W+K founder Dan Wieden collects his Lion of St Mark award for outstanding contribution to creativity in communications at the Cannes festival.

Some words from our global chief Dave Luhr, who was in Cannes for the advertising awards festival this week:

So last year at Cannes we were awarded Independent Agency of the Year. This year we won the same honor again.  That’s big news.  But to make things even better, and a bit more confusing, we also won Agency of the Year.  So Cannes has both an Independent Agency of the year award and an overall Agency of the Year award – we won both.  And we were runner up Direct Agency of the Year. We also won a lot of other awards across a wide range of clients and offices.  Proving once again the consistency of our creative product throughout the world.   

But  even more important than the awards, I can’t tell you how many people came up to us at Cannes and talked about how damn special this agency is.  And what a great place it is to work with/for.  That’s the award we should be most proud of. So a huge thanks to everyone – in every office – who helped make 2012 yet another strong year for Wieden + Kennedy. 

Time to focus on 2013.