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If you had a drink every time someone mentioned the word ‘creativity’ during Cannes week, you’d be dead by Tuesday. For all the buzzwords that are dropped at that festival, creativity has to be the most over-used one – and ...

To One Marylebone, a London landmark stemming from 1826. Not quite as venerable is John Ayling Associates, there yesterday to celebrate 40 years as a London media independent. Back in the 1970s a wave of media independents shook up the ...

Over the next few weeks social media channels will be updated to reflect every significant moment of the 2018 World Cup – the goals, the joy, the sadness and the glory, all played out on our feeds in real time. ...

The various comments regarding the profligacy of Cannes declining seemed far-fetched from our short car journey yesterday evening. We had taken our dogs for a run on the beach at Port Gallice, in the bay next to the large bay ...

By Jane Austin in Cannes It’s an interesting and often disturbing exercise to revisit movies from your youth in light of the MeToo and TimesUp movements and see how outdated and sexist the portrayal of women seems. The actress Molly ...

We usually stick to Grand Prix winners at Cannes – otherwise we’d die – but this from Ireland’s Rothco for The Times is worth a nod (it won a Gold in Radio & Audio amongst others). It’s the speech that ...

This year at Cannes, the beating heart of creativity and originality, the seminar line-up has a proliferation of titles that are worryingly similar. In fact, ‘human’ seems to have become the Cannes 2018 buzzword (‘Innovation at the Human Level,’ ‘Who ...

Nike doesn’t sponsor the FIFA World Cup, so we don’t get to see what the brand might come up with to celebrate one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. Instead, Nike — well practiced in circumventing FIFA rules ...

Marketing analytics specialist Ebiquity has given the serried ranks of clients gathered at the Cannes Lions something to think about, claiming that better allocation of marketing spend could add $45bn annually to their bottom lines. The three-year study analysed 2500 ...