The Phoenix Ogilvy Group’s Hansaka Wickramasinghe and Dinali Rajapakse won Gold in the ‘Media’ category at the Young Spikes competition held in Singapore.
Congratulations to everyone who played a role in the campaigns that were shortlisted, and especially to the Lions winners from Hong Kong, Thailand and Melbourne.
Now that Cannes Lions is over for another year, it’s time to take stock of the insights and inspiration from the week. A number of common trends and themes emerged in the Palais — here is what everyone needs to know right now as the industry continues to evolve.
Cannes Lions has a slightly different mood each year, often impacted by developments in the industry and 2019 has been no exception.
Our Worldwide Chief Creative Officer Piyush Pandey, tells CNBC’s James Wright about the future of creativity and how he would like to see more fun and humour injected into the industry to help creativity touch people’s hearts.
WPP was out in full force at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, with Mark Read leading at the helm. It took over part of the beach for the first time, stacking it up next to some of the world’s largest tech giants.
On the second day of the 2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Ogilvy continued its winning streak, having secured a total of 17 Lions across the network.
Singapore and Thailand were the big winners with Graphite for Pond’s Men and Voiz, as well as Wood for Voiz, Lego and the Rohingya.
Outgunned and outnumbered, advertising is in a fight for its life as companies not only lose profits but go out of business. The money isn’t leaking out, it’s rushing in uncontrollable torrents straight into the coffers of the surveillance data giants – Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
Justine Herz offers 5 takeaways from TV advertising’s biggest night.
