Meet the Sponsors of the LBB Beach 2024: thenetworkone
For our company snapshot piece, we want to create a profile that pinpoints exactly what makes your company unique right now in 2024. We want to know about the culture and the competitive edge that you bring as well as finding out how the company has evolved over the past couple of years as new tech and changes in the market have disrupted the industry.
Q> What is your Company Name?
thenetworkone
Q> What is your company website?
thenetworkone.com
Q> What is it your Company Does?
We help CMO’s and CCO’s to find (and work with) the best independent agencies for their individual needs, anywhere in the world.
We help independent agencies of all marketing and communications disciplines, to pitch and win international assignments and manage them successfully.
Q> Give us your elevator pitch:
We are the world’s largest independent agencies network, including more countries and more Cannes Lions award winning agencies, than all other independent agency networks put together.
Q> Who will be on the LBB Beach representing your company?
Julian Boulding – president and founder
Helen Anderson – managing director
Alfie Buisson, community and events manager
Anna Poloczek – database manager
Q> Who are you hoping to meet on LBB Beach? Individuals and/or company roles, companies, or anyone else?
Independent agencies we don’t already know
Independent agencies we do already know
Marketing and Communications professionals (aka clients)
New friends!
Q> Are you hosting any events on LBB Beach, or elsewhere in Cannes during the week?
YES: The Indie Forum followed by Independent Agencies and Friends Drinks on the Beach – 2.30 to 5.30 on Tuesday afternoon
Q> What are you most looking forward to about Cannes in 2024?
Seeing old friends and meeting new ones
Q> What do you think will be the hottest topics this year on the Croisette?
AI (practice not theory)
How to keep your talent happy, the other 51 weeks of the year
Will England lose to Denmark by less than three goals?
Q> What are your top tips for newbies going to Cannes, the Lions, and the LBB Beach for the first time?
Book half your time in advance, keep the other half for nice surprises
There’s a shop just off the Rue D’Antibes, which rents dinner suits to first time attendees at the awards
You can ask Sarah anything, but ASK NICELY
Q> Do you have any restaurant or bar recommendations in Cannes you’d like to share?
Caveau 30
Q> What is your favourite non-work activity in Cannes? (could be cultural, sporting, shopping, seaside or anything you like)
Being a FLANEUR (there is no translation of this word)
Q> Lastly, what is your packing essential for the week at Cannes Lions?
A Chameleon
