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Agentic AI makes it possible for insight functions to surface existing knowledge, work across fragmented data and drive action directly freeing up human expertise for where it matters says Accenture Song's Matt Addison.

Julian Boulding's interim Cannes Review asks whether our industry's rush for scale has cost us what matters most. His verdict from the Croisette: Relationship Capital is the new competitive advantage.

Highlights and insights from Cannes Lions Wrapped Up with Paul Kemp-Robertson, David Tiltman and Chloe Markowicz of LIONS. The discussions centred on the pulling apart of what is uniquely human and what is uniquely machine, creators as long-term brand builders, and the growing consumer appetite for friction.

Marketing has a habit of looking backwards. Ask most marketers when the industry was at its best and they’ll point to the 1960s through to the 1980s. Big budgets, big creative, long lunches.

The final days of Cannes Lions 2026 brought the week's biggest ideas together: AI as infrastructure, people as the point, and conviction as the quality that separates those who follow change from those who lead it. Our Cannes Correspondents report from the Croisette one last time.