Campaign in Cannes

 

Campaign in Cannes

Campaign's team of reporters brings you the latest news from the Cannes 2009 Lions advertising festival.

Cannes Lions 2009: Campaign reports from the Cannes Lions 2009 festivalCampaign's team of reporters on in the French Riviera brings you the latest news from the Cannes Lions festival 2009.

Visit this page to discover the winners and shortlists for all Cannes Lions 2009 categories as soon as they are announced, plus comment from leading adland figures.

Our team are also blogging throughout the week, and producing video content from the Cannes Lions 2009 festival.

Find out how the credit crunch is affecting the annual jamboree, and whether the UK is taking its fair share of Cannes Lions.

UK agencies awards leaderboard


At-a-glance guide to UK award winners

Winners


Tribal DDB Amsterdam's "carousel" for Philips scoops Cannes Lions 2009 Film Grand Prix

Barack Obama campaign takes Integrated and Titanium Grands Prix

AKQA triumphs with Grand Prix award in the Cyber Lions

UK agencies record strong showing in Cannes Press Lions


CHI lands silver Design Lion for its X Factor work

UK fails to win gold in Outdoor Lions

ZenithOptimedia wins Media Lions Gold for AEG


NetworkBBDO Johannesburg wins Radio Grand Prix


NEWS: Cummins Nitro scoops Direct Grand Prix for Tourism Queensland

NEWS: Only two UK winners at inaugural PR Lions


NEWS: McCann Erickson wins only UK Promo Lions


Blog

Noel Bussey: Enjury-ing Love


Video

Cannes Lions 2009 Media Lions

Bob Greenberg at Cannes Lions 2009

Lord Tim Bell on Cannes Lions 2009 PR category entries

Why were there so few UK winners in the Cannes Direct Lions?

More news from Cannes Lions 2009

 

Tony McTear quits Fallon as redundancies loom

LONDON - Fallon's Tony McTear is leaving the agency, as it gears up to make ten redundancies.

 

Dylan Harrison leaves DDB London for Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand

LONDON - DDB London's award-winning creative Dylan Harrison is leaving the agency to join Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand as its executive creative director.

 

Viral View - Tips for success

LONDON - Viral View takes a look at some of the key steps to making your viral campaign a success.

 

Israeli pop hit revealed as Aids awareness hoax

LONDON - A song that has soared up the pop charts in Israel was tonight exposed as an elaborate hoax by one of the country's leading agencies to draw attention...

 

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Ever wondered who the real king of the creative world is? Who is the top dog with the best track record of winning awards? Type in a couple of names...

 

Kitcatt Nohr appoints new digital creative director

LONDON - Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw has hired the award-winning creative director Angus Mackinnon as its digital creative director.

 

Lynx 'Get In There' by Bartle Bogle Hegarty

LONDON - How BBH London developed a new planning model for the digital age to engage with teenage boys who like to flirt online.

 

Adam & Eve brings in digital talent

LONDON - Adam & Eve has hired Lowe's Simon Lloyd and Christine Turner to head up its digital offering.

 

Nigel Marson quits as group marketing director at Transport for London

LONDON - Nigel Marson, the group marketing director at Transport for London, has decided to step down.

 

DDB apologises for controversial 9/11 ad

LONDON - DDB Brasil has been forced to apologise after it emerged that a controversial ad campaign, for WWF, featuring an exaggerated recreation of the 9/11 disaster was created by...

 
 

Tourism Queensland hunts for more candidates for "best job in the world" role

LONDON - Tourism Queensland, the body behind the award-winning "best job in the world" campaign, has announced that it is relaunching the campaign.

 

Glue hires Holly Maguire to head up 3 account

LONDON - Glue London has hired Holly Maguire, an account handler at CHI & Partners, as group account director as part of a number of new appointments to bolster its...

 

YouTube video shows Cannes gold Lions are "worthless"

LONDON - Boondoggle, a Dutch agency that won five gold Lions at Cannes this year, has created a short film revealing that the awards are not in fact worth their...

 

CAMPAIGN PROMOTION - Dressed to kick - in association with Dentsu

LONDON - This year, Dentsu gave over the floor of its Cannes seminar to three female creative directors from different agencies and contrasting Asian countries

 

Big Won UK 2009 Cannes Lions league tables

LONDON - The Big Won, in association with creative recruitment agency, The Garden Partnership, has analysed the entire Cannes 2009 Lions shortlists and winners. Here, CampaignLive publishes the rankings of...

 

Campaign video - Interview with Dave Droga

LONDON - The founder of Droga 5 took time out at Cannes Lions 2009 to talk to Campaign about his role as chairman of the Titanium and Integrated Awards jury.

 

Cannes Lions 2009 - Grand Prix winners

LONDON - Sweltering in the office and missing Cannes? Struggling to remember what happened? Catch up with the key winners in Campaign's round up of the top work from this...

 

Tribal DDB Amsterdam's "carousel" for Philips scoops Cannes Lions 2009 Film Grand Prix

LONDON - Tribal DDB Amsterdam's Philips "carousel" campaign has won the Cannes Film Grand Prix, while the UK put in a strong performance overall with a total of 16 gongs...

 

Barack Obama campaign takes Integrated and Titanium Grands Prix

LONDON - In a Cannes first, the Obama for America presidential campaign, created by the Obama for America team, scooped the Grand Prix in both the Integrated and Titanium categories.

 

Saatchis the only UK agency shortlisted for Titanium Lion

CANNES - Saatchi & Saatchi's "dance" work for T-Mobile is the sole UK campaign to make the Titanium Lions shortlist, which celebrates the best integrated work.

 
 
 
 
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