One bronze statue will be chasing lots of gold ones on the Croisette next week, as McCann's Fearless Girl enters the Cannes Lions festival as a heavy favorite for hardware. But it's hardly the only brilliant work that will be jostling for attention in the jury rooms. Leo Burnett is out with its 30th annual...
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June 12, 2017
Today's highs and lows of creativity
Pre-festival favorites, from Fearless Girl to Louise Delage
By Tim Nudd
One bronze statue will be chasing lots of gold ones on the Croisette next week, as McCann's Fearless Girl enters the Cannes Lions festival as a heavy favorite for hardware. But it's hardly the only brilliant work that will be jostling for attention in the jury rooms. Leo Burnett is out with its 30th annual...
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Get to know 2017's most innovative professionals
By Tim Nudd
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Focus on expertise and passion to drive purchase intent
Silicon Valley star shares his creative process, The Big Sick and his take on advertising
By Katie Richards
A decade's haul of trophies
By Katie Richards
Far from the end of the road
By Angela Natividad
After its reinvigoration some years ago, Geico is again breathing freshness into its "It's What You Do" campaign ... using a blast from the past. (When you think they'll zag, they zig!) In "Side Effects," launching today, a woman at a pharmacy gets the run-down of her medication's side-effects in the smoothest way possible--from '90s...
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He's back from dabbling in lemonade
By David Gianatasio
After 6,000 years of human civilization, it's come to this: A finely detailed, life-sized ice sculpture of rapper/actor Ice-T will slowly melt, drip-drip-drip, during a live internet event. When its microphone falls the to floor, it will make winners of some lucky Sonic Drive-In fans. Goodby Silverstein & Partners came up with the chill stunt,...
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Kaleidoscopic spot goes from seed to spoon
By Patrick Coffee
Like Monty Python before it, Cheerios thinks you should always look on the bright side. A new campaign for America's top-selling cereal is a frenzy of color, music and humanity. The whirlwind blink-and-you'll-miss-it spot quite literally uses everything, and at least one kitchen sink, to position the famous oat rings as central to that circle...
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The emerging talent behind stellar ads from 'Fearless Girl' to 'Evan'
By Tim Nudd
Up-and-coming creative teams may not always hit for average, but they can sometimes slug home runs seemingly out of nowhere. And the 14 below have turned in some truly mind-blowing work over the past year. From the "Fearless Girl" statue, to the viral Sandy Hook Promise ad, to Emerald Nuts "Yes Good" campaign, to Old...
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Meet some of the U.S.'s top ECDs and GCDs
By Tim Nudd
Lane Bryant's #ImNoAngel campaign. Werner Herzog's internet documentary Lo and Behold. The unsmuttifying of Carl's Jr. The tireless pursuits of IBM's Watson. The executive creative directors and group creative directors--and creatives of comparable rank--on the list below helped make all the work above, which has gone well beyond the confines of the ad world and...
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Cutting-edge work from some of the industry's top veterans
By Tim Nudd
World-class creatives often get further and further from the work as their career progresses. But the 15 below--all holding the title of chief creative officer, or comparable rank--remain in the trenches, close to the cutting-edge work their companies are producing. Read more below about the galvanizing creative chiefs at a variety of U.S. agencies, from...
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