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 ...

Saatchi & Saatchi won’t be winning any Lions at Cannes next year thanks to new Publicis Groupe boss Arthur Sadoun’s decision to can awards entries next year – not universally well received it seems, particularly among Publicis agencies one of ...

Not being at Cannes I can’t speak about the quality of the presentations – I leave that to my good friend Jane Austin – but here’s an interesting one available on YouTube from McKinsey partner and digital wizz Jason Heller. ...

Is Publicis Groupe right to pull out of the Cannes International Festival of Creativity and all the other big international and (presumably) national awards? New Publicis boss Arthur Sadoun says it’s spending the money (Publicis probably spends upwards of $20m ...

KP Snacks’ KP Nuts are returning to TV after 24 years – along with lots of social, Facebook etc – with a characteristically economical campaign from BMB. It’s that elephant in the living room again. Apparently the enemy is supermarket ...

By Anthony Svirskis As a case study in how a brand turned around its financial fortunes by wholeheartedly embracing the power of social media, Lego is a pretty difficult one to beat. At the turn of the millennium, the family-owned ...

The robots are taking over at Publicis Groupe Publicis Groupe is stopping all of its agencies around the world from participating in awards shows and trade shows for over a year, so no Cannes for them next year. The cash ...