Creative Social presents Creative Looting in London Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Simon Sankarayya, Tom Erslinger, Liz Sivell, Andy Sandoz and Dave Bedwood will be talking about idea-poaching vs idea-inspiration. Not in the Inevitable Creative Outcomes, vs Lazy, vs creative theft way, or the what clients call digital layouts lawyers call copyright infringement way.

Use the source Luke...

It's too late to submit your entries for Return of the Insight, but not too late to jot down the date for the Young Creative Council Insight Do-Shop which is Thursday the 22nd of September at Poke London. Some of the best planning minds from around the galaxy will come forth and pass on their knowledge to you if you chose to attend. We can not let the dark forces win.

Only in the Ukraine could we have an award like Adlook, where the 'muses' in advertising aren't judged by the hotness of their work, but by how hot they look in heels and a push-up bra. Unlike in the miss Universe competition, here silicone is A-OK!
Seriously, they say this in their opening paragraph.

Adlook – is the first rating, where ad agencies take their places not for their works, but for beautiful looks of their female co-workers. So the rating of your agency depends on you, girls. Clients and their budgets have no importance here. There’s no place for fakes here (though adlook team thinks that silicone is ok).

Change of plans folks! My Birthday will not be held in Cannes next year (crowd roars with DISAPPOINT!), as it has just been announced the Lions festival is moving back to it's original date. Quick, get on the horn and re-schedule that team of former rugby-players now turned exotic dancers to come and party with me at my house instead. What do you mean you didn't book them in the first place? Son, I am disappoint.

We have just been informed by the city of Cannes that for various internal and external reasons the proposed improvement works to the Palais des Festivals have now been postponed.
Therefore, to avoid a crossover with the end of the Cannes Film Festival, we are reverting to our usual dates in the third week of June – 17-23 June 2012.

Flashback to Cannes lions and the Gold winning PR entry called Tramp A Benz which consisted of a man who hitchiked through Germany, but only in Mercedes Benz. He blogged about it, he facebooked it, there was even a book printed in the end showing all the nice drivers who picked him up. He was Stefan Gbureck, a former Hugo Boss model and 'emerging street photographer and performance artist from Berlin'. It all seemed to be his idea, even if he used the classic Mercedes line "The best or nothing" on his brown paper cardboard as he hitched.

Hey New Yorker, what are you doing on Tuesday? Fancy celebrating the future of innovation in advertising over cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and presentations from Robert Wong, ECD of Google Creative Lab and Sam Ewen, CEO of Interference? There are twenty spots left right now for the Aftertomorrow event, did I mention the magic word... They're free. Go, Go Go!

There are a few spots left to this Tuesday evening's After Tomorrow event by Tomorrow Awards & Adobe in Chicago at House of Blues. Come for the presentations, including Matt Marcus of R/GA, and stay for the open bar.

After Tomorrow Chicago - has all the info.

The photo is from last week in L.A.

No career track without professional training

Lürzer’s Archive Berlin School Scholarship 2011

Creative Leadership. That is the focus of the training and tuition programs run by the Berlin School, an initiative launched a few years back on the back of an idea originally put forward by the Art Directors Club Germany. In the formulation of the idea, ADC president Michael Conrad, formerly President and now Vice Chairman of Leo Burnett International, emphasizes that creativity is a key quality required of future business leaders, it being an asset that is decisive in determining whether a company succeeds or fails.

GLAAD is accepting submissions for The 2011 GLAAD Amplifier Awards, (formerly known as the GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising.)

The GLAAD Amplifier Awards elevate and promote images in advertising that include fair and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Amplifier Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories of LGBT people and issues that build support for equality.

Submitted materials must be received in the Los Angeles GLAAD office by Friday, July 29, 2011
at 6 p.m. PT. Projects submitted must have been printed, broadcast, appeared online or exhibited outdoors in the United States between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.

The Grand Prix for good was won by Leo Burnett Australia, for their "see the person" disability awareness campaign for Scope. Well done.

You know I was rooting for someone else in the Grand Prix for good. The entire shortlist however, was great and everyone on it should pat themselves on the back anyway. This shortlist is littered with great ideas for good causes, how can it not be golden all the way? I guess I'm just a sucker for ideas that sell a better future. I'm sorry Memac Ogilvy Label Tunisia, but you did get the Lynx so you're OK, I'm sorry JWT NY. I had fun reading the shortlists, as I was pumping fists in the air whispering "yes!" and making a general fool of myself in the press room. Lets watch these two again.

So, while I thought it was rather obvious that this wasn't signed off by a client in "file under not surprised", and DMVawter posted "Cannes Lions pedophilia ad: Demand a retraction or demand a refund." ... we're not quite done with this one yet. Lets poke at it with this here stick one more time.

The credits for the KIA ad according to this years Cannes Lions fest:

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Advertising Agency: MOMA PROPAGANDA Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Chief Creative Officer: Rodolfo Sampaio
Executive Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio
Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio

You have to read this in the voice of Peter Falk (may he r.i.p) as I watched too much Columbo as a kid.

I worry. I mean, little things bother me. I'm a worrier. I mean, little insignificant details - I lose my appetite. I can't eat. My wife, she says to me, "you know, you can really be pain." Well. Here's what I'm worrying about now, that Dirt Devil "Exorcist" Cannes Lions shortlisted ad that (kinda) sucks.

So by now you've probably read about the Cannes judges' brilliant decision to award a Silver Lion to this (presumably fake) Press ad selling Kia vehicles with the oh-so-clever theme of pedophilia (the funny kind, of course). This means that every agency and advertiser that entered the Press category at €350 a pop and didn't win, presumably lost their Lion to this extremely bad joke.

We think that's wrong. And we think the show organizers should acknowledge the judges' lapse in good taste and sanity by withdrawing the award immediately. If they don't, everyone who entered the Press category and didn't win should demand a refund of their entry fee.

Moma created an ad for Kia that won Silver in Cannes Lions this year, and literally everyone the croisette were talking about it as "the pedophile ad". What brand in their right mind would ever approve that? Kia motors now say they didn't. Will the lion have to be sent back now?

When the "Dirt Devil Exorcist" spot began touring the world via creatives and amused horrors films fans showing it to each other I knew it would be big. Big enough to shortlist in the Cannes film lions was rather unexpected for me though. There are fans of this ad as it so perfectly homages a movie that's scared the hell out of everyone at some point, and I like the tension build, and the slow paced scare. Some producers will (off the record) tell you that it's 60 seconds to long. I disagree, but it's clearly selling an idea and nice film, rather than a product. Don't get me wrong, I like it, as much as I love The Excorcist. Now, did the client ever sign off on this?

Returning from the 2011 Cannes Lions festival - or as I like to call it, the advertising olympics - I feel as if my brain has been blown so many times, it entered a blank space which was then reprogrammed by everyone I spoke to. Brace yourselves, the word "I" is going to be used so much here I'm boring myself already.

Droga5, New York did rather well at Cannes this year with their D-code Jay-Z with Bing taking home the Integrated Grand Prix. But not only that, they took home a Titanium Lion and Silver Cyber, and Outdoor Grand Prix.

Last night’s Wrath of Cannes (www.wrathofcannes.com) event named a winner out of over 30 submissions. The team of judges (including Tony Hawk) narrowed down the entries to five finalists.
(From left to right) Harry Woods (Partner/Creative Director, WWD&S), Gill Witt (Partner/Creative Director, WWD&S), Derek Richardson (VP Birdhouse) Tony Hawk, Kiran Aditham (Editor, AgencySpy), Jaimie Muelhausen (Creative Director, Tony Hawk Inc), Phyllis Dealy (Partner/Director of Account Services, WWD&S). Center is the winner: Nikolaus Drellow

R/GA New York's Pay With a Tweet for Innovative Thunder won them Grand Prix in the Viral Advertising category.
Associate Creative Director: Leif Abraham, Christian Behrendt
Programmer: Alexander Milde
Pay with a Tweet is the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social network. We launched Pay With A Tweet with the release of our book "Oh My God What Happened And What Should I Do?". It’s simple, people who have something to sell simply add the Pay With A Tweet button to their site, and people simply click on the button and tweet about the product. They are then able to download it: a book, album, or whatever. What began as a promotion became a whole new way to trade content online.

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, Australia took home the Grand Prix for PR at Cannes yesterday for "Break Up" campaign for National Australia Bank.