The stories behind big Cannes Lion winners and the riskiest advertising moves of the year

At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Ad Age sat down with some of the brightest minds in advertising and marketing to discuss some of the bravest and most talked about ideas of this year, some of which also scored big Lions last week.  One of the most celebrated campaigns at Cannes was Droga5’s “The Truth Is Worth It” campaign for The New York Times, which earned the Grand Prix in both Film and Film Craft--the first time a single campaign has ever won both honors in the festival. The work was a testament to the power of deep collaboration between the agency and the brand it is creating for. The project wasn’t just about teamwork between creatives and marketers—it enlisted the help of the New York Times reporters themselves.  "We spent a lot of time with our journalists really trying to understand the process that went into it,” New York Times Senior Vice President of Marketing Amy Weisenbach said. “It was this perfect marriage of: Do they have the assets, do they have photos on their iPhones, is there audio, what’s the material we have to work with? Is it timely, was it interesting, was there an impact from the reporting?” Collaboration is key especially when you are taking big risks, like when Skittles decided to produce a Broadway musical to run on advertising’s biggest day of the year, Super Bowl Sunday. That campaign, which scored Gold Lions at the festival, required the brand, agency DDB and production company Smuggler to hold hands and jump... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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