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Afghanistan Crisis Appeal
Afghanistan is in a state of a humanitarian crisis, with 8 million people facing famine this winter. With temperatures set to plummet as low as -12°C, we've been working around the clock to help the DEC launch this urgent Afghanistan Crisis Appeal.
Transforming your customers into champions
Setting up and running customer advocacy programmes isn’t a walk in the park. distillery hosted its first Customer Reference Masterclass in APAC with three industry experts to talk about why it’s business critical to localise content and to explore innovative ways to harness the power of customers as champions.
Introducing our typeface, Diversity
“distillery has embarked on this project to further the conversation and importance of diversity and inclusion within the creative industry. Diversity isn’t something to be solved; it’s an ongoing journey that will be forever changing, and the industry needs to recognise this. We hope that by creating awareness around this initiative, we will encourage others to think about how we can positively promote diversity and cultural intelligence, and act on improving their knowledge and understanding of diversity in all walks of life,” said Steve Wheen, founder, distillery
Lazada launches new employee brand positioning
Lazada is one of South East Asia’s leading tech and digital commerce platforms, serving millions of shoppers with their everyday retail needs across markets including Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.
India is experiencing the worst Covid-19 outbreak anywhere in the world so far.
Our latest film for the Disaster Emergency Committee and Himesh Patel shows what kind of support the country needs and how you might be able to help.
Achieving cut-through during the busy holiday period with a timely and meaningful campaign
In 2020, the face mask became the most iconic symbol of the global community. We wanted to create something positive out of COVID-19, so we decided to reimagine the face mask as a conduit for fundraising.
Rise and Shine with Lil-Lets: Empowering young girls with freedom during their period
Lil-Lets wanted to encourage young girls to use its non-applicator tampons, so we put together a campaign to bust any misconceptions they might have as potential first-time users.
DEC Coronavirus Appeal: A social campaign to help raise over £51M and save lives against the clock
As part of the DEC’s coronavirus appeal to help fragile states, team distillery produced a series of social and editorial content to drive awareness and donation.
#RidiculouslyGood Coffee: Cafédirect
We were approached by Cafédirect, the UK’s largest 100% Fairtrade hot drinks brand (and the UK's first B Corp certified coffee producer!), who commissioned two pieces of content from us.
Helping Google celebrate their customers’s success through the power of film
Google for Retail helps businesses boost online presence to reach their goals. We helped Google hero their customers’ success through two video case studies.
Oxfam: #SecondHandSeptember
Oxfam is raising awareness to the environmental impact of fast fashion and asked us to make a video to help promote a more sustainable alternative: their Oxfam online shop.
For The Workers
Bringing trade unions together from 147 countries, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) aims to improve the working lives of 18.5 million men and women around the world.
What will your day bring?
The VR Awards, which now falls under the umbrella of AIXR, wanted to celebrate the outstanding work that goes into some of the industry’s best VR experiences.
Plastic & Periods
We’re excited to share some of our latest work for Lil-Lets featuring magician Katherine Mills. Collaborating with some very talent partners, we’ve created and are executing a paid social campaign across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to educate women about the amount of plastic in applicator tampons.
From dumping ground to thriving community
YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine. As a YouTube certified agency, we’re passionate about helping brands use YouTube’s full potential for building thriving communities around content.
British Media Awards: we won video of the Year!
Following our nomination earlier in the year, we are ecstatic to have won ‘Video of the Year’ at the British Media Awards 2018. We were up against some awesome finalist films from VICE UK, JOE Media and Alpha Grid. With such respected names in the mix, to have made it to the shortlist was an achievement in itself, but to pick up the award was an honour!
Travelling on Trash
Keep Cups. Paper straws. Recycled plastics in fashion. Something that is very topical, and very close to our hearts at the moment is plastic pollution. Travelling on Trash is our first short form documentary and one of the first original productions from Real Stories, because it’s an adventure woven around how plastics are affecting our rivers on a huge scale.
Dogs Trust campaign
The team at distillery London was recently tasked by the Dog’s Trust to produce a shareable campaign to remind dog owners that their furry friends need to wear a legally compliant collar with their microchip details, as well as their owner’s correct and up-to-date name and address.
We've been busy fermenting!
A New Year equals new work. Normally, we’re busy distilling. But over the last couple months, we’ve been fermenting away and are now excited to share with you our new film for Eaten Alive.
Made by distillery
The weird, the wonderful, the self-initiated.
Projects and experiments from the distillers.
distillery sessions
#distillerysessions is the podcast series from distillery, where we explore the latest trends and upcoming marketing tools bouncing around in the industry. From personalised videos, to creating brand fandoms and the impact you can have on your audience.
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