News & Updates

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will take place on 16–20 June 2025 in Cannes, France.

Highlights from the rankings include Coca-Cola taking Creative Brand of the Year for the first time, with its brands receiving 17 Lions.

The following Lions were awarded: Film, Glass: The Lion for Change, Sustainable Development Goals, The Grand Prix for Good and The Dan Wieden Titanium Lions.

This year’s competition sees Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan being awarded for the first time

‘The Power of Portrayal’ Report looks at representation in Cannes Lions Film and Film Craft Creative Work, from 2006 to 2023.

The Brand Experience & Activation, Creative Business Transformation, Creative Commerce, Creative Effectiveness, Creative Strategy, Innovation and the new Luxury & Lifestyle Lions winners have been announced.

The winners in the Creative B2B, Creative Data, Direct, Media, PR and Social & Influencer Lions were unveiled.

Winners across the Lions in the Entertainment and Craft Tracks were awarded.

The Audio & Radio, Health & Wellness, Outdoor, Pharma, Print & Publishing Lions and the Lions Health and United Nations Foundation Grand Prix for Good winners have been announced.

The Awards received a total of 26,753 submissions.

The interview will cover the transformative power of technological innovation, how AI is reshaping creativity, business and society, and the future of X.

The News Movement journalists will bring the competitions to life through behind-the-scenes video content designed to capture the spirit of creativity and innovation that fuels the Festival.

Jury President, Charles Georges-Picot, CEO Global Luxury Practice, Publicis Groupe will lead a multidisciplinary jury.

The award celebrates the creativity that inspires others to produce truly compelling, meaningful, and entertaining content.

The partnership is designed to create and foster a supportive environment of respect, wellbeing, and accountability, around sexual harassment at industry events.

The scholarship offers 10 young creatives from around the world a fully-funded place on the Cannes Lions Brand Marketers and Creative Academies.

France’s foremost advertising pioneer and former co-vice-chairman/chief creative officer at Havas will be honoured on stage in June

The honorary accolade is presented to a marketer that has amassed a body of iconic, Lion-winning work over a sustained period of time, with Unilever establishing a reputation for producing brave, creative and innovative marketing solutions.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler is awarded in recognition of her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression

Industry experts from across 75 markets will shortlist world-class creative work this June.

Cannes Lions partners with The Black Network for a third year, to elevate Black Talent at the Festival

The extensive content programme will showcase more than 150 hours of content, with around 500 speakers from across the spectrum of creativity.

Cannes Lions has today revealed the line-up of global experts selected to award the world's very best creative and effective work and benchmark excellence this June.

This dedicated forum will include a curated mix of exclusive learning and networking experiences for creators and those working in the wider creator economy.

19 creatives, from 14 markets have been selected to take part in this unique learning and development programme

A new 10-week digital programme designed to accelerate the creative expertise and career progression of creatives and marketers.

The seminal piece of research - and the biggest study of its kind - is an insight-led toolkit designed to enable senior marketers to quickly understand the creative landscape with functional advice on how to drive business growth using creativity.

The names of 29 Jury Presidents, representing a record 15 markets have been announced for Cannes Lions 2024.

The Scholarship, in partnership with AB InBev, offers 10 emerging marketing leaders a fully-funded, curated programme.

Seven nonprofits have received donations through the Sustainable Development Goals Lions’ entry fees

New initiatives and pass types will provide a balance of opportunities for everyone to attend the Festival in June.

Lion introduced to provide a global benchmark for brands in the luxury space.

Free to access, the annual LIONS Creativity Report has company rankings, trends and themes from the winning work and insights, analysis and interviews with Lions Jurors and Lion-winning creators.

All winners announced at the final Awards show of the week at Cannes Lions.

Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, MENA, South Africa, South Korea and the United Kingdom win Gold.

Saudi Arabia wins first-ever Grand Prix, Honduras and New Zealand win first Creative Strategy Lions

Argentina takes home the Creative Data Lions Grand Prix and Canada picks up the Grand Prix in the Direct Lions.

More Lions awarded in Tuesday's awards show: the Entertainment Lions and Craft Lions Tracks.

The winners of the Pharma, Health & Wellness, Outdoor, Print & Publishing and Radio & Audio Lions are announced.

LIONS, WARC and The Effectiveness Partnership launched the results of a new global survey.

26,992 entries are received, an increase of 6% from 2022

Cannes Lions has announced Kevin Hart - Entertainer, Entrepreneur and Founder & Chairman of Hartbeat, the global media company creating entertainment where comedy meets culture - as the 2023 Entertainment Person of the Year.

Enjoy a superb programme of industry titans and unique events lined up to celebrate 70 years of progress through creativity on 23 June.

Visionary Academy Award® winning filmmaker Spike Lee is honoured with the Cannes Lion’s first Creative Maker of the Year award

The Jodi Harris Scholarship will offer emerging marketing leaders a fully-funded, curated programme at Cannes Lions.

A line-up of global experts from across the creative industries will shortlist world-class creative work.

Cannes Lions has announced the participants chosen for the 2023 See It Be It female talent acceleration programme.

The Sustainable Development Lions ask entrants to demonstrate how they contributed to or advanced the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development across people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships.

Lifetime achievement award for Susan Hoffman who has defined Wieden+Kennedy’s culture for 40 years, setting the bar for creative excellence and ground-breaking work.

This year’s Juries see the highest ever representation from Africa and the Middle East. Awarding Jurors represented from Bolivia, Egypt, Honduras, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Zambia for the first time.

Founder and former owner of Patagonia is awarded in recognition of his philanthropic contributions and commitment to environmentalism through his leadership of Patagonia.

37 students representing 29 different countries will make up this year’s class will attend this year’s Roger Hatchuel Student Academy at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Creative effectiveness doesn’t just drive societal progression. It’s integral to business growth. Take a look at some work that embodies this ethos.

A lineup of world-class experts, challengers and disruptors from across the spectrum of creativity will take to the stage for the 70th edition of the Festival.

Joint partnership to create much-needed access for Black talent to the Cannes Lions Festival and associated industries.

The world’s largest brewer is awarded for a second consecutive year, the only brand to achieve this in the history of the Festival.

The Black British Network and LIONS, organisers of Cannes Lions, have confirmed a continuation of their partnership into its second year.

LIONS will support more than 130 underrepresented members of the creative community and emerging talent with access to Cannes Lions

Appointment completes the 2023 Jury President line-up.

Creative Impact content stream launched to drive effectiveness agenda and uncover what it takes to build a business through creativity in 2023.

Cannes Lions has evolved its admissions process to focus on areas of Sustainability, Impact and Effectiveness, and DE&I.

Sustainable Development Goals Lions 2022 entry fees of 226,860 euros are donated to five Lion-winning charities

Philip Thomas, CEO, Ascential Intelligence & Events, Chairman, LIONS, has been awarded an IPA Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the advertising industry over many years.

A total of 16 places are available for this year’s accelerator programme, in partnership with Verizon, which will take place at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity between 19-23 June 2023.

The names of the Jury Presidents have been announced. They will lead juries to award the Lions in this year's 70th edition of Cannes Lions.

We've refreshed the 2023 Cannes Lions Awards to truly celebrate work designed for mobile, portable devices and hand-held technology.

We've made some changes to the Media Lions, including a special focus on bold creativity from independent media agencies.

The refreshed Pharma Lions now make a clear distinction between work covered under Pharma and work in Health & Wellness.

Tweaked for 2023, take a look at what's new for the Creative B2B Lions.

Start planning your entries and take inspiration from Lions-winning work.

Cannes Lions has announced the launch of the Entertainment Lions for Gaming.

The Titanium Lions, brainchild of Dan Wieden, is renamed the Dan Wieden Titanium Lions

Everything you need to know to action the Festival’s key insights

The LIONS Creativity Report has been released today and is available to everyone for free...

Sustainable thinking must be fully integrated into the brand and agency model, and no longer additional.

LIONS, WARC and The Effectiveness Partnership launched the results of a new survey in June...

Consumer participation, a step-change in brand purpose, tech partnerships and agile solutions for new...

Film Lions, Glass: The Lion for Change, Sustainable Development Goals Lions and Titanium Lions

Cannes Lions announced the Lion-winners in the penultimate Awards Show of the Festival.

Lion-winners are announced in: Brand Experience & Activation Lions, Creative Business Transformation...

Entertainment Lions, Entertainment Lions For Music and Entertainment Lions for Sport, Industry Craft...

Pharma Lions, Health & Wellness Lions, Lions Health and United Nations Foundation...

Early analysis shows brands realising the value of creativity as a lever for growth...

Glass: The Lion for Change, Innovation Lions and Titanium Lions Shortlists announced ahead of the Festival...

Two new Deans have been appointed to head up the Lions Academies and shape this important part of the...

An expansion of the CMO Growth Council, five Global Growth Councils for Progress will tackle global issues...

The girls’ education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is given the award in recognition of her work to help all...

Cannes Lions has announced a line-up of global experts from across the creative industries...

We are committed to having more representative juries

2022 programme will focus on: Sustainability; DE&I; Talent; Data & Technology; Business...

A total of €271,488 will be distributed evenly to help charities continue their impact and work...

LIONS is looking for two Deans to run two of the academies at this year’s Cannes LIONS Festival in June 2022.

The six female finalists join the 2020/21 cohort to take part in a bespoke accelerator programme...

Creative icon and industry trailblazer, Colleen DeCourcy, former President and Chief Creative Officer...

Cannes Lions has announced that it will honour Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) as this year’s...

An opinion piece by LIONS VP, Awards & Insights & Susie Walker.

Five places are available for creative female talent to join the 2020/2021 cohort

Entries for the 2022 Lions open

Cannes Lions has announced changes to the 2022 Awards...

Reinvention, sustainability and digital access are key in the planning of the hybrid Festival

Calling on global creative community to use their collective talent for good

A one-day broadcast, LIONS Decoded will deconstruct the world’s highest ranking creative work with inspirational live and on demand content, insights and interviews.

Cannes Lions has announced the winners from the Film Lions...

Brand Experience and Activation Lions, Creative Business Transformation Lions...

Digital Craft Lions, Industry Craft Lions, Film Craft Lions, Entertainment Lions for Sport, Entertainment...

Social & Influencer Lions, Media Lions, PR Lions, Direct Lions, Creative Strategy Lions and Creative Data Lions

The much anticipated Cannes Lions awards have kicked off today...

ACT Responsible and the United Nations at Cannes Lions

Cannes Lions has published its entry numbers ahead of next week...

Virtual experiences, taking place through experiential platform, Spatial Web, will connect the community...

Lions are seeking bids from experienced and reputable partners to develop...

The content agenda for Cannes Lions Live...

Cannes Lions has announced that One Young World, the global forum...

Cannes Lions Live - taking place from 21-25 June 2021

Following the discussion around DEI at Cannes Lions...

Cannes Lions has announced that it will honour Microsoft as this year’s Creative Marketer...

Cannes Lions has today announced its jury line-up of global experts selected to shortlist world-class...

Highest ever representation from global brands, platforms, entertainment ...

LIONS has today announced that Cannes Lions 2021 will be fully digital...

LIONS' managing director, Simon Cook, explores the new influencer in Raconteur's latest Future of Advertising report

Thought-leaders, authors and coaches join a roster of creative leaders to deliver an impactful learning experience

Cannes Lions has confirmed its Jury President line-up for the awards in June.

WARC has launched The WARC Effectiveness Awards in association with LIONS...

Cannes Lions has confirmed that the awarding of the Lions...

The Cannes Lions Awards are now open.

A Message from Simon Cook, Managing Director

We begin the final day of LIONS Live

We continue a packed week of original thinking...

LIONS Live starts today. Tune in to our daily livestream...

Cannes Lions today introduces Lions Live, a digital education, inspiration and networking...

The Festival and Awards will not take place in 2020

Ian Wharton currently sits as part of the creative leadership at AKQA and is the author of Spark for the Fire...

Teddy Lynn, Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Episode Four, is hosting a talk with his father at Cannes...

We recently announced that Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, founders of Goodby Silverstein...

Cannes Lions has always been developed in partnership with the creative communications community.