Grey New York and New York Festivals Launch ‘No BS Allowed’ Campaign and Plant Seeds of Growth
The New York Festivals Advertising Awards is now officially open for entries for the 2025 competition. Grey New York has teamed up with New York Festivals Advertising Awards to unveil a bold new creative campaign, titled “No BS Allowed,” for the show’s 2025 awards season. The campaign serves as a call for entries, challenging the advertising industry to reject superficiality and focus on creating work that truly matters.
The New York Festivals Advertising Awards, known for celebrating the world’s most innovative and impactful advertising, is taking a hard stance against the industry’s reliance on inflated metrics, fabricated buzz, and empty results. In this provocative campaign, these industry conventions are reimagined as something more tangible and valuable: fertilizer for growth.
Thiago Cruz, Chief Creative Officer at Grey New York : “New York is famously known for not putting up with BS, so we’re ensuring our festival stands for that too. We’re looking for work that truly drives both cultural and business value for clients.”
The campaign humorously relabels case studies’ so-called “BS” with sharp accuracy, exposing the elements that undermine true creativity:
* Made-up tweets
* Inflated number of impressions
* Lots and lots of positive sentiment
To launch the campaign, Grey New York created a mockumentary-style film, titled “100 % Bull . It portrays real farmers talking directly to the camera about the free bags of manure they received. Each bag is humorously labeled with award show case study jargon like “Made-up Tweets”, creating moments of genuine confusion and comedy as the farmers, unfamiliar with the advertising world, discuss the potential benefits of the unconventional fertilizer for their crops.
In addition to the video, the new campaign consists of social content and print. And at the end of the festival’s judging process, Grey NY and the New York Festivals will be donating fertilizer to the NYC Parks, in hopes that the industry’s fabricated results can be transformed into something real and productive.
“New York Festivals has always been about celebrating creativity that pushes boundaries and drives progress,” said Scott Rose, President at New York Festivals. “This campaign is a reminder that our jury wants to rise above the noise of awards gamification and honor the true achievement: the courage, creativity, and dedication it takes to bring powerful ideas to life, inspire action, and shape the future of our industry.”
The 2025 New York Festivals Advertising Awards are now open for entries. Creatives, agencies, and brands worldwide are invited to submit their work and join the movement to redefine what award-winning advertising can be.
For more information about the campaign or to submit an entry HERE.
The New York Festivals Advertising Awards competition receives entries from more than 60 countries and is judged by more than 400 members of NYF’s Executive Jury and Shortlist Jury, who collectively cast their votes to select the year’s trophy-winning work.
The official deadline to enter the 2025 New York Festivals Advertising Awards is April 25, 2025. For more information on categories, rules and regulations visit: HERE.
Creative Agency: Grey New York
Global Chief Creative Officer: Gabriel Schmitt
Chief Creative Officer, NY: Thiago Cruz
Executive Creative Director Brent Singer
Group Creative Director: Alvaro Soto
Associate Creative Director: Marcelo Bacellar
Associate Creative Director: Matthew Everts
Senior Art Director: Chelsea Robinson
Strategy Director: Nicolas Pilaprat
Director, PM: Arie Andrews
Director of Communications: Christie Giera
Production Agency: Townhouse
Chief Production Officer: James McPherson
Group Executive Producer: Saul Metnick
Senior Producer: Ana Suarez
Producer: Samuel Morse
VP, Business Affairs: Lisa Mercier
Business Affairs Manager: Vanessa Ovart
Director of Talent Management: Regina Gomez
Production + Post Production:
Production Company: Hungry Man
Director: Ben Callner
Line Producer: Adam Callner
Executive Producer/ Managing Partner: Caleb Dewart
Executive Producer/Partner: Kim Dellara
Executive Producer: Franchesca McDowell
Edit: Cabin Editing Company
Editor: Chris Kelley
Assistant Editor: Mark Gutierrez
Producer: Lorelei Mira Polk
EP: Hope DuHaime
Sound House: 750mph
Sound Engineer: Matthew Ennis
Audio Producer: Aishah Amodu
VFX & Finishing: Method Studios / Company 3
EVP, Global Managing Director-Executive: Jesse Kurnit
EP: Nicholas Dziekonski
Production Coordinator: Olivia Vitagliano
Flame lead: Larry Merril
Colorist: Joseph Bicknell
Flame artist: Marlon Bondoc
VFX Assistant: Sergio Segovia
Photographer: Gabriella Angotti-Jones
Stills Retouching: VELEM
