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Cannes Lions 2025: How Do We Move Fast and Build Brands?

Cannes Lions and WARC Creative Impact Unpacked on the Rotonde Stage

By Rachel Letham

Rotonde Stage session at Cannes Lions 2025
The pace of marketing has never been faster, but does speed mean sacrificing long-term brand building? At the Creative Impact Unpacked session Cannes Lions, industry leaders from across Asia, including Andreas Krasser, The Marketing Society Board Member came together to tackle one of marketing's most pressing questions: how do we move fast and build brands simultaneously?

Cannes 2025: Community, Culture and the Comeback of Commercial Creativity

TwentyFirstCenturyBrand's Neil Barrie reflects on the work that wowed at Cannes Lions 2025.

By Neil Barrie

Vaseline Verified Winning at Cannes Lions 2025
At Cannes Lions this year, Neil Barrie from TwentyFirstCenturyBrands was heartened to see that the Grand Prix juries looked beyond the buzz and didn’t reward the loudest, shiniest work.

Cannes Conversations 2025: ‘The Next Billion’ Leadership Brunch

With The Marketing Society and UK Advertising 

By Brynie McBurney

UK Advertising Round Table guests in Cannes 2025
Details of the honest chat about something that doesn’t get talked about enough: how brands can really understand and connect with the next billion consumers in emerging markets. These consumers—mainly in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America—are coming online fast.

Case studies

2016 winner: Direct Line, Customer Insight - case study

2016 winner: Direct Line, Customer

In 2013, Direct Line Group was a company in dire straits. The‘come direct’ approach had lost its pulling power...

2016 highly commended: Trelleborg, Long Term Marketing Excellence - case study

2016 commended: Trelleborg, Long Term

What do you get if you combine a marine engineering company with a cutting-edge digital marketing strategy? The reaction Richard Hepworth got from his...

2016 winner - The Electoral Commission, Marketing Comms - case study

2016 winner: The Electoral Commission, Marcomms

In the build up to the 2015 general election, the Commission’s data indicated that 7.5 million British citizens were not correctly registered to vote.

Podcasts

Moving marketing towards "business to human"

Kirstina Lagerstedt, Marketing Director Scandinavia at Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, talks to us about the importance of considering the end consumer who... https://podcasts.marketingsociety.com/episode/moving-marketing-towards-business-to-human 19:57 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:49:00 +0100

Creativity for breakthrough growth with Lynne Deason & Richard McLeod

The power of brand communications and creativity to drive breakthrough growth. Host, Annabel Venner is joined by Lynne Deason and Richard McLeod from Kantar to... https://podcasts.marketingsociety.com/episode/creativity-for-breakthrough-growth-with-lynne-deason-richard-mcleod 31:15 Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0100

Videos

What lessons can we learn from Aron Gelbard, co-founder and CEO at one of the UK's most talked about start-ups?

How Bloom & Wild built a challenger brand in a commodity market

From clarity to bravery, we discover the secret behind four award-winning campaigns 

'Brave' campaigns win awards - here's how you can too

Marketers from Aviva, GSK and Weetabix on fine-tuning your leadership

Five tips on marketing leadership