Black Bear, The Monkey - Turning social hype into box office bite

With a packed release window and a limited budget, Black Bear challenged us to make horror film The Monkey stand out. We created a fan-first, platform-native campaign across TikTok, Snapchat, and Reddit, using shock-led creative and community-fuelled content to ignite conversation, boost box office results, leading to great results.

23.Oct.2025

TWELVE Mail

In this edition of TWELVE Mail, we celebrate what we’ve achieved together – record-breaking results, creative excellence, and bold steps toward AI and internationalization. At the heart of it all are the people and ideas that show why #TogetherWeAreUnlimited is more than just a hashtag – from the “House of AI” to our ambitions in London.

Issue 9

Best Trends

It is evident that in these uncertain times, we are recentring on people and brands. The focus is on emotional brand management.Meanwhile, internally, more than ever before, CMOs are people managers, whose main task is to manage people in an agile manner and create an emotional bond between them and the company.

Revolution of computer-generated creation

Artificially generated images and videos take over the communication sector. It is essential that we use this technology in an ethically responsible way, argues Jens Krahe.

With shrinking budgets and ever more complex briefs, how can creativity support consumers and their favourite brands in the short-term?

Metaverse 2023: Three trends, three perspectives

NFTs, VR vs. AR, or even communities: our Metaverse experts Yves Bollinger, Nina Matztat, Christian Waitzinger and Alex Turtschan show us what to expect from Web3 in 2023.

Consumer climate meets ‘cluster crisis’. Julia Zimmermann reveals how shoppers are adjusting to current circumstances and how brands can best react accordingly.

More marketing power for sustainability? In an interview with Serviceplan CSO Stefanie Kuhnhen, she revealed how green the 2023 marketing year will actually be.

People and emotions are once more the heart of the matter, especially in marketing. The current CMO Barometer analysis reveals what lies ahead of us in the 2023 marketing year.

The Emotion Engine enables us to understand and benchmark the impact of creation, and to optimise and predict it with AI. This has been tested by Egger, a privately owned brewery.

PENNY and Serviceplan's 2022 Christmas Campaign – ‘The Rift’ – is a Powerful Plea Against the Divisions within Society.

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