YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar has been named as the Media Person of the Year for Cannes Lions 2013.

To mark the event, we've looked back at the Cannes Lions Archive and selected some work from the last few years that have used the video sharing site in inventive and interesting ways.

The first speakers have been confirmed for this year's new Made @Sweden Academy, sharing the secrets behind Swedish creativity. We've put together a showcase of some of the past Lion-winning work from the speakers and their companies, including Gustav Martner (CP+B Sweden),Tom Beckman, (Prime PR), Christina Knight (Ingo), David Orlic, Philip Ahlqwist and Patrick Kampmann,(Volontaire), Ted Persson, (Greatworks), Matias Palm Jensen, (McCann, London) and Pia Grahn Brikell (McCann, Stockholm), The Absolut Company and Spotify.

Twitter celebrated its seventh birthday this week. Since it was born on 21 March 2006 it has been used by agencies and brands around the world to help them engage and interact with consumers. We've looked back through the Cannes Lions Archive to pick out some of the best campaigns with the micro-blogging service at their heart.

View some of China's winning and shortlisted entries into Cannes Lions 2008.

Canneslions.com has a brand new look - so to celebrate the launch of our revamped site, we've put together this collection of past Lions winners featuring change and transformation.

Cannes Lions is only two weeks away now. So it's not long until the creative communications industry will be arriving in the south of France. With so much happening during the Festival week, there won't be much time for relaxing on the beach though, so we've put together a selection of work from the Cannes Lions Archive that celebrate time spent in the sun by the sea.

Today (25 May) is Africa Day, the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). So we've had a look back through the Cannes Lions Archive and picked out a selection of ads entered into the Festival from across the continent.

German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler calculated in the 17th century that the universe began on 27 April 4977 BCE.

The Big Bang Theory might suggest that he was off by about 13.7 billion years but it's as good a day as any to say Happy Birthday to the universe. So we've collected some of the best ads we could find about space as a way to celebrate.

It's Friday the 13th so we have delved back into the Cannes Lions Archive for a selection of work about luck - both good and bad!

Brian Blessed has just been named as having the top celebrity beard. So to honour the man, we've had a look back into the Cannes Lions Archive and picked out a few of our favourite ads celebrating the joys of hirsute men.

Cannes Lions has teamed up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a competition to solve a communications challenge that the world is facing: Aid is Working. Tell the World.

So we have looked back into the Cannes Lions Archive and picked out a selection of work that has won at the Festival that focuses on aid and international development.

After The Artist swept the board at the Academy Awards last weekend, we delve into the Cannes Lions Archive to dig out a selection of silent ads from the last 20 years.

Valentine's Day is not far away. So to mark the most romantic day of the year, we've put together a playlist of award-winning ads from Cannes Lions that are all to do with romance and love.

Super Bowl XLVI is this weekend, as the New England Patriots go head to head with the New York Giants in a replay of the classic matchup in 2008. To mark the game, we have delved into the Archive and picked out some classic ads from Superbowls past.

Here are five ads that have inspired 2008 Gold Film Lion winner, Thanonchai Sornsrivichai.