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 […]
The winners of the prestigious Outdoor Lions Awards – sponsored for the eighth consecutive year by Clear Channel Outdoor – have been announced at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Joint Grand Prix winners were: Twitter, for their brand campaign through Twitter San Francisco, and McCann New York for State Street Global Advisors’ ‘She […]
Programmatic marketing solutions provider, DataXu, was recently named a leader, including the highest score possible in the product strategy criteria in The Forrester Wave: Omnichannel Demand-Side Platforms, Q2 2017 from Forrester Research. Quite an achievement for a company, which started its operations by providing data analysis to NASA, trying to figure out a way to send […]
During this full week (June 17-24) MarComm News is at the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and will be bringing you all out exclusive content right here on our website and our various social channels. The start though hasn’t been without a few speed bumps! Our web host was unfortunately a victim of […]
PHD Worldwide, part of Omnicom Media Group, joins this year’s lineup of speakers at the Cannes Lions festival of International Creativity and continues its focus on emerging technology through a collaboration with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly. Kelly, a leading technology thinker and writer, will join PHD’s worldwide strategy director, Mark Holden, to explore the 12 […]
Ogilvy & Mather announced that its sixth annual Ogilvy & Inspire seminar at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will feature Academy Award-winning film director Alejandro González Iñárritu. The event will take place on Thursday 23rd June at 2pm at the Grand Palais des Festivals. Tham Khai Meng, Ogilvy & Mather’s Co-Chairman and Worldwide […]
Lions Health has announced a partnership with RB, the global leader in consumer health and hygiene, and Save the Children, to tackle the world’s largest environmental health risk – air pollution – in an innovation challenge like no other. Hosted at Lions Health, part of the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, the RB & […]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that it will honour industry great Marcello Serpa with the Lion of St. Mark at 2016’s Festival. “The Lion of St. Mark recognises individuals who have made significant and outstanding contributions to creativity across our industry,” said Philip Thomas, CEO, Cannes Lions. “Marcello’s achievements are known […]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has completed its announcements of the 2016 jury presidents, revealing the names of the remaining seventeen. Philip Thomas, CEO, Lions Festivals, commented, “It’s not easy to win a Lion. On average, our juries will award just 3% of more than 40,000 entries. They’re looking for unique work that […]
The campaign promoting the 2016 International Festival of Creativity is about being grateful for great ideas. Developed in-house, Thank You Creativity is intended as a love letter to imagination and craft, and a reminder of their purpose and power. “We make the case for creativity because we know that it’s a force for business, for […]