Publicis Conseil, the 98-year-old French company that will morph into the $28 billion colossus Publicis Groupe, has taken the Company of the Yr honor on the 2024 Cannes Lions.
In all, Publicis Conseil took dwelling 18 Lions this yr: two Grand Prix, together with six silver and 6 bronze awards.
“Our dream was to make Publicis Conseil probably the most artistic company on this planet by 2026, proper on time for the company’s centenary,” Publicis France president Agathe Bousquet and chief artistic officer Marco Venturelli advised ADWEEK. “What appeared like an virtually inconceivable dream then has turn out to be a actuality at present, two years forward of schedule.”
Companies based mostly in the USA have a tendency to comb the trophy desk at Cannes: In 2023, American outlets took dwelling 218 trophies, 134 greater than runner-up Brazil. However artistic work from France tends to punch above its weight class—and Publicis Conseil is extensively considered the main French company.
This yr, Publicis Conseil obtained its two Grand Prix honors for a talked-about spot titled “Renault—Automobiles to Work.”
The brief video stems from the discovering that 54% of French residents of restricted monetary means have needed to flip down job provides as a result of they didn’t personal automobiles and lived in “mobility deserts” the place public transportation didn’t exist. The Automobiles to Work program fingers over the keys to a brand new Renault in the beginning of their jobs’ probationary interval and requires funds solely when potential employees have employment contracts in hand.
By casting a number of actual world employees who’ve benefitted from this system, the spot offers an in any other case dry company initiative validity and coloration.
“The Grand Prix displays the important aim we must always obtain in promoting,” stated jury president Gustavo Lauria in an announcement. “It’s an concept that’s good for individuals and good for enterprise. By serving to individuals get the entry they should safe a job, Renault finally ends up promoting automobiles and transforms shoppers into loyal believers within the model. It’s a nice instance of a courageous model that cares, takes dangers and will get outcomes.”
One other buzzworthy piece of Pubicis Conseil artistic work—additionally for Renault—was “The Climb,” which received two bronzes, one for manufacturing design/artwork course and the second for achievement in manufacturing.
The apocalypse-flavored spot exhibits a person climbing a mountain manufactured from deserted, rusting automobiles—practically dropping his life to mess plummeting from the highest—till he reaches the summit. There, in a blaze of daylight, sits a brand new, all-electric Renault 5.
Aside from its core message that the automotive trade’s outdated order of waste and air pollution should give method to a extra sustainable future, the spot was a technical triumph of its personal. The manufacturing group assembled 120 crushed Renaults, discovered throughout Argentina, and stacked them 33 toes excessive for the shoot.
