Cannes Lions has announced it is cancelling the annual Festival of Creativity, which will no longer take place in October as previously planned.
This includes the Cannes Lions awards. The next edition of the festival will run June 21 through 25, 2021.
The move comes just two weeks after Cannes Lions postponed the festival to late October as part of previously announced contingency plans with French authorities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused thousands of deaths and kept millions in isolation worldwide.
Earlier in March the Festival noted all entries would still be judged and awarded in 2020, regardless of the festival’s timing.
Today in a statement, Cann
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