Cannes Lions

Last Friday we received news that The Globe sponsored Canadian Young Marketers team of Brad Canario and Aaron Nemoy, Brand Managers at Campbell Company of Canada won the bronze trophy at the 2012 Cannes Lions Young Marketers competition.

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Mark Childs, VP Marketing, Campbell Company of Canada, shares the insights he took away from the Cannes seminar, GSP@CANNES - TURNING A FIGHTER INTO A BRAND.

And we got some great photos of Georges St-Pierre that are worth checking out, too.


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Nick Parish, the North American editor for Contagious, looks at some campaigns that just might bring home a Cannes Lion this year.

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In this week's PERSUASION column, Work gets its last shot at glory at Cannes ad fest, Simon shares his views and news from the Cannes Lion Festival.


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In this week's PERSUASION column, Creating spots that are both cultural and commercial, Simon talks with advertising guru, John Hegarty, creative director of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Although Hegarty has spend his career thumbing his nose at convention, he's still been knighted and is receiving the first ever Cannes Lion of St. Mark award.


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Cannes Lions begins this Sunday, 19 June, providing everyone working in the creative communications industries the unmissable chance to learn, network and celebrate over seven days in the South of France.

You can still book your place at the Festival...


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In this week's 30-Second Spots column, No Facebook promos please, we’re French, Simon Houpt discusses topics ranging from the French law barring news anchors from sending viewers to their station’s Facebook or Twitter page to the Montreal/Toronto second annual tourism co-campaign.


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The Globe and Mail, Canada’s official representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, yesterday revealed a jury of top advertising executives who will judge Canada's Young Lions, a qualifying competition that will send eight rising stars to the festival held in Cannes.


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In this week's Adhocracy column, From tear-jerker to erotic golf balls Simon Houpt interviews Tony Granger, the New York-based global chief creative officer of Young & Rubicam, who will chair both the film and press juries at this year’s Cannes Lions.


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gray>BY SIMON HOUPT
THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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Check out Simon Houpt's latest 30-Second Spots and see what's being put on the auction block - you'll be surprised!

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To Raise the Creative Bar, Only Work Awarded or Shortlisted at 2010 Festival Is Eligible

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After organizers floated the idea of adding an effectiveness category to the International Advertising Festival this year, the debut of the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions in 2011 has been confirmed.


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Sure it sounds glamorous.

And it is! It's also a great honour to be picked to serve on a Cannes Lions jury.

Yet, as Marketing magazine's Jeromy Lloyd reports, fulfilling the duty isn't all fun and games. In fact, it's a lot of hard work.

Lloyd's story is a remarkable piece of reporting that describes the judging process--and all the heated debate, philosophical musing and political jockeying that accompany it.

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