Cannes 2012

Solar-Powered Annual Report Takes Design Grand Prix

Solar-Powered Annual Report Takes Design Grand Prix

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.

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Radio Grand Prix From Talent in Brazil Also Repels Mosquitoes

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.

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Nike Fuelband and Curators of Sweden Take Cyber Grand Prix

Nike Fuelband and Curators of Sweden Take Cyber Grand Prix

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.

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Controversial Benetton Ad Nabs Press Grand Prix

Controversial Benetton Ad Nabs Press Grand Prix

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.

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Slideshow: Scenes from the Cannes Lions Ad Festival, Day 2

Slideshow: Scenes from the Cannes Lions Ad Festival, Day 2

Check out pictures from Day 2 of the festival.

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Inside the Branded Content Jury Room at Cannes

Inside the Branded Content Jury Room at Cannes

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."

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Adobe's Ann Lewnes: 'Creativity Is at Risk'

Adobe's Ann Lewnes: 'Creativity Is at Risk'

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.

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Coke, Mercedes Each Win Outdoor Grand Prix

Coke, Mercedes Each Win Outdoor Grand Prix

The two Cannes Outdoor Grand Prix winners couldn't be more different: Coca-Cola's "Coke Hands" and Mercedes-Benz's "Invisible Drive."

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Google Wins Inaugural Mobile Grand Prix

Google Wins Inaugural Mobile Grand Prix

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.

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Creative Effectiveness Cannes Lion Goes to Unilever's Axe

Creative Effectiveness Cannes Lion Goes to Unilever's Axe

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.

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Google and OMD Shop in U.K. Win Media Grand Prix

Google and OMD Shop in U.K. Win Media Grand Prix

Google won a second Grand Prix on Tuesday with a Google Voice Search campaign from Manning Gottlieb OMD in London.

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Don Draper Drops in on Cannes Ad Fest

Don Draper Drops in on Cannes Ad Fest

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.

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Slideshow: Scenes from the Cannes Ad Festival, Day 1

Photos by Pat Denton and Karel Brissaud...

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Facebook Courts Creative Community at Cannes Ad Festival

Facebook Courts Creative Community at Cannes Ad Festival

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.

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JWT Snares PR Grand Prix for Banco Popular, Puerto Rico

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.

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American Express Small-Business Effort Wins First Two Grand Prix

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.

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Takeaways from a Cannes Panel Starring Visa, the IOC and Nadia Comaneci

Takeaways from a Cannes Panel Starring Visa, the IOC and Nadia Comaneci

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.

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Who's Going to Cannes: Twitter, Nike, Nestle and Louis Vuitton, But No Apple?

Who's Going to Cannes: Twitter, Nike, Nestle and Louis Vuitton, But No Apple?

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.

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The Rough Guide to Cannes: What to Know If You're Going

The Rough Guide to Cannes: What to Know If You're Going

Adland's seasoned festival-goers share secrets for surviving a week in the South of France.

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Meet the Ad Age Global Cover Contest 2012 Finalists

Meet the Ad Age Global Cover Contest 2012 Finalists

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.

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