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A brunch for advertisers and brands.
- When
- 24 November 2026, 9:00 to 13:00
- Where
- LEVEL 9, Prague
- For
- Advertisers, brands and agencies
Event · ČeskéPodcasty.cz and Creator’s Hub
VidCon leaves Anaheim and moves under the organiser of Cannes Lions
Informa is bringing VidCon into the LIONS group, which runs Cannes Lions. The event leaves Anaheim and joins the Nashville festival from autumn 2027, with a presence at Cannes Lions in June 2027.
Advertising Week targets $100 million in creator-brand deals
Advertising Week has made creator Dhar Mann its Chief Creator Officer and opened a marketplace where $100 million of deals are to be struck between 500 brands and 2,500 creators. The event starts on 5 October 2026.
With AI, taste matters more than speed
At Cannes Lions, Steven Bartlett told an Adobe panel that speed of production is no longer an advantage once AI arrives. Taste, direction and leadership stay on top. For brands, what they buy from creators is changing.
Cannes Lions 2026 put creators at the centre, and capital followed
Over 250 creators appeared across the Cannes Lions 2026 programme, and institutional capital moved into the creator business. Brands working with creators won top Lions. From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act applies to AI content in Europe.
YouTube set the bar for working with creators at Cannes
Forbes named Cannes Lions the most important event in the creator economy. YouTube built its whole festival programme around creators, from production support to the main stage.
Gap has a network of 1,300 creators. Cannes changes the brief for brands
The third report from Cannes. As the festival moves into its second half, the focus shifts from creators to brands. Big names present creators as a direct route to sales, and platforms add AI advertising tools. The relationship with the audience is now counted as revenue.
Creators win their first Lions at Cannes. Google and Forbes build them infrastructure
The second report from Cannes. On the third day creators won the first Social & Creator Lions. Alongside the stages, support infrastructure grew: Google gave agencies data on creators, Forbes launched its own network and Patreon helped brands unlearn old habits.
Cannes belongs to creators right now. We follow the festival day by day
At Cannes Lions, the advertising world is revolving around creators. For the first time they have their own Lions category and their own beach, Oprah takes the LionHeart award, and entries fell by a quarter after tighter rules. We follow the festival and add a report each day.
Creators take over Cannes Lions with their own beach and award category
Cannes Lions gives creators their own programme and beach. YouTube is building a Creator Club, UTA is opening its own space, and brands are coming to sign multi-year deals.
SHIFTS 2026 comes to Prague, with Huberman, Křetínský and General Nicholson
The spring edition of SHIFTS 2026, held on 28 April at the Clarion Hotel in Prague, again covers business, medicine and geopolitics. Speakers include neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, entrepreneur Daniel Křetínský and former NATO commander in Afghanistan John W. Nicholson Jr.
LEVEL9: meetings in the heart of Hagibor
LEVEL9 is a 600 square metre event space on the ninth floor of the new Hagibor headquarters, built for workshops, corporate events and business meetings. It offers views of Prague, full catering facilities and direct metro access.
CNC’s third hackathon produced new prototypes
Six teams spent two days at CNC testing ideas for newsrooms and readers. The prototypes include a mobile article preview in the CMS, a pilot option to pay for one article via GoPay and faster image loading.