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So proud but still so driven.

The 71st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity concluded with the penultimate awards night. The awards were presented for the Film Lions, Glass: The Lions for Change, Sustainable Development Goals Lions, The Dan Wieden Titanium Lion, and The Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Good categories. Special awards were also announced to demonstrate Cannes Lions' dedication towards transparent and accurate results. Creative Company of the Year : 1. WPP 2. Omnicom Media Group 3. Interpublic Group (IPG) Network of the Year : 1. Ogilvy 2. Publicis Worldwide 3. DDB Worldwide Independent Network of the Year : 1. Rethink 2. Edelman 3. Serviceplan Group Agenturgruppe Agency of the Year : 1. Publicis Conseil, Paris, France 2. Rethink, Toronto, Canada 3. Ogilvy, New York, United States Independent Agency of the Year : 1. Rethink, Toronto, Canada 2. Edelman, London, United Kingdom 3. Klick Health, Toronto, Canada Palme d'Or : SMUGGLER, United States Creative Brand of the Year : 1. The Coca-Cola Company 2. The HEINEKEN Company 3. Apple Wieden + Kennedy | Superette | DoorDash | Marcel, Paris | Orange | The Monkeys | Accenture Song | Sydney Opera House | Ogilvy Singapore | Vaseline | Publicis Conseil Paris | Renault Group | INNOCEAN Berlin | Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Congratulations to all the winners! #Creativity #CannesLions #Advertising #Winners #Adtechtoday

2023: No.1 in the Middle East, No.9 in the world. 2024: No.1 in the Middle East, No.7 in the world.

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Inflation, rising food costs, and AI-generated budget recipes. It's rare that brands actually have the ability to be 'relatable' to their consumers, but this campaign absolutely nails it! "The Inflation Cookbook" campaign by Dentsu Creative x Food Banks Canada | Banques alimentaires Canada is a great example of the creative way data can be utilised to create a stronger emotional connection with consumers through their everyday, real life struggles. Gen AI beautifully integrates into the app with custom recipe generation aided by #Midjourney visuals that allow the user to truly feel listened to about their specific needs and concerns. Definitely warrants a Gold Media Lion at the #CannesLions2024! #artificialintelligence #digitalmarketing #advertising #generativeai #dataanalytics #inflation

Need some inspiration for your next creative brief or strategy? 👉On January 31 and February 1, we're hosting The Sweathead Get-Ahead, a FREE livestream from the offices of adam&eveDDB in London. 1500 people have registered so far. We've rounded up a slate of APG and Effie champions and a table full of cultural researchers and strategists to give you plenty to think about. 🔥Day One: 1. Jamie Peate, Global Head of Effectiveness & Retail for McCann Worldgroup, will share McCann's Effie-winning work for Aldi 2. Tom Sussman, Deputy CSO at Leo Burnett UK, will show us how eyebrows sell McDonald's 3. Joan Devereux, Planning Director at Pablo, will reveal game-changing strategy for Flora 4. Loz Horner will take a break from dominating Premier League Fantasy League and his work as Strategy Partner at Lucky Generals to share the long-term brand-building work of Yorkshire Tea 5. Rory Gallery + Jolene D'Souza from Special New Zealand will dial in from New Zealand to show their work for Partners Life 6. Will Grundy (Head Of Planning) will take the stairs to where we're streaming from to share adam&eveDDB's work for CALM x ITV 🔥Day Two:  1. Bruno M. Carramaschi, Senior Strategist, The Gate London, will open up about Replens 2. Gonca Bubani, Global Media Thought Leadership Director, will share the ten trends she believes we all need to pay attention to this year. 2. Amy Daroukakis, Cultural Strategist, will present some practical ways to play with trends  3. Athena Chen (陳瑋璞), Cultural Foresight Strategist, will shine a light on APAC trends that will have global influence 4. Sam Shaw will represent Canvas8 in his presentation "Coping Mechanisms" 5. Carlotta (Charlie) Monzani, Cultural Insights Specialist, will beam in from Ogilvy Italia, with her talk "Reframing 2024" 🚀RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/dX8ZRbhW Mark Pollard, Strategy Friend will be teaching a masterclass in London on Thursday, Feb 1. Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/dGWzvX78 #sweatheadgetahead #freelivestream #casestudies #trends #advertising #strategy #effies #awardwinning

Very happy to have played a very small part in this calling for this to happen, well played B Lab for doing the right thing 👏 I’m a massive advocate for B Corp and a massive advocate for the biggest organisations in (all) industries using the B Impact Assessment ‘tool’ to transform. Yet Havas totally took total liberties here. Having spoken to a number of clients (and employees) of Havas who are rightly shopping about right now - I certainly wouldn’t want to be in their reputational risk or people & culture teams at this moment 👀 And it doesn’t just stop with Havas, network agencies globally are totally under threat. Yes they have size, heritage and media buying power - 🛥️ and can afford a banging boat at Cannes 🛥️ - but if forward leaning clients don’t want to be associated to you because of your client list, and your best talent is jumping ship - surely the best strategic business direction is to take advise from an organisation like Clean Creatives and get your house in order. But what about the stability of employment for existing employees? I can’t imagine the outgoings of a network agencies IT costs, let alone their primo location global offices - but ‘not taking the brief’ doesn’t just protect the agencies reputation - built from hundreds of thousands of hours of brilliant strategic and creative minds collaborating to drive remarkable communications - it also protects the hundreds if not thousands of jobs that will be lost from ‘natural churn’ and clients hitting the eject button. Big news for B Corp, big news for agencies. #Agency #Greenwash #BCorp

Day 4 at the 71st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity concluded with the prestigious Cannes Lions being awarded for the Brand Experience & Activation, Creative Business Transformation, Creative Commerce, Creative Effectiveness, Creative Strategy Innovation, and the newly introduced Luxury and Lifestyle Lions. The night also saw the Regional Network of the Year Awards announced. Here's a list of winners Regional Network of the Year - Asia : Ogilvy Regional Network of the Year - Europe : Publicis Worldwide Regional Network of the Year - MENA : BBDO Worldwide Regional Network of the Year - Latin America : DDB Worldwide Regional Network of the Year - North America : FCB Global Regional Network of the Year - Pacific : BBDO Worldwide Regional Network of the Year - Sub-Saharan Africa : TBWA\Worldwide Weber Shandwick Chicago | Pop-Tarts | Loewe Madrid | Klick Health Toronto | KVI Brave Fund Inc. | Rethink Toronto | Kraft Heinz | Dentsu Creative Amsterdam | KPN | LePub | Amsterdam | Philips | Publicis Conseil Paris | Renault Group Congratulations to the winners!  #Creativity #CannesLions #Advertising #Winners #Adtechtoday

I have a love-hate relationship with advertising and marketing. That feeling about Commercial Creativity is never closer to the surface than at this time of the year, when Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity comes around again. By Commercial Creativity I mean the loosely defined name given to a group of activities from the marketing function in a business, to those who help those marketers do what they need to do, the advertising, media and branding agencies and everything in between. I was for a long time of this world: Chief Strategy Officer of EMEA, Global EXCO, Global Creative Council for the then named Y&R - VMLY&R (and now VML!) and then Chief Marketing Officer for the United Nations World Food Programme. I did lots of things in those roles, some of those are still part of my life, but they are no longer all of my life. This is an exploration of the good, bad and ugly of the industry, the importance of metas and what you might do if you want to try something different. (A shorter version of this was first published by my friends and colleagues at BeenThereDoneThat - thank you. David Alberts, Nikki Crumpton and Marielle Kouroushi-Phillips). Saïd Business School, University of Oxford #marketing #branding #advertising #careers #personaldevelopment #growth