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

Project:

Nike Air 360 campaign

Client:

Nike


Team:

Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, with Paulo Martins


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.

Nike "Defy" 60s Cinema
Nike "Endure" 60s Cinema

Print/OOH Billboards "A little less gravity"

++

Loving you from here

Based in LA and plugged into Berlin, London and Amsterdam, we get up early and defy time zones. +++

022 Kia X NBA

Project:

Client:

Kia


Team:

David & Goliath LA, with Marcos Botelho


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

TV commercial/online video "Hoops"

003 Reebok

Project:

Digital campaign

Client:

Reebok


Team:

Gold for Cash, with Irene Kugelmann


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

Online video "Sprouts" 30s

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...

TVC "Last Chance" 30s

+
“Never play for the gallery.”

David Bowie said that, so it must be right.
+

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.

Film "Lyon 25"
Case study "Leaps"

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


Team:

VCCP Berlin, with Sebastian Oehme


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.

"Raised on Concrete" Case Film

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!
+
+

+
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


Team:

Gold for Cash Inc. with Mischa Meyer and Sam Bayer


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.

Film "Guardians", narrated by LA local legend Edward James Olmos

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.

Case Film

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


Team:

Gold For Cash Inc. with Mischa Meyer


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.

Anthem film

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.

Case Film

Wild posting throughout Berlin

Always outnumbered.
+

+++++
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.

Case Film

Europe's biggest newspaper, published without any images

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

Cinema Ad

"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.

Case film

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


Team:

Gold for Cash with Irene Kugelmann


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.

TFW you think of cleaning

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.

Online video “Gel-TV” Episode 1

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

Online video “Gel-TV” Episode 2

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.

Brand anthem film

Portrait of a photographer in Iceland

BMW Brazil story
BMW US TVC

++

++