Eventers covers the culture, people and ideas shaping every event

See what we’ve
written lately
Martynas Vanagas
Pierre Caulliez
Meet our author Meet our authors Meet our top authors

Cannes Lions 2025: Five Lessons the Industry Can’t Ignore

The Croisette is quiet again. Rosé glasses cleared, the Lions packed up, the industry heading home. But what lingers are the conversations—and the creative provocations—that pulsed through every corridor of Cannes Lions 2025. In a year where AI, brand safety, and economic pressure shaped the global agenda, five...

At Cannes Lions: How PepsiCo Turns Food Culture Into a Growth Engine

At Cannes Lions 2025, Jane Wakely, Chief Marketing and Growth Officer for PepsiCo Foods, laid out a blueprint for how creativity fuels business results when it lives far beyond the ad brief. From regenerative farming and local flavour strategy to street food ecosystems and cultural stunts, her message was clear:...

Desire at Scale: How Unilever Is Rewriting the Marketing Playbook

At Cannes Lions 2025, Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer, made a clear argument: brands need to stop chasing awareness and start building desire—across categories, across cultures, and at scale. With 400 brands in 190 markets, used by 3.4 billion people each day, Bracey...

Microsoft AI's CEO at Cannes: AI Is Reshaping Creative Work

Speaking at Cannes Lions 2025, Microsoft AI CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman described a turning point in how we relate to AI. “We’re in this moment… where that intelligence is about to be set free from these objects and to travel with us as a companion.” AI, in...

Duolingo at Cannes Lions: Turning Low Budgets into Big Moments

If Duolingo has a strategy, it’s this: move fast, start with the idea—not the budget—and let experimentation do the heavy lifting. In his Cannes Lions session, Duolingo CMO Emmanuel Orssaud shared the thinking behind the brand’s famously unhinged presence and gave a practical look at how...

At Cannes Lions, Tor Myhren Shares How Apple Thinks About Creativity

Tor Myhren, Apple’s VP of Marketing Communications, opened this year’s Cannes Lions with a talk on the role of human creativity in an increasingly automated industry. Through examples spanning hearing loss, immersive cinema, live brand activations, and shot-on-iPhone films, he outlined a creative philosophy rooted in emotional clarity,...

You’ve successfully subscribed to Eventers
Welcome back! You’ve successfully signed in.
Great! You’ve successfully signed up.
Success! Your email is updated.
Your link has expired
Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.