Omnicom Agencies Win Top Honors at the 2017 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity

Omnicom Agencies Win Top Honors at the 2017 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity

At the 64th annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Omnicom agencies continued the tradition of being the most creatively awarded in the industry by sweeping the media and advertising categories. In total, 152 Omnicom agencies won nearly 360 Lions from approximately 35 different countries across more than 20 communication disciplines. BBDO claimed both Network and […]

AKQA Announces Future Lions 2017 Winners

AKQA Announces Future Lions 2017 Winners

AKQA announced the winners of Future Lions, the official student awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Future Lions attracted more than 2,100 students from 64 countries, making it the most successful year to date. The five winning ideas and teams are: Ask the Candidates for CNN Team: Yeon Sang Yoon and Jin Sug […]

‘Industry moving from the Connected Age to the Intelligent Age,’ says SapientRazorfish’s Daniel Bonner

‘Industry moving from the Connected Age to the Intelligent Age,’ says SapientRazorfish’s Daniel Bonner

Every year the cream of the Marketing, Advertising and Communications Industry gather in France for the Cannes Lions Festival, and this year was no different. We caught up with one of the Industry’s brightest mind and SapientRazorfish’s Global Chief Creative Officer, Daniel Bonner, who spoke about moving into his new role and how the Marketing Industry […]

Adrian Botan on his career journey and his blueprint for McCann Worldgroup

Adrian Botan on his career journey and his blueprint for McCann Worldgroup

Adrian Botan is Global Executive Creative Director at McCann Worldgroup. Before that, he was Creative Director at McCann Erickson Romania, which was named one of the top 50 creative agencies in 2007 by the Gunn Report. In 2011, his agency became the first to bring a Cannes Grand Prix to Central and Eastern Europe. In […]

UN Women Executive Director calls on members of global industry to eliminate gender stereotypes in advertising

UN Women Executive Director calls on members of global industry to eliminate gender stereotypes in advertising

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women and Under- Secretary-General of the United Nations, joined industry leaders at the 64th Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, where she called on the industry to strengthen their commitment to gender equality and collectively eliminate gender stereotypes in advertising. Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka who heads the United Nations organization mandated to […]

Energy BBDO’s Andrés Ordóñez talks about ‘Sarah and Juan’ and the agency’s creative vision going forward

Energy BBDO’s Andrés Ordóñez talks about ‘Sarah and Juan’ and the agency’s creative vision going forward

Andrés Ordóñez is a proven creative leader and a force for innovation at Energy BBDO. He has over 15 years of experience in integrated marketing, helping some of the most successful brands in the world achieve creative greatness. One such brand to reap the rewards of Andrés’ creative brilliance recently was Wrigley’s. His ‘Sarah and Juan‘ […]

Appboy’s Matt McRoberts on the evolution of the marketing industry and digital’s role in it

Appboy’s Matt McRoberts on the evolution of the marketing industry and digital’s role in it

Appboy is the leading lifecycle engagement platform for marketing, growth, and engagement teams. They empower brands to humanize connections with customers, resulting in better experiences and increased retention, lifetime value, and ROI. With Appboy, brands seamlessly gather and manage actionable customer data, allowing them to reach their audience with targeted, personalized cross-channel messaging experiences. It […]

Boost Your Voice from 180LA wins Cannes Grand Prix and Gold Lion for Boost Mobile

Boost Your Voice from 180LA wins Cannes Grand Prix and Gold Lion for Boost Mobile

Brand initiative improves voting access for its customers during 2016 U.S. Presidential election and sheds light on voter inequality. 180LA earned a Grand Prix Lion in Promo & Activation and a Gold in Outdoor for Boost Mobile’s Boost Your Voice, a non-partisan initiative that took a stand against voter inequality, at the Cannes Lions Festival […]

intu and Ocean Outdoor partnership to engage Nottingham shoppers with giant digital screen

intu and Ocean Outdoor partnership to engage Nottingham shoppers with giant digital screen

Shopping centre owner intu has teamed up with premium out of home media owner Ocean Outdoor to launch Nottingham’s largest digital advertising screen that will engage shoppers in Nottingham with content tailored to their consumer profile. The Nottingham One screen at the entrance to intu Victoria Centre will use innovative audience recognition cameras to identify […]