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Cannes 2025 Spotlight

Join us for an unforgettable week of networking, insights, and inspiration in Cannes. Find out what we've got lined up!
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Cannes 2024 Spotlight

Join us for an unforgettable week of networking, insights, and inspiration in Cannes.
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The power of reinvention

In 1981, Nintendo launched a new video game featuring a giant barrel throwing ape named Donkey Kong, holding a woman named Pauline, hostage.
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New demands of CX: Leading with thoughtfulness

For many brands, personalisation of their customer interactions is now a big focus and adapting this to customer experience (CX) has become crucial for their success.
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17 Lessons from Asian Business

China is the world’s second largest economy, a huge new and growing consumer market, and home to many of the world’s fastest growing companies.
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From CMO to CEO: How Mentoring Helped Me Reframe My Story

The Marketing Society’s Global Leadership Mentoring Programme played a key role in helping Worldwide Cancer Research's Laura Brady achieve her goal of becoming a CEO.
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The end of hype-driven shopping

South Korean consumers, fed up of data breaches and fake reviews are demanding tangible "proof" before trusting hyped products, pushing brands to build verification and authenticity directly into the shopping experience.
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Attention Wanted: Shit marketing only

Drawing on decades in television, Maz Farrelly shared practical lessons on capturing attention, building memorable personal and brand identities, and embracing boldness over mediocrity. She encouraged marketers to use AI as a tool rather than a substitute for creativity, arguing that the brands and people who stand out are those willing to be genuinely different.
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Gen Z Doesn't Want Your Brand Story. They Want the Truth.

Marketers from luxury, FMCG, finance, B2B and agencies gathered for an open discussion on what it takes to engage Gen Z in today's fragmented media landscape. The conversation highlighted the growing importance of authenticity, niche communities and regional cultural influence, alongside practical lessons from brands successfully building trust with younger audiences.
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When Maz speaks you listen. When Maz gives instructions you act

Maz Farrelly challenged marketers to think like television producers by making every pitch, profile and interaction clear, distinctive and impossible to ignore. The session showed that standing out requires more than polished messaging or AI-generated content: it means knowing what you want, communicating a memorable point of difference and deliberately giving people a reason to keep listening.
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