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Germany's Serviceplan Repeats as Grand Prix Winner in Design
CANNES, France—Serviceplan in Munich, Germany, walked off with its second straight Design Lions Grand Prix here tonight, winning this time for embedding a store's sustainability report on a single...
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TBWA\Media Arts Lab Earns Press Grand Prix for Apple's iPad Mini Ads
CANNES, France—The U.S. has won its second Grand Prix of this year's Cannes Lions festival, with TBWA\Media Arts Lab in Los Angeles earning the top prize in the Press Lions contest for its magazine...
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Twofifteenmccann's Parsons Joins The Factory
Mike Parsons, the managing director of twofifteenmccann, has left the agency to become chief operations officer at The Factory, an incubator start-up in San Francisco. A search is underway to find a...
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Bud Light Moves to BBDO
As if being in Cannes wasn’t enough reason to celebrate the week, BBDO global chief Andrew Robertson can lift a glass to winning the America's largest beer brand, Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch InBev is...
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Sid Lee and Cirque du Soleil Launch Marketing Joint Venture
Entertainment meets marketing in a new joint venture that combines the skills of Cirque du Soleil and ad agency Sid Lee. The venture, called Sid Lee Entertainment, was announced tonight at the Cannes...
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John McAfee Goes Full Charlie Sheen in Bizarre Ad Full of Guns, Drugs and Women
Witness this bizarrely amusing ad for John McAfee's personal blog. If that name sounds familiar, it's because John McAfee is the man who started McAfee anti-virus software. He's also the eccentric...
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If You Like the Hotel Furniture, You Can Buy It
With the ongoing proliferation of boutique hotel chains like Hyatt’s Andaz, Radisson’s Blu and InterContinental’s Indigo, something unusual has taken place in the minds of many travelers: furniture...
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Resource Is an Agency That Combines Consumer Experience and E-commerce
SpecsWho (l. to r.) Nancy Kramer, founder, chairman; John Kadlic, president; and Kelly Mooney, CEOWhat Digital marketing agencyWhere Columbus, Ohio, offices Since launching with Apple as its first...
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How Transportation Brands Sell Leisure and Sophistication Through Cocktails
Ever since long-distance transportation evolved beyond the Conestoga wagon, commercial carriers (which, in the 20th century, meant trains and planes) have dealt with an obscure but serious problem....
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Lou Reed on Music, Mortality and the Genius of Andy Warhol and Kanye West
CANNES, France—Still looking extremely frail following his recent liver transplant, Lou Reed nonetheless made it to Cannes Lions for the Grey Music Seminar here Thursday, and spoke about his legendary...
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Danny MacAskill Lives Out Childhood Fantasies in Wonderful Red Bull Video
This seven-minute Red Bull video cements Scottish cyclist Danny MacAskill's standing as a badass brand spokes-man. It took 68 weeks over a two-year period to shoot this mix of fantasy, memory and...
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5 Beauties and 5 Beasts From Saatchi's Brutal 2013 New Directors' Showcase
CANNES, France—The 2013 Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase, held inside a full house at Cannes Lions here this morning, was not for the faint of heart. Stabbings, shootings, slashings,...
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AKQA Picks Its 5 Winners for the 2013 Future Lions
CANNES, France—Student teams from the U.S., U.K., Japan and Germany picked up Future Lions from AKQA at the Cannes Lions festival here today. You can see all the winners below. The Future Lions...
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Brands Are Already Using Instagram Videos and Planning for More
Now that Facebook has officially trotted out a video feature for the increasingly popular Instagram—which was formerly limited to helping smartphone users act like stylistic photographers—social media...
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Impala Launches John Legend Pitch
In one of Chevrolet’s most extensive partnerships with a musical artist, the brand uses John Legend’s new single “Made to Love” as the soundtrack for a breaking Impala campaign that kicks off tonight...
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Dylan Lauren Wrote a Book on Her BlackBerry
SpecsAge 39Accomplishments Founder of Dylan’s Candy Bar retail stores and brand; author of Dylan’s Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life; daughter of fashion designer Ralph LaurenBase New YorkWhat’s the...
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Column: It's Hard Out There for a Publisher
Conventional wisdom says that entrepreneurs who start a Web-based business will do so with VC money. Read enough stories of Internet ventures that enjoy lucrative exits in the millions (in some cases...
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Stride Gum Makes a Gaming App That You Control by Chewing
"Everyone wants to control video game characters by chewing. Right? Right?!" Working off a brief that apparently read something like that, Stride Gum, Wieden + Kennedy London and Johnny Two Shoes have...
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