Archive for June, 2010

Special offer: MIDEM for just €495

Special offer: MIDEM for just €495

If you’re serious about the music business, you simply have to attend MIDEM in Cannes next January. This is the music trade show that other trade shows want to be when they grow up. Over the past few years, of course, the business has shrunk. Yet MIDEM has kept its place by offering the best [...]

Germanwings wins Cannes award with cheeky ad

Germanwings wins Cannes award with cheeky ad

German low-cost airline Germanwings won an award at the 2010 Cannes Lions advertising festival with a cheeky guerilla marketing clip that shows comments supposedly being made on the rival airline Easyjet. It’s a cheeky but brilliant idea that is very simple and very effective. Germanwings fly to many airports in Germany and Greece from Nice [...]

MIPCOM 2010 to focus on financing

MIPCOM 2010 to focus on financing

MIPCOM, to be held October 4-8 this year, will have a special focus on financing. The TV and content trade fair will host a Producers’ Forum designed to help the right content find the right financing opportunities through conferences and networking events. The goal is to enable people to develop the contacts and content needed to [...]

International Fashion Photography festival

International Fashion Photography festival

For the 8th year, Cannes is celebrating the best in fashion photography with an exhibition in a number of venues around town. This year, the International Festival of Fashion Photography invited the noted fashion photographer Jacques Olivar. The Palm Beach Casino, main partner of this event, hosts on its cymas the 2010 selection of contemporary [...]

Last-minute hotel deals for Cannes Lions 2010

Last-minute hotel deals for Cannes Lions 2010

The countdown really is on, and with figures up on last year, accommodation has become an issue again. But we have a selection of hotels – from the insanely expensive to cheap and (hopefully) cheerful. Inside Cannes itself, there is still room at the 5-star Palais Stéphanie (renovated only recently). You’re on the Croisette in [...]

Who is creating and delivering new content?

Who is creating and delivering new content?

Although it only has a short slot in the seminar programme, our Cannes Lions tip is to put the Go Viral talk on your agenda. The internet puts existing business models on the rack. The newspaper and music businesses in particular have suffered. This seminar explains why the advertising industry could be the next. Endemol [...]

MassiveMusic celebrates 10th anniversary at Cannes Lions

MassiveMusic celebrates 10th anniversary at Cannes Lions

In the summer of 2000, MassiveMusic heralded its birth with a party on a beach in Cannes during the annual International Advertising Festival, Cannes Lions. On the 23rd of June, MassiveMusic will host its 10th party with clients and friends on that same beach in Cannes. A lot has happened since 2000. The seed that [...]

Whose Cannes is it anyway?

Whose Cannes is it anyway?

“Where is the Cannes festival being held this year?” OK, you’ve probably read this quote so many times already you are sick of it. I am. Was it really said by Britney Spears or Christine Aiguilera? I’m not even sure. The quote just keep spinning around the web. But the way people talk about Cannes [...]

MicroStrategy World to be held in Cannes, July 2010

MicroStrategy World to be held in Cannes, July 2010

Business intelligence software company MicroStrategy is to hold its MicroStrategy World event in Cannes in July 2010. The four-day seminar will include a wide range of business and technical tracks, product demonstrations, and customer case studies. At the conference, MicroStrategy will unveil its business intelligence platform for the iPhone and iPad, MicroStrategy Mobile, which enables [...]

Marine Trade Centre to offer shared presence at Cannes Boat Show

Marine Trade Centre to offer shared presence at Cannes Boat Show

Attending the Cannes Yacht Show as an exhibitor can be expensive. So here’s a tip: the Marine Trade Centre is offering to share a stand and therefore costs. The largest consumer-oriented shows can be beyond the financial and organisational means of the many smaller businesses which are taking their first steps to develop their export [...]