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By Stuart Smith on June 27, 2012
One way or another the ‘C’ word defined this year’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Naively, I came away from the ad industry’s annual Rivièra fest thinking C stood for Chipotle and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the duo that pulled off the film grand prix and the top lion for one of this year’s new [...]
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By Stephen Foster on July 1, 2011
WPP won the first Cannes lion for holding company company of the year this year, a vindication of former BBH creative director John O’Keeffe’s input as WPP’s global CCO since he joined in 2008. Among others in what he calls the ‘commentariat’ we have rather mocked this achievement, saying WPP should bloody well win, given [...]
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By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2011
WPP has won the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity’s first lion for holding company of the year, which won’t come as a great surprise to many people as it was almost certainly WPP’s idea in the first place. So let’s hand the microphone to WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. “On Saturday in Cannes, WPP [...]
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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 February 24, 2011
The Cannes Lions are always up for yet another award and this year the festival is going to award the best marcoms holding company, based on points gathered all the way up from shortlists (in a bewildering number of categories ranging from best film to best PR to best activation to best opening of an [...]
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By Stephen Foster on February 14, 2011
We know this because WPP says it on its website that in 2010 it narrowed the gap between it and Omnicom in terms of the awards the group won at Cannes (and extended its narrow lead over Publicis Groupe). Two things spring to mind straight away, the first is that there are other important awards [...]
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