Analysis
-
Jane Austin: entries down, should Cannes do a Glastonbury and skip a year?
Cannes Lions awards entries dropped dramatically this year, by 25%. The organisers say this is because of the stricter criteria…
Read More » -
Jane Austin: Buzzwords at Cannes: microdramas go viral, storytelling makes a comeback, AI gets too big for its buzz
Like so many other things we treasure in this industry, our vast lexicon of jargon has been taken over by…
Read More » -
Jane Austin: how will we survive all the Cannes Lions survival guides?
In advance of Cannes this year, I’ve noticed a worrying trend sweeping LinkedIn. Everyone and their pet rabbit is posting…
Read More » -
NCA’s Dan Seager and Steve Hall: (Not) Top Tips for Cannes
With the shackles of ‘but will it win at Cannes?’ removed, here are a few pieces of work that simply…
Read More » -
Chrystel Jung of BETC Paris: (Not) My Top Tips for Cannes
THE FOUNTAIN OF FILTH – CHANNEL 4 To launch Dirty Business, a Channel 4 drama about Britain’s sewage scandal, 4Creative…
Read More » -
George Parker: the 10.72 Coruscate Lying Secrets of Insanely Artisanal Advertising!
One of the things I learned very early on in my somewhat checkered career was that bullshit works, and outrageous…
Read More » -
Ad holding bosses join search for people business missing in action
Is advertising still a people business? Or is it, increasingly, a matter of herding unruly algorithms into some kind of…
Read More » -
What sort of Cannes Lions can we expect?
Cannes Lions is looming and there are really two questions: one is it an advertising event any more (Saatchi’s New…
Read More » -
George Parker: When Best was best of all
As we are about to begin the mayhem and uber expenses of the World Cup in order to finance Trump’s…
Read More »