CANNES, France--"The world's most valuable metal," which is derived from recycled illegal firearms and is then used to build anything from toys to smartphone cases, has won the top prize in this year's Innovation Lions. Humanium, a project of IM Swedish Partner and its Stockholm agencies, ?kestam Holst and Great Works, today won the category's...
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Advertising & Agency Daily
June 20, 2017
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Swedish 'Humanium' wins Grand Prix, Google Tilt Brush takes gold
By David Griner
CANNES, France--"The world's most valuable metal," which is derived from recycled illegal firearms and is then used to build anything from toys to smartphone cases, has won the top prize in this year's Innovation Lions. Humanium, a project of IM Swedish Partner and its Stockholm agencies, ?kestam Holst and Great Works, today won the category's...
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'Care Counts' wins top honor in Creative Data
By David Griner
'We've never seen anything as invasive'
By Kristina Monllos
Tech hack meets social good in Dentsu Y&R campaign
By Tim Nudd
But getting CMOs on board remains a challenge
By David Griner
CANNES, France--Two years ago, Ira Glass came to Cannes for the first time on a mission to get advertisers supporting podcasts. The result, unfortunately, wasn't quite what he'd hoped for. "A couple of brands heard us and have started to spend some money, but not very many," he tells Adweek on a special Cannes podcast...
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'Mom On' marks 72andSunny's debut
By Patrick Coffee
Yoplait knows it's hard out there for moms. When they're not struggling to balance parenthood with the many other stressors of modern life, they're facing judgment because people--online and off--have their own parenting strategies and aren't afraid voice their opinions. The yogurt brand opens its new campaign--appropriately titled "Mom On"--with a scene that will feel...
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'Meet Graham' and 'Adland Index' win the other two
By Tim Nudd
CANNES, France--Droga5 has another Grand Prix trophy from Cannes to add to its collection, as it picked up the prize in Cyber for the "Did You Mean MailChimp?" campaign, which reimagined the brand name in playful and creative ways. The campaign, which launched in January, invented the names MaleCrimp, MailShrimp, KaleLimp, FailChips, VeilHymn, SnailPrimp, JailBlimp,...
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The brands showed off their features
By Lauren Johnson
CANNES, France--Facebook has set up shop along the French Riviera at Cannes this week to help walk marketers through strategies to craft campaigns and talk about all of the platform's features--which include a bigger focus on live video, virtual reality, Instagram and Messenger. This year's theme at Facebook beach is, "Connected, we can create anything."...
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A look at Ogilvy Chicago's 'Portraits Completed' for Kiwi
By Tim Nudd
CANNES, France--Fine art has been an inspiration for a lot of great advertising lately, including the Cannes Lions Grand Prix winners "Van Gogh Bnb" and "The Next Rembrandt" from 2016. Ogilvy Chicago continues that tradition in 2017 with a playful, irresistible campaign for Kiwi shoe polish in which the agency imagined, and then painted, the...
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They spent $120 on geo-targeted Facebook ads instead
By Katie Richards
CANNES, France-How do you make a splash at Cannes and land a major agency gig when you can't cough up money or spare the time to actually attend the festival? Oscar Gierup and Kristina Samsonova, two students about to graduate from Miami Ad School, came up with an idea to reach agency leaders where they're...
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