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The story beyond the script: Cinema’s sustainability premiere

Motivate Val Morgan’s Sahal Valliyot reveals the plot twist within sustainable cinema advertising.

Sahal Valliyot, Deputy Manager – Marketing and PR, Motivate Val Morgan on sustainability within cinema advertising.Sahal Valliyot, Deputy Manager – Marketing and PR, Motivate Val Morgan

There’s something timeless about the cinema experience: the hush as the lights dim, the collective anticipation, the larger than life stories that unfold on a screen. Cinema advertising has always invited brands to share the stage with these stories, reaching audiences when they are most receptive and inspired. And now, cinema is about to premiere its most urgent sequel: sustainability.
The opening credits of this sequel rolled on June 17, 2025, at Cannes Lions. On the world’s most creative stage, Ad Net Zero announced the inclusion of cinema in its Global Media Sustainability Framework – a move that finally gives our industry a standardised way to measure and manage the carbon footprint of every cinema campaign.


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.