Cannes daily global podcast episode 1: Awards preview and new humour category
As Cannes Lions 2024 kicks off on 17 June, Campaign’s editors and journalists from around the world are taking part in a daily podcast during the five-day festival.
Cannes Lions entries drop slightly as new humour category attracts 798 submissions
Entries were “broadly flat”, down less than 1% on a year earlier.
Cannes Lions Award Entries Are Down 38% Compared to All-Time High in 2016
Whether a matter of time, cost or combination of other factors, the ad world isn’t submitting as much work to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as in the past. This year, award entries were down about 1% compared to last year–not a significant decline. But looking back to 2016, which holds the record…
How the NBA Finals Made $76 Billion Media Rights Seem Like a Bargain
As an impending NBA media rights deal is pushing the value of league broadcasts above the rim, no one’s calling foul on its price. The National Basketball Association continues to put up big numbers for media partners and advertisers alike. Game 3 of the NBA Finals drew 11.426 million viewers to ABC and ESPN, peaking…
Need an Insider’s Guide to Cannes Lions? ADWEEK’s 3-Part Podcast Series Has You Covered
According to Mayo Clinic, the average American adult walks somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 steps a day. That’s a figure that would make veteran media executive Lou Paskalis little short of Superman. “My record is 28,000 steps in one day, according to my Apple watch,” said Paskalis, chief strategy officer of Ad Fontes Media. What…
Exclusive: The Trade Desk Threatens to Demonetize Yahoo Video
The Trade Desk alerted buyers earlier this week of plans to no longer monetize Yahoo’s video after it alleged the publisher had been consistently misrepresenting the inventory as in-stream, a type of online video that typically fetches higher prices from buyers. “Yahoo has been misdeclaring video inventory as in-stream,” according to an email seen by…