While it was only my second year at Cannes, I was struck by the increasing number of clients not only just touching down at Cannes, but really engaging with the Festival by attending and speaking in seminars, and generally soaking up all that Cannes has to offer by way of creative inspiration, networking and celebrating [...]
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Cannes Eye TV: It's a wrap
Whilst the festival continues until tomorrow, it’s the end of our week here today. We’ve enjoyed talking to marketers from some of the largest companies in the world and hope you’ve enjoyed watching them.
Over the coming weeks we’ll be pawing through all the footage that didn’t make it into our 4 minute episodes to bring [...]
Should Cannes Lions festival change its name?
Earlier in the week, Hill & Knowlton CEO and Cannes Lions 2010 PR jury president Paul Taaffe called on the festival organisers to change its name to recognise the wide variety of marketing disciplines represented.
So we’ve been asking all our interviewees this week that exact same question. For this special edition of Cannes Eye TV, [...]
Cannes Eye TV interviews P&G's Marc Pritchard
As one of the largest marketers in the world, we were delighted to be able to catch up with Procter & Gamble global marketing and brand building officer Marc Pritchard during his hectic Cannes Lions schedule to find out why he thinks the festival is the place for his marketers to be.
Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd [...]
The Burning Question?
Whilst we’ve been busy editing the highlights of the whole week, here’s a short episode of Cannes Eye TV featuring interviews with Campaign’s Claire Beale and Jim Stengel, who is hosting a seminar on Friday called The Burning Question.
Cannes Eye TV speaks to Logitech and AKQA
At the end of our third day, whilst the rest of the world is watching England try and survive the group stages of the World Cup (UPDATE: Hurrah!), we caught up with Logitech’s David Henry and James Hilton of AKQA.
Mission Implausible: Improv Everywhere takes on Cannes
Socialising plays a big part in the Cannes Lions festival schedule. So, following his call to arms at yesterday’s seminar, Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd last night briefed what must have been 200-250 delegates on their improv mission for the night: to create the most exclusive party in the whole of Cannes.
And create they did. And [...]
Cannes Lions: What the delegates say...
As we near the end of our second day at the Cannes Lions, we thought it would be nice to hear from the delegates for a change so we headed out onto the Croisette to get a few sounds bites. Earlier we also caught up with Jess Greenwood from Contagious to understand what they were [...]
Charlie Todd's Cannes seminar highlights
If you’re not in Cannes for the Cannes Lions this week (and even if you are), here are the edited highlights of the Hill & Knowlton/Improv Everywhere seminar held at 11am this morning. Now we’re off to create our own scene of chaos and joy with the rest of the delegates here on the Croisette.