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Jane Austin: is Cannes Lions the new Hollywood?
Cast your mind back to the 80s and 90s when advertising was a breeding ground for film industry talent, with…
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Alex Jardine: real life re-emerges at Cannes
For all the fevered talk of AI dominance in the run up to Cannes this year, the atmosphere in the…
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WPP adds Meta to Open line-up
There was a time when then WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell used to refer to the big tech platforms, notably…
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George Parker: beware of monkeys!
Here in the US we were recently in the middle of a furore over Donald Trump’s posting of a video…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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MAA Ad of the Week: Vodafone from Leo
Never thought we’d be choosing a Vodafone ad and it’s not because it knocks everything else into a cocked hat…
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