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Why pay thousands to watch a country’s team play football when you can spend the money on a trip to see the country itself? Even President Trump has said he wouldn’t pay the four-figure price of a ticket to see his beloved USA play in the opening match of the World Cup. Soaring World Cup [...]

Contagious has unveiled its 2026 Pioneers list which shines a light on the agencies setting creative standards. As Contagious is part of the Cannes Lions stable (along with WARC and the Effies), it’s worth noting who is meeting its rigorous criteria ahead of the festival next month – and how they got there. Four UK [...]

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Harmelin Media, Daktronics, JCDecaux UK, Wilkins Media, ReachTV, WPP Media, dentsu, Public Sector Media, Simon Property Group, Displayce, ICON International, QMS--be the first to congratulate these OOH movers! The post OOH Moves Today – 40 Moves This Week! first appeared on OOH TODAY.

Stricter entry rules, a new AI award, PMG takes over WPP’s beach space, and more

Dove, Apple Mac, TJ Maxx, CeraVe, and more are among the week's standout ads

But we can’t make ads like we used to. Clients won’t buy them: too risky, the media agency doesn’t understand them and Mark Zuckerberg says try him instead. How often have we heard this or something like it? So how come Omnicom’s Madrid-based Lola (formerly IPG’s MullenLowe) gets away with it? In this case a [...]

Medieval carnivals were essentially licensed periods of rule-breaking. The normal social order got turned upside down, hierarchies dissolved, and things that couldn’t be said or done the rest of the year were suddenly not only permitted but celebrated. Cannes has always felt a bit like that to me. Midweights carrying Lions lauded like kings; Holdco [...]