Campaign in Cannes 2008: Coverage round-up

by Staff, Campaign 24-Jun-08, 15:20

Having trouble remembering the 2008 Cannes Lions festival? Campaign presents a round-up of its coverage.

Lions Awards stories:

Pictures

TBWA’s UK & Ireland president Tim Lindsay and CEO Matt Shepherd-Smith relax after displaying their prowess in a power swim and rope-swinging-over-the-sea man-off.

R/GA’s marketing supremo Karen Spiegel and chairman Bob Greenberg seemed to make an appearance at every party. The Larry David look will get you everywhere.

Bob Isherwood, Saatchi & Saatchi’s worldwide creative director, on his way to the Palais des Festivals to impart wisdom to Young Lions.

Dmitry Levteev, client services director at IQ Marketing, Moscow, holds aloft a Tuburetka in the networkone seminar. The agency mounted a city-wide party for disadvantaged kids with funds from selling its own version of the traditional stool on which children write poems to Santa.

The Profero posse enjoys a heavy night at the Café Felix, where the bill for dinner looked likely to reverse the agency’s debt-free status.
(l to r): Wayne Arnold, founder; Suzanne Bidlake, associate editor, Campaign; Daniele Fiandaca, COO; Darryl Arnold, founder; David Puttnam, non-executive chairman.

Three down and counting…Cannes Festival CEO Philip Thomas presides over the announcement of the Film Lions winners at the third of 11 press conferences during the week.

Tim Lindsay, the TBWA UK & Ireland president, newly (thrice)-betrothed Howard Draft, DraftFCB’s chairman and chief executive, and Tom Carroll, chief executive of TBWA Worldwide, swank it up at the Eden Roc restaurant - again.

What credit crunch? No sign of belt-tightening at the Martinez Hotel’s Palme d’Or restaurant where the lavish food theatre includes this confection of bubble that slowly implodes when topped with a hot caramel drizzle…(thanks to Archibald Ingall Stretton for raising our collective cholesterol count).