Tag: Cannes Lions

Cannes Lions 2018 See It Be It Participants Announced

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced the 20 participants taking part in this year’s See It Be It programme, an increase of five participants on previous years. Now in its fifth year, the initiative aims to create a platform for women who face diversity challenges in the industry and enable them to become the drivers for change in their respective regions and throughout the industry by providing access to high-profile leaders, executive coaching and mentoring opportunities with senior figures from across the industry. “This initiative was launched to address the issue of…

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Cannes Lions confirms 2018 Lions Health Juries

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced the 21 jury members set to judge the Pharma Lions and the Health & Wellness Lions awards at this year’s Cannes Lions. Now in its fifth year, Lions Health recognises outstanding creative communications in the healthcare sector, with winners announced at an awards ceremony on Monday 18 June. “Lions Health was created to promote the value of creativity in healthcare communications. Every year the health juries set the bar that little bit higher, and every year the industry rises to meet that challenge,” commented Louise Benson,…

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Paul Polman Honoured with Cannes LionHeart Award

Stuart Mitchell

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has today announced that Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever, will be honoured with the Cannes LionHeart Award in recognition of his commitment to building sustainability into the heart of Unilever’s operations. Polman took over as Unilever CEO in 2009, and since then has led an ambitious plan to decouple the FMCG company’s growth from overall environmental footprint and increase its positive social impact through the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. Introduced in 2014, the Cannes LionHeart is an honorary award, presented to an individual who…

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Cannes Lions and HP launch #MoreLikeMe to champion diverse creative talent

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions and HP have introduced #MoreLikeMe, a pilot mentoring program designed to build and strengthen diverse creative talent. The program builds on HP’s marketing Diversity Scorecard to support its agencies in their journey of encouraging more diverse creative talent and teams.    The program will select 15 racially and ethnically diverse rising stars from the UK, US and Mexico to attend the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for an immersive experience including mentoring, networking and curated programming. Following the Festival, participants will join a series of events…

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Future Lions 2018 Call for Entries

Stuart Mitchell

Returning for its 13th year, in collaboration with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, AKQA Future Lions challenges students to push the boundaries, connecting an audience of their choosing to a product or service from a global brand in a way not possible three years ago. Open to all creative fields, there are no rules as to the format of the final entry, nor the media or technology used. AKQA Creative Director and previous Future Lions winner Nicolai Smith said: “Without limitations, Future Lions encourages students to choose the…

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