Cannes Lions Festival and Awards cancelled
There will be no Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity or Awards in 2020.
Organisers have followed the international trend of suspending or cancelling planned events for 2020, noting that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) impacts continue to be felt across the world.
On the awards, the organisers said that as creatives shift their focus to the virus and their various business challenges, agencies won’t be “in a position to put forward the work that will set the benchmark”.
Organisers said they wanted to remove uncertainty, so have made the call to focus on the 2021 event, now scheduled for 21 to 25 June.
Good!!
The vainglorious marketers at the likes of Burger King can do without their yearly junket for the award show shit that they produce.