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CAA Scores Grand Prix and 2 Gold PR Lions for Chipotle's 'The Scarecrow'
CANNES, France—CAA Marketing and Chipotle, which teamed up to win two Grand Prix in 2012, added a third here tonight, winning the top prize in the PR Lions contest for "The Scarecrow," its latest...
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McCann Melbourne's 'Guilt Trips' Train Campaign Wins Creative Effectiveness...
CANNES, France—McCann Melbourne, which won a record five Grand Prix last year for "Dumb Ways to Die," won the 2014 Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix here on Monday for a different train campaign: its...
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adam&eveDDB Selfishly Snags the Promo Grand Prix for 'Sorry, I Spent It on...
CANNES, France—It pays to be selfish. London agency adam&eveDDB was celebrating that grinch-like truism here tonight as it reeled in the Grand Prix in the Promo & Activation Lions contest for...
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OgilvyOne Soars to Direct Grand Prix for BA's Plane-Detecting Billboards
CANNES, France—Ogilvy & Mather, which won four Grand Prix in 2013, is off to a good start at this year's festival, too, winning the Direct Lions Grand Prix here tonight for its delightful #lookup...
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Durex Takes Down Flopping Soccer Players in Comically Ridiculous #DontFakeIt Ad
Don't fake it—on or off the football field—says Durex. The condom brand is hoping to capitalize on excitement around the World Cup—and particularly, the spectacular dives that players take while...
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Purell and TNT Ads Remind You That Hand Sanitizer Is Good in a Global Pandemic
Gas masks might imply that something stinks, but that's probably not the intended message of Mono's Grand Central Terminal takeover this week promoting Michael Bay's TNT series The Last Ship. (A...
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Fiat's New TV Ads Made Entirely of GIFs: Are They 'Endless Fun' or Overkill?
For better or worse, Fiat's latest TV commercials might make your head spin. The brand recently commissioned some wacky GIFs from The Richards Group for the Fiat Tumblr page, but Chrysler CMO Olivier...
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This Long Island Iced Tea Won't Give You a Hangover
Mention a Long Island iced tea to most people, and they’ll probably remember falling off a bar stool (if they remember that much). But there’s another Long Island Iced Tea out there—a ready-to-drink,...
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Can a 14-Year-Old Make a Better Vitamin Commercial Than a Pro?
IDEA: It's so obvious, it's taken as fact: Experienced directors are better than inexperienced ones. But what if that's not always true? Take, for example, not just young directors but child directors....
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FCB Basks in the Sun With Mobile Grand Prix for Nivea's Beach Bracelet
CANNES, France—This gorgeous beach town was the perfect setting for the Grand Prix award in the Mobile Lions contest here tonight, as FCB São Paolo took the prize for its ingenious Nivea bracelet that...
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McCann Lima Is All Smiles After Winning Media Grand Prix for Coke's 'Happy ID'
CANNES, France—Coca-Cola added to its impressive legacy of hauling in Cannes Lions by snagging the Media Grand Prix here tonight for a Peruvian campaign from McCann Lima centered on getting people to...
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Whybin\TBWA Cashes In With Outdoor Grand Prix for Fabulous GAYTMs
CANNES, France—A colorful gay pride campaign from Australia that turned ATMs into GAYTMs earned Whybin\TBWA the Grand Prix in the Outdoor Lions contest here tonight. The campaign, done for ANZ Bank's...
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Old Spice Scores With World Cup Ad Full of Screaming
Old Spice scores another goal with Terry Crews, this time for the World Cup. The brand would like you to know it's now available in Brazil, and it's a good time to tell you that because there's a...
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This Precocious Director's First Ad Really Gets Inside Its Subject
Here's a very special delivery from French agency BETC. It's called "Birth," and it's a minute-long promotional film touting the annual Young Director Award that will be presented Thursday at the...
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College's Hottest Guy and Hottest Girl Give Out Free Kisses in Ad Stunt for Gum
College students know that chewing gum is for making out. But Immuno Gum, a new product, also claims to include immune-system-boosting ingredients like zinc, vitamin C and echinacea. To promote the...
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Girl Fakes Getting Her Period, and Pays the Price, in Hilarious New Ad From...
Hello Flo, a tampon subscription service, had a major advertising hit last summer with "Camp Gyno," a hilarious long-form spot about a pre-teen girl who becomes a product- and advice-dispensing despot...
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Ad of the Day: In Sequel to Viral Smash, Pantene Urges Women to Stop Apologizing
As a woman who has been called out for apologizing too much, watching Pantene's "Not Sorry" video made me cringe. It hit too close to home, and that's the beauty of it. From Grey in New York, the spot...
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See the Year's Best Student Work for Google, Apple, Ben & Jerry's and More
CANNES, France—A Google app that translates sign language into text was among the forward-thinking student ideas honored at the Future Lions competition here today, sponsored by AKQA. Now in its ninth...
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Lego Artisans Rebuild The Grand Budapest Hotel, Completely to Scale
To help promote the DVD and Blu-ray release of Wes Anderson's delightful film The Grand Budapest Hotel, distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment commissioned Lego sculptors (yes, this is a...
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3 Campaigns Each Win a Cyber Grand Prix, Including Chipotle and Volvo Trucks
CANNES, France—The Cyber Lions jurors here had trouble narrowing things down to a single big winner. So, instead, they awarded three Grand Prix in the category. CAA Marketing and Chipotle picked up...
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