Live from Cannes, third time returning guest Rory Sutherland gives us his views on just how good this year’s Festival of Creativity is, what should be awarded, AI vs AI, what we should be looking for as marketeers in current trends and the value that behavioural science brings to creativity.

He also talks about what he is looking forward to on the road to another great festival – Madfest, and why he is doing his Mad Masters course.

What we covered in this episode:

Why Rory thinks this Cannes Lions Festival is the most wonderful ever.
The backbone that Rory thinks System1 and WARC bring
The Campaign for a new Behavioural Science Award
Festival of creativity or advertising?
The brilliance of ABInbev brewers for bread campaign
Rory on re-writing the advertising rules
Jon’s 5 most creative moments
What excites Rory about behavioural science
Rory’s definition of creativity
The story at the heart of Crocs growth
Should there be a Cannes Lion for zero budget campaigns?
Fashions in psychology
The problem with chat GPT is……
Outlier vs average impact on creativity
The value Artificial Inquisitiveness and Interestingly wrong
People’s value in business vs automation
System1’s learnings on AI creativity and innovation
Why brand partnerships should be awarded.
Encouraging people to think more widely about what they should be testing.
Does Rory think the world needs Apple Vision?
Should Google have persisted with Google Glass?
Why all Europeans report to distain automatic cars.
Rory’s ideas for the tech world innovation
When are people happy being happy cut off from fellow men?
The most important economic thing about Zoom meetings.
How Rory is plotting to get more cash for creative people
Why Rory keeps coming back on The Uncensored CMO
The value of “crap creativity” – why the obvious solution could sometimes be better
Rory’s Road to Madfest - what he is looking forward to and why he is doing Mad Masters

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Rory Sutherland, the Master of Madfest, on why behavioural science should get awards

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Rory Sutherland, the Master of Madfest, on why behavioural science should get awards