Gold For Cash Inc. comes as a one-man lineup with creative director Oliver De Vitre—formerly known as Oliver Frank—or as a collective of fellow like-minded creatives. With agencies like Wieden+Kennedy, R/GA and VCCP under our belt, we know the game inside out and we aren’t in it to play it safe. G4C is here to provide you with creative work worth your money. Gold is the standard, cut-through our currency. Let us crush mediocrity and break some hearts along the way, shall we?
001 Nike Air
022 Kia X NBA
003 Reebok
169 Apple iPhone 15
004 Nike JDI
083 Bayer Leaps
018 Nike Football
006 Core
048 Mercedes-Benz
029 Nike Football
094 On Running
008 Nike Women
051 Bild
009 Converse
047 Birkenstock
209 Kärcher Global
002 Asics Gel-TV
072 BMW Motorrad
001 Nike Air
Project:
Nike Air 360 campaign
Client:
Nike
A double-headed campaign for Nike Air showing both sides of Nike's famous shock absorbing shoe technology.
‘Endure’ dramatizes how hard sports can go on both your body and soul, and was awarded with a Bronze Lion for Film at Cannes.
‘Defy’ celebrates how athletes feel suspended from gravity with Nike Air cushioning. It won a Clio and best film at the Art Director’s Club Germany.

Print/OOH Billboards "A little less gravity"


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022 Kia X NBA
Project:
Client:
Kia
Kia is a long-time sponsor of the NBA. For the 2023 season, the campaign 'Legends of the Driveway' celebrates the spot where every hoop shot and memory intertwines. Kia's campaign, led by David&Goliath (D&G), celebrates where basketball meets cars. In the 2023 Telluride SUV, the journey begins – on and off the asphalt.


Social campaign "Your Driveway Hoops"


Driveway hoops photography






003 Reebok
Project:
Digital campaign
Client:
Reebok
What do you do if your footwear is already made of 50% plant-based materials, but not yet a 100?
“Come grow with us” is an integrated campaign set in a world of green — without attempting to greenwash the fact that the brand’s sustainability efforts are a work in progress.
Instead, Reebok invited its audience to rise up to the challenge in a joint effort and support their “ReeGrow” approach.

Digital Display ads

Digital lookbook photography

169 Apple iPhone 15
Project:
TV-Campaign
Client:
Apple X Vodafone
Team:
Antoni Berlin
Apple introduced the iPhone 15, and we didn't make it about the camera...

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“Never play for the gallery.”
David Bowie said that, so it must be right.
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004 Nike JDI
Project:
"Just do it" Brand Campaign
Client:
Nike
Team:
R/GA Los Angeles
Work for R/GA on a brief by Nike to encourage athletes to make a social impact in all matters that matter to them. This proposal was eventually beaten by Wieden + Kennedy’s brilliant “Believe in Something” campaign. Sometimes you win silver without losing gold.


083 Bayer Leaps
Project:
Integrated Campaign
Client:
Bayer Life Sciences
Team:
Gold For Cash Inc.
Two skateboarders work together to land an impossible jump 15 years after the first attempt: a true story served as a metaphor for health care giant Bayer's new approach to achieve breakthroughs by collaboration between competing scientists. Filmed in Bolivia on the largest salt plain in the world and featuring a voice-over by Tony Hawk, the campaign won a Cannes Lion and was listed as one of the top ten game changing health campaigns worldwide.

Interactive event tour with a recreation of the “Lyon 25” steps with responsive LED and projection mapping at Summit LA 2017 in Los Angeles.



018 Nike Football
Project:
Brand activation campaign
Client:
Nike
An integrated campaign for the Nike FC247 street football boots tells the remarkable story of the Boating brothers Jérôme, Kevin-Prince and George, who grew up on a football street court in Berlin, setting out to become pro players. Two of the three siblings made it, playing for Germany and Ghana’s national teams — while one of them had to fight his way back from adversity and jail.
'Raised on Concrete' connected social and digital with on the ground OOH and events to inspire young players in their own ambitions – as well as struggling young adults. The campaign was awarded as one of the top 3 integrated campaigns in Germany.



Permanent event space at the Boateng's home pitch with a room for each of the brothers.

Two weeks of event programming with football tournaments, DJ battles, sneaker auctions and haircuts at the barber shop.

A graphic novel told the brothers' origin story





Collectible: a book cover made of concrete



Jerôme Boateng with his permanent 3B-tattoo

The brothers spend two weeks on their home pitch with their individual living rooms.




The story of the brothers' reunion started on social media...


...and was set on stone with a mural in their neighborhood that remains untouched as of today.
Ego, you’re on mute!
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We love to do work that resonates with culture rather than award juries and we win awards anyway.
006 Core
Project:
Online campaign
Client:
Core/Sean Penn
Community Organized Relief Effort is the emergency relief organization of Sean Penn that first offered free COVID testing for everyone in Los Angeles – at a time when governments were still in a state of shock early in the pandemic.
Written, shot and produced as a three-man crew in the middle of the first lockdown, the film documents the efforts of frontline volunteers, the City of LA and the LAFD as they tirelessly worked to protect and save lives. Shared by many celebrities like Robert Downey Jr. and others, the piece brought in over 30m$ in donations, including from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey – helping CORE to run the world’s biggest vaccination site at LA Dodgers Stadium.

Still photography of first responders and volunteers for social campaigning



048 Mercedes-Benz
Project:
Continuous brand support
Client:
Mercedes-Benz
Team:
Antoni Berlin
Since 2019, Gold For Cash Inc. supports Mercedes-Benz' lead agency Antoni Berlin on a diverse range of projects from car launches, sustainable initiatives to cultural impact campaigns.

A quick look at some NDA-heavy work...

Launch ads for a hybrid beast from Mercedes-Benz performance brand AMG.




Film for a collaboration between James Cameron and Mercedes.

The Mercedes-Benz Files revealed some of the carmaker's best kept secrets.






029 Nike Football
Project:
Integrated social campaign
Client:
Nike EHQ
Team:
VCCP Berlin
In 2012, Nike shook up the European Football Championship with a grassroots move, "Hungry German Youth". Sidestepping the big ads, we launched a movement for Germany’s national team of up-and-comers in football. Central to the idea was a killer shirt designed by Berlin street artist Paul Snowden, rocked first by German national stars like Özil and Götze, then seeded to influencers and the public. A simple t-shirt became a fashion must-have, blindsiding Adidas and scoring Nike an insane 100 million in media buzz, all through savvy social media and interactive promos.

Ahtlete seedings


German national team players chalked their hometown fields

Athlete seeding box



Wild posting


Lookbook








After-Match day posters

Sticker seedings made the campaign design ubiquitous

Working with AI? Absolutely.
Working like bots? Absolutely not.
094 On Running
Project:
Social Campaign
Client:
On
A campaign that highlighted the mutual trust between eleven professional track runners of the On Athletics Club, ahead of their solo races at the World Athletics Championships. Based on a truth in running – no matter now good a runner you are you will allays be better with a team – we zeroed in on the transformative power of team spirit, shared values and fellowship – even for athletes who compete as individuals.


Display/OOH


Paid social



The campaign got picked up by the NYT
008 Nike Women
Project:
Client:
Nike Europe
Team:
VCCP Berlin, with @ohohsebbo
How do you activate 10,000 ladies to sign up for the Nike Women’s Race Series, a 10K race which might even be their very first? And how do you keep them motivated to train over the months leading up the event?
By integrating the Nike+ running app, we turned mileage into currency. We sent a custom-build food truck to local food markets throughout Berlin where runners could trade their runs for drinks, food and goodies every week.


Wild posting throughout Berlin





Always outnumbered.
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Never outclassed.
051 Bild
Project:
Integrated Campaign
Client:
Axel Springer Publishing House
Team:
VCCP Berlin
BILD is Germany's biggest news outlet by far. When they faced heavy flak for publishing controversial photos of drowned refugees, we came to refresh the brand with a campaign and the first new tagline in 20 years, stating their challenger role: "Only BILD would dare.“
Using BILD’s iconic logo and the origin of its name – meaning "image“ in German – we launched a choreography of activations that made the BILD campaign #1 trending topic on twitter in Germany. The campaign won two Silver Lions for Integrated and Media/Publishing at Cannes that year.

Europe's biggest newspaper, published without any images


"Never touch the logo", they say. For OOH, we did.



"The year in one image" double page spread
009 Converse
Project:
Integrated Social/OOH campaign
Client:
Converse
Team:
VCCP
Every Converse Chuck Taylor All Star tells a story, unique as the person who wears them. In our "Made by You" campaign for Germany, we tapped into the heart of making, partnering with artists like photorgaphers, DJ, illustrators and MCs to craft one-of-a-kind media pieces while rocking their own Chucks – which then became individual portraits in our ATL campaign.




Ellen Alien animation music video










Photographer Matt Lambert reenacted his childhood in LA




Illustrator Stefan Marx took notes on the streets of NYC and Tokyo



MC Black Cracker created a 3D animation video

Ry X composed and performed a new track in Berlin
047 Birkenstock
Project:
Product launch campaign
Client:
Birkenstock Europe
A campaign for Birkenstock's first shoe that isn't a sandal, but a sneaker (gasp). The European-wide launch was developed direct to client and produced on a shoestring budget, excuse the pun. The world was in shock and awe over the Birkenstock "Bend", the sneaker sold out within two weeks.




OOH/Display ads



IG stories campaign


Integrated e-commerce


209 Kärcher Global
Project:
Global campaign
Client:
Kärcher Global
Team:
Antoni Berlin with Kirsten Frenz
If you're the world's top manufacturer of cleaning tools, there's nothing more important than cleaning. But for most people out there, the thought of cleaning totally sucks. Kärcher gets it though and showed true empathy with a campaign that played up how the thought of cleaning can drive people nuts.

002 Asics Gel-TV
Project:
Digital Campaign
Client:
Asics Europe
Team:
Aimaq Rapp Stolle Berlin
An irreverent campaign to promote the shock-absorbing qualities of ASICS GEL technology: gel.tv was designed as a fake e-commerce platform resembling Japanese TV-shopping channels, which sold all sorts of strange products made of GEL. The campaign won two Silver Cyber Lions in Cannes.


A fake e-commerce platform for imaginary products made with Gel-technology


072 BMW Motorrad
Project:
Brand Campaign
Client:
BMW Motorrad
Team:
VCCP Berlin
Make Life A Ride is the first global brand campaign in the history of BMW Motorrad which dares to re-ignite the world of motorcycling that used to inspire generations. The campaign launched worldwide and has been running since 2014 in each of the local markets, telling relevant stories – from a female rock band in Brooklyn to a landscape photographer in Iceland.












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