Daily Archives: June 20, 2012

12 angry media men

This year the jurors at the Media Lions judging not only had to suffer the torture of being holed up in a room for six days watching countless media case studies, there was a stand-up row.

Not unusual you might say – by all accounts the inaugural Creative Effectiveness Lions judging last year was a DNA test short of the Jeremy Kyle Show – but the spat, between Aegis and Omnicom, was indicative of wider friction across the jury members’ respective holding companies. Read more on 12 angry media men…

DESTINATION CANNES

As Great Britain reels underneath the low pressure rain lashed reality of austerity, and Sir Martin contemplates the year a head with a back pocket a couple of million lighter the global ad industry is decamping to Cannes (if you’re American;Khan )- in Cannes to celebrate the Cannes Lions – the zenith of Creative recognition be it Digital, Posters, Mags or Telly or any combination of the former.

The event is a triumph, and long may it reign.

Not long ago it consisted of just two nights press and TV, now it spans the whole week including horror upon horrors the media boys and girls arriving earlier in the week, luckily for the stylish Creatives who arrive Thursday onwards (Saturday morning if they’ve won a Lion) the Media folk will be long gone by the time the Creatives tip up. Read more on DESTINATION CANNES…

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