If you keep up with me on Twitter, you were probably overwhelmed by my tweets from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity last month in the south of France. Now in its 59th year, the festival brings together the most creative minds in business -- mostly from advertising and marketing but increasingly from other fields.
Thanks to the ever-generous Google, I was invited to the Cannes Creative Academy for Young Marketers for "Young Lions" under the age of 30. During the week, I heard from some of the industry's top creative minds in a small classroom setting, as well as the festival speakers in larger sessions.
Some staggering stats from Cannes:
- 11,000 delegates attended Cannes Lions 2012, with 90+ countries represented
- There were 34,304 entries for Cannes Lions awards, while 47% of all ad campaigns that ran last year were deemed failures by the market
- Research shows best brands in the world outperform S&P by 400%, confirming that the brand is an incredibly important intangible asset
- More #canneslions tweets were sent in a day this year than in all of the 2011 festival
The Work
Each day, the festival displayed the short list of finalists for Cannes Lions awards in each category. Other work, including videos from the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase, was shown in sessions. Here is a pinboard of the best stuff I saw.
Favorite Case Studies
Of the thousands of celebrated campaigns, here are three that stood out for their impact and effectiveness.
- Nike Fuelband by Nike + R/GA (Titanium Grand Prix winner)
- Help, I Want to Save a Life by Droga5 (Grand Prix for Good winner)
- Hilltop Reimagined for Coca-Cola by Google and Grow Interactive (Mobile Grand Prix winner)
Soundbytes: Quotes from the Experts
“Search the right place, not the bright place.” - Morihoro Harano, founder and chief of creative at PARTY Tokyo
"The revolution is coming from all sides... and I hope what we witness is the rise of the independents." - Dan Wieden, co-founder and global executive creative director of Wieden+Kennedy, on the changing agency landscape
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance a heckuva lot less.” - Joe Tripodi, EVP and Global Marketing Officer of The Coca-Cola Company
"Leadership is the responsibility you have to articulate your ideas in the face of 'no.'" - Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice President of Global Advertising Strategy at The Coca-Cola Company
“Fax machines don’t have APIs” - Michael Scissons, CEO of Syncapse, on bringing companies into the present of techology
“We’re always inclined to chase the new, new thing... but it’s about pace.” - Michael Wall, President of Lowe & Partners, on bringing your customers with you when you're selling tech
"When you're a young client, you make the mistake of thinking that creatives want a big white page, but really they want more concise things." - Laurie Coots, CMO of TBWA\Worldwide
"I didn't write 'Just Do It'... I just did it." - JR, street artist and TED Prize winner, on art versus advertising
"If you ask creatives what their job is, all of them will say the same thing: to do good work." - Tor Myhren, President of Grey New York
"Our desire to measure ourselves is unique and universal." - Stefan Olander, Vice President of Digital Sport at Nike, on the insight that lent to Nike Fuelband
"The problem with advertising is you buy the drink, but don't have the friends... you buy the 4x4, but don't have the freedom... you buy the promise, but end up buying the wrong product." - philosopher Alain de Botton
"Great advertising deeply impacts the ways executivies think about and talk about their companies." - Jean-Marie Dru, Chairman of TBWA\Worldwide
"You can never expect the young people to learn if you don't let them speak... let them get involved." - Val diFebo, CEO of Deutsch NY
"Does anyone ever start at their best? That would be so depressing, to start at the top and work your way down." - Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie
"Nobody expected a '10' was possible... the scoreboards could not accommodated a '10.'" - Nadia Comaneci, star of new Visa campaign, on earning the first perfect score at the Olympics in 1976
"Do well and do good." - President Bill Clinton in his keynote on advertising responsibility
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