Leo Burnett Canada’s Post

We’re thrilled to celebrate the creativity at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week and wish all our agency clients the best of luck as awards are announced. 🦁✨ A recent study of agency data reveals a clear link between strong client relationships and the number of awards won, reinforcing what we’ve always known:  ✅ Stronger relationships lead to better work ✅ Enhanced team morale ✅ Significant growth and improved margins💡🤝 Here’s to recognising the power of relationship intelligence in driving creative excellence and business success. Best of luck to all the incredible agencies competing this week! 🌟 #CannesLions2024 #Creativity #ClientSuccess #RelationshipIntelligence #BusinessGrowth

ICYMI: Cannes may be over, but the Adland is still buzzing with insights and debriefs on the groundbreaking work showcased at the festival this year. Ben Essen has shared some thoughts on how creativity thrives on reimagining the past, featured in his piece for Campaign. He states, "...all the ground-breaking Grand Prix winners contain recognisable fragments of great ideas that have come before." He continues, "A [better] question for any creative review is: "We know this worked before, so how do we twist it for a new context?" This lets us leverage the proven effectiveness of past campaigns while infusing them with contemporary relevance." Read his analysis and explore the trends and winning work that filled the Croisette conversation: https://lnkd.in/ecYZXVfn #CannesLions #Creativity #Adland

Few ads are truly "award worthy". This one was, and by a mile. Congrats for the win on one of the best spots I've ever seen. This piece will push social impact advertising FORWARD. #socialimpact #nonprofit #psa #awareness #advertising #creative

This is the caliber of creatives #effectiveness the brands of the world are competing with. Do we even stand a chance in the next five years? I have heard lame excuses from our industry stakeholders in corners watching these case showreels and saying these are international brands with big budgets, our clients do not have these kinds of money or will never go for it. To them, I say......selling it to them is your responsibility as their Marcom. Partners, and if the creatives are awesome and meet the "BRIEF," you don't have to sell it to them even. Also, with the right execution plan, it will organically succeed. #CannesLions2024 #CreativeEffectiveness

' Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is still the only truly global celebration of the absolute best work that our industry is capable of, and in my view it’s a must-attend for everybody. I coach and advise a number of leaders of small to midsize agencies and holding companies, and for their business development and agency growth goals, I always recommend attending Cannes, even (and especially) if they’ve never been. It’s the one week of the year where you can find pretty much everybody in our industry and everybody on the client side all in the one place, so for biz-dev goals, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Plus, you don’t have to rent a beach to get noticed. Demonstrate precisely what Cannes celebrates -- extremely ingenious strategy + highly creative execution -- and you can impose yourself on the landscape of Cannes to generate buzz, chatter and media coverage to further those goals.' I talk to Barbara Lippert for MediaPost: https://lnkd.in/eBHPavim

I usually say that Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is for network, not for inspiration. But this year I came home inspired. I had the great pleasure of speaking about the Sounds Right initiative (https://lnkd.in/eHkwDi8A) and how we made Nature an official artist alongside Katja Iversen, Cathy Runciman and Adam Cardew hosted by Stan Stalnaker at the beautiful Hub Culture garden. And later, participating in the awe-inspiring round table at the Goals House hosted by Earth Public Information Collaborative about The Most Important Brief (https://lnkd.in/d_q7WmTP).   Both of those sessions were filled with inspirational people who believe in the power of creativity to drive change for the better. Eager to make more brands and companies move from purpose and profit to impact and responsibility. And looking across the winners it seems like we’re not alone in this mission. Not only did a lot of the winners involve a cause. They have also moved from the more gimmicky way of activating against a cause to creating actual long term impact. It is obviously impossible not to mention our own Pink Chip initiative by the amazing Amsterdam crew. But I also love the Sol Cement SightWalks project by Grey Peru. As well as the Mastercard Room for Everyone campaign by McCann Poland. Just to name a few. I do agree with Karen Howe that it is concerning how many cases – especially in the Glass Lions category – are centered on female oppression. Who would have thought that in 2024 we would have such a high need for creative problem solving within this area? But creativity is there. Having an impact. And this year to a higher degree than we have seen in a long time. If awarding creativity really is like smelling your own farts as Mark Ritson said on stage, this year the smell doesn’t really bother me.

Well, how about that. The global leader in Effectiveness awards rankings on the WARC Effective 100 is Omnicom. While we are thrilled to lead the Middle East on the WARC Creative 100 rankings, the Effectiveness rankings lead at a holding company level is lovely news as well. Great creative leads to great effectiveness. #TheWorkTheWorkTheWork #IMPACTBBDO #BBDO #WARC BBDO Worldwide

💡 1/2 way through this incredible cMBA course with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Thoroughly enjoying becoming more educated and invigorated about how 'the work' is created and made to elevate brands and drive business performance through creativity. 💖 Learning how to judge creative with The LIONS cMBA Idea Toolbox | Creative evaluation tools has been truly amazing. My favorite approaches are FCB's 456 scale and AB InBev's Creative Spectrum. Judging previous work and 'acting' like a judge for LIONS categories is a part of our studies. Using these eval tools really helped me judge this week's creative work. New goal: BE a CannesLIONS judge 😎 . The live sessions weekly, with select chief creatives at agencies and brands, have shared so many terrific insights including "how to create brave and bold work". Nancy Crimi-Lamanna I will carry that phrase forward forever! Other highlights this week: "Think in Verbs, don't think in Nouns" for your brief's success, #love Ali Cheikhali and finally, what an excellent piece of advice sam southey to "Trust the fearless version of me!" 🤗 #canneslionscmba #cannelions #learnandgrow #creativity

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