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Jane Austin: Greenpeace for top prize and a four-day-week: my hopes for Cannes 2023
As Cannes week draws to a close, thoughts are already turning to next year’s festival. Assuming the world hasn’t turned…
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Jane Austin: can Ryan Reynolds make advertising fun again?
“Ads should be fun”, Ryan Reynolds told Cannes yesterday. It’s a highly controversial statement for an industry that lost all…
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Jane Austin at Cannes: even with all the talk of purpose, progress is screeching to a halt
It’s the little things like a looming recession, soaring inflation and (for Brits anyway) Boris Johnson in charge that make…
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Jane Austin: confounding clients and alienating friends – Cannes’ top buzzwords
And we’re back, so let’s take some time to overcome our recently acquired social anxiety and mentally prepare ourselves. One…
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Jane Austin: why do people in advertising – especially CMOs – have to speak in riddles?
Trust was the most popular word at Cannes this year, the actual meaning of which covers a multitude of strategies…
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Jane Austin at Cannes: Childish Gambino’s This is America sets the bar for creativity – for everyone
Amid all the noise and nonsense of the three-ring buzzword circus that is the Cannes festival, it’s nice to get…
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Jane Austin from Cannes: this year it’s girls on top – nearly
Chrissy Teigen is one of the funniest, sarkiest people on Twitter. The celebrity wit, author, and wife of John Legend,…
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Jane Austin: John Lewis, WPP and Publicis disagree shock and Blaze trumps the Superhumans
Inside the emotional manipulation department at John Lewis In a seminar entitled ’emotional masterclass in advertising’, the people behind the…
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Jane Austin: adland needs to do more to counter stereotyping than award a Glass Lion
“Why do you need yet another panel on diversity when you have the Glass Lion?” observed an ECD out in…
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