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2024 ADC Awards - Photography

Explosions

Agency alma DDB / Miami

Client Coors Light

Category

Products / Commercial

Annual ID

ADC103_PHO016B

About the Work

As one of the leading brands in the competitive American beer market, Coors Light differentiates itself by being one of the only brands with a color-changing label that tells you when your brew has reached its perfect temperature— when the mountains on the bottle turn blue, you know your beer is ready to drink.

To celebrate 15 years of Coors Light’s unique packaging, the brand wanted to launch a campaign leaning on its unique product feature— the temperature-indicating label— to remind consumers that Coors Light is the only beer that can truly offer a fool-proof way to achieve the ideal beer drinking experience.

We leaned into a common consumer experience. We’ve all tried chilling our beer too fast— it gets too cold and explodes in your freezer. Timing is of the essence when it’s the difference between enjoying the perfect beer and cleaning up a beer slushie volcano.

The campaign showcases beer bottles after they’ve exploded in a freezer. While taking place in an everyday setting— a home freezer with some frozen food— the images take a dramatic approach, with the exploded bottles and frozen foam twisting into beautiful and often humorous shapes.

To reiterate the benefit of Coors Light, each print also includes two Coors Light bottles– one with gray mountains and another with blue ones– highlighting the change in the temperature-indicator label.

We placed the eerily familiar images in The New York Times (379,380 impressions) and the San Francisco Chronicle (226,860 impressions). Outdoor in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Reno garnered over 88,000 impressions in one day, while the digital billboards in Miami including interactive kiosks and convenience store decals leveraged over 184,000 impressions in one week.

2024 Awards

Total Points: 9

Credits

Agency

Alma DDB / Miami

PR / Marketing Agency

Connect

Client / Brand

Molson Coors Beverage Company / Chicago

Associate Creative Director

Humberto Maldonado

Chief Creative Officer

Alvar Sunol

Creative Director

Bruno Trad
Virgilio Flores

Executive Creative Director

Daniel Correa

Executive Producer

Jay Rivera

Photographer

Ale Burset

Account Director

Jose Hawayek

Associate Director, Planning

Jordan Bossert

Brand Public Relations Manager

Amber Dutra

Co-President & CEO

Isaac Mizrahi

Communications Coordinator

Martha Castro

Communications Director

Victoria Lutgring

Group Account Director

Karen Udler

Marketing Director, Coors Light

Katie Feldman

Marketing manager

Lauren Schirripa

Retoucher

Diego Speroni
Juary Leocadio

Supervisor, Content

Jessica Connor

VP Marketing, Coors, Global & North America

Marcelo Proenca Pascoa

VP, Content Director

Amanda Miller

VP, Media Director, Planning

Laura Johnson

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