Cannes Lions 2026: Creativity’s next chapter in health

Cannes Lions 2026: Creativity’s next chapter in health

Recorded live from Cannes Lions 2026, this MM+M x GSW podcast explores the ideas, innovations and cultural shifts shaping the future of health marketing. Jillian Brooks, SVP, group creative director at GSW LA, and Chris Ovdiyenko, SVP, experience director at GSW Columbus, unpack the biggest themes emerging from Cannes, from the growing influence of AI-powered…

Unilever’s Global CMO Reframes Influencer Marketing at Cannes Lions 2026, ETBrandEquity

Unilever’s Global CMO Reframes Influencer Marketing at Cannes Lions 2026, ETBrandEquity

​Leandro Barreto, global CMO, Unilever, speaking at Cannes Lions 2026​Consumer packaged goods major Unilever has reframed the way it builds its biggest consumer brands, shifting the central question of its marketing from what a brand wants to say to what other people want to say about it. This is a change Leandro Barreto, global CMO,…

BYD Unleashes AI for Global Marketing Expansion at Cannes Lions 2026, ETBrandEquity

BYD Unleashes AI for Global Marketing Expansion at Cannes Lions 2026, ETBrandEquity

BYD plans to deploy artificial intelligence agents across its global sales and marketing operations, a move designed to generate hyper-localised content in minutes and accelerate its challenge to legacy automakers. Stella Li of BYD with Martin Sorrell at Cannes Lions 2026In a fireside chat with Martin Sorrell, executive chairman of S4 Capital, at the Cannes…

Sora shutdown forces AI film Critterz to miss Cannes

Sora shutdown forces AI film Critterz to miss Cannes

Sora shutdown forces AI film Critterz to miss Cannes The highly anticipated animated feature Critterz, which was to be the first mainstream commercial film created through a generative AI pipeline, failed to secure its planned in-festival premiere at Cannes this week. While producers from AGC International, Vertigo Films, and Native Foreign screened early footage to…

Chuck Russell Unveils AI Sci-Fi Features at Cannes in Higgsfield Deal

Chuck Russell Unveils AI Sci-Fi Features at Cannes in Higgsfield Deal

Two original sci-fi features built around generative AI across their entire production pipeline have been unveiled at the Cannes Film Market, as filmmaker Chuck Russell and his company Neumorphic AI set a production partnership with generative video platform Higgsfield. The projects, “Hyperia” and “b,” will deploy AI tools from worldbuilding and creature design through to…