Leo Australia has won the Dan Wieden Titanium Lion in Cannes for its ‘Haven’ for Suncorp.
Leo’s work beat out 138 other campaigns for the final award. Four other Lions were awarded in the same category.
Haven is an innovative digital tool designed to help Australian homeowners understand their properties’ vulnerability to extreme weather and how to protect it. Utilising Suncorp’s proprietary data, Haven draws from 12 datasets, using APIs to create a cinematic experience that brings each home’s weather risks and resilience needs to life, alongside practical actions, connections to local trades, and a personalised resilience report.
The same work won the similarly prestigious Best Tech and AI Campaign award at the 2025 B&T Awards.
The Titanium Grand Prix follows other wins for Haven, including two Silver Lions, one for Market Disruption and Transformation in Creative Data and another for Consumer Services/B2B in Brand Experience and Activation; and a Bronze for Personalised Campaigns in Direct.
Mim Haysom, CMO and executive general manager brand and customer experience, Suncorp: “We are so thrilled to have our resilience work for Suncorp globally recognised with a Titanium. It’s been a long-term commitment for us with this work taking our focus on resilience from an idea into an action that all Australians can benefit from. It took incredible teamwork to bring Haven to life, so a huge thanks and congratulations to our amazing collective team, this award is theirs.”
Haven builds on Suncorp’s long-standing commitment to resilience, which began in 2021 with ‘One House’, winner of the Grand Prix for Innovation at Cannes in 2022, before evolving into ‘Resilience Road’. The overarching ‘Building a More Resilient Australia’ platform also won Silver at Cannes last year for Creative Business Transformation.
Andy Fergusson, chief creative officer at Leo Australia: “It is truly humbling to have our work recognised in this way, and hard to put into words how proud I am of the team. This project was two years in the making and many more years in preparation. Everyone involved in Haven worked tirelessly to create something unique, that we believed could change behaviour.
“Congratulations to our talented creatives, business leads, producers and tech team at Leo. Our genius, unrelenting production partners at Unit 9, our media partners, and our incredible clients at Suncorp, who had belief in this idea from the beginning and did whatever it took to make Haven a reality, no matter what challenges it faced.”
Marco Venturelli, president and CCO at Leo, CCO at Publicis Groupe France and CEO/CCO at Publicis Conseil added: “We’re incredibly proud of Leo Australia, part of the Leo Constellation, for their tremendous success in the last two years, culminating in such strong wins in Cannes. This is testament to their capability to make great work for the Australian market and the impact achieved with strong client partnership. Marrying human insight and real innovation is at the heart of our vision. And for Leo Constellation, winning the top award of the festival two years in a row – it’s a reason to believe in it more than ever.”
Dan Wieden Titanium Lions Jury President Chaka Sobhani, global chief creative officer, TBWA\Worldwide, said: “The theme of the festival is where does creativity go next? And that is what the Dan Weiden Titanium Lion exemplifies in droves. This is about celebrating the ideas that are genuinely game changing, that inspire us to reimagine what is possible, and that genuinely pave the way for where creativity can go in the future. These are not ideas that exist for just one moment but that have a true and profound lasting impact on how brands show up in the world, on business, on people, on the culture we are part of and on the world we live in. Ultimately ideas that the world would miss if they didn’t exist.”
On the final day of Cannes, the Glass: The Lion for Change Grand Prix was awarded to ‘Nigrum Corpus’, for IDOMED & Instituto Yduqs, by Artplan, São Paulo. The work turned an injustice – racism – into a reality doctors are trained to recognise and treat, shifting how medicine sees, studies and cares for Black patients.
From 289 entries received in the Sustainable Development Goals Lions, 9 Lions were awarded: 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze, and the Grand Prix was presented to ‘Paid Sick Leave for Cows’, for Too Good, by The Partnership Agency, Nairobi. The work crosses boundaries between labour rights and agriculture, creating a new way to think about work and value in food systems.
The Film Lions received 1469 entries and 45 Lions were awarded: 8 Gold, 14 Silver, 22 Bronze, and the Grand Prix went to two campaign films ‘Can I Get a Six Pack Quickly?’ and ‘How Can I Communicate Better with My Mom?’, for Claude, by Mother London. The darkly comedic Super Bowl films positioned Claude as the AI pledging not to run commercial messages on its tools.
The Grand Prix for Good was awarded to ‘600K Network’, for Comando Con Venezuela, by Rainbow Lobster, Mexico City / Comando Con Venezuela, Caracas.
The work turned a simple QR code into a decentralised electoral verification system, transforming more than 600,000 citizens into an effective electoral verification network during the 2024 Venezuelan elections.
Ogilvy was named Network of the Year and Rethink was named Independent Network of the Year. Agency of the Year was given to LePub Milan. Independent Agency of the Year was Rethink, Toronto.
The Palme d’Or went to MJZ in the United States. Heineken was named Creative Brand of the Year.
