There’s a fierce rivalry between WPP and Omnicom (as you may have noticed) and the most visible stage for it in recent years has been the battle for creative awards, most notably at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Recently ...
Read More »Cannes jiggles media judging criteria following WPP complaint – but ignores DDB on block voting
Last year WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell objected to the votes cast in the Cannes Lions media category; claiming that his company’s efforts had been conspired against by, er, conspirators – chiefly Omnicom it seems. Last year’s media jury was chaired ...
Read More »DDB targets China’s ‘senior rebels’ for VW Beetle
China has lots of old people (and lots of people all ages of course) so it’s a reasonable if unconventional tactic to target these senior citizens or ‘senior rebels’ as this new ad from DDB Guon China for Volkswagen sets ...
Read More »McDonald’s and DDB New Zealand get up early with new Olympics ad awards contender
When you’re stranded just north of Antarctica even watching the London Olympics on telly can be a bit of a trial, requiring lots of nocturnal interruptions. But the nearly always excellent McDonald’s (when it comes to ads anyway) and DDB ...
Read More »Brand Toys says Leo Burnett’s a panda, JWT’s a monkey and DDB is a one-eyed bird
We’re used to having companies depicted as animals but Brand Toys renders them as toys (as it would). And the researchers there have been applying their grey cells to ad agencies at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. They all ...
Read More »Why the ‘C’ word is suitable for Cannes and all the wrangles about who’s biggest, best and most creative
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 ...
Read More »DDB harvests 79 Lions despite vote rigging claims
We’re not going to list the number of Lions every agency or agency group won at Cannes (you’ll be relieved to know) but it is interesting that DDB Worldwide, the third best-performing network at the festival after Ogilvy and BBDO, ...
Read More »DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei threatens Cannes boycott over alleged vote rigging
DDB creative chief Amir Kassaei (left) is not one to pull his punches: he’s already accused other holding companies (for which read WPP, the winner of the most-awarded holding company gong this year and last) of vote rigging and now ...
Read More »WPP wins ‘Holding Company’ gong at Cannes but DDB creative chief accuses it of rigging votes
Dear oh dear, the Cannes International Festival of Creativity’s decision to introduce a ‘Holding Company,’ award, for the agency group winning the most Lions, was always bound to end in tears and now it has. The award was introduced last ...
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