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Grand Award
Adoptable. By PEDIGREE.
PEDIGREE
New Zealand
2025
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Entrant Company
Colenso BBDO
Entry Type
Product/Service
Program
Clio Awards 2025
Medium Type
Professional
Medium
Direct
Category
Out of Home
Every ad PEDIGREE makes around the world has one universal similarity. It always features a dog in it. We wondered, what if that dog could be adoptable. Partnering with Nexus Studios, we’ve developed a bespoke AI system that can transform a single image of a shelter dog into studio quality photography. This 'glow up' image is then mapped to a CGI rig, allowing the photo-real double to be positioned in any pose to suit any piece of PEDIGREE creative.   From main meal, treat and retail ads, every dog we feature can now be a real shelter dog who needs a home.   Adoptable places local shelter dogs into the ads you see, and when that dog is adopted it’s instantly dropped out of media rotation. The Adoptable initiative supercharges our brand purpose. Now every dollar we spend on media doesn’t just take our products to the world, it takes shelter dogs, too.   
Credits
Creative Agency
Colenso BBDO
Auckland
Creative Agency
Colenso BBDO
Auckland
Client
Mars NZ
Auckland
Holding Company
Omnicom Group
New York
Agency Network
BBDO
New York
Production Company
Nexus Studios
London
Media Agency
Essence Mediacom
Auckland
Public Relations Agency
Porter Novelli
Auckland
Chief Creative Officer
Simon Vicars
Colenso BBDO
Chief Executive Officer
Angela Watson
Colenso BBDO
Chief Creative Officer
Simon Vicars
Colenso BBDO
Group Executive Creative Director
Hadleigh Sinclair
Colenso BBDO
Group Executive Creative Director
Kim Ragan
Colenso BBDO
Copywriter
Tim Thach
Colenso BBDO College Hill
Art Director
Isabel Snellen
Colenso BBDO College Hill
Managing Partner
Natalie Downes
Colenso BBDO
Senior Programme Director
Clare Bone
Colenso BBDO
Innovation Hub - Senior Business Director
Jane Cathcart
Colenso BBDO
Business Manager
Darcy Ellis
Colenso BBDO College Hill
Strategic Lead
Emma Tait
Colenso BBDO
Head of Integrated Production
Charlotte Glennon
Colenso BBDO
Lead Integrated Producer
Anna Flaws
Colenso BBDO
Chief Strategy Officer
Rob Campbell
Colenso BBDO
Group Planning Director/Deputy Head of Strategic Planning
Martin Bassot
Colenso BBDO
Strategy Director
James Tucker
Colenso BBDO College Hill
Head of Technology & Innovation
Logan Maire
Colenso BBDO
Head of Digital Production
Tennille Barnes
Colenso BBDO
UI Designer
Flora Zhou
Colenso BBDO
Digital Design Lead
Sonya Milford
Colenso BBDO
Senior Digital Producer
Elle Kiddie
Colenso BBDO
Digital Designer
Casey Chan
Colenso BBDO
Retoucher
Reks Kok
Colenso BBDO
Design Intern
Stella Wilson
Colenso BBDO
Mac Op
Tias Somers
Colenso BBDO
Mac Operator
Bri Russell
Colenso BBDO
Innovation and Transformation Lead
Nico Hume-Ainsworth
Colenso BBDO
Group Executive Creative Director
Duncan Bone
Colenso BBDO
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