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CANNES X GOLD

A WhiteLabel Product’s Sunu Gonera took home gold for directing the "One Source" music video that captivated audiences at Cannes, showcasing the artistic side of Africa.

Gonera is amongst only six South African directors to ever win gold at Cannes Lions! Other awards at this years' festival include two silvers and a bronze in entertainment, entertainment for music and media categories.

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SHARON HORGAN X LATE NIGHT

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HUMBLE FRIDAY WITH KENDRICK LAMAR + TIMBER

Big ups to the team at Timber for collaborating with Arcade Edit and Dave Meyers on Kendrick Lamar’s killer video for Humble.

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MAKING BARBIE GREAT AGAIN

Over the last few years Slim Pictures has teamed up with BBDO + Barbie to modernize the perception of the world’s most recognizable doll. Director Karen Cunningham has helped bring Mattel’s vision to life of girls imagining a powerful and fulfilling future for themselves through Barbie. 

Check out Adweek’s write up on the most recent Barbie campaign directed by Karen, featuring dads. 

#MakingBarbieGreatAgain

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740SOUND + REEBOK = AD OF THE DAY

Hands are vital to touch, and 740 is vital to, you guessed it, sound. In this ad for Reebok’s #BeMoreHuman campaign, 740Sound gets hands on with Venables Bell & Partners on Adweek’s #AdOfTheDay. 

👐🏻🖐🏻👋🏻✋🏻👐🏻🖐🏻👋🏻✋🏻👐🏻

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#TRUMPFACTS

Tonight marks 2016′s First Presidential Debate. Integral to the telecast are: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Fact Checkers.

There are facts, and then there are #TRUMPFACTS.

With a consequential election approaching, don’t trust what the mainstream media is telling you about Donald Trump. AllTheTrumpFacts.com, created by Cub Studio of Society, exists to set the record straight - to give YOU the truth straight from Donald himself.

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CAM NEWTON + FINAL CUT = AD OF THE DAY

Another Ad of The Day in Final Cut's pocket! Thanks to editor Dan Sherwen, this incredible story narrated by Cam Newton’s mom comes right to life with a fury of speed and footwork -- the latter executed, of course, by Newton himself.

Now, let’s go buy some footwear!

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🎶MEOW, MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW🎶

There has never been a better ad for cat treats. And that’s thanks to Ninian Doff + Pulse Films.

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UNITED AIRLINES + TEAM USA + TEAM PULSE = AD OF THE DAY

We all feel like Olympic athletes as we navigate the never-ending maze that is the airport. And for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Michael Haussman of Pulse Films directed United’s first ad as the official airline of Team USA.

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

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OLYMPIC STATE OF MIND

740Sound went for gold in Gatorade’s Ad of The Day featuring the origin story of running legend, Usain Bolt.

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WE’RE ALL SUPERHUMANS

Final Cut’s Joe Guest has done it again. 

In the U.K.’s Channel 4 spot for the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Joe reminds us how crucial editorial is in elevating something shot beautifully & helping turn it into something brilliant.

This spot tugs at our heart-strings and shows how far we’ve come as a society as we continue to cast aside fear, derision & shaming in favor of acceptance, inclusion & song.

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PULSE FILMS + LEMONADE + CATASTROPHE = EMMY NOMINATIONS

Nominations for the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards were released today! 

Our girl Sharon Horgan got nominated for ‘Outstanding Writing In A Comedy Series’ for her incredible work on Catastrophe, along with Kahlil Joseph who got a nomination for ‘Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special’ for Beyonce’s mind-blowing HBO special, Lemonade.

Get your voting pools ready & tune in on September 18th, 2016.

Our $$$’s on these guys!

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WHO DOESN’T LOVE A GOOD BINGE?

Pulse Films X Merman have done it again with the ever so amazing Sharon Horgan, creator and star of the hit series Catastrophe. In collaboration with Droga5 for XFinity they have created Glued, a web-series that resonates with most of the TV-watching population.

(Try to convince us you haven’t binged on consecutive episodes of Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or The O.C. We don’t believe you.)

All 6 binge-worthy episodes are now available on Xfinity’s youtube channel!

Check. It. Out.

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THROWBACK TO LIONS & LYDON

Time flies when you’re having fun! Today we’re throwing it back to two weeks ago at Cannes having a blast with Peter Lydon of Merman x Pulse Films as we celebrated the Lions he walked away with: two Silver, and one Bronze. 

Go, Peter!

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A 360° WAY TO LOOK AT COORS + LIFESTYLE

UNIT9 rides the waves for 72&Sunny’s latest Coors campaign that appeals to our appetite for adventure. What an amazing way to capture how technology can be a window into a new experiences. 

Surf’s Up!!!

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FINAL CUT + SECRET + WK = AD OF THE DAY

Today’s AD OF THE DAY on ADWEEK features Editor Paul Zucker’s latest spot for Secret out of Wieden + Kennedy. Nothing like airing this ad concerning gender dynamics during last night’s season premier of The Bachelorette! Well done, team!

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FINAL CUT GOES ‘VROOM! VROOM!’ AT AICE AWARDS

Editor Rick Russell takes a nice win for the Final Cut team in The Windy City @ the AICE awards for fantastic editorial on one of this years’ most beloved spots: Audi’s “Commander”