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Browsing: Cannes Lions

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Cannes 2014: Trois bronze for Kiwis in Cyber
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Three of the local campaigns many hoped would appeal to the Cannes judges didn’t get the golds they were hoping for, but they did come away with bronze overnight, with DDB taking two bronzes for Sky’s #Bringdowntheking and Paw Justice’s Animal Strike and Colenso BBDO getting one for Samsung’s Smartphone Line.

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Cannes 2014: two Colenso campaigns shortlisted in Radio category
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Colenso BBDO is the only Kiwi agency still standing in the Radio category after the shortlist was announced overnight. The Auckland-based agency’s campaign for Memphis Meltdown has been shortlisted twice for the ‘Voice Transplant’ and ‘Listen to your Stomach’ spots and the agency also got received nominations for the ‘Talkies’, ‘Meditation’ and ‘K9FM’ spots created for Pedigree.

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Cannes 2014: gold and bronze for FCB in Media category, Colenso and DDB also pick up gongs
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The media category proved to be very fruitful for the six shortlisted Kiwi entries, with Colenso BBDO’s ‘Smartphone Line’ picking up a silver and bronze, FCB’s ‘Bottled Walkman’ picking up a bronze and DDB’s ‘Animal Strike’ also winning a bronze. The biggest Kiwi winner of the night, however, was FCB’s ‘Brother in Arms’ campaign, which picked up a gold. PLUS: see which Peruvian campaign picked up the grand prix.

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Cannes 2014: FCB, DDB and Colenso BBDO are bronzed in the Outdoor limelight
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New Zealand enjoyed a 60 percent success rate in the Outdoor category at Cannes as three of the five entries shortlisted picked up awards at the festival. DDB’s ‘#BringDowntheKing’, FCB’s ‘Bottled Walkman’ and Colenso BBDO’s ‘Smartphone Line’ all won the approval of the judging panel—leaving the Kiwi contingent with smiles and a trio of bronze lions.

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Cannes 2014: FCB picks up silver lion in Mobile category
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Yesterday, we reported that FCB was the only Kiwi agency shortlisted in the Mobile category for its ‘Food Photos Save Lives’ campaign for UNICEF. Well, the good news for the agency didn’t end there, because it was announced overnight that the campaign had picked up a silver gong at the coveted festival. PLUS: see which Brazilian campaign won the grand prix.

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Cannes 2014: FCB flies solo in Mobile category
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New Zealand’s hopes in the Cannes Mobile category rest squarely on the shoulders of FCB, as it was the only Kiwi agency to be shortlisted for a Lion. And the news only gets better for the Auckland-based agency, because its ‘Food Photos Save Lives’ campaign for UNICEF has been shortlisted in two categories (charities and response/real-time activity).

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Cannes 2014: DDB and Whybin shortlisted in Press category
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Whybin\TBWA\DAN’s decision to do a pro-bono project for Minds for Minds has paid off, with the agency being shortlisted in the press category at Cannes for its work on the ‘Meeting of the Minds’ campaign, which was released in January this year. And, after winning big in the print category at the Axis Awards earlier this year, DDB’s ‘Be the Artist’ campaign for Lion is now in contention to pick up a few gongs on the international stage.

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Creatives embracing cliches
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If you’re a fan of Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Completely Unusable Stock Photos and other pisstakes of generic stock imagery, then you’ll probably like this campaign from the Cannes Lions aimed at drawing attention to the upcoming festival, which hopes to get attendees to ‘fall in love again with what they do for a living’. And to do this, McCann London and photographer Max Oppenheim embraced stock photo cliches and shot various creative stars from around the world doing their best impression of over-excited, fist-pumping office workers.

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‘Good to great to good’: the 2013 Cases for Creativity
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This new year we’ve again gathered together a family of campaigns that represent something of a high water mark of achievement in our industry. To be judged Gold at Cannes and then Gold at the Effies is evidence of an advertising idea that is beyond reproach, both in terms of the commercial or behavioural impact it creates for its client and the way it moves our industry forward through sheer imagination and innovation. And in 2013, 12 campaigns achieved this remarkable distinction.

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Learning from the Lions: Cannes chair Terry Savage on emerging trends, the ascent of creativity and how to win gongs
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The Cannes Lions has become the world’s pre-eminent advertising awards ceremony. And its chairman Terry Savage was in Auckland this week where he presented at Colenso BBDO as part of its Love This Speaker series and announced the return of the Young Lions in association with Val Morgan. Here’s what he had to say about purpose, creativity, data and competition.

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The French connection
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Many thousands of people from the global comms industry descend on Cannes every year to judge, learn and drink. But why? This film, which was produced as a collaboration between Lions Festivals and Jack Morton Worldwide to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the festival, explains what happens, how it inspires creativity and why it’s become so alluring.

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Cannes 2013: the world’s best video content
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Video content is still something of a teacher’s pet in the world of marketing and, in an age of sharing, the best of it lives on online. So drink in the ads and brand-funded video deemed to be the world’s best: the main winners from the Film and Film Craft categories at Cannes.

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Cannes Lions 2013: Day 6
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The final Cannes medals were handed out over the weekend, bringing the Dumb Ways to Die-dominated show to an end. But it was slim pickings for the Kiwis, with just one bronze to DDB in the final stages.

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Cannes Lions 2013: Day 5
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DraftFCB’s having a brilliant Cannes Lions, DDB’s doing better than expected and took out one of the biggest awards on the roster, and usual top performer Colenso BBDO hasn’t had much to write home about. Now DDB’s in line for three more awards after the release of the Film shortlist.