The marketing world is abuzz as the world’s top talent gather at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Get excited!

Advertising Age:  Creatives You Should Know 2015

“Creativity and Ad Age present our annual roundup of the talent behind the ad world’s most innovative work. Read on to find out about the minds behind Cannes contenders for Always and Honda; the talent who helped conceive Suntory’s 3D-printed ice cubes and Quiksilver’s unusual new wetsuit; the duo who thought up one of Toyota’s most heartwarming campaigns; the dynamic thinker behind digitally-driven ideas for the Gap and the world’s most boring video game; and the team that’s turned boring categories into something worth talking about.”

Advertising Age:  Unilever’s Foundry50 Brings Best of Startup Bounty to Cannes

“Marketers have tapped the vast universe of startups in many ways, but Unilever’s year-old Foundry program may be the most comprehensive and systematic effort yet, as the company has vetted 3,000 startups in marketing, research and data science in its first year.”

“Another major piece of that effort unfolds June 25-26 during the Innovation Lions, a “festival within a festival” during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Unilever will introduce its Foundry50, which it deems the world’s top 50 marketing-tech startups, to the assembled masses of agency and marketer delegates.”

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