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Sam Birchall

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The new CMO playbook: how marketers are balancing broader remits and tighter budgets

Marketing leaders at Cannes Lions discuss their expanding list of responsibilities, AI’s threat to creativity and the importance of having a CMO on...

26.06.2026 6

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Sam Birchall

Reddit COO targets 1 billion users as internet’s ‘odd duck’ aims for new heights

Reddit accidentally built one of the world's most valuable archives of human conversation. Now it wants to turn that into a billion-user business

25.06.2026 8

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Sam Birchall

As marketers grapple with AI, business leaders at Cannes Lions say human creativity and authenticity matter more than ever

At Fortune's Fuel Up in Cannes, marketing leaders from Manchester United Football Club, Uber, Kraft Heinz and content creator Gstaad Guy explored how...

24.06.2026 6

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Sam Birchall

‘This is the least crazy AI is ever going to be’: the lessons Europe’s execs must take from Anthropic’s shutdown

The challenge for Europe's senior executives is that access to the world's best AI may come at the cost of strategic autonomy, and they need to decide...

23.06.2026 10

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Inside Europe’s most innovative companies

From semiconductors powering the AI boom to 360-year-old manufacturers adapting to the green economy, here are the organizations driving the European...

17.06.2026 6

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Sam Birchall

The new mandate for CMOs is clear: creativity must deliver growth

The next big growth lever isn't hiding in the finance department. It's creativity, and it's reshaping the role of the CMO while giving marketing a...

16.06.2026 3

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Sam Birchall

Jamie Laing thinks tomorrow’s Fortune 500 will be built by creators. He might be right

Creator-led brands have been easy to dismiss as novelties built on borrowed fame. But their cultural fluency, agility and proximity to consumers make...

10.06.2026 9

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The women running Europe in 2026

Twenty of the leaders celebrated in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women list are from Europe. Their roles reveal where power is concentrated across the...

08.06.2026 8

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‘Nobody knows what they’re doing’ says Michelle Obama

Never did ‘first lady’ enter Michelle Obama’s aspirational lexicon. Her reflections on resilience, self-doubt, and adapting to the unexpected...

05.06.2026 10

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‘Human creativity is under fire’ says WPP

At Cannes Lions, creativity is now seen as a key driver of growth, but leaders are struggling to protect it as idea production becomes cheaper and...

05.06.2026 10

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Businesses are declaring war on AI slop. They are fighting a losing battle

Efforts to wipe the web of AI slop has sparked a new technological arms race between the tools generating fake content and the tools trying to catch...

05.06.2026 10

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The death of the billboard: Amsterdam’s ad crackdown is part of a much bigger European shift

As cities across Europe take a closer look at the influence advertising has on consumer behavior, brands are having to rethink how they connect with...

05.06.2026 10

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How to save the internet—according to Sam Altman’s all-seeing Orb

Europe’s largest corporations are facing an authenticity crisis, and Silicon Valley thinks biometric identity infrastructure may become part of the...

01.06.2026 10

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Sam birchall