UM and Boston Pizza tapped into Canadian hockey superstition over the playoff season with “The Hockey Gods,” a comedic campaign aimed at ending the country’s long Cup drought through a little divine intervention. A 30-second hero spot opens on an ordinary street before transforming into surreal chaos, thunder like goal horns, red-lit skies, and hockey
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UM and Reese’s Canada are blending confectionery and sneaker culture through a consumer giveaway created in collaboration with Canadian artist Inked Out Kicks to celebrate two new Reese’s Big Cup flavours. The campaign included a contest that awarded 10 winners custom-designed sneakers inspired by the limited-time strawberry and marshmallow SKUs. The launch was supported by
Women’s sports in Canada are entering a new growth phase, with rising investment and evolving audience behaviours expanding opportunities for advertisers. But the bigger shift is how audiences are being measured. As viewing fragments across streaming, social and highlights, traditional metrics are undercounting engagement. Including digital audiences, leagues like the PWHL, NSL and WNBA are
UM and Factor Canada are shifting performance marketing away from highlight-reel moments and toward the routines that make them possible. In a new year-long partnership with Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement, the ready-to-eat meal brand anchors its story in the demands of a 162-game MLB season. A 30-second spot highlights Clement’s disciplined approach to
UM and Twizzlers tapped into the viral “dirty soda” craze with Twizzlers Straws, a playful new format designed to bring customized, café-style soda hacks into everyday homes. Inspired by TikTok’s endlessly remixable drinks that blend carbonated soda with coffee creamer and flavoured syrups, the launch positions Twizzlers as both ingredient and straw-like stirrer for indulgent
UM and Boston Pizza are taking aim at the chaos of fast-food lunches with their latest Hungry for BP campaign; Fast lunch doesn’t have to mean fast food. The creative leans into everyday “crime scenes” of rushed meals—sauce-stained ties, salt-dusted steering wheels, and desk clutter—positioning BP as the ultimate midday sanctuary for Canadians seeking real food on a
UM and Liberté celebrated the brand’s 90th anniversary with a multi-platform campaign, Taste, Always. The integrated rollout combines traditional prime-time TV with connected TV placements on Ici Tou.TV, TVA+, Netflix, Prime Video and Fire TV, complemented by social amplification on Meta, TikTok and Pinterest. For the first time, UM Canada is leveraging pause ads in
UM and FreshCo are bringing the brand’s “That’s Fresh” platform to life with a fully integrated, multi-channel campaign. FreshCo’s iconic dancing duo takes centre stage in stores, highlighting lowest-price guarantees and Compliments offerings, while targeted multicultural adaptations focus on Hinglish, Mandarin and Cantonese audiences. The media strategy spans cinema, CTV, DOOH, Meta, TikTok, YouTube/OLV and
Jeenal Patel, VP, Strategy, UM, has been selected to judge the 2026 Campaign Canada Agency of the Year Awards. She will team up with industry leaders from across the country to choose the top contenders in the media category. These awards celebrate the best in Canadian-led insight, innovation, strategy, and creativity and the agency leaders
UM and FanDuel team up to highlight one of the Super Bowl’s most unpredictable moments, the coin toss, through the brand’s “Flip of Destiny” pop-up at Toronto’s Union Station. Visitors were able to step under the arches of the pop-up to make their heads-or-tails selection. All part of FanDuel’s “Fanuary,” a month-long Super Bowl initiative