As the dust settles on Cannes Lions conversations, I can’t help but feel how emotionally heavy a lot of the work was this year. Only one in 10 of Gold and Grand Prix winners in 2022 used humour in their work and even fewer used it this year. And the well-documented global rise in unhappiness (negative emotions such as stress, sadness, anger and worry) remains unchanged from last year, according to Gallup’s Negative Experience Index. 

Threads is Instagram’s timely answer to Twitter, designed to capitalize on Twitter’s recent challenges and provide a viable alternative social network. Here’s 4 key things you need to know.

The past few years have put a spotlight on personal and professional commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion, highlighting the many ways in which society needs to evolve to better serve the collective good.

Over a year ago, Zeno came together to articulate more deeply who we are, why we exist and our desired impact as we aligned on our company purpose – champion the courageous to achieve something better for humankind. We have since been guided by this purpose in all that we do every day. 

Every day, we see brands getting caught in unfortunate situations: active shooter, data breach, rogue spokesperson, operational catastrophe, product recall, offensive advertisement, discrimination lawsuit, an executive behaving badly, natural disaster - I’ve seen it all in my 20+ years handling crisis communications for clients.

I recently participated on a panel at the STAT Summit with two brilliant healthcare thought leaders. We explored the value and urgency of health literacy and, to take a play on the old saw that everyone is a patient at some point, called our session “We the Patients?” (Note the question mark. That’s on purpose.) Here are more of our key takeaways on health literacy.