Big In Print
June 20, 2012
Austria Solar's Grand Prix award-winning effort for design was a piece of collateral like no other -- it featured nothing on its pages until you placed it in the sun.
June 20, 2012
Cannes juries have been known to verify whether a winning entry really ran, but this may be the first time judges checked to see if an ad really repels mosquitoes.
June 20, 2012
The Cyber 2012 jury awarded two Grand Prix to pieces of work that represented extreme poles of the category: Nike Fuelband+, from R/GA, New York, and The Swedish Institute/Visit Sweden's "Curators of Sweden" campaign.
June 20, 2012
Benetton's controversial "Unhate" campaign, which finds world leaders lip-locked with their biggest adversaries, won the Press Grand Prix at the Cannes Ad Festival today.
June 20, 2012
Check out pictures from Day 2 of the festival.
June 20, 2012
Judging the new branded-content category at Cannes is no small task: "Lions, after all, can win or lose accounts, and make careers. And a jury in a new category sets the standards for deciding what great work looks like in an emerging discipline."
June 20, 2012
A poll of 5,000 citizens by Adobe found that their workplace doesn't encourage creative thinking. Here's what Ann Lewnes says marketers should do about that.
June 19, 2012
The two Cannes Outdoor Grand Prix winners couldn't be more different: Coca-Cola's "Coke Hands" and Mercedes-Benz's "Invisible Drive."
June 19, 2012
A mobile-display ad from none other than one of world's biggest mobile-ad sellers, Google, won the first Mobile Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions ad festival today.
June 19, 2012
Who says giant multinationals can't do effective work? The second-ever Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix awarded at the annual ad fest in the South of France went to Unilever for its Axe "Excite" campaign by BBH, London.
June 19, 2012
Google won a second Grand Prix on Tuesday with a Google Voice Search campaign from Manning Gottlieb OMD in London.
June 19, 2012
Despite a blazing Mediterranean sun and the heavy breathing of a few dozen ad folk, Mr. Hamm was natty -- and curiously unsweaty -- in a three-piece gray suit that could have been pulled from the "Mad Men" wardrobe closets.
June 19, 2012
Photos by Pat Denton and Karel Brissaud...
June 18, 2012
As the Cannes Lions ad festival kicks off this week, Facebook is corralling another council of advertising heavyweights to weigh in on the future of advertising on the social network.
June 18, 2012
At the marketing industry's most important awards show, the PR category at Cannes was once again not by public-relations agencies, but by ad and digital shops that took the lion's share of PR Lions.
June 18, 2012
Amex's "Small Business Gets an Official Day" campaign by CP&B and Digitas netted one in the direct category and another in the promo & activation category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
June 18, 2012
With the 2012 Olympics just weeks away, one of its major sponsors, Visa, addressed its 25-year sponsorship of the event at the Cannes ad festival -- and brought along one of the stars of its 'Go World' campaign.
June 14, 2012
Next week thousands of adland's biggest names will descend upon the South of France. Here are nearly 100 marketers, media and tech companies that will be making the trip to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
June 11, 2012
Adland's seasoned festival-goers share secrets for surviving a week in the South of France.
June 10, 2012
Our 19 finalists (including the winner) from more than 300 entries in the third-annual contest to design a global-themed cover for Ad Age's Global Issue.