Guardian staff 

Award for bank campaign’s new take on salsa hit

Advertising accolade goes to Puerto Rican band El Gran Combo for reworking song about sloth to one about industry
  
  


An advertising campaign that persuaded the world's most famous salsa band to rewrite one of their most famous songs has been awarded top prize at a biennial awards ceremony.

JWT Puerto Rico created a campaign for Banco Popular in Puerto Rico, taking a song celebrating laziness, No Hago Más Ná, by El Gran Combo, and converting it into a celebration of hard work.

The campaign helped the bank, the largest on the island, to advertise its need for workers, and the rewritten song went to No 1 in the charts.

The Grand Prix award was given to the campaign at the Account Planning Group awards, celebrating excellence in communications strategy. A free concert to support the campaign attracted 60,000, and the bank's reputation index reached a record high.

 

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