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100% Media 0% Nonsense: Cannes Lions remains an essential tentpole in the ad industry calendar. But it can’t cover up the many cracks that need fixing, writes the editor.

Managing the time difference is one of the most difficult parts of moving from the UK to the US. Doing so requires strategy and rule-setting.

When it comes to emerging technologies and how they will impact marketing, how do we heed the cynic’s glass half empty caution, while also embracing the optimist’s glass half full guidance? The realist’s answer is to experiment, scale and repeat, argues Essencemediacom UK’s head of media planning.

It’s déjà vu all over again — the Open Web Programmatic market is as impenetrable as ever.

Find out the Top 20 branded content campaigns of all time ahead of their release at Cannes Lions this week. Electric Glue co-founder Simon Orpin argues they underscore that the role of media is to liberate great creative ideas.

Strategy Leaders: All elements of the media landscape provide different encounters and they offer something different, writes Wavemaker UK’s head of video.

Sky’s group lead of anti-piracy advertising argues that we have the technology to identify sites engaged in illegal activity but there are two things that are holding us back: money and accountability.

100% Media 0% Nonsense: Does Cannes still matter as a beacon of creative inspiration and collaboration, or it it just the biggest media and tech get-together in the world, asks the editor.

Global approaches are supposed to standardise ways of working, but in standardising, advertisers are going to miss huge opportunities to drive home competitive advantage, writes Wayne Blodwell.

This year’s winning entry was determined to distribute an idea effectively, rather than allocate a media budget efficiently, writes Laurence Green.