All the Cannes Lions special awards...

28 Jun 2015

At the final Cannes Lions awards ceremony last night, special awards were also handed out to Creative Marketer of the Year, Agency of the Year and Network of the Year...

The fifth and final awards ceremony of the week has concluded Cannes Lions for 2015. During the presentation winners of the last four entry sections were announced, alongside the Lion of St. Mark, the LionHeart Award and a series of Special Awards.

During the ceremony, Bob Greenberg, Founder, Chairman and CEO, R/GA was also named this year's Lion of St. Mark in recognition of his outstanding contribution to creativity in advertising and communications. Former US Vice-President Al Gore was given the LionHeart Award for his work in bringing environmental issues to the attention of the world. And the Creative Marketer of the Year trophy was given to HEINEKEN, collected by Jan Derck van Karnebeek, Chief Commercial Officer.

Other awards presented at this evening's ceremony were:

Agency of the Year was given to R/GA New York. Grey New York came second and Ogilvy Brasil, São Paulo third.

Independent Agency of the Year went to Droga5, New York. Second place Wieden+Kennedy, Portland and third to Wieden+Kennedy, London.

The Palme d'Or, given to the most awarded production company, was presented to Smuggler USA. Blink UK came second and Somesuch UK third.

The Network of the Year award was presented to Ogilvy & Mather with BBDO Worldwide taking second place and Grey in third.

Also awarded was the Holding Company of the Year which went to WPP. Omnicom took second place and Publicis Groupe third.

This year Cannes Lions has been attended by over 13,500 delegates and included seven days of content delivered by more than 500 speakers, over 37,500 entries, inspirational academies, seven young lions competitions, five awards shows, two galas and networking opportunities throughout.

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