What title/level were you at when you attended your first Cannes? Did you self fund it?

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Copywriter. Self funded airfare. Nothing was company sponsored but everything else was covered by people being gracious. Slept on my ECDs couch. Meals were covered by sponsored events and production co dinners. People who did have expense accounts bought my drinks. Snuck into the palais and into talks. It was awesome.

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Lots of people from all over the world have done it, CD1. freeloading at Cannes was a great experience. Made some great connections and memories over there! Also won my first bronze lion after going there and seeing all that great work. It really made a mark on the rest of my career.

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Sr Copywriter here. I’ve never attended because I’ve never had work features there.

The way the question is worded rubs me the wrong way too – the assumption is that “everybody goes” or “everybody has a chance to.”

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Come on. It’s not. It’s a simple question to the people who went to Cannes.

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First attended as a CSO. I have self-funded as an indie. And I've had hotel but not flights from the festival when I've been a judge. I've been a platinum pass holder in a beachfront suite, and I've crashed in tiny Airbnb studios when on my own dollar. Today the best hotels are packed with clients and media execs, because they have the money. What matters is to be there.

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God question. I have met and won clients both for my agency and for myself when I was working independently. I've had conversations that led to job offers. I've recruited people from around the world who I met in Cannes. Absolutely worth it from a career perspective.

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Junior. Through Young Lions.

I was an ACD and the agency funded my trip

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