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How Southwest Airlines is looking to bring hospitality to the skies
The brand’s top marketer and GSD&M agency partner shared how long-term partnerships are helping to steer the brand.
Kelsey is an editor at Morning Brew where she leads the media and marketing publication Marketing Brew and hosts the Webby Award–winning podcast “Marketing Brew Weekly.” She also occasionally writes about the business of television. Prior to joining Morning Brew as a reporter, she spent three years at Adweek covering streaming TV and platforms like TikTok and Facebook. She began her career as a media reporter at Politico where she covered digital media businesses and the intersection of media and politics. Her reporting has also appeared in Mic and Columbia Journalism Review.
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Why this Cannes juror thinks community-building is a winning strategy
At Cannes Lions, Ellie Bamford, chief strategy officer, North America, VML, told us why she thought humanity—not AI—was front and center in this year’s winning work.
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Why Hinge is looking to give Gen Z tools to connect
At Cannes Lions, we spoke with CMCO Tamika Young about the brand’s messaging and why it’s investing in IRL connections.
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How Stanley 1913 is aiming to own the summer of soccer
At Cannes Lions, Ben James, the brand’s EMEA GM, talked about the global strategy powering its expansion into soccer and stewardship of a legacy brand.
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Yahoo’s CMO wants to make longtime loyalists proud
At Cannes Lions, CMO Josh Line walked us through his approach to modernizing the 31-year-old internet brand.
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Why Adobe was pretty much everywhere at this year’s Cannes Lions
Dave Justice, Adobe’s GM/VP, Americas Enterprise, shared why the company is investing big into the festival and especially into creator marketing.
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Why this branding expert thinks a trendy brand identity can be a weakness
At Cannes Lions, Red Antler co-founder and CEO Emily Heyward shared how she thinks about building timeless brands and avoiding copycat branding.
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Cannes 2026: Worth it
Gen Z is the target audience for many consumer-facing brands at Cannes Lions.
Data & Tech
Consumers are sick and tired of hearing about AI all the time
New research found that large majorities of consumers are less likely to trust ads made by AI and less likely to buy from brands that use AI-generated ads.
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How PacSun’s CEO is putting her trust in Gen Z
At Cannes Lions, we spoke to CEO Brieane Olson about the retailer’s youth advisory council and her philosophy of brand cocreation.