• Brooklyn Artist Sues Starbucks For Allegedly Copying Her Work
    Brooklyn artist Maya Hayuk spoke with Starbucks agency 72andSunny over the course of eight days regarding her artwork and how it might be incorporated into promotional work for the new Starbucks Mini Frappuccino. But after the eight days, she told the agency she was too busy to create new work and the talks ended. Upon launch of the Mini Frappuccino, Hayuk felt the rainbow-style artwork was a bit too similar to work of her own and she filed a $750,000 copyright infringement lawsuit against Starbucks saying the finished product was "strikingly similar" to her work. 
  • New Agency Theme Song Generator Totally Not As Exciting As 'AdWeek' Editor's Picture of Couple Having Sex on Red Carpet at Cannes Lions
    This is most assuredly not as exciting as "AdWeek" Editor David Griner's picture of a couple having sex on the red carpet at Cannes.
  • This Map Re-Draws the World According to Cannes Lions Wins
    Global agency We Are Social has created the Cannesogram, an interactive cartogram that reveals how countries have performed over the last ten years at Cannes Lions. The countries are displayed with a combination of color and size that changes according to how successful they have been at winning Lions. Users can drill down into many of the categories using a timeline to find out which countries were most successful in specific years. Hovering the cursor over a specific country brings up its record of Cannes Lions wins in the selected year and category …
  • Design Studio Offers Coloring Book Filled With Cannes Jury Heads And Invites Delegates to Get Creative
    In conjunction with their presence at Cannes this year New York-based design and animation company the STUDIO has created the Cannes Coloring Book along with the accompanying Twitter hashtag #ColorCannes. If you're in Cannes and you visit STUDIO's booth at Little Black Book & Friends Beach between the Carlton and the Martinez, you can get a free coloring book and pencils featuring all of the Jury Heads including BBDO’s David Lubars, Grey’s Tor Myhren, Matt Eastwood of JWT and more. The coloring book is also on Facebook. Anyone who feels creative can …
  • 'Cannes You Please Shut Up': Tumblr Gleefully Pokes Fun At Stupid Agency Tweets
    A new Tumblr post has taken on the task of collecting the most inane, insipid and annoying tweets and posting them for posterity's sake.
  • 'Cannes We Meet' App Offers Cannes Lions Delegates Tinder-Like Hookups
    It seems the "hook up" is the predominant theme at Cannes Lions this week. Just like Barbarian Group's Dumb Phones, Virool's "Cannes We Meet" helps delegates connect with other delegates. Cannes We Meet is a web app that works just like Tinder. After you visit the site and log in using LinkedIn, you can swipe right to meet or left not to meet in a manner very similar to the Tinder dating app.  Of the app, Virool CEO Alex Debelov said, "We know that clients meet agencies, agencies win business, startups …
  • Barbarian Group Unleashes Tinder-Like Action At Cannes With 80 Dumb Phones
    As a fun little experiment during Cannes Lions -- because, after all, sitting on a yacht drinking rose all day long gets pretty boring -- Barbarian Group has handed out 80 old and bricked phones, each programmed with only five numbers.  Each of the 80 people can call or receive calls from 5 of the other 80 people to have a random chat, meet in person or, well, you can use your imagination. Advertising Age's Alexandra Bruell is testing one out and has had calls with an anonymous fellow with a British accent, …
  • Mullen Lowe to Donate Value of Every Cannes Lions Win To Charity
    The IPG shop will donate the value of any and all Lions it wins during Cannes this year to hunger and earthquake relief efforts in Nepal.
  • 180LA Recruits Cannes Lions Judges With 'Most Direct Recruitment Ad Ever'
    Leading up to and during Cannes Lions, a handful of the world's best and most respected creatives convene on jury panels in Cannes, France to judge the world's creative. These judges are the cream of the crop. Any agency would love to have them work for their shop --  but how does an agency reach out to all these amazing creatives all at once? Easy. Turn your Cannes Lion entry case study video into a recruitment ad. 180LA did exactly that by submitting a case study video of an entry into four Lions competitions; Film, Press, Direct …
  • Union Creative's 'Cannescellation' Is The Perfect Gift For Everyone Not In Cannes This Week
    Alas, not everyone can make the trek to Cannes -- and for those who don't, witnessing all the fun everyone else in the ad world is having is, well, excruciatingly painful.
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