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Along with the other 99.9% of people and brands in the marketing-advertising industry not represented at the event, the Cannes festival passed me by last week. Which is a shame, as I didn’t even get round to designing my annual t-shirt. So, it's a bit of an afterthought this year. Not my best work by some distance, a bit cliched and derivative, to be honest. However, this entry does give me a chance to reflect on my milestone 27th consecutive year not attending the festival. Which, given the number of categories and winners this year, you would think would be worthy of a metallic lion-shaped prize of some kind. While I have nothing against these or any other awards, what has bugged me for a number of years is how agency groups can spend millions of dollars on an elite party and entertainment schedule, go home with paid-for awards of various descriptions, making sure they have bought enough replica statues to display in global offices that had precisely nothing to do with the ‘winning work’, and then go back to HQ to issue directives to their regions and markets as to how many people they need cut in order to balance costs and deliver annual synergy targets. I never bought into the trickle down economics of these events. In my experience it is an event for the few, paid for by the many. Nothing ever trickled down to the people or the clients in most markets. No benefits, no rewards, no investment, just costs and redundancies, because those flights, hotel rooms, parties and award entries don't fund themselves. Of course this is just my experience, other experiences are equally valid, I am sure. Happy Monday. Peace??

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Daniel Drescher 大牛 Post Consensus ?? Web4

17 years Asia Expert | Web 3.0 | BD | Crypto Marketing + 4000 KOLs | Cointelegraph contributor | Renaissance Man

8 个月

I thought everyone was wearing Hawk Tuah merch?

Bryce Whitwam

China Marketing & Advertising | Marketing Consultant | Digital Transformation | Ph.D. Candidate

8 个月

Your finest Cannes rant, Gordan. Powerful words replaced the quickly designed t-shirt.

Charlie Newbery

Founding Partner, Break Media

8 个月

Tres bon indeed. The other classic is how few of the award winning campaigns actually ran meaningfully, not just as a test pilot in a minor publication in Brunei... or dare I say it how many of the award winning campaigns were entirely fabricated altogether! Aye carumba

Jill Murdoch

Practising Management Consultant (SBACC) | Business & Marketing Strategy | Brand Building & Integrated Comms | Experience & Retail Design

8 个月

28years in the business and not a visit requested nor invitation entertained to Cannes - I have always considered that a badge of honour...

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Robert Fuchs

Global marketing and communications professional based in Tokyo.

8 个月

Can you possibly exchange the visual of the mediocre wine, with some really exclusive and expensive Champagne?

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Lars Bj?rge

Founder & Managing Partner at The Scale Factory

8 个月

Perhaps the awards are not that significant for agencies anymore, but the existence of the Cannes phenomenon is great for big game hunting for start-ups. Getting heaps of decisionmakers at one place is helpful. Slush, DMexo and a bunch of other conferences also deliver on this, obviously. But no other conference achieves quite the level of decision maker density as Cannes does. Which is why I go each year, and come back each year with new opportunities and contracts.

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