From price transparency and gender equality to cultural identity, this year’s Cannes contenders from Serviceplan Group’s locations around the world show how creativity can connect brands with people in ways that are relevant, lasting — and built to make a difference.
What’s Cannes like for the new gen? This year’s Sparkies and Young Lions interview last year’s talents – on lessons, leap-of-faith moments, and creative milestones.
In the future, agents are likely to have sole responsibility for corporate brand design. But without agentic governance, brand identity is at risk.
They say the only thing that’s constant is change. It might not bring you comfort to hear this, but we do not have simpler times ahead of us. A law of nature published in 2023 states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. I believe marketing systems are not exempt from laws of nature.

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