Tencent’s SY Lau is Cannes Lions’ Media Person of Year

Digiday: SY Lau, president of the online media group Tencent, the Chinese Internet giant that owns WeChat and microblogging service Tencent Weibo, was named Media Person of the Year at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, an honor previously bestowed upon Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt. In China, we “have 250 million people every single day spending an hour or two looking at their mobile phone,” said Lau. “When Cannes awarded us this recognition, they are looking at the future as it begins today.”