On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David discuss training, knowledge and skills in media. As part of their review of the implications of the 2016 ANA Media Transparency Report, they highlight one of its key recommendations: the need for advertisers ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cannes Lions has long been referred to as adland’s Oscars. And in the same spirit, much excitement has long revolved around who will win the Film Grand Prix. But the extent to which this is still valid is debateable in ...

With some 15,000 attendees from 100 countries across eight days, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity – Cannes Lions – is the planet’s biggest gathering of the advertising, creative, digital and marketing world. It’s also one of the biggest networking ...

On this week’s #MediaSnack Tom and David consider how strategy has become more important than media buying in determining success and giving marketers an edge. The increasing role of media thinking also fits into their on-going analysis of key changes ...

We’ve had lots of Top Tips for Cannes – Channel 4’s ‘We’re the Superhumans,’ road safety campaign Meet Graham and State Street Advisors’ ‘Fearless Girl’ have appeared most often here, you must have seen them by now – but Leo ...

Mike Nicholson is executive creative director of independent London agency Brave. My Top Tips for Cannes My first pick is Meet Graham, the only person designed to survive on our roads. Part interactive sculpture, part educational tool and ultimately a ...