Thanks to your overwhelmingly positive response to the first post in this series, we’ve decided to deliver again, relieving your not-in-Cannes regrets by collecting only the very sharpest quotes from those lucky enough to be there…and sober enough to tweet coherently.
- “Hard to believe #CannesLions is trending…oh wait, thousands of drunk ad people talking about themselves.” – Andrew Erdle, Truth Speaker
- “GRAPH: Jury Awakeness x Time Your Case Study Plays.” – Anselmo Ramos, Ogilvy Brazil
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- “Only 3% of creative directors are women.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “Cannes Lions press room stinks of alcohol fumes. Just saying.” – Claire Atkinson, The New York Post
- “Write what makes you laugh, not what you think makes other people laugh.” – Armando Iannucci, TV writer
- “We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us.” – Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide CCO, Ogilvy
- “Yeaaaaaaah!” – Jared Leto, Rock Star
- “The brain has an imaginability bias…things that are easier to imagine are easier to believe.” – Someone quoted by Nielsen
- “Your agency didn’t send you to Cannes to eat cookies.” – Publicis Groupe
- “Brand marketing spend can be totally undermined by a poor experience on smartphone.” – Grant Owens, Razorfish
- “Is Cannes like kids soccer, where you get an award just for showing up?” – Steven Shore
- “Pharrell wins again.” – AdAge
- “…still no medals for Canada.” – Marketing Magazine