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As Cannes Lions prepares to welcome 16,000 delegates this month, and introduces two new Lions to celebrate creativity in entertainment, onlookers and Cannes veterans will again be asking whether the festival has become too large, losing its original focus on ...

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 ...

Another year, another Cannes Lions. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the French Riviera, the world’s biggest, creative communications awards event has once again showcased the most innovative and creative campaigns from across the globe developed by brands and agencies. ...

I love my boss. But I disagree with him. This is especially tricky when your boss is Jeff Goodby. The smart thing, of course, would be not to write publicly about it. After he arrived in Cannes last week, he ...

Here’s WPP triumphant press release, with a reference also to two people who died at Cannes. Heard the sad story of the Google executive, not the other person. Anyway a sobering note. For the fifth consecutive year, a winning performance ...

There was much fuss this year when the Cannes Lions announced it was to run a ‘best use of creative data’ competition, surely a nod to WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell and his contention that the use of data can ...

Every year at Cannes one of the sessions involves inviting a couple of advertising legends up on stage for them to reminisce about life in the industry. They’re always amongst the most fascinating 45 minutes of the week. As far ...

Ad tech company xAd, which describes itself as a global location-based marketplace, has been monitoring social media around the #CannesLions hashtag and, as you might expect, ad-tecchie companies have received most mentions. Google is top with 7704 tweets followed by ...

Like all such festivals Cannes is about networking, getting to know as many people as possible. And it’s hot, in the south of France and, being France, prone to occasional outbreaks of joie de vivre. One such appears to have ...