Beyond the Brief: Better Client/Agency Partnerships

Beyond the Brief: Better Client/Agency Partnerships

The Capacity Gap Nobody’s Talking About Post-Cannes

Independent agencies are being asked to deliver AI and e-commerce work that stretches their bench — here's the option more of them are quietly using.

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Mitchell Caplan
Jul 07, 2026
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LePub, Rethink, Ogilvy, Heineken, MJZ win top company awards at Cannes - Ad  Age

Cannes always produces the same pattern: a wave of ambitious client conversations, followed a few weeks later by a quieter, harder question inside independent agencies — can we actually build this?

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