Cannes Lions owner Ascential reveals awards entries down 21% and Warc acquisition

Cannes Lions has reported a significant drop in entries for its awards programme this year with 32,372 entries received (down from 41,170 last year) as a temporary pull-out by Publicis and a restructuring of the event took their toll.
This was despite an 84% year on year increase in the number of brands entering the awards which was insufficient to make up the shortfall created by the year-long Publicis Groupe hiatus together with the scrapping of three awards – cy