“Why do you need yet another panel on diversity when you have the Glass Lion?” observed an ECD out in Cannes this week who shall remain nameless. With sexist ads back in the news this week, it is a comment ...
Read More »Jane Austin at Cannes: fake news, women fight their corner and Mad Men heads for a Lion
New Yorker editor analyses fake news Donald Trump’s abuse of the truth is no longer funny, New Yorker editor David Remnick told Cannes. “It’s an emergency,” he said. He likened the spread of fake news to climate change, adding: “We ...
Read More »Jane Austin: Simon Le Bon, Laura Dern, boredom (and two winners) from the Cannes palace of varieties
Cannes again. Normally we heave a deep sigh of resignation as we slap on the fake tan and brace ourselves for another week of waking up exhausted everyday to listen to people talk about themselves. This year however we are ...
Read More »Jane Austin: why this slick bank ad from Russia is industry’s worst of 2016
Up to seven in ten women across the globe experience physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lifetime. Despite decades of campaigning to combat the problem, it’s feared that under our current climate of fear and intolerance, it’s ...
Read More »Jane Austin: Cannes Lions 2016 – what did we learn?
Cannes Lions 2016 will be chiefly remembered as the backdrop to the mother of all hangovers, with the Brexit result puncturing the advertising bubble at the week’s end and giving the industry even fewer reasons to be cheerful. But, along ...
Read More »Jane Austin: why Iggy’s the most creative in Cannes
Iggy Pop was one of the few people who actually talked about advertising at Cannes Lions. You know, those things that you see on telly, in a newspaper, or on the street selling you stuff? While everyone else this week ...
Read More »Jane Austin: Tim Berners-Lee says robots are the future – CP+B’s Porter imagines a world without clients
Technology is taking over from the mind in the 21st century in the same the way machines replaced physical labour in the industrial revolution. Algorithms rule the world, from Google Search and Facebook’s news feed to NSA data collection and ...
Read More »Why ‘antichrist’ Marilyn Manson is a born adman
At Cannes this year, Marilyn Manson put paid to one of the many myths that have grown up around him. When asked if he really did have a rib removed so he could perform oral sex on himself, he replied: ...
Read More »The big networks are like bottom-fishing trawlers says Joe Pytka as Cannes debates talent crisis
Cannes 2014: what have Jim Henson, Martin Amis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dr Seuss got in common? They all started their careers in advertising. There was once a time when advertising could lure the best creative people in the world. ...
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