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Cannes Lions

Each June, executives from agencies around the world gather at Cannes in the south of France for the International Advertising Festival.

The Cannes Lions -- the industry's most prestigious awards -- are conferred there as part of a weeklong round of seminars, business meetings and social gatherings that constitute the advertising industry's largest and most important annual event.

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JURORS ANNOUNCED FOR CANNES AWARDS
Tribal DDB and Modem Media Execs Named to Cyber Panel

May 15, 2001

By Anthony Vagnoni

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The International Advertising Festival, better known as the Cannes Lions, has announced film, print and interactive
The Cannes Lion
juries for the 2001 competition.

The U.S. contingent of jurors includes Michael Lee, managing director and creative partner at Messner Vetere Berger MacNamee Schmetterer/Euro RSCG in New York, and Dennis Ryan, executive creative director at WPP Group's J. Walter Thompson, Chicago.

Cyber jury
Matt Freeman, chief executive officer of Omnicom Group's Tribal DDB, New York, and G. M. O'Connell, chairman of Modem Media worldwide, have been named to the Cyber Lions jury. The jury is being chaired this year by Carla Hendra, president of Ogilvy One North America.

Alex Bogusky, vice chairman and creative director of Crispin, Porter & Bogusky in Miami, will represent the U.S. on the press and poster jury.

Page Thompson, worldwide media director of Omnicom's DDB Worldwide, New York, and John Gaffney, executive vice president and media director of Havas Advertising's Arnold Worldwide, Boston, will sit on the Media Lions jury.

The festival will take place in Cannes during the week of June 18.

Anthony Vagnoni is the creative editor of AdReview.com.


© 2001, Crain Communications Inc.
Editor@AdAge.com

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