Cannes Lions announced more winners on June 23 in the penultimate Awards Show of the Festival. The new Creative B2B Lions, were awarded, alongside the Direct Lions, Media Lions, Creative Data Lions, PR Lions, and Social & Influencer Lions. In ...

As Cannes week draws to a close, thoughts are already turning to next year’s festival. Assuming the world hasn’t turned into a flaming sack of rubbish by then, the global industry will be back in France for its customary navel-gazing ...

“Ads should be fun”, Ryan Reynolds told Cannes yesterday. It’s a highly controversial statement for an industry that lost all interest in fun years ago. Thankfully, the Hollywood actor-turned-adman also offered some lessons in comedy for the more humourless amongst ...

Cannes Lions has its detractors. I’d like to think we’ve gone beyond the days of the snidey ‘it’s just a jolly’ remarks, but you can understand why some still think the idea that for one week each year the industry ...

David Jones’ Brandtech Group has reeled in a major recruit just in time for Cannes. Former Facebook CCO Mark D’Arcy is joining Brandtech as partner and CCO. D’Arcy (above), said to have been instrumental in teaching brands how to use ...

It’s the little things like a looming recession, soaring inflation and (for Brits anyway) Boris Johnson in charge that make you look to future with a sense of abject dread. Not wanting to send you further into a depressive spiral, ...

Accenture Song, the new name for Accenture Interactive sans Droga5, has won more business from Arla Foods, the dairy co-operative. AS has been appointed to handle the launch of two new “sub-brands” across Europe. Arla brands include anchor and Lurpak ...

Cannes Lions has announced the first 2022 Lion winners. The winners of the Pharma Lions, Health & Wellness Lions, Outdoor Lions, Print & Publishing Lions and Radio & Audio Lions were announced during the first live Awards Show of the ...

The New York Times has lots of subscribers these days and one such is Questlove, aka Ahmir Khalib Thompson, a music and all-round cultural maven it seems. He’s the star of the latest NYT ad from Droga5, now the agency’s ...