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By Stephen Foster on June 26, 2012
My friends at Bartle Bogle Hegarty have pointed out to me (in that terribly British, more in sorrow than anger way of theirs) that while the British performance at Cannes may or may not have been disappointing (I called it ‘crap’), its wasn’t. And indeed it wasn’t with 28 Lions including a Grand Prix for [...]
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By Staff on June 21, 2012
Omnicom Media Group agencies OMD and PHD won a combined total of 20 medals, topped by the category Grand Prix for the Google Voice Search campaign created by Manning Gottlieb OMD and a Gold Lion awarded to PHD Lima. Along with winning the Grand Prix, OMD was awarded a total of a 15 Media Lions [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged cannes, Daryl Simm, grand prix, gunn report, manning gottlieb, media awards, omd, phd, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 19, 2012
Crispin Porter+Bogusky’s ‘Small business Gets An Official Day’ (or ‘Small Business Saturday’) campaign for American Express has won the Promo & Activation Grand Prix and the Direct Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. The agency and Amex invented ‘Small Business Saturday’ to encourage US shoppers to visit small shops the day [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged amex campaign, black friday, cannes, direct, grand prix, promo & activation, small business saturday, thanksgiving
By Staff on January 10, 2012
Tham Khai Meng, worldwide CCO of Ogilvy & Mather, will head up both the Film and Press juries at the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place in Cannes from June 17-23. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Meng began his career at Leo Burnett in London then Chicago before moving [...]
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By Staff on September 20, 2011
Integrated communications agency The Brooklyn Brothers won the Agency of the Year and Social Media Grand Prix at the recent European Effie Effectiveness Awards for tackling the ticklish problem of attracting tourists to a country, Iceland, that was supposedly clouded in volcanic ash. Iceland was also none too popular with people from other countries who [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Bjork, brooklyn brothers, Damon Albarn, effie effectiveness awards, flights grounded, grand prix, inspired by Iceland, islenska, reykjavik, Stephen Fry, tourism, volcanic ash
By Stephen Foster on July 3, 2011
Cannes isn’t the be-all and end-all of the creative world (much as it would like to be so) but the pathetic performance of UK creative agencies in 2011 is really quite staggering. From 275 entries in the film category (the most after the US) UK agencies managed to pick up just two silvers and eight [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged cadbury's gorilla, cannes, core craft skills, digital, fallon, film category, global clients, grand prix, ipa, marcoms companies, Nicola Mendelsohn, silicon valley, uk agencies
By Staff on June 26, 2011
Well it’s the first one and we all know advertising wants to be good and this film from Leo Burnett Melbourne does a good job for disability charity Scope but.. Worth a Grand Prix? It’s the first year for this award so it would be a tad disappointing not to choose anything. But shouldn’t Grand [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, News | Tagged aussie band, canne lions, grand prix, leo burnett melbourne, mental health charity, new good category, rudely interrupted, scope
By Stephen Foster on June 21, 2011
It’s early days of course but three Grand Prix have been awarded at Cannes so far – one to Australia, two to Romania – and the UK has barely troubled the scorers in any category. So far DDB London has picked up a bronze lion for Budweiser in promo/activation (won by BV McCann for Romania’s [...]
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By Stephen Foster on June 22, 2010
This is the campaign featuring two high school hockey teams replaying a fixture some years and many extra pounds later. To the chagrin of the PR fraternity this series of films by ad agency TBWA Chiat Day Los Angeles has won the grand prix in both the PR and Promo categories. The PR men shouldn’t [...]
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