Hasta La Creative!

Yup, and as we mentioned before, the CLIOs are making their first appearance in Las Vegas May 12-14 where they will celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Well, at least the lions aren’t humping Draft/FCB-style in this new Cannes Young Lions campaign.

OK so we covered the Affiliate Summit West conference already but if you want it all in a short (ish) video, here it is.

Earlier this week, Affiliate Summit held its West conference in Las Vegas. With over 3,300 people in attendance, the organization’s largest yet, the conference stuck its middle finger up at the so-called recession.

The first major party during the conference was hosted by Buy.at at Moon Nightclub atop the Palms Casino.

If you’ll be in Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit which begins Sunday and runs through Tuesday, here’s a list of known events occurring prior to and during the conference.

About as surprising as a traffic meeting on a Monday morning, Epoch Films, after talks with Cannes organizers, JCPenney and Saatchi & Saatchi, has decided to withdraw its Speed Dressing Cannes entry which was awarded a Bronze Lion.

What do you do when you find yourself in a room full of the people that imagineered your childhood? You lose all social poise and most of your moxie — not on purpose, but inevitably. That’s what it felt…

We’ve got the Speckies. Why not the It Didn’t Air Awards?

Remember that series of Mischief NYC summertime parties that Fuel Industries’ Sean MacPhedran, Oddcasts’s Emily Twomey, Desedo’s Michael Hastings and media mouthpiece Adrants are hosting?