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Captivating captions: FCB Chicago takes another bow
A PROJECT reworking closed captioning to better serve deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers has won the Brand Experience & Activation Grand Prix.
In the most contested category of the 2025 Cannes Lions, with 2,337 entries, FCB Chicago’s ‘Caption With Intention’ — for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences — was a worthy winner. The work has already won this year’s Design and Digital Craft Grands Prix. The reimagined system synchronises subtitles with
Dove: Ogilvy UK wins again for ‘relentless reinvention’
THE WINNER of the 2025 Creative Strategy Grand Prix is Ogilvy UK for Dove’s ‘Real Beauty, how a soap brand created a global self-esteem movement’.
Jury President Pats McDonald, global chief strategy officer, Dentsu Creative, Global said:
“When you get a group of strategists together in a room, you might expect disagreements. But it was hard to argue about a campaign that has written the playbook on modern strategy for the last 20 years.”
McDonald said Dove took “the simple, devastating in-
sight that just 2% of women see themselves as beautiful and transformed beauty into a source of confidence. The campaign relentlessly reinvents itself for every generation and every shift in culture, all while embracing tech. It also open-sources its playbook for the rest of the industry.”
The impact of the campaign goes well beyond purpose, having also driven the brand to spectacular heights. Today it is a $7.5bn brand active across 10 product categories. McDonald talked about the importance of the Creative
the words being spoken onscreen, but also uses different type sizes, weights and animation to signify the intonation — for example when people are shouting or whispering.
It also uses different colours to ensure that the 466 million people who rely on closed captioning know who is speaking at any given time.
“You can feel the difference in the experience. It’s more immersive, it’s more immediate,” said Jury President Tara Ford, chief creative officer at Droga5 London.
Strategy category, which received a record-breaking 902 entries this year: “When facing so much uncertainty and change, it is important to stop and find the best strategy in work, because that is going to take us forward with confidence and optimism.”
The Jury awarded five Gold Lions to campaigns from the UAE, Japan, France, Colombia and Brazil. Discussing criteria, McDonald said they were looking for entries that “know the audience and know algorithms, that embrace AI as a partner in joyful and provocative work with extraordinary ambition for what creative strategy can do. We wanted work that makes us optimistic about the future of the industry.”
SEALED: VML WINS CREATIVE COMMERCE
A CAMPAIGN that reactivated expired food coupons for shoppers grappling with the costof-living crisis has won the 2025 Creative Commerce Grand Prix.
‘Preserved Promos’ was created by VML, New York, for Ziploc, which is best known for its foodstorage bags. A brand that preserves food was now preserving out-of-date food coupons as well. People could visit the campaign’s website and upload photos of their expired coupons to have them rejuvenated to be used next time they shopped — as long as they also had Ziploc products in their basket.
Ziploc worked with more than 80 retailers with a network of more than 76,000 physical stores across the US where the reborn vouchers could be used, leading to a 5% sales li for the brand.
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Jury President Tara Ford
Jury President Pats McDonald
Creative Effectiveness Jury focuses on ‘Shot On iPhone’
THE WINNER of the 2025 Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix is ‘Shot On iPhone’, created by TBWA\Media Arts Lab Los Angeles for Apple. The award is a timely triumph for Apple which is also this year’s Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year. The Creative Effectiveness Lions celebrate work that can demonstrate how an effective strategy rooted in creativity has met its chosen business objectives, generated positive customer outcomes and driven sustainable business impact over time. Jury President Andrea Diquez Global CEO, Gut, said it is a tough category to judge because “the work comes from the previous year’s Cannes Lions winners, which means it is all amazing. That makes it so dif -
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ficult to choose a Grand Prix.” In the end, the Jury decided on a campaign that has been circumnavigating the globe since it was launched in 2015, to support the iPhone 6s. “It’s a campaign everybody knows,” said Diquez. “When a client commits to a long-term campaign and platform that is highly creative, that uses UGC, that has product and tech at the forefront, that is relevant globally and locally, then the end result is just magical. It has everything.”
In terms of trends, Diquez said: “We saw a lot of funny and emotional work, a lot of work with purpose. We were also pleased to see work from a lot of countries.”
The Jury also awarded three Gold Lions — to the UK (2) and the Netherlands.
Publicis campaign
‘changed the rules of engagement’
PUBLICIS CONSEIL has won its second Grand Prix of the week for ‘Three Words’, created in partnership with Axa. The campaign, which sets out to provide a solution for women experiencing domestic abuse, came out on top in Creative Business Transformation.
The work involved rewriting a clause in Axa home insurance policies so that instead of providing emergency relocation for victims of ‘fire and flood’ it extended to cover ‘fire, flood and domestic violence’. The change meant that women who had no way of escaping abuse at home
now had a genuine chance to rebuild their lives.
France has mandatory home insurance contracts, so Axa’s decision had huge societal impact, with the new phrase being added to 2.5 million contracts (retroactively). Women who contact Axa get legal, financial and psychological support to help them relocate (with their children if necessary). They do not need to be named in the contract to benefit from support. Axa saw a 9% increase in contracts.
Jury President Jane Lin-Baden, CEO APAC and member of the global management committee,
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global chief creative o cer at Grey, who outlined the mission that this year’s Creative Commerce Jury set itself.
“Let’s make sure that whatever is the top [award] here makes us equally jealous but also proud. Proud of being part of an industry that puts ideas like this out in the world,” Schmi said. There has been talk of coupons making a comeback in the creative sphere this year, but Schmi had a di erent take.
“I think coupons never le real people’s lives. The challenge we have is to turn those into things that go much further and are much more wonderful than just coupons,” he said.
Work that helps people save money is a trend this year. “We know the world is not exactly stable from many points of view, including economic. It’s such a good opportunity for us as an industry to show the actual value that we can bring.”
Three Gold Lions were awarded in the category for work from Brazil, India and Thailand.
Publicis Groupe , said: “The jury all loved this work. With just three tiny words, it changed the rules of engagement and refined the category.”
Lin-Baden said the Jury stuck very close to the intention of the category: “We looked through the lens of new creative ideas that are very core to the business and also bring transformative, sustainable change as a result.”
In terms of trends, she saw an evolution in purpose. “Purpose can be decorative but this year’s work brought purpose close to the core of the brand and business.”
There was also a trend towards work which had “an impact on the entire business ecosystem. Creativity goes beyond advertising. The most powerful work in this category impacted suppliers, legal, commercial and so on.”
The Jury also awarded a Gold Lion to ‘Lucky Yatra’, a campaign by FCB India, Mumbai, on behalf of Indian Railways.
Jury President Jane Lin-Baden
AKQA wins Grand Prix for Spotify nature fund-raiser
‘NATURE’ is now an officially-verified artist on Spotify with more than 150 million streams, thanks to an initiative designed to route music royalties towards conservation.
The Sounds Right project was devised by AKQA, Copenhagen, for the Museum for the United Nations and Spotify, and has won the 2025 Cannes Lions Innovation Grand Prix. It involved recording sounds of nature and wildlife then making them available for artists to use in their new songs. ‘Nature’ was credited as an artist on those tracks, thus earning royalties that were then distributed to conservation projects.
170 tracks were released in the first year of the project from artists including Aurora, Brian Eno, Ellie Goulding, Bomba Estéreo, Hozier and London Grammar, attracting more than 14 million listeners. The first donations — $225,000 of funding for conservation projects in Colombia — were made in October 2024, six months after the launch.
“The campaign stood out because it
Havas and LVMH
HAVAS Play and French luxury giant LVMH have secured the Grand Prix in the second year of the Luxury category. Their entry, ‘The Partnership That Changed Everything’, came out ahead of 181 entries from around the world. The campaign centred on LVMH’s activation of its Paris 2024 Olympics sponsorship. This involved the creation of various bespoke outfits and accessories by LVMH brands including Dior, Berluti, Louis Vuitton and Chaumet — with the ultimate goal of taking the various Olympic
ceremonies to a new level of performance, creativity and elegance.
Jury President Mathilde Delhoume Debreu, global brand officer, LVMH, who was not present for the final decision because of the potential conflict, said: “This partnership changed sports sponsorship for ever. It was about more than just sponsorship, it was about crafting the Games in a way that was consistent with with LVMH’s brands.”
The Luxury category is about work that brings an aspirational lifestyle to life. It recognises
was just innovative thinking. They came up with a really interesting way to drive royalties and to take those funds and put it back into nature conservation,” said Jury President Courtney Brown Warren, chief marketing officer at Kickstarter.
“They’re already scaling past music into gaming. We saw that it could have real-world, long-term impact, and that’s what we were looking for.”
Sustainability was part of a wider theme in the Innovation category this year. “It wasn’t so much about stopping using things, but reuse of materials,” Warren said. “And across the board we had a number of ideas grounded in betterment for the world, accessibility, helping others and sustainability.”
“We were looking for impact, for scale, for creative disruption and for work that we thought would stand the test of time,” Warren added. One Gold was awarded in the category, to FCB Chicago’s ‘Caption With Intention’, which also won the Grand Prix for Brand Experience & Activation.
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“It’s also beautifully crafted and beautifully simple. It’s something we felt would become part of culture.”
Ford noted that the entries this year largely fell into two categories. “It was solving a problem or a consumer need, or it was just playful and entertaining. But sometimes it was a combination of both.”
11 Golds were awarded in the category to work from the US (2), Brazil (2), Costa Rica, Peru, Poland, India, Colombia, Mexico and Germany.
branded communications and solutions that drive business performance, brand loyalty and creativity — and innovation rooted in craftsmanship.
While the primary goal is to find work that sets a benchmark for luxury, Delhoume Debreu said: “We viewed luxury as a lighthouse, a pioneering sector that challenges existing norms. We wanted entries that pushed creativity without betraying the DNA of the brand. We asked whether luxury does enough on DEI and sustainability.”
The Jury awarded seven Lions in total. One Gold went to ‘Late Checkout: A Ritz-Carlton Story’, entered by Little Spain Madrid, Late Checkout Madrid and The Ritz-Carlton Bethesda.
Jury President Courtney Brown Warren
Jury President Mathilde Delhoume Debreu
‘Humanity is our superpower’
IN A WORLD where AI-powered agents may soon be doing our shopping for us, brands had better start thinking about how to capture machines as well as hearts and minds. This was the starting point of yesterday’s Sassy!! presentation by Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s chief growth and marketing officer, who talked about how the consumer-products giant is future-proofing its marketing ecosystem to deliver experiences that drive both resonance and revenue. And front and centre of this new paradigm is the “democratisation of desire”. It’s desire that will allow brands to navigate tomorrow’s AI-enabled market, Eggleston Bracey said. “To really capture people’s hearts, we need to disrupt desire — that unconscious urge that drives you to feel, ‘I just have to have that…’. And that desire will in turn feed the machines.”
So how exactly do brands transform
themselves into objects of lust? Enter SASSY, Unilever’s framework for elevating and expressing a brand’s desirability quotient. The acronym — “And no, for the Brits in the room, I don’t mean cheeky…”— stands for Science, Aesthetics, Sensorials, Shared by others and Young spirited. ‘Science’ is the bit that builds trust “which is a core driver of desire”, Eggleston Bracey said. She namechecked Cif as a prime example of a Unilever brand that has harnessed science to meet consumers’ growing desire for non-toxic cleaning products. Next up is ‘Aesthetics’. “The look, the feel, the whole experience needs to work together to build desire,” Eggleston Bracey said, citing “the beauty in a bottle” that is Nexxus Promend hair serum. ‘Sensorials’ are a product’s taste, texture, flavour, scent, sound and rituals. “These evoke deep emotional memories to build de-
sire,” she said, referencing the iconic crack of the chocolate on a Magnum.
‘Shared by others’ refers to the shift from brands broadcasting one message to many people, to many people communicating many messages to many others, which builds desire by fostering trust and a sense of belonging. Eggleston Bracey pointed to Vaseline as a brand that has excelled at finding ingenious ways to use its product and create community.
Last comes ‘Young spirited’. “Cultural relevance isn’t about age, it’s about attitude,” Eggleston Bracey said. “And Dove knows this better than anyone.”
So where does all this leave us?
“We’re at a pivotal moment in this dance between data and desire,” she acknowledged. “But we’ve discovered something profound: humanity isn’t our limitation, it’s actually our superpower. It’s our most powerful advantage in this age of AI.”
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Unilever’s Esi Eggleston Bracey: “we need to disrupt desire”
Meet the winners
A full Lumiere Theatre hailed the third awards show of Cannes Lions 2025, with raucous applause as Lions were awarded for Direct, Creative B2B, Creative Data, Media, PR and Social & Creator. There was also Media Person of the Year and Media Network of the Year.
An ebullient team from Edelman, Chicago celebrated its PR Gold Lion for ‘Progresso Soup Drops’. Its work focused on the launch of Soup Drops — soup- avoured sweets dubbed ‘Soup you can suck on’
There was no hiding for the team from Uzina, Lisbon. Its ‘Hidden Tags’ work for IKEA won a Creative Data Gold Lion. The campaign encouraged people to check the tags on their IKEA products in a search for the ‘oldest IKEA piece of furniture’
The nal award of the night saw the OMD Worldwide team take to the stage to collect its Media Network of the Year award. OMD beat second-placed Mindshare and third-ranked PHD Worldwide to take this year’s prize.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy picked up his award for Media Person of the Year from LIONS CEO Simon Cook. “Not only is Amazon the largest media platform globally, but it has also set new standards for scale, creativity and in uence,” LIONS chair Philip Thomas said 4 Grey, São Paulo, won a PR Gold Lion for ‘Sun Reserve’ for Corona. The campaign saw Corona create the world’s rst sun reserve, using beach-front real estate to highlight issues around the obstruction of sunlight by high buildings
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When Steph Curry led the US basketball team to a crushing Olympics nal victory over France in 2024, McDonald’s France threatened to remove curry sauce from its menu as a cheeky riposte. DDB Paris won a Social & Creator Gold Lion for the campaign
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The delight on the faces of the Marcel, Paris, team was clear as they picked up a Direct Gold Lion for ‘Lidlize’ for retailer Lidl. It made clever use of GenAI to get customers to dream up products they’d love Lidl to sell — all in its signature brand colours
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More Brazilian joy came with the Media Gold Lion for ‘Streaming Bars’, entered by LePub, São Paulo. Created for Heineken, it was a bar — the drinks-serving kind — that opened within Net ix when viewers paused a show, enabling them to order real beers to be delivered to their homes
Who be er to design the new Skoda Octavia car than the community on a Reddit subreddit devoted to the brand? Entered by Leo, London, the work scooped a Social & Creator Gold Lion
The team from Gut, São Paulo, bagged a Direct Gold Lion for ‘Coupon Rain’ for Mercado Livre. Its work involved turning the confe i raining down on a trophy-winning football team into coupons, visible — and redeemable by fans — in all the photos from the event
The Special, Los Angeles, and Uber, San Francisco, teams picked up a Direct Gold Lion for ‘Football Is For Food’. It was an inventive conspiracy theory about American football being a ruse to make people think about eating — with deliveries to satisfy their appetites
Mindshare, New York, scooped the Media Grand Prix and its team was eager to celebrate. ‘Dove Real Beauty Rede ned for the AI Era’ was an e ort to re-orient Pinterest’s AI’s understanding of beauty. “The work re ected real optimism for how brands can embrace the future of media creativity,” said Jury President Dan Clays
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19 The team from DM9, São Paulo celebrated the Creative Data Grand Prix for ‘E cient Way to Pay’. The work, for Consul Appliances, helped low-income families upgrade their devices, and thus pay lower energy bills. “The work showed what’s possible when data serves real people,” said Jury President Tina Allan
The team from DDB Colombia, Bogota stormed the stage to receive their Media Gold Lion for ‘Fictional Insurance’. The work, for RCN/Prime, saw viewers of a popular TV show invited to choose which insurance its characters should take out – then watch to see if their choice matched the show’s storylines
14 GoDaddy and Quality Meats, Chicago, bagged the Creative B2B Grand Prix for ‘B2B: Act Like You Know’. “This year’s Grand Prix stood out for its boldness, con dent execution, and pure B2B creativity,” said Jury President Wendy Walker
The team from Publicis Conseil, Paris, won the Direct Grand Prix for ‘AXA – Three Words’. The addition of three words to its home insurance contracts will support women eeing domestic violence. “Their idea will have a lasting impact on consumers, the brand and the entire category,” said Jury President Gaëtan du Peloux
15 In a strong year for Brazilian work, the team from Africa Creative DDB, São Paulo, celebrated its Social & Creator Gold Lion for ‘Resale’, which turned e-commerce sellers into media for Budweiser in an innovative piece of work
17 The team from Ogilvy, Singapore, bounded onto the stage to pick up its Social & Creator Grand Prix for ‘Vaseline Veri ed’, which saw Vaseline verifying the quirky and inventive uses for its product on social media. “A singular creative brand platform founded in the feed,” said Jury President Beth Keamy
18 On-stage bedlam for the team from FCB India, Mumbai, as they won the PR Grand Prix for ‘Lucky Yatra’, which turned Indian train tickets into lo ery tickets to encourage people not to evade fares. “It had engagement, likeability, talkability and integration,” said Jury President Tom Beckman. “Selecting the Grand Prix didn’t take long”
‘The
right thing for the right audience’
SOME people make life work, others make it worth living. David Droga, Accenture Song’s outgoing CEO, is definitely in the latter category.
The self-described “prolific daydreamer”, who won his first Lion at the precocious age of 19, said his whole career had been about “trying to test the limits of creativity — to stretch the parameters and confines of advertising”.
its infancy in 2006 — to trick millions into believing somebody had tagged Air Force One with graffiti. “We had to hire a 747 and paint it and we were being told we were breaking the Patriot Act and I’m like, ‘I don’t give a shit’. It’s the right thing for the right audience.”
Another example of Droga’s dedication to “doing things differently” is his belief that starting at the end gets you to a more interesting and more creatively effective place than starting at the beginning.
To say he has succeeded would be an understatement, as the delegates packing out the Lumiere Theatre were reminded at Thursday’s Q&A session with Ad Age’s Tim Nudd. From his first day in advertising as an 18-year-old in his native Australia, Droga has spent his working life being “blown away that I was being paid to use my imagination. It was like a gift and I’ve held on to that all the way.”
But being successful as a creative is not about trying to prove how creative you are, he added, referencing the early days of Droga5 and the audacious Air Force One stunt that put his fledgling agency on the map. “My belief system to this day is that an idea has to be the right thing for the right audience at the right time and in the right context. Sorting out how to do it is the easy part.”
The spot for streetwear maker Marc Ecko used social media — in
“I’ve said that to any creative that’s ever worked for me. Start with what you want the end reaction to be — blowing up the internet or getting the news media to propel the message — because then you know what to create.”
In an industry that feels increasingly beleaguered, Droga believes that creativity has never been more important. “We creatives are going to be the people who save our industry, but we have to expand the definition of what creativity is and what it can do and what it means,” he said. “We are the ones who are going to break the business model; the ones who are going to stretch limits with the audacity and purity and care we put into our work. So as an industry, we must stand against compromise and apathy and mediocrity and formula.”
Mohan says YouTube is now ‘cultural epicentre’
YOUTUBE is 20 years old this year, and CEO Neal Mohan had something else to celebrate in his Cannes Lions keynote on Wednesday: a new milestone for YouTube Shorts, his platform’s short-video feature.
“YouTube Shorts are now averaging over 200 billion daily views. Fans can’t get enough,” Mohan said, adding that YouTube was seeing a “huge uptick” in the number of people creating Shorts, as well as watching them. He offered a bullish take on YouTube’s place in the entertainment world.
“Today, YouTube is the epicentre of culture. I’m not talking about forgettable fads or one-hit wonders we scroll right past,” Mohan said. “I mean culture with a capital C.” His presentation focused on the ever-growing influence of individual creators, describing them as “the
start-ups of Hollywood — and like most start-ups they’re reimagining the industry that inspired them”.
Hernandez warns of creativity crisis
AS OPENINGS go to a Cannes Lion session, “creativity is in crisis” is certainly memorable.
It’s the view of TikTok’s global head of business marketing and commercial partnerships Sofia Hernandez, speaking at a Terrace Stage session on Wednesday.
“I’m not saying it’s gone, but what I’m saying is we keep trying to control it. In an effort to prove ROI, we’re over-briefing it,” she said. “We’re benchmarking it. We’re creating these walls around it and we’re tweaking it to death — and then we’re wondering why it doesn’t break through!”
However, there was a silver lining in the explosion of “a whole bunch of everyday people leaning into creativity” on social media.
‘We’re tweaking it to death’
Hernandez was accompanied by two of them: TikTokers Keith Lee and Logan Moffitt, who have 17.1 million and 7.2 million followers respectively on the platform.
Lee, who is a food vlogger, offered advice to brands about working with creators. “The biggest thing is knowing who you reached out to and letting that person be that person,” he said.
“A lot of brands reach out and they’ll be ‘Hey, I want you to do exactly what you do, to talk exactly how you talk,
vision screens, with TV becoming the most-watched screen for “more than half of the top 100 most-watched YouTube channels in the world”.
Mohan was joined by three creators during his talk: Amelia Dimodenberg, Alex Cooper and Brandon Baum. The latter showed off videos made using Google’s Veo 3 GenAI video tool, which Mohan said will be made available for YouTube Shorts later this summer.
After showing an impressive space-themed video, Baum stressed that “that demo wasn’t made by Veo 3, it was made by me using Veo 3. Tools don’t bring stories to life: storytellers do. Tools open doors, they expand what we’re capable of … but true art still comes, and will always come, from creatives.”
Mohan ended with some predictions for the next 20 years. “Creators will flip formats, blend genres and push deeper into the mainstream. And communities will continue to surprise us with the power of their fandom.”
but I don’t want you to say things that you usually say and I don’t want you to eat where you usually eat’. And it can be contradicting,” he said.
“I understand from a brand perspective there’s certain things that have to be hit on, but there’s a way to integrate it to where the people who watch it understand that it’s still that person. Once you get away from that, people can sniff it out immediately.”
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Impact report: emotion is key to powerful campaigns
THE CORE of creative work hasn’t changed, and the things that have always mattered the most, such as emotional resonance continue to be the most important thing that people should focus on when developing creative,” according to Nataly Kelly, chief marketing officer at Zappi. The consumer insights platform has brought its latest State of Creative Effectiveness report to Cannes Lions, which features research based on testing more than 4,000 ads with 1.6 million consumers and includes expert insights from Vayner Media. “The trends come and go — celebrities and AI cre -
ated, images and content. But what really matters the most is emotional resonance and that connection to the consumer,“ she said. The report found the top quartile of performers in emotional resonance had double the sales impacts score.
“One of the things that is important to me is bringing that consumer perspective into the process earlier and more often, because often testing creative work was done almost as a rubber-stamping exercise, and toward the end of the process, after most of the important strategic decisions have already been made,” she said. “So bringing the
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Just ‘keep it real’
CONCERNS around AI replacing real-life locations on shoots are misplaced according to Jo Hayek, executive producer at Avion Films, which provided production services for the 2019 Gold Lion winning commercial ‘Diesel’. “I can feel a lot of concern on this subject. I am open to change, but I believe it is a tool that we need to use for the right purpose, and the right time, in the right way.” Citing the recent ‘Yves Saint Laurent Libre L’Eau Nue’ campaign starring Dua Lipa, for which he coordinated production services, Hayek said it demonstrated the appeal of filming in Greece with
its “beautiful colour palette, the mix between sea, blue water and sky — and the angle of the sun that gives this magical light with long, almost endless daylight as well”.
Hayek added that being in the real-life location can also bring out the best performances from actors. “They’re actually there. They are real, and they live the moment. Either the actual moment or a moment somewhere in their life,” he said. “I’m sure if we give you the choice between shooting one month in a dark studio, on a green screen, or on a Greek island by the beach, I have the answer.”
Avion Film’s Jo Hayek
consumer into the loop and testing along the way enables you to develop creative with the consumer as a co-creator. And that’s what I think is very exciting.” If your first real consumer interaction happens when your ad is already live — it’s too late, the report concluded.
Tackling the hot topic of AI, Kelly added: “At the end of the day, if there’s emotional resonance, then consumers might not notice if it’s AI generated, and many don’t care,” she said. “But what they do care about is that it hits them, and that it makes them feel something. That’s ultimately what the heart of good advertising does.”
Zappi’s Nataly Kelly
Axe/Lynx spots build on the fun
MADRID- based Lola MullenLowe won a 2024 Cannes Lions Film Gold for ‘Robbery’, a darkly comic piece of work for Axe/Lynx. This year executive creative director Tomás Ostiglia was back in Cannes for a session explaining how the agency helped the brand to re-find its mojo through humour. “The challenge was how we could bring the edge back to the brand and be funny again. There’s a way to talk about attraction and be funny these days, without being wrong or toxic,” he told Lions Daily News.
Follow-up campaign ‘Be Sweeter Than the Sweetest’ continued in that vein, with its protagonists attacked by teddy bears, babies and dogs enraged by no longer being the sweetest thing in the room. “They are super funny! Humour is a good way to connect with human beings, and it gives you the chance to get into a lot of different subjects that without humour are impossible to tackle,” Ostiglia said. “And these days, maybe humour is even more necessary than ever, because the world is in the middle of deep shit!” he added.
Lola MullenLowe’s Tomás Ostiglia
Cheap,
andcheeky e ective
Short distances between agencies and clients, and bolder ads, characterise the Norwegian advertising market. But the fear of boring advertising still looms large, writes Yngve Garen Svardal, editor of KOM24
“WE HAVE many advantages as a small country. Our budgets are often smaller compared to international agencies, but our clients are braver. When there isn’t 50 million kroner at stake, you dare to take risks — and Norwegian advertisers are open to creative ideas.”
So says Caroline Riis, a creative at TRY Reklame, who has racked up a number of Lions in recent years. Her resumé includes two Gold Lions, one Silver and three Bronze.
The serial winner from Norway’s mostawarded agency says what truly sets Norwegian advertising apart is its humour — and the fact that you don’t need celebrities to make great ads.
“We don’t have the budgets to make things look like a billion dollars, so we make up for it with shock value, charm and making people laugh. Humour advertising from other markets just isn’t as good as it is in Norway,” Riis says, adding that what’s acceptable on Norwegian TV would never fly abroad.
Speaking of shock value, one of Riis’ award-winning campaigns for IKEA showed new products getting peed on, puked on and trashed at afterparties. The point was to show what homes really look like. Even in a liberal country like Norway, the campaign stirred controversy and ended up on the front page of VG, the country’s largest online newspaper. Riis spent several years working in
the UK, including nearly five years at Wieden+Kennedy. When she returned to Norway in 2017, it came as a bit of a shock. On the plus side, she highlights the generous budgets and time given to make things just right abroad. “In Norway, we might get one day to work on the sound mix. In London, we’d spend two weeks fine-tuning treble and bass. We’re forced into tighter deadlines because of budgets,” she says.
But the downside of working abroad, according to Riis, was the time it took and the number of people involved. “It could easily take a year to produce a single film.
If you were making something for Nike, it had to go through both New York and Portland. You’d end up with 25 versions of a script and a final result made by compromise,” she says.
Doffen Trellevik, creative director at Apriil Reklame, had a similar experience with long timelines. As a recent graduate, he spent a year at Leo Burnett in New York. “Two months after I’d moved back to Norway, we finally got a thumbs-up from compliance that our Angry Birds idea, pitched to a major mobile company, was approved. That was years after anyone actually played Angry Birds,” he says, laughing.
Like Riis, Trellevik points out that Norwegian budgets are simply not on the same level. “But the upside of the Norwegian ad industry is that there’s
“We know creativity has value but making that value visible — and getting clients to pay for good ideas — is a challenge”
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less legal, big corporate and compliance hassle. Things move faster, from idea to publication,” he says.
Both Trellevik and Riis highlight that Norwegian advertising often leans toward reactive ideas — something rarely seen in larger markets. One of the most iconic reactive Norwegian
campaigns was ‘Brad is Single’, created by TRY Reklame for Norwegian Airlines in 2016, when the airline launched a direct route from Oslo to Los Angeles. The breakup between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was the global headline at the time, and the campaign cleverly jumped on the hype. Created in just a few hours, it ran in Norway’s largest newspaper VG, as well as the Evening Standard in London, and delivered strong results for the airline.
“That kind of idea would be nearly impossible to get through in New York. In Norway, it’s easier to stay relevant,” Trellevik adds.
But the Norwegian ad industry has faced some tough years. Several agencies have gone bankrupt, unemployment among creatives has risen and even the surviving agencies have mostly delivered poor numbers.
Trellevik believes the market for creativity is shrinking. One key reason? The rise of in-house agencies. “Everyone’s trying to figure out their business model and that’s a direct result of in-housing,” he says. “It’s hard to price the value we bring when everything’s reduced to hourly billing. We know creativity has value but making that value visible — and getting clients to pay for good ideas — is a challenge.”
But Trellevik is proof that you don’t need big budgets to do great work. Twenty sample glasses, some postage stamps and a marker pen. That’s what it cost Apriil to win a Silver Lion in the Creative B2B category for its campaign ‘Handle With I Don’t Care’, made for Strahl, a maker of unbreakable glassware.
“Winning a Lion was just insanely cool
— the biggest moment in my career. I’m incredibly proud of that award. It proves that great creativity can come from anywhere, on any budget,” he says.
Trellevik believes there’s still a lot of good advertising coming out of Norway, pointing to the fact that Norwegian campaigns continue to punch above their weight internationally. But both he and Riis are concerned about Norway’s fading presence in Cannes. In 2022, Norway submitted 156 entries to the Cannes Lions. This year, the number dropped to just 75.
Trellevik calls it a vicious cycle. He believes much changed in Cannes when CMOs started getting seats at the table.
“That’s turned it into a more elitist and homogeneous group, at the expense of the creatives,” he says.
Trellevik has been to Cannes 17 years in a row. He finds it deeply inspiring, especially the time he spends in the basement screening rooms, watching submitted work. One year, his entire agency went along.
“We saw how much higher the bar was when we got back home. Every award-winning piece we made that year came after we’d been to Cannes,” he says. For him, attending is so crucial that he’s written it into his contract.
But even Trellevik’s Cannes track record is nothing compared to Kjetil Try. Except for the COVID year of 2020, he’s been to Cannes every year since 1983. Try founded TRY Reklame and has long been a towering figure in Norwegian advertising. He’s now begun stepping back, selling parts of the company, stepping down as CEO and taking on the role of working chairman. He be-
lieves the Norwegian ad industry is far from healthy, pointing to the near-weekly reports of bankruptcies and layoffs.
He worries about the creative consequences. “There’s been a pandemic. People in Norway have been spending less. Interest rates are high. That makes advertisers pull back, slash their marketing budgets and insource more, because they think it’s cheaper. But I’m not so sure it actually is,” he says.
Try believes creativity used to have more room to flourish — back when clients were less nervous and less afraid to fail.
Try has won Lions every year since 2004, with just one exception. But he sees a shift: Norwegian clients have become more focused on short-term returns than long-term brand building. “There’s less bold advertising than there used to be. Clients don’t feel they can afford to take risks anymore,” he adds.
But that, Try argues, is a fundamental misunderstanding. He insists that the very best work always carries an element of risk. He also believes the great campaigns are fewer and further between in Norway today and that many advertisers now opt for the safer route. “And that’s actually the most dangerous thing you can do: making films and communication that no one notices or remembers,” he says. “A big part of advertising is to get attention — to make people talk. That means you have to touch the audience in some way. But too often, advertisers settle for safe choices that might feel right in the moment, but rarely make for good or effective advertising.” Try emphasises that great advertising isn’t about winning Cannes Lions — it’s about driving sales. “Truly great advertising does both,” he says.
Camilla Kim Kielland from the independent agency Morgenstern confirms that the industry is going through a rough patch. She says she can’t recall the last meeting she attended where people didn’t talk about how tough the market is. She’s unsure if the industry will ever return to its heyday, but believes people in the business need to stop complaining.
“The market is what it is and advertisers have the budgets they have. It’s on us to demonstrate the value we create,” she says.
Like Try, Kielland sees growing caution among advertisers and also says it’s affecting the quality of the work. “A lot can be done on smaller budgets. But in uncertain times, clients also become uncertain. They want maximum return on investment and end up focusing on short-term growth, forgetting the importance of long-term brand building,” she says.
Kielland believes there’s still plenty of fun and effective work being made, but that many advertisers are staying inside their comfort zones, clinging to what feels safe. At her agency, staying true to their creative integrity is key.
“If we water down what we stand for — if we make work we don’t believe in or aren’t proud of — then our brand value declines. And in the long run, we lose. That’s incredibly hard to rebuild,” she says.
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TITLE
• RETURNING CREATIVITY
BRAND • CRAYOLA
PRODUCT • CRAYOLA CRAYONS
ENTERED BY • DENTSU CREATIVE, NEW YORK
IDEA CREATION
PRODUCTION
• DENTSU CREATIVE, NEW YORK
• HUMMINGBIRD CONTENT
STUDIO, SANTA MONICA / MKTG, NEW YORK
MEDIA • DENTSU X, NEW YORK
PR
• DENTSU CREATIVE, NEW YORK
POST PRODUCTION • TAG, NEW YORK / SPARK MUSIC GROUP, LOS ANGELES / 750MPH, LONDON
D06/016 • UNITED STATES • 360 INTEGRATED BRAND EXPERIENCE
TITLE • OTHER HAND
BRAND • CHEETOS | PEPSICO
PRODUCT • CHEETOS
ENTERED BY • GOODBY SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS, SAN FRANCISCO
IDEA CREATION • GOODBY SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS, SAN FRANCISCO
PRODUCTION • DUMMY FILMS, LOS ANGELES / OMNICOM PRODUCTION, SAN FRANCISCO
MEDIA • OMD USA, NEW YORK / VAYNERMEDIA, NEW YORK
PR
• KETCHUM, NEW YORK
POST PRODUCTION • ARCADE EDIT, LOS ANGELES / THE MILL, CHICAGO / COMPANY
3, LOS ANGELES / SONIC UNION, NEW YORK / DIRECT FOCUS, VANCOUVER
E03/074 • SPAIN • SINGLE-MARKET CAMPAIGN
TITLE • SHADES OF RED BRAND • COCA-COLA
PRODUCT • COCA-COLA COMPANY
ENTERED BY • DAVID, MADRID
IDEA CREATION
PRODUCTION
• DAVID, MADRID
• PICKLE MUSIC, MADRID / STINK FILMS, LOS ANGELES
MEDIA
• ESSENCEMEDIACOM, MEXICO CITY
E04/041 • UNITED STATES • SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
TITLE • THANKS FOR COKE-CREATING
BRAND • COCA-COLA
PRODUCT • COCA-COLA
ENTERED BY • VML, NEW YORK
IDEA CREATION • VML, NEW YORK / VML, KANSAS CITY / VML, SAO PAULO
PRODUCTION • MANGO FILMS, GUADALAJARA / BALIPROD, BALI / SUGARCANE FILMES, SAO PAULO / GLITCH PRODUCTIONS, MUMBAI / NETO+SHOOKAN PRODUCTIONS, JOHANNESBURG
MEDIA • ESSENCEMEDIACOM, MEXICO CITY
PR • OGILVY PR, LONDON
POST PRODUCTION • VML, SAO PAULO / SUGARCANE FILMES, SAO PAULO / RAW AUDIO, SAO PAULO
E04/043 • NEW ZEALAND •
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
TITLE • WORST CHILDREN’S LIBRARY
BRAND • SAMSUNG
PRODUCT • SAMSUNG
ENTERED BY • DDB NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND IDEA CREATION • TRIBAL AOTEAROA, AUCKLAND
PRODUCTION • DDB NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND
PR • MANGO COMMUNICATIONS, AUCKLAND
POST PRODUCTION • DDB NEW ZEALAND, AUCKLAND / CREATURE POST, AUCKLAND
E04/070 • COLOMBIA •
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
TITLE • BAD LUCK REVERSER
BRAND • REFISAL
PRODUCT • REFISAL
ENTERED BY • NAME, BOGOTA
IDEA CREATION • VML, NEW YORK
PRODUCTION • BELIEVE TV, SANTIAGO / NAME, BOGOTA / AKIRA CINE, BOGOTA / VOX HAUS, PORTO ALEGRE
MEDIA • SPARK FOUNDRY, BOGOTA
PR • DATTIS COMUNICACIONES, BOGOTA
E06/006 • AUSTRIA • BREAKTHROUGH ON A BUDGET
TITLE • SIGHTS OF TOMORROW
BRAND • LETZTE GENERATION AUSTRIA
PRODUCT • LETZTE GENERATION AUSTRIA
ENTERED BY • DEMNER, MERLICEK & BERGMANN, VIENNA
IDEA CREATION • DEMNER, MERLICEK & BERGMANN, VIENNA
PRODUCTION • DEMNER, MERLICEK & BERGMANN, VIENNA
MEDIA • DEMNER, MERLICEK & BERGMANN, VIENNA
E07/038 • UNITED KINGDOM • CORPORATE PURPOSE & CSR
TITLE • THE MEAL
BRAND • MCDONALD’S
PRODUCT • HAPPY MEAL
ENTERED BY • LEO, LONDON
IDEA CREATION • LEO, LONDON / READY10, LONDON
PRODUCTION • ROGUE FILMS, LONDON
MEDIA • OMD UK, LONDON
PR • READY10, LONDON
POST PRODUCTION • ROGUE FILMS, LONDON / PRODIGIOUS, LONDON
E07/067 • BRAZIL •
CORPORATE PURPOSE & CSR
TITLE • BUILDING FUTURES
BRAND • MRV
PRODUCT • MRV CONSTRUCTION
ENTERED BY • DM9, SAO PAULO
IDEA CREATION • DM9, SAO PAULO
PRODUCTION • DM9, SAO PAULO
MEDIA • DM9, SAO PAULO
E07/111 • INDIA •
CORPORATE PURPOSE & CSR
TITLE • ACKO TAILOR TEST
BRAND • ACKO
PRODUCT • HEALTH INSURANCE
ENTERED BY • LEO, MUMBAI
IDEA CREATION • LEO, MUMBAI
PRODUCTION • CHROME PICTURES, MUMBAI
E07/114 • UNITED STATES •
CORPORATE PURPOSE & CSR
TITLE • CAPTION WITH INTENTION
BRAND • ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES - RAKISH - CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY
PRODUCT • CLOSED CAPTIONING
ENTERED BY • FCB CHICAGO
IDEA CREATION • FCB CHICAGO
PRODUCTION
• BELIEVE TV, SANTIAGO
POST PRODUCTION • 456 STUDIOS, CHICAGO / PES MOTION STUDIO, HIGHLAND PARK / BOGOTA, CURITIBA