Founder of Eventers, reporting from advertising and marketing events around the world, highlighting the people and ideas moving the industry forward.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Cannes Lions 2025 is set to start tomorrow, and Eventers is on the ground as press—ready to take it all in. From early morning panels to late-night beach talks, we’ll be diving deep into the sessions, the strategy, and the stories shaping the year ahead. This year’s...
AI took centre stage at the opening of London Tech Week, where UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared a stage to outline what comes next. What began with policy announcements quickly shifted into a focused conversation about how AI is moving from niche capability to...
