The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the final names that will make up the Branded Content & Entertainment, Creative Effectiveness, Innovation, Mobile and PR juries. Here's a rundown:
Branded Content & Entertainment Lions Jury
Doug Scott, President & Founder, OgilvyEntertainment, Global – Jury President
Aditya Swamy, Executive Vice President & Business Head, MTV, India
Arthur Herpel, Managing Director UM Studios, Universal Media, The Netherlands
Ben Liebmann, Chief Executive Officer, Shine 360°, UK
Brian O'Rourke, Executive Producer, Branded Entertainment, TBWACHIATDAY, USA
Glen Condie, Creative Director, Wonder, Australia
Jennifer Golub, Creative Director / Executive Director of Content, Let There Be Dragons, USA
Jon Hamm, Chief Creative & Innovation Officer, Momentum Worldwide, USA
Justin Wilkes, President of Media & Entertainment/Executive Producer, @Radical.Media, USA
Lucien Boyer, Global President & CEO, Havas Sports & Entertainment, Global
Mateo Eaton, Regional Branded Content Partner, Mindshare, Asia Pacific
MaurÃcio Mota, Chief Storytelling Officer, Co-Founder, The Alchemists Entertainment Group, Brazil/Global
Olivier Gers, Global President, LiquidThread, Starcom Mediavest Group, Global
Pablo Munoz, President, FCB, Spain
PatrÃcia Weiss, Chairman and Founder BCMA South America and Strategic Consultant of Branded Content & Entertainment, Asas Da Imaginação, Brazil
Randy Stein, Partner, Creative, Grip Limited, Canada
Seiichi Saito, Principal / Creative & Technical Director, Rhizomatiks, Japan
Thomas Jamet, Chief Executive Officer, Moxie, France
Ulla-Karin Barrett, Accounts Director, The Fan Club, Sweden
Will Barnett, Executive Creative Director, Adjust Your Set, UK
Creative Effectiveness Lions Jury
David Sable, Global Chief Executive Officer, Y&R, Global – Jury President
Adam Stagliano, Chief International Strategy Director, TBWAWorldwide, Global
Brandon Cooke, Global Chief Marketing Officer, mcgarrybowen, Global
Colvyn Harris, Chief Executive Officer, South Asia, JWT, India
Craig Mawdsley, Joint Chief Strategy Officer, AMV BBDO, UK
Fiona Gordon, Group Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore
Greg Lyons, Vice President of Marketing, Mountain Dew & Energy, Pepsico, USA
James Woodbridge, General Manager – Marketing, Burger King, New Zealand
John Woodward, Worldwide Planning Director, Publicis Worldwide, France
John Zeigler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, DDB Group Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific
Jung-kyu Park, Senior Vice President, Dongsuh Foods Company, South Korea
Justin Graham, Chief Strategy Officer, M&C Saatchi, Australia
Maria Mujica, Latin America Regional Marketing Strategy and Communication Director, Mondelez International, Argentina
Michael Fassnacht, Chief Executive Officer & President, FCB Chicago, USA
Miriam Chaves, Marketing & Sales Director, T4F – Time For Fun, Brazil
Roxanne Taylor, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Accenture, Global
Innovation Lions Jury
Tom Bedecarré, Chairman, AKQA and President, WPP Ventures, AKQA, Global – Jury President
Ami Dror, Technologist and Entrepreneur, Dror 3, Israel
Brian Wong, Founder and CEO, KIIP, Canada
David Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital, USA
Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Director User Experience Research, Intel, USA
Kate Burns, MD, UK/Europe, Shift, UK
Koichi Yamamoto, Senior Planning Director, Dentsu, Japan
Oliver Palmer, Head of Innovation, Tigerspike, Asia Pacific
Sune Kaae, Senior Technical Director, R/GA, Sweden
Vic Lee, Founding Director, Virtus Inspire, Hong Kong
Mobile Lions Jury
Jaime Robinson, Executive Creative Director, Pereira & O'Dell, USA – Jury President
Alasdair Scott, Partner, C3, UK
Angela Steele, Chief Executive Officer, Ansible | An IPG Mediabrands Company, Global
Daniel Bonner, Global Chief Creative Officer, Razorfish, UK/Global
Jay Morgan, Digital Creative Director & Head of Innovation, Havas Worldwide, Australia
Jens-Petter Aarhus, Creative Director, Anorak, Norway
Kerstin Trikalitis, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Out There Media, Austria
Krisztián Tóth, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, Carnation PLC, Hungary
Luiz Sanches, Chief Creative Officer and Partner, AlmapBBDO, Brazil
Mark Tomlinson, Executive Creative Director, Hellocomputer, South Africa
Martin Chapman, Creative Director, Head of Design & UX, Magnetix, Denmark
Qanta Shimizu, Chief Technology Officer / Founder, Party, Japan
Stephanie Sarofian, Executive Director, Agency and Brand Partnerships, NA, Inmobi, USA
Syngwook Park, Executive Creative Director, Hancomm, South Korea
Vineet Gupta, Managing Director, 22Feet Tribal Worldwide, India
PR Lions Jury
Renee Wilson, President, North America, MSLGroup, USA – Jury President
Andres Rodriguez, Partner, Babel, Colombia
Angela Spain, General Manager, PR & Activation, FCB, New Zealand
Ann Maes, Managing Director, Ogilvy / Ogilvy PR, Belgium
Arnaud Pochebonne, Executive Vice President EMEA, Managing Director France, Weber Shandwick, France
Catarina Amorim, Executive Director, M Public Relations, Portugal
Caterina Tonini, Councillor and Board Member, Havas PR Milan, Italy
Claire Bridges, Founder, Now Go Create, UK
Claire Salvetti, Managing Director, Mango Sydney, Australia
Désirée Maurd, PR Strategist, Forsman & Bodenfors, Sweden
Elise Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell Communications Group, USA
Francisco López DomÃnguez, Managing Director, Burson Marsteller, Spain
Julia Kozak, SVP and Partner, Managing Director, FleishmanHillard, Poland
MatÃas Alurralde, President, Alurralde, Jasper + Asoc., Argentina
Mauro Silva, Executive Creative Director, Livead, Brazil
Petra Sammer, Partner & Chief Creative Officer, Ketchum, Germany
Preben Carlsen, Managing Partner, Trigger AS, Norway
Radhika Shapoorjee, President South Asia Corporate, Ipan Hill & Knowlton Strategies, India
Ruth Sheetrit, Chairman, SMG Sheetrit Media Group, Israel
Ruth Warder, Managing Director, Brand, Edelman, UK
Tomoki Harada, Creative Director, TBWAHakuhodo, Japan
Entries into the Cannes Lions Awards are currently being accepted until April 25. Cannes Lions takes place from June 15-21.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More