Anyone else feel like Cannes is more work than it’s worth and that this year is an opportunity to kill it forever?

Couldn’t all that wasted time and $ go toward our work? And our employees?

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If you saw what Leo Burnett or Ogilvy or TBWA alone —let alone they’re holding company —spends on this not just including entry fees and tickets, but including the ridiculous expense accounts for the global chief creative officer, the rooms at the finest hotels which are completely out of whack with the financial situation of the agency, the flights, the editorial time putting the case studies together, the employee hours doing the same, and the sheer number of people they sent from around the globe, and compare this with the amount of people laid off in the upcoming year,you would start a French revolution. They could stay at cheaper hotels, and eat at the every day town restaurants. The carte blanche to buy bottle after bottle of the most expensive wine, stay with a view of the ocean at the Carlton hotel, is as disgustingly out of touch as anything in this era. It’s the financial equivalent of being a sexist and racist old white man.

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Thanks Carter.

Absolutely. But there are too many people whose self esteem rests entirely on how many they’ve won to let this happen.

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Creatives dont really even like it that much anymore. It’s just gotten overrun with BS

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Me? Yes. But that wasn’t my point.

We should start a hashtagmovement. This will get taken down because there are names but:#WhatarryouspendingWendy etc

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I play the game of “killing” certain things that seem to be a waste all the time. Remember, these things create jobs and commerce in many ways.

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