promo Codes of Conduct": absurdly long, unmissable strings of text that acted as a visual contract for better behavior.

We turned the internet’s most toxic environment into a discount goldmine – if you promised to behave.

Make it right To change behavior in a culture where “trash talk” is the norm, you can’t just preach; you have to incentivize. We identified a friction point: every gamer wants a discount, but no gamer likes being told how to talk. By merging the two, weturned the act of saving money into a commitment to sportsmanship. 

Make it magic We replaced standard discount codes with extreme, long-form pledges. To get the deal, users had to copy-paste or type out sentences like: I-PROMISE-NOT-TO-RAGE-AT-MY-TEAMMATES-JUST-BECAUSE-THEY-MISSED-A-GRENADE-GLHF. Launched during the BLAST Premier in partnership with Astralis and gaming influencer @Ministern, the codes became a viral medium in themselves: impossible to ignore and inherently shareable. 

Make it work The campaign bypassed traditional “awareness” by living directly in the checkout flow and on social feeds as a visual meme. By using the “For helvede Palle!” (Dammit Palle!) meme and anchoring the activation in Elgiganten’s webshop and OOH, we reached gamers where they live. It wasn’t just a campaign; it was a functional “contract” that used a digital sales tool to spark a real conversation about toxicity. 

Results: 

  • Most successful sales activation in Elgiganten’s gaming history (measured by engagement, traffic, and sales). 
  • Massive organic reach through headlines in both Danish and international gaming media. 
  • Turned a scientific insight into a functional e-commerce solution, proving that creativity can drive both revenue and social change. 

”Astralis and Elgiganten are setting out to end toxic behavior in the gaming world by turning the promo code into a tool for respect.”

Politiken

Awards & publicity

Danish Digital Award

Shotlist, Best Use of Content Creators

Danish Digital Award

Shortlist, Best in innovative use of technology

Creative Circle

Shortlist, Creative Use of Technology

Creative Circle

Shortlist, Creative Use of Influencers

Creative Circle

Shortlist, Creative Partnerships