Play it Safe: Sydney Opera House short film wins Grand Prix award at Cannes Lions festival
Judges say four-minute piece featuring Tim Minchin is ‘a celebration of the creative spirit, of brave ideas and taking huge risks in the face of critics’
June 2018
'Google and Facebook won': old guard of advertising under threat in Cannes
Internet giants’ growing control of ad spend brought a sense of change to Cannes Lions festival
Martin Sorrell criticises WPP over its handling of his forced departure
Advertising tycoon says he was treated unfairly and blames a high-level leak for his exit
David Attenborough launches wildlife fund for advertisers
Firms signing up to Lion’s Share fund will give 0.5% of money spent on ad campaigns featuring animals to conservation schemes
June 2016
Cannes should celebrate strategy as much as creativity
Tracey Follows
Media Monkey
Media Monkey: Jeremy Paxman, Robert Peston and Brexit
Cindy Gallop: ‘Advertising is dominated by white guys talking to white guys’
Mad Men and invisible women: how the advertising industry failed to move on
Rupert Murdoch to invest millions in video for Sun and Times
Will Cannes Lions go hunting the elephants in the room?
The Lad Bible hires Weber Shandwick’s digital chief ahead of Cannes ad push
Agencies
Cannes Lions 2016: doing well by doing good
Ash Kuchel
March 2016
'Winning Young Lions made it all feel justified - our gamble had paid off'
Creative director Paul Jordan, Young Lions 1999 winner and 2016 judge, talks starting out in the industry, work strategies and what it’s like to win
February 2016
Guardian and Apax share £80m from Ascential flotation
35% of magazine publisher and Cannes Lions festival owner Ascential, formerly known as Emap, floated for £800m at 200p a share
July 2015
Great ads should be awarded, but the methodology used at Cannes is flawed
Tom Goodwin
Awards play a vital role in the advertising industry, but the categories used at Cannes Lions belong to the 70s. Here’s how we can fix it
June 2015
Cannes Lions is moving from a festival of creativity to an open-air bazaar
Michael Farmer
While billed as the home of great ideas, Cannes is really a place where buyers and sellers mingle, dream, haggle and hope
Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the people it serves?
Tracey Follows
The winners of this year’s festival highlight that advertising, in its rush to prove that it is pro-technology, has become anti-people
Media blog
Where is the Taylor Swift of news to force tech companies to pay up?
Jane Martinson
Sir Martin Sorrell: There's room to 'make efficiencies' within BBC licence fee
Kenneth Branagh: Playing Wallander left me in 'permanent state of anxiety'
