Cannes Lions: the worldwide advertising festival

The world of advertising will be at the palais des festivals of Cannes, from June 18th to 23rd, for the edition 2001 of Cannes Lions, the International advertising Festival. About 9,000 delegates of big companies of worldwide advertising and of all the associate industries meet every year in Cannes to celebrate the "crème de la crème" in terms of advertisement creativity, to discuss the different problems met by this industry and simply, for an efficient "networking". One of the powerful moments of the festival is the granting of awards, the Cannes Lions, which are also valued in the world of the advertisement as the palms of the Festival of Cannes in the cinema.

On the website of Canneslions.com, a website which is very well conceived, all the details of the event can be found. It is the occasion to follow the festival on video or to watch the best advertising campaigns on the Web among others. For professionals of the advertising, it is a website that has to be visited.