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Corporate Name of Client: Usher
Account Lead: Ricardo Honnegger
Agency: AKQA, São Paulo
Creative Directors: Diego Machado/Hugo Veiga
Associate Creative Director: Renato Zandoná
Copywriter: Raphael Valenti
Art Director: Augusto Antunes
Agency Producer: Leticia Hernandez
Creative Developers: Emile Swain/Paddy Keane/Kathryn Webb/Andy Hood
Senior DevOps Engineer: Daniel Mitchell
Digital Media Lead: Agnieszka Porada
Digital Strategy Lead: Ana Julia Agostinho
Senior User Experience Architect: Joanne Alden
Associate User Experience Architect: Ruth Baughan
Motion Designer: Rafaella Pioto
Director of Web Development: Andrew Smith
Site Developer: Mihnea Belcin
Associate Programme Director: Joe Holland
Project Manager: Daniele Wieczorek
Quality Assurance Team: Terry Nweze/Zeeshan Naseer
Full interactive experience is here: http://chains.tidal.com While racial injustice keeps killing, society keeps looking away, quickly moving on to the next sensational story without truly acknowledging the lives lost, or making any real progress towards change. To change it, Usher produced the song Chains and challenged us to launch it using today’s modern tools. To make everyone look into an issue that no one wants to look at, we created the first music video that demands your attention. Visitors to Chains.tidal.com are compelled to look into victims of brutality and confront the shocking facts of each person’s story. Facial recognition software, activated through a webcam, stops the music if the viewer looks away. Facing the facts was the first step towards people and media engagement. In only four days, the video received 500k views and was featured in news outlets from more than 100 countries. World acclaimed influencers like DiCaprio, Coldplay and Kevin Durant took it to social media and helped make this serious issue part of the world’s pop culture conversation. Don’t Look Away became the centrepiece of a movement with concerts, social and art events, talks at universities and conferences, committed to reveal and break the chains of social injustice.