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Student Behind Steve Jobs Logo Wins Grand Prix for Ogilvy's Coke Poster
CANNES, France—Student work doesn't get too much respect at Cannes. Until now. Jonathan Mak Long, the 20-year-old Hong Kong design student whose logo tribute to Steve Jobs rocketed around the world...
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BBH Scores Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness for Axe Angels
CANNES, France—Just weeks before the London Olympics, ad agency BBH got Britain on the board at Cannes Lions here Tuesday, winning the Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness for its Axe Angels campaign....
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The U.S. Finally Gets Cooking With Pizza Vending Machines
Finally, pizza in vending machines. It's about freaking time. Let's Pizza is debuting a pizza vending machine that, for the minimal outlay of $6, will dispense 10.5-inch personal-size pizzas which are...
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Manning Gottlieb OMD Earns Media Grand Prix for Google's Phonetic Billboards
CANNES, France—An endearingly quirky billboard campaign for Google Voice Search, featuring more than 150 site-specific ads with phonetic spellings of nearby landmarks, has earned London agency Manning...
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How Nike+ Made 'Just Do It' Obsolete
CANNES, France—Nike and R/GA used a forum at the Cannes Lions festival here today to celebrate FuelBand, their latest collaboration in a growing set of workout-measurement services that are completely...
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Health Groups to FTC: Children's Claritin Campaign Portrays Medicine as Candy
Public health advocates are charging that Merck's entertainment product tie-in campaign for children’s Claritin with the movie Madagascar 3 is deceptive and dangerous because it could cause children...
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Press Grand Prix Goes to Benetton's Kissing Ads From Fabrica, 72andSunny
CANNES, France—The Press Lions competition was sealed with a kiss here tonight, with the Grand Prix going to Benetton's provocative "Unhate" campaign showing world leaders kissing, created by Italian...
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@Sweden Twitter Campaign, Nike+ FuelBand Each Take a Cyber Grand Prix
CANNES, France—A risky tourism campaign that turned Sweden's official Twitter account over to its citizens, sometimes with questionable results, fought back a flood of bad press to win a Cyber Grand...
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Brazilian Agency Wins Radio Grand Prix for FM Broadcasts That Repel Mosquitos
CANNES, France—Ad agency Talent in São Paolo, Brazil, won the Grand Prix in the Radio Lions contest here tonight for something more deliciously devious than a straightforward radio ad campaign. On...
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Barclaycard: Facebook Ads Outperformed Display, Search
Barclaycard launched a sweeping campaign last November to promote its NFL Extra Points card. The digital media buy included search and display ads on more than a dozen digital media platforms, but the...
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Solar-Powered Annual Report Honored With Design Grand Prix
CANNES, France—An Austrian solar company's solar-powered annual report, whose text and graphics can be seen only in sunlight, continued its impressive run through the advertising award show this year...
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Fast Chat: Mainardo de Nardis
Now that the Cannes Media Lions have just been awarded, Mainardo de Nardis, the president of that category’s jury, can turn his focus to the business and social whirlwind befitting the industry’s...
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Portait: Heat
Specs Who Partners Steve Stone (l.) and John Elder What Creative advertising agency Where San Francisco offices Steve Stone’s portfolio might read something like a history lesson in the past two...
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Perspective: Heart of Glass
Sometime around 1913, a skinny and salacious Coco Chanel took as her lover one Arthur Edward “Boy” Capel. The rich young Englishman’s sartorial tastes included a square-cornered whiskey decanter that...
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BBDO Creatives Dissect Breakthrough Spots
CANNES, France—In an effort to drill down to the essence of truly great creative, David Lubars, chairman and chief creative officer of BBDO North America, convened a panel of three fellow BBDO...
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Dow Jones' 'SmartMoney' Folds Print Edition
Dow Jones & Co. said it would stop publishing SmartMoney in print this summer while expanding its digital operation. The 815,154-circulation monthly’s September print issue, on stands Aug. 14,...
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