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Digiday at Cannes: From center stage to closed doors, inside X’s quiet Cannes strategy

Digiday at Cannes: From center stage to closed doors, inside X’s quiet Cannes strategy

Update: 2025-06-18
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A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Nowadays, the beach and Twitter execs are harder to find. Instead of the flashy fireside chats and branded lounges, X’s execs are found behind closed doors, quietly courting marketers and media buyers against a backdrop of lawsuits, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)’s disbanding and political crosshairs. It’s a clear sign that the platform’s role in the ad ecosystem– and culture overall–has dramatically shifted. In this episode of the podcast, platforms reporter Krystal Scanlon joins host Kimeko McCoy about Twitter, now X, and what its retreat from the Cannes beachfront says about its relationship with advertisers, as well as TikTok’s head in the sand mentality around the ban.

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Digiday at Cannes: From center stage to closed doors, inside X’s quiet Cannes strategy

Digiday at Cannes: From center stage to closed doors, inside X’s quiet Cannes strategy

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