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    Cannes Lions 2026 · Live talk

    Create Less, Create Better: Creative Intelligence as a Competitive Advantage

    Hosted at The AdTech Chill House · powered by VideoRunRun, C Wire & Orixa Group

    AI has made content cheap and infinite. So why are most campaigns still underperforming? Because volume was never the answer — quality and validation are. We're bringing together three pieces of the same answer, live on stage: Content × Creative × Performance — not three tools stacked on top of each other, but a closed loop that makes 'create less, create better' actually work in practice.

    Wed, June 24 · 16:00 – 16:30 CET35 Rue Bivouac Napoléon, Cannes30 minutesIn person
    Create Less, Create Better: Creative Intelligence as a Competitive Advantage

    About this session

    Generative tools collapsed the cost of producing creative — and lifted the floor of what's possible — but most brands still ship campaigns that underperform. The bottleneck moved: from production capacity to creative judgment, validation and the signal loop between creative, content and performance.

    Three operators close that loop publicly: Alban Besnier (Orixa Media) on content, Aurélie Touboul (VideoRunRun) on creative intelligence, and Rui de Freitas (C Wire) on the performance signal. The argument: you don't need more creative — you need a feedback loop that tells you which creative deserves the next impression.

    Speakers

    Alban Besnier
    Alban Besnier
    CEO · Orixa Media (Double by Orixa)
    LinkedIn
    Aurélie Touboul
    Aurélie Touboul
    CRO · VideoRunRun
    LinkedIn
    Rui de Freitas
    Rui de Freitas
    CEO & Co-Founder · C Wire
    LinkedIn

    What you'll take away

    Why volume stopped working

    The economics behind 'more creative ≠ better performance' — and how AI-fueled output without a feedback loop quietly compounds waste.

    Closing the Content × Creative × Performance loop

    What a live signal loop between these three layers looks like in a real campaign, not in a deck.

    How to operationalize 'create less, create better'

    Concrete decisions a brand or agency can make this quarter to spend less on production and more on the creative that actually converts.

    Where

    The AdTech Chill House

    35 Rue Bivouac Napoléon

    06400 Cannes

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    Reserve your seat

    Free entry. Space is limited — Eventbrite handles the seat list and any waitlist.