THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FILM VELKÝ VLASTNECKÝ VÝLET WON SILVER AT THE CANNES LIONS

2. 7. 2026 The only Czech campaign awarded at this year’s Cannes Lions festival was the communication campaign for the documentary film Velký vlastenecký výlet. The project, produced by Punk Film with support from the creative workshop Fun House, the Leo Prague agency and other teams from Publicis Groupe, won a Silver Lion.

CANNES LIONS WRAP-UP: PART TWO – FROM EFFECTIVENESS TO GROWTH, FROM VOLUME TO TRUST

28. 6. 2026 Another part of the overall round-up of the Cannes Lions festival was a panel discussion featuring the heads of content from three platforms: Lions, Contagious and WARC. They took their seats at a table on stage to review the main themes of the past week.

CANNES LIONS WRAP-UP: PART ONE – THE WORLD OF AI AND PEOPLE

28. 6. 2026 AI was one of the main themes at Cannes Lions, but the tone of the debate has shifted. Naive enthusiasm and even irrational fears about the loss of human creativity have given way to more practical and profound topics.

CARAT WINS THE ‘MEDIA NETWORK OF THE YEAR’ TITLE AT THE CANNES LIONS

26. 6. 2026 Carat, the media agency network part of the Dentsu Group, was named Media Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions Festival. It secured the award thanks to three Gold, one Silver and two Bronze Lions.

FIVE MARKETING TRUTHS: RITSON AND SHARP REACHED A CONSENSUS IN CANNES

23. 6. 2026 Mark Ritson and Byron Sharp are among the most prominent and most frequently cited figures in contemporary marketing. At the Cannes Lions festival, their rare joint appearance was based on a simple premise: given that they are known for frequently competing against one another, are there any issues on which they can actually agree?

CANNES LIONS: A RECORD NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT AGENCIES JOINED THE JURY

12. 5. 2026 Cannes Lions has announced the jury for this year’s festival. The jury will select world-class creative work, which will then be judged, awarded and celebrated during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place from 22 to 26 June 2026.

CANNES LIONS ANNOUNCES ITS 2026 PROGRAMME

21. 4. 2026 Oprah Winfrey is honoured as the 2026 Cannes LionHeart. A global line-up of creative legends, innovators and cultural voices will take to the stage including Stella McCartney, Patagonia and Google DeepMind.

EFFECTIVENESS IS BUILT ON CONSISTENCY AND CREATIVITY, EMERGED FROM THE CREATIVE IMPACT DISCUSSION FORUM AT THE CANNES LIONS FESTIVAL

26. 9. 2025 At the Cannes Lions Festival, leading marketers, prominent creatives, and representatives from research agencies come together each year to explore the relationships between creativity, consistency, and effectiveness. This year, as part of the Creative Impact discussion forum, they focused on finding ways to maintain brand consistency in an uncertain and ever-changing environment, leverage creators and new technologies, and improve customer experience. The takeaway? Consistency is a creative superpower that can protect brand value and increase brand strength over the long term.

STADIUMS AS SUMMER ADVERTISING LABS. THE IMPACT OF MEGA SPORTS EVENTS ON BRAND MARKETING

29. 8. 2025 The biggest summer sporting events are not just competitions for trophies. There are also moments when advertising becomes a pop culture event. Wimbledon, the Tour de France, the US Open, the EURO and Formula 1 are not only the highlights of the sporting season but also comprehensive advertising laboratories. Each of these events offers a completely different media space – from the aristocratic minimalism of Wimbledon to the pop culture spectacle of the US Open to the technology-oriented branding of Formula 1. The common denominator is the effort of brands to achieve deeper audience engagement through new formats, digitalisation and personalised experiences. It is no longer just about reaching an audience – the goal is to create a cultural moment that resonates across channels, generations and markets. The Tour de France and the power of film aesthetics For many years, the Tour de France has rightly maintained its reputation as the largest and most-watched cycling race in the world. This Grand Tour, which takes place every July, is not only a sporting event but also a global advertising platform where many brands test the effectiveness of innovative formats. Live broadcasts of the Tour are provided by more than a hundred television stations in over 190 countries around the world, with a cumulative audience of over 3.5 billion viewers. The individual stages are filmed from the air, from motorcycles and from stationary cameras, making the Tour an ideal space for advertising and product placement. The race thus boasts a distinctive cinematic aesthetic.

HOW ONE VIDEO GAME TOOK ON CULTURE TO TURN LOSS INTO BRAND LOVE

17. 7. 2025 When Clash of Clans – a mobile video game made by Supercell that reportedly has up to 150 million monthly users – lost relevance and some love, the marketing team took creative risks to stage a brand comeback, revealing their secrets at the Cannes Lions Festival.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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 festival, most ads are dull. The whole lot of nothing that they make people feel costs real money – an average of £10m, according to a 2023 piece of work by Peter Field.

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.

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.

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 themes from the work, unearth what makes a campaign both creative and effective, and offer a behind-the-scenes view of the strategies that lead to winning in this category. Why the 2024 winners matter John Bizzell, WARC’s awards lead, explains that the 2024 Creative Effectiveness Lions jury set themselves a mission to “seek causality in every case” – with clear evidence that the campaign had directly caused business impact.