These are some of the most powerful and creative social issue ads you’ll ever see. Created by various ad agencies, these shocking advertisements aim to bring awareness and change for environmental and social causes.
1. Victims are people just like you and me.
Advertising Agency: Advico Y&R, Zurich, Switzerland
2. If you smoke, statistically your story will end 15% before it should.
Advertising Agency: Iris, London, UK
3. World Wide Fund for nature: Frightening vs. more frightening.
Advertising Agency: DDB&CO., Istanbul, Turkey
4. Your skin color shouldn’t dictate your future.
Advertising Agency: Publicis Conseil, Paris, France
5. Deforestation continues with the turn of a page.
Advertising Agency: LINKSUS, Beijing, China
6. Unhate.
Advertising Agency: Fabrica, Italy
7. Slower is better.
Advertising Agency: Cramer-Krasselt, Milwaukee, USA
8. Save paper, save the planet.
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Copenhagen, Denmark
9. Air pollution kills 60,000 people a year.
Advertising Agency: unknown
10. Liking isn’t helping. Be a volunteer. Change a life.
Advertising Agency: Publicis, Singapore
11. If you don’t pick it up they will.
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, Johannesburg, South Africa
12. What we see when you smoke.
Advertising Agency: JWT, Atlanta, USA
13. Animal Anti-Cruelty League: Stop the abuse.
Advertising Agency: Lowe Bull, Cape Town, South Africa
14. Don’t talk while driving.
Advertising Agency: Mudra Group, India
15. Child Soldiers: It’s not happening here, but it’s happening now.
Creative/Art director Pius Walker, Amnesty International, Switzerland
16. Censorship tells the wrong story.
Advertising Agency: Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, UAE
17. The number of car accidents involving children increases during school holidays.
Advertising Agency: Red Pepper, Ekaterinburg, Russia
18. Every 60 seconds a species dies out.
Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Berlin, Germany
19. Where’s the pedophile?
Art Director: Michael Arguello, Copywriter: Bassam Tariq, Additional credits: Jason Musante
20. Sexual predators can hide in your child’s smartphone.
Advertising Agency: Herezie, Paris, France
21. Smoking causes premature aging.
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG Australia
22. You’re not a sketch, say no to anorexia.
Advertising Agency: Revolution Brasil
23. Neglected children are made to feel invisible. Stop abuse now.
Australian Childhood Foundation, JWT Melbourne
24. Plastic bags kill.
Advertising Agency: BBDO Malaysia, MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur / Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume, Belgium
25. What goes around comes around. Keep the ocean clean.
Advertising Agency: JWT, Dubai, UAE
26. Tailgating isn’t worth it. Give trucks room.
Advertising Agency: Amélie Company, Denver, Colorado, USA
27. When you see a tuna, think of a panda.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore
28. Sleepiness is stronger than you. Don’t drive sleepy.
Advertising Agency: BBDO Bangkok, Thailand
29. See how easy feeding the hungry can be?
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, Johannesburg, South Africa
30. Cancer, which is thrown into your lung by yourself.
Advertising Agency: Dentsu, Beijing, China
31. Deforestation and the air we breathe.
Advertising Agency: TBWA\PARIS, France
32. For the homeless every day is a struggle.
Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne, Australia
33. Please don’t lose control over your drinking.
Advertising Agency: EURORSCG Prague, Czech Republic
34. Women need to be seen as equal.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Dubai, UAE
35. Don’t buy exotic animal souveniers.
Advertising Agency: LOWE GGK, Warsaw, Poland
36. Buckle up. Stay alive.
Advertising Agency: Lg2, Quebec, Canada
37. Same pet, different owner.
Advertising Agency: TBWA-Santiago Mangada Puno, Philippines