CANNES 2019: Apple Inc. Honored as the Creative Marketer of the Year by Cannes Lions, Celebrating its Excellent Collaborative Communications and Initiatives

Cannes Lions has announced Apple Inc. as the Creative Marketer of the Year 2019 in honour of its world-class creative communications and marketing initiatives.

The highly-coveted award recognises an organisation that demonstrates sustained creative excellence in the marketing of their products across multiple platforms and distinguishes itself by embracing collaboration between partners and agencies to produce truly outstanding creative communications and marketing.

In 2018 the company won the Entertainment Lion for Music Grand Prix for ‘Welcome Home’, an ad directed by Spike Jonze for Apple HomePod that featured FKA twigs dancing to Anderson Paak’s “Til It’s over” amid a riot of colour. The company also won the Brand Experience & Activation Lion Grand Prix and a Titanium Lion for ‘Today at Apple’, an in-store experience and community engagement campaign that reimagined the retail experience and provided education and product support. A further 5 Gold Lions, 9 Silver Lions and 8 Bronze Lions were awarded across 10 different campaigns.

Simon Cook, Managing Director of Cannes Lions, said, “Apple Inc. is highly deserving of the Creative Marketer of the Year award. The company’s marketing and communications consistently showcases creative excellence. Apple Inc. has created a culture that drives marketing strategies that ensure that its customers are true ambassadors for Apple brands.”

Speaking on the announcement Tor Myhren, Apple’s Vice President of Marketing Communications said, “We are humbled to receive this prestigious award. Apple has always believed creative, passionate people can change the world for the better. We make tools for those people, and we make marketing for those people.”

The Creative Marketer of the Year award was introduced in 1992. Past recipients include Google, Burger King, Samsung, Heineken, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Mars, IKEA and Unilever, each of whom have demonstrated that outstanding creativity drives business growth.

Defining Apple Inc. ads include ‘World Gallery’, part of the ‘Shot on iPhone’ campaign which won 5 Gold Lions and a Grand Prix in 2015, ‘Dance’, from the awarded ‘Silhouette’ campaign for iPod in 2004 and ‘1984’, for Apple Computers winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix in 1984.

Apple Inc. will be presented with the award at the final Awards Show of the Festival on Friday June 21st and will be collected by Tor Myhren, Apple’s Vice President of Marketing Communications.

About Cannes Lions

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world’s leading celebration of creativity in communications. Founded in 1954, the Festival takes place every June in Cannes, France. As the most prestigious international annual advertising and communications awards, entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival. 

The five-day Festival is the only truly global meeting place for professionals working in advertising and communications. Attendees from nearly 100 countries come to experience five days of workshops, exhibitions, screenings, master classes and high-profile seminars presented by renowned worldwide industry leaders. 

Winning companies receive the highly coveted Lion trophy, a global benchmark of creative excellence, for Brand Experience & Activation, Creative Data, Creative Effectiveness, Creative eCommerce, Creative Strategy, Design, Digital Craft, Direct, Entertainment, Film, Film Craft, Glass: The Lion for Change, Health & Wellness, Industry Craft, Innovation, Media, Mobile, Music, Outdoor, Pharma, PR, Print & Publishing, Radio & Audio, Sport, Social & Influencer, Sustainable Development Goals, Titanium Lions.

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