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Timeless Ideas

Dream Crazy

Brand:
Nike
Agency:
Wieden+Kennedy Portland
2019FilmVideo · YouTube

Timeless principle

A brand earns cultural relevance by accepting real consequences.

The idea

Use athletes who risk everything for their convictions to make ambition feel consequential again.

Why it works

The film links familiar sporting sacrifice to Colin Kaepernick’s polarizing stand, so the line ‘Believe in something’ carries a real cost. Nike’s long-held worldview gains contemporary stakes. The message matters because the brand cannot say it safely.

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