CANNES, France--Tali Gumbiner and Lizzie Wilson, the young creative team at McCann New York who made Fearless Girl, are at Cannes Lions for the first time. And as expected, it's been a bit of a crazy week for them. Their State Street Global Advisors statue, easily the most breakthrough pop-culture icon to emerge from advertising...
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June 23, 2017
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McCann's Tali Gumbiner and Lizzie Wilson come to Cannes Lions
By Tim Nudd
CANNES, France--Tali Gumbiner and Lizzie Wilson, the young creative team at McCann New York who made Fearless Girl, are at Cannes Lions for the first time. And as expected, it's been a bit of a crazy week for them. Their State Street Global Advisors statue, easily the most breakthrough pop-culture icon to emerge from advertising...
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David Kolbusz unpacks his latest Lion winner
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Orange wins gold in Cannes as brand rides a social phenomenon
By Kristina Monllos
CANNES, France--Not every Cheeto was right for the Cheetos Museum. Goodby Silverstein & Partners asked its creatives to dig through hundreds of bags of the snack to find unique shapes that resemble, say, Abraham Lincoln or the Loch Ness Monster. Those were then displayed like pieces of art. It paid off. The team behind the...
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Joining culture and medicine
By Angela Natividad
CANNES, France--Alongside Afghanistan's Ministry of Health, McCann Health and McCann Worldgroup Partner scooped up the Cannes Lions Health Grand Prix for Good this year. Their campaign, "The Immunity Charm," also won the most awards ever at Lions Health--four gold Lions, four silvers and one bronze. "This important award represents how powerful creative solutions to public...
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Scholz & Friends on their gold Lion winner
By Tim Nudd
CANNES, France--It's one of the most memorable images of this Cannes Lions festival. A stack of Der Tagesspiegel newspapers, with a cover photo of Donald Trump repeated more than a dozen times, elongating his face and giving the illusion of a very, very big mouth. "Will he bully his way into the White House?" asks...
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Muun's the word in ads by Amsterdam Berlin
By David Gianatasio
This time around, Muun's pitchman keeps his pants on. As you might recall, Muun is the German mattress retailer that caused a stir with its 2016 campaign featuring Frank Ku?nster, a hirsute, 300-pound bouncer who posed (more or less tastefully) nude to illustrate the tagline, "German Softness." For its latest campaign, "Choose Your Comfort," the...
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The campaign has already won 17 Lions in two days at Cannes
By Angela Natividad
CANNES, France--Last summer, for an organization called Addict Aide, Paris agency BETC invented a character named Louise Delage. The fictional woman appeared on Instagram and cleaned up on followers in a handful of weeks. (She still has over 110,000 as of this writing.) Her life was glamorous and beautiful, and people ate it up. But...
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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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