Atiya Zaidi, the first Spikes jury president from Pakistan, dishes on her country's unique creative abilities, on women creatives still bearing a double load, and on the reality of using AI tools.
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Spikes Asia 2026: Meet the inaugural Creative B2B jury president
Wendy Walker addresses the misconceptions about B2B creative work, weighs-in on the unique challenges and signals what she'll be looking for in Asia's best work in this new and exciting category.
Critical need for creativity as businesses prioritise continuous growth
As Jury President for the Creative Business Transformation Lions category at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (Cannes Lions), Publicis Groupe’s Jane Lin-Baden reflects on the evolving role of creativity, not just as a tool for communication, but as a driver of scalable business change.
Wrangles in the jury room: how the challenges of creative judging play out
Tricky deliberations, outside influences and questionable entries can make the quest to recognise the best work with an award a difficult one.
Jane Lin-Baden and Tara Ford among Cannes Lions 2025 jury presidents
Awards submissions for the festival are open until 10 April.
Spikes Asia 2025: In conversation with PR jury president Margaret Key
As the CEO of MSL APAC and the Publicis Groupe global lead on Samsung, Key discusses the role of PR in brand success and gives advice to agencies submitting work for Spikes Asia.
Spikes Asia announces 2025 jury presidents
Judging this year's entries will be twelve leading industry experts from across the APAC, including Australia, mainland China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand.
Adland chiefs lead Cannes Lions fantasy jury experience
The Loudest Roar is a jury room simulation to help young talent develop their judging, teamwork and creative-thinking skills.
Spikes Asia announces its 2024 jury line-up
2024 sees the highest representation from brands, including adidas, Budweiser, Burger King, PepsiCo, Volkswagen and Unilever, as well as a variety of representatives from Central Asia including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Meet the jury for Women to Watch Asia Pacific 2023
Leaders across Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia will come together to judge this year's entries, as well as select members of Campaign Asia-Pacific's editorial team.
Gaming for brands: The rules of engagement
An member of Cannes Lions' 2023 inaugural Gaming Jury argues that gaming is a better answer to lack of attention than short ads, offering marketers true engagement over pushed messaging.
Meet jury members for Women to Watch Greater China 2023
Jury of two industry leaders from Hong Kong and Shanghai will judge entries in Campaign's Greater China Women to Watch, Class of 2023, together with Campaign’s Greater China senior reporter.
Spikes Asia announces full 2023 juries
See the 110 APAC industry experts selected to serve on Spikes' 15 juries. The region's top industry awards programme is currently open for entries.
Brazilian creatives call out Cannes Lions for lack of diversity in jury
Just one of the 24 Brazilian jurors selected for the 2022 festival are Black, despite half of the Brazilian population being Black.
Spikes Asia announces full juries for 2022
The juries will judge work across 24 regional awards categories in creative excellence and marketing effectiveness.
Cannes Lions announces 51% female jury list
Unfortunately, APAC still appears to be woefully under-represented.
PR Awards Asia announces 2020 judges
The entry deadline for the 19th edition of the PR Awards Asia is fast approaching.
Cannes Lions selects five APAC jury presidents
US and UK still dominate list of jury leaders, but women outnumber men for the first time.