Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up here. What people are talking about today It’s Day 3 of Cannes Lions, the halfway point. For those missing out on the French Riviera festival, here's how the reliably amusing R/GA Twitter account recapped a talk yesterday on “the value of agency creativity”: “Good news: turns out creativity brings tons of value and you should shift all your money to agencies. Off to the beach!" Joking aside, though: One big winner so far at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is “Dream Crazy” featuring former NFL star Colin Kaepernick. The work from Nike and Wieden & Kennedy took Grand Prix awards in two of the nine categories announced so far, Outdoor and Entertainment for Sport. Ad Age Alexandra Jardine writes that Steve Stoute, founder and CEO of Translation and the jury president for Entertainment for Sport, called Nike’s work “the benchmark of the risk we want creatives to take going forward. In our industry a lot of people do anything not to get fired …” Overheard at Cannes: “I went on the Accenture boat but everyone was too drunk, so I couldn’t network, so I left.”—a sober Cannesgoer. Read more in our latest pop-up Cannes Nightcap newsletter, which you can sign up for here. More links: Ad Age has eight reporters on the ground at Cannes; here’s where you can read all their... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
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