CHECK OUT THE MOST AWARD-WINNING CAMPAIGNS FROM CANNES LIONS

22. 6. 2025 The Cannes Lions Festival has recognised the world’s most creative campaigns. MAM brings you a selection of the ten most successful ‘lion collectors’. According to Cannes Lions 2025, WPP, a DDV Worldwide network, was named Creative Company of the Year, while Serviceplan was named Independent Network of the Year. Publicis Conseail, Paris, was named Agency… Continue reading CHECK OUT THE MOST AWARD-WINNING CAMPAIGNS FROM CANNES LIONS

CANNES LIONS: ANOTHER CAMPAIGN WITH A CZECH FOOTPRINT WON LIONS

17. 6. 2025 The ‘Fixables’ project by LePub Amsterdam and Milan for Philips, which was developed in collaboration with Publicis Groupe, OMD Czech and Prusa Research, won silver and bronze in Cannes. The Fixables campaign, whose pilot project was launched in the Czech Republic, was successful twice in the Design category. It won bronze for design aimed at… Continue reading CANNES LIONS: ANOTHER CAMPAIGN WITH A CZECH FOOTPRINT WON LIONS

VML WINS GRAND PRIX IN CANNES FOR KITKAT CAMPAIGN

17. 6. 2025 The ‘Take a break from your mobile’ campaign, created for KitKat by the VML agency, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions competition. The Czech agency VML has won the highest award, the Grand Prix, at the ongoing creativity festival Cannes Lions for its campaign ’Take a break from your mobile phone“, created… Continue reading VML WINS GRAND PRIX IN CANNES FOR KITKAT CAMPAIGN

CANNES LIONS AWARD SUBMISSIONS REMAIN FLAT IN 2025

14. 6. 2025 The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity received 26,900 award submissions for 2025, up less than 1% compared to last year’s tally. Total entries are down 38% from their peak nearly a decade ago. A handful of categories, such as Design, Creative B2B, and Entertainment Lions for Sport, saw double-digit growth in entries. Submissions for the Glass… Continue reading CANNES LIONS AWARD SUBMISSIONS REMAIN FLAT IN 2025

COMING UP LATER: THE EYEWATERING COST OF DULL MEDIA

13. 6. 2025 Dull ads cost companies millions of dollars to achieve the same effect – now, new research to be presented today at Cannes Lions by eatbigfish’s Adam Morgan and Dr. Karen Nelson-Field examines and quantifies the silent drain on our budgets caused by dull media formats. Why dull matters As Adam Morgan explained at last year’s… Continue reading COMING UP LATER: THE EYEWATERING COST OF DULL MEDIA

YOUNG LIONS: MOST PRIZES GO TO YOUNG PEOPLE FROM DENTS, WMC GREY AND ZARAGUZA

24. 3. 2025 The seventeenth edition of the Young Lions development competition for young industry professionals has given out its prizes. This year’s seventeenth edition of Young Lions, a creative competition and training programme for young communications professionals up to and including 30 years of age, has announced the winners in each category. Seventy teams entered this year’s… Continue reading YOUNG LIONS: MOST PRIZES GO TO YOUNG PEOPLE FROM DENTS, WMC GREY AND ZARAGUZA

MAXIMILIAN SCHÖNGEN: MEDIA IS VERY CREATIVE AND ALSO SEXY

30. 12. 2024 We need to reconnect media and creatives and start working closely together, urged Maximilian Schöngen, global head of creative at media agency Mediaplus, in an interview with MAM 38/2024. We are now bringing you the full interview as a gift during the holidays. According to WARC, Mediaplus is the best independent media agency in the… Continue reading MAXIMILIAN SCHÖNGEN: MEDIA IS VERY CREATIVE AND ALSO SEXY

INSIGHTS FROM THE 2024 CANNES CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS LIONS WINNERS

7. 8. 2024 Consistency, simplicity and tapping into fandoms at scale are the keys to creative effectiveness success, according to a new WARC report, Creative Effectiveness Lions – Insights from the 2024 winners. What it’s about  The report, which is available exclusively to WARC subscribers, analyses the entries and has insights into the jury’s deliberations to provide a commentary on the… Continue reading INSIGHTS FROM THE 2024 CANNES CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS LIONS WINNERS

TOP ADS HAVE DISTINCT EMOTIONAL TRAITS

19. 7. 2024 Ads from top-performing campaigns typically have a distinct emotional profile, according to new research by DAIVID, the creative effectiveness measurement platform, and WARC. Ian Forrester, the CEO of DAIVID, revealed the findings of this analysis in a session on the Creative Impact track at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. “Emotions are the key… Continue reading TOP ADS HAVE DISTINCT EMOTIONAL TRAITS

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? HUMOUR BLOWS PURPOSE OUT OF THE WATER AT CANNES

25. 6. 2024 Creative effectiveness platform System1 has found that the ad industry’s shift towards more humour-focused campaigns has continued into 2024, shifting ever further away from purpose. Purpose-led campaigns had of course been a defining feature of the 2010s, but as we enter the mid-2020s it would seem that humour has well and truly taken the upper… Continue reading WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? HUMOUR BLOWS PURPOSE OUT OF THE WATER AT CANNES

CANNES BRONZE GOES TO ČAP, MCCANN AND HERO & OUTLAW

21. 6. 2024 The Czech campaign “National Day without Haste”, prepared for the Czech Association of Insurance Companies by McCann and Hero & Outlaw, was the top winner at Cannes Lions. For the third time in a row, the campaigns of the Czech Association of Insurance Companies (ČAP), under which the agencies McCann Prague and Hero & Outlaw… Continue reading CANNES BRONZE GOES TO ČAP, MCCANN AND HERO & OUTLAW

ALL ADS DON’T HAVE TO BE THE SAME, THAT’S THE CONCLUSION OF THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

21. 6. 2024 The last day of the Festival of Creativity shone a light on the problems of the industry, how to fix them, but also on the success of Barbie. The last day of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity started on an optimistic note, giving the audience in the Lumière Hall a reminder of the phenomenally… Continue reading ALL ADS DON’T HAVE TO BE THE SAME, THAT’S THE CONCLUSION OF THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

THE RECIPE FOR THE MAGIC COCKTAIL FOR BRAND SUCCESS BY KAREN HOWE: BRILLIANT CREATIVE AND TELEVISION

26. 3. 2024 TV is the media channel of choice for top brands. One of the reasons is that it provides unrivalled access to consumers of all ages, including the elusive group of 18-34 year olds. Karen Howe, global award-winning creative director and member of the Cannes Lions advisory board, focused her brand magic webinar on some of… Continue reading THE RECIPE FOR THE MAGIC COCKTAIL FOR BRAND SUCCESS BY KAREN HOWE: BRILLIANT CREATIVE AND TELEVISION

YOUNG LIONS KNOWS THE WINNER.

25. 3. 2024 The judges and organisers of the competition for young creatives in the communications industry have announced the winners of this year’s national round of the Young Lions competition. The Czech round of the Young Lions competition for young creatives in the communications sector has announced the winners. For the first time this year, the winners… Continue reading YOUNG LIONS KNOWS THE WINNER.

YOUNG LIONS 2024: 21 JUDGES EVALUATE THE WORK OF 81 TEAMS FOR FOUR ORGANISATIONS

22. 3. 2024 The sixteenth edition of the Young Lions national competition for young communication professionals up to 31 years of age will soon recognize the winning talents. The Young Lions competition is in full swing. From 18 to 22 March, the competition rounds of the individual categories (Digital, Marketers, Media, PR and Print) are underway. The winners… Continue reading YOUNG LIONS 2024: 21 JUDGES EVALUATE THE WORK OF 81 TEAMS FOR FOUR ORGANISATIONS