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Cannes rounded off tonight with three big Grand Prix: Titanium (breaking the mould etc) for State Street Global Advisors’ ‘Fearless Girl, Integrated for Boost Mobile’s US voting campaign and, still the biggie although its status is under assault, Film for ...

Inside the emotional manipulation department at John Lewis In a seminar entitled ’emotional masterclass in advertising’, the people behind the Christmas ads that made a nation weep explained their approach. For Craig Inglis, the John Lewis marketing director, it’s about ...

WPP has come tops at Cannes today, named as the best performing holding company for the seventh year in succession. This despite boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s reservations about the festival (below), also highlighted by Publicis Groupe’s decision to pull out ...

Leo Burnett Chicago knocked the UK’s adam&eveDDB off its perch as the usual winner of the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix this year with its ‘Van Gogh’ campaign for Airbnb and the Art Institute of Chicago which featured a lifesize ...

“Why do you need yet another panel on diversity when you have the Glass Lion?” observed an ECD out in Cannes this week who shall remain nameless. With sexist ads back in the news this week, it is a comment ...

Here’s WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell talking about American football and great quarterbacks at this year’s Cannes Lions. No, me neither.

Snapchat’s Ferris wheel gets Arthur Sadoun in a spin The Snapchat Ferris wheel in front of the Palais this year has made one important French man very, very angry. Ad Age reports that Publicis Groupe boss Arthur Sadoun stated the ...

WPP’s Wunderman seems to be on a charge under the overall direction of WPP Digital boss Mark Read and now it’s won a whopper, Samsung Electronics’ CRM and loyalty marketing activity across Europe. The pitch was handled by Oystercatchers. Wunderman’s ...

C-Suite titles get dafter by the day so why not hire a Chief Happiness Officer? So here’s one and the same in the form of Asim Chaudhry, of ‘People Just Do Nothing’ and Chabuddy G fame (we’re told it’s fame), ...

Ad Effectiveness specialist WARC had a day at Cannes with three sessions and here are some of the speaker quotes it’s highlighted. Lessons from the World’s Best Campaigns “Think inside the box. There’s a tendency to go into a far ...