20 Brand Experiences from Cannes Lions 2025

Editor’s Note: Multiple brands once again descended upon the Côte d’Azur for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to entertain marketing, advertising and comms professionals with innovative content and technology activations—from Adobe’s “living gallery” of creativity to Netflix’s rooftop showcase to Pinterest’s “Manifestival.” Below is an excerpt of Event Marketer’s brand experience roundup. Go […]

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How Premium Nonalcoholic Beer Brand Bero Is Using Loyalty to Build Lifetime Value

Editor’s Note: For premium nonalcoholic beer brand Bero, which is co-founded by “Spiderman” actor Tom Holland, loyalty is a core tenant to its marketing strategy, according to Chief Marketer Network publication Multichannel Marketer. And it’s using a tiered membership model—dubbed Club Bero—to help drive repeat purchases. Below is an excerpt of the piece; head to […]

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Brands on Fire: Lowe’s CMO Talks Creator Network, New Marketplace Strategy and Revitalizing Communities

“More and more, CMOs are realizing that they are not just driving revenue with the media investments that they are making and the percentage of sales that come off of those media investments. Most of us now are true revenue drivers, whether it’s a retail media network, whether it’s the ambitions we have for revenue […]

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Survey: Marketers Addressing Tariff Flux with Value Messaging, Pricing Transparency

Change begets change. And in response to the continuing changes and uncertainty regarding tariffs, marketers are amending their strategies and tactics, focusing more on highlighting value and cutting spend on non-digital channels. Of the 220 clients surveyed by SMS and email marketing platform Attentive in May, 86% were adjusting their messaging to emphasize value. Roughly […]

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How UChicago Medicine’s CMO Uses Agentic AI to Improve Patient Interactions

Healthcare is not known for marketing innovation. And Andrew Chang, Chief Marketing Officer at The University of Chicago Medicine, is well aware of the perception that healthcare marketing is all about internal brochures and billboards. But marketing innovation is what healthcare needs, according to Chang, and he’s working to enhance UChicago Medicine by infusing artificial […]

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Meta’s Head of Experiential and Creative, Global Experiences, Shares Cannes Lions Strategy

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which officially kicked off June 16, draws tens of thousands of global marketing, advertising and creative professionals to the French Riviera each year. For platforms like Meta, TikTok and Reddit, it’s an opportunity to showcase new advertising tools and services to brands. And that’s often accomplished through luring […]

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AdRoll Report: Prospecting Ad Spend Dips 27% as Marketers Target the Bottom of the Funnel

Facing an uncertain economic climate and wobbly customer sentiment, marketers are collectively tightening their belts and allocating more digital ad spend toward lower-funnel campaigns. According to AdRoll’s Q2 2025 State of Digital Advertising Report, data compiled from tens of thousands of online businesses indicated a 27% decrease in the cost of prospecting ads—which target new-to-brand […]

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DoorDash CMO Kofi Amoo-Gottfried on the Platform’s New Ad Tools, Value-Driven Campaigns and Humanizing the Brand

At a media event in New York City this week, DoorDash announced a $175 million acquisition of retail search platform Symbiosys and launched new AI-powered ad tools for restaurant merchants creating campaigns on the platform. The company also detailed new capabilities for brands advertising on the network, including the ability to reach consumers actively searching […]

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Twilio Survey: Consumers Want AI to Deliver Service with a Human Touch

More than half (55%) of consumers are tired of hearing about AI, according to Twilio’s 2025 State of Customer Engagement Report. And while they do want the technology to improve their brand experiences, what they want is more high touch than high tech. Cloud communications company Twilio surveyed 7,640 consumers from 18 countries, including the […]

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How AI Is Changing Advertising’s Hottest Currency: Attention Metrics

In a media ecosystem defined by velocity, variability and vast amounts of noise, one thing has become increasingly clear: Attention is the new currency. Not impressions. Not clicks. Attention. Once upon a time, viewability reigned as the gold standard for campaign effectiveness. If an ad was seen, it counted. But today’s marketers are realizing that […]

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