“Cannes Zions” Promotes Israeli Advertising

The Cannes Lions might be winding down (isn’t tonight usually the major party night?) but the Cannes Zions website is in full swing. This project is “kinda like our way of saying to the world “start paying attention to the Israeli advertising community,” says Dori Ben-Israel, head of Mizbala, a Tel Aviv based agency specializing in guerrilla marketing.

Killed Ideas: People’s Choice

By now you know about Killed Ideas, the project created by Blurb and curated by Adrant’s Steve Hall that resurrects truly great advertising, design and marketing ideas that somehow never made it out into the real world. Who knows, maybe you’ve already entered it, and if you’re really lucky, perhaps Steve selected your brilliant piece-that-was-never-to-be for Vol. 1 of the Killed Ideas book.

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• The Big Ad Gig goes down in history
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OLDER INBOX STORIES

• Publicis Mojo puts the “super” in Hahn Super Dry
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• Donkeys and voles and bears, oh my! ING fables by BMB
• TBWA\Chiat\Day NY and Starburst: you know the drill…
• Turkeys make better burgers than babysitters, says D&G and Carl’s Jr.