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P&G is making waves at this year’s Cannes Lions, with chief brand officer Marc Pritchard in the driving seat again, calling on the ad industry to “lead disruption by joining forces with other creative worlds.” In so doing it has ...

Rachel Forde is UK CEO of media agency UM and a Cannes Media Lions jury member. This year was my first time on the judging panel for the Cannes Lions. Some three hundred award entries later, I realise why many ...

AB InBev has joined P&G and others in making at least some of its own ads, in its case with the in-house Draftline agency. It’s quicker and cheaper they say. Here’s a new effort for Bud Light (usually in the ...

Cannes seems to be delivering this year and it’s US agencies that are delivering most of the goodies. Three Craft Grand Prix were awarded: Film Craft for the much-lauded New York Times’ ‘The truth is worth it’ campaign from Droga5; ...

In the blue corner, barefoot Brian Whipple, global CEO of Accenture Interactive, kicked off his shoes and sipped a pint of beer. In the red corner, Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, drank water with a slice of lemon ...

Chrissy Teigen is one of the funniest, sarkiest people on Twitter. The celebrity wit, author, and wife of John Legend, once tweeted: “I always have a note in my pocket that says “John did it” just in case I’m murdered ...

Accenture Interactive had a very big yacht at Cannes last year – and posters all over the Palais des Festivals – but Anatoly Roytman, who heads up the company in Europe, African and Latin America, didn’t quite believe his own ...

UK creative director Neil Dawson (below), a co-founder of BETC London which briefly flourished by winning Diet Coke and Bacardi globally, has set up a creative company Neil A Dawson and Company. Neil A Dawson starts with what today seems ...

London agency Impero has been looking at what it calls advertising’s “brain drain” – remember those, it used to be scientists abandoning the UK – in a new report called Rebranding Advertising. Burn-out, mental health, a lack of diversity and ...