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A Grand Prix in the Cannes Entertainment awards went to “Welcome Home,” a long-form ad for the HomePod created by Spike Jonze. The goal of the “Lions” is to reward education or advertising excellent enough to qualify as art.

“Music is at the core, the complex film craft is undeniable and the brand is at the centre of the work in a very unique way,” said Jury President Debbi Vandeven, global chief creative officer of VML, in a statement

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Cool. Nice spot. Those of us in the great unwashed advertising world will probably never get to hang out in Cannes, but good for those who are.

I enjoyed the ad, though it seems to have got a lot of derisive comment's. That's no big surprise.

What's she drinking? I guessed ice water at first but saw the bottle she was holding. That's a pretty big tumbler for vodka on the rocks.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Here’s a crazy thought:

If you don’t like your crappy, humdrum 9-5 life then do something about it. Don’t buy another piece of conspicuous-consumption junk and expect it to instantly make your life better.

This curmudgeonly message brought to you by a veteran marketing professional who has little respect for his industry.

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And here I was excitedly expecting a new take on Cocktails for Two. Oh well.

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Here’s a crazy thought:

If you don’t like your crappy, humdrum 9-5 life then do something about it. Don’t buy another piece of conspicuous-consumption junk and expect it to instantly make your life better.

This curmudgeonly message brought to you by a veteran marketing professional who has little respect for his industry.

Maybe it is family trouble. Sometimes you can't avoid that stuff.

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Meh. Eye candy.

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And here I was excitedly expecting a new take on Cocktails for Two. Oh well.

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If only the HomePod was as good the advertising for it.

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

Does the commonly-abused term "very unique" trigger anyone else here?

Unique means "one-of-a-kind." It needs no modifier to make it stronger or better.

Also, the overuse of the word unique.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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