The expectation that brands should drive growth doesn’t change when the economy slows and spending turns cautious – at these times it might be useful to explore new usage occasions, giving consumers a ...

To succeed in a “SNAFU era”, characterised by a continuous baseline of unpredictability and frequent periods of extreme disruption, businesses and brands need to prioritise resilience, flexibility, ...

Highlighting trends amongst the campaigns entered into the 2025 Creative Effectiveness Lions. Brands that stick with creative platforms over time achieve greater recognition, loyalty, and financial ...

Influencer and creator marketing is a valuable part of modern marketing plans, but a vast majority of brands still don’t understand how it drives business value compared to more traditional paid ...

Explores the key issues that will influence consumer purchase decisions across brands and categories over the next year.

Offers three lessons for marketers on the effectiveness of influencer and creator marketing. Influencer and creator marketing is a valuable part of modern marketing plans, but a vast majority of ...

Identifies award-winning campaigns that show how a great strategy can transform businesses and brands. Strategists have enabled brands like Johnnie Walker, Snickers and Omo to build strategies based ...

Staatsloterij, the Netherlands state lottery, put emotional storytelling front and centre to win the hearts, minds and wallets of the Dutch public.

Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in new usage occasions. At a time when consumers are prepared to spend and seek joy, create positive associations and seamlessly integrate usage by ...

In his Cannes debut, the writer, academic, and erstwhile Cannes Lions refusenik Mark Ritson took a hatchet to the idea of creative supremacy, arguing that creative is an important part of ad ...

Google has pivoted hard into AI, which now forms a critical part of its experience, and when Google makes changes, the impact is felt across the web, from users to publishers to advertisers; as AI ...