Cactus taking fresh look at Colorado's balls

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Let's look at this ballsy campaign by Cactus for the Colorado Powerball lottery. The agency was told to refresh the existing digital-signage campaign while maintaining the motif of six big red balls signifying the six zeroes of a multimillion-dollar jackpot. The solution was to rearrange the balls and tweak the backgrounds to represent gears, circuitry, chemical formulas and such, illustrating that Powerball has been "re-engineered," "re-wired," "re-programmed," etc., to yield faster-growing jackpots. The resulting boards seem a bit hard to read (is the jackpot just $173?).

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