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Sir John Hegarty’s verdict: advertising is now a product people pay to avoid

The BBH co-founder used his Cannes Lions festival session to argue that the industry’s real problem is not attention, data or AI. It is that people have stopped liking the work.

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Jul 06, 2026
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