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European Director at TINT

I don’t even know why, maybe pure chance, but our Cannes Lions seemed to be dominated by hip-hop legends, one was being involved in an interview with Young Guru, Jay-Z’s producer, and also being in a closed interview with what can only be described as the godfather of hip-hop and co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, Russell Simmons. I started this post with these two things because there was a common theme on what those two…

The dust is now settling on what has been TINT’s most successful Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity to date. With over 43,000 entries, the Lions Festival team have given awards to some of the best work in the world. There were many highs (the school trip to Mars) and a few lows (the questionable fake refugee app that won a Lion but did not have a workable version). Many people came to the festival to…