Winning advertising at the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity

This year's the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity saw many of the world's leading advertising agencies win awards for some fantastic creative.

There were 15 individual winners for ads out of the 5,195 entries, a demonstration that the advertising industry is still producing some outstanding quality productions.

See three of the winning entries below or visit Adweek to see all 15.  



Chipotle "Back to the Start" - Agency: Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles



Canal+ "The Bear",  Agency: BETC, Paris



The Guardian "Three Little Pigs", Agency: BBH, London

Award winning ads of 2011 - the Gunn Report

The Gunn Report for 2011 has been released. This comprehensive report combines the winners' lists from all of the world’s most important advertising award contests and establishes the annual worldwide league tables for the Advertising industry.

It seems that it was a pretty good year for the Wieden + Kennedy network.... For the first time in the Gunn Report's history, Wiedens has won the top two places in the Most Awarded Agency category, with Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam coming top, and W+K Portland in second place.

The UK came second in the most awarded countries:

Most Awarded Countries in the World in 2011

1. USA
2. UK
3. Brazil
4. Argentina
5. Germany

For the complete list winners from the Gunn Report visit the Creative Review blog.

And, below is the most awarded TV commercial for Nike: