Each day, New Digital Age gathers the most interesting marketing and ad tech news from around the world…
Live blogs
Campaign – Reporters
Cannes Lions 2026 live blog: all the award winners and festival news
Performance Marketing World – Robin Langford
Cannes Lions Live Day 3: What happens when we can measure everything?
The Media Leader – James Longhurst
Postcards from Cannes 2026 – The Media Leader Live from Cannes
25th June – Cannes highlights
Campaign – Beau Jackson, 25th June 2026
Cannes Lions chair says 40% of entries used AI this year
Percentage of entries using AI doubles compared with 2025.
Performance Marketing World – Joseph Arthur, 25th June 2026
A Cannes Lions Masterclass: Inside the minds of tech and media giants
This podcast reveals what’s really been happening at Cannes Lions 2026.
Digiday – Seb Joseph, Krystal Scanlon & Kimeko McCoy, 25th June 2026
Cannes Briefing: Creators didn’t come to Cannes for parties this year. They came for briefs.
MediaLink has spent years owning the art of wining and dining CMOs at Cannes. This year, it turned that same playbook on creators.
Digiday – Ronan Shields & Seb Joseph, 25th June 2026
The hunt for a post-LiveRamp successor is already underway
Earlier this week — on Tuesday evening to be precise — several ad execs from both advertisers and agencies gathered at the Il Teatro restaurant in Cannes, France, to talk about what should happen now that LiveRamp is likely to be acquired by Publicis Groupe.
Digiday – Michael Bürgi, 25th June 2026
At Cannes, Omnicom Media and NBCU say they’re crafting dynamic contextual ads for content
The last of a series of partnerships and collaborations Omnicom Media rolled out during Cannes Lions 2026 has the media agency network co-developing a dynamic contextual content solution with NBCUniversal that aims to boost creative relevance to viewers watching the media company’s CTV shows.
Digiday – Kimeko McCoy, 25th June 2026
Meta courts agencies with expanded ad tools while AI reshapes the industry
A shift is underway across the ad industry. Platforms are rolling out more automated marketing tools, lowering the barrier to entry for advertisers to manage campaigns directly. Agencies, long since tasked with managing those relationships, are on alert.
Affiliate Leaders – Ellen Jennings-Trace, 25th June 2026
Cannes Lions day 3: Adobe accelerates agentic AI adoption
At Cannes Lions day three Adobe steps up their agentic AI offering, while Podscribe integrates with, Amazon DSP, and Taboola invests in monetisation layer.
Affiliate Leaders – Ellen Jennings-Trace, 25th June 2026
Cannes Lions: How are marketers navigating the social media bans?
Social media bans for under-16s are resulting in significant data signal loss – but how is the industry navigating this?
