Post by Roger Sho Gehrmann

Another Cannes in the books. I'm not going to do a "here are my Cannes learnings" post. Instead, I'm just grateful this thing exists. For one week every year, a huge chunk of MassiveMusic folks from all over the world ends up in the same place. People I normally only see in little boxes on Teams suddenly become real humans again. I catch up with old friends, make a few new ones, and spend a week having the kinds of conversations you just can't schedule into a calendar. Sure, there are the talks and the awards. But the best part of Cannes has always been the conversations between everything else. That's where you get a real sense of where the industry is heading, what people are excited about, and what they're quietly worried about too. And then we get to throw a proper party. To everyone I managed to catch up with, it was an absolute pleasure. To everyone I missed, we'll fix that next year. Until then. 🍻 Tip van den Bos Lukas Rotter Pierre Carnet Will Hossner Georgia Juliette Roberts Richard Lawson Rick Sakurai Rick Sellars Vas Stylianos Len Mattea Aden Hepburn Dave Bowman Kay Hsu Rei Inamoto Claire Blyth Rich Hewes TJ Tamayo Olivia López Cece Wyldeck Paul Wiltshire Charlotte G. Amy Crawford Roscoe Williamson Will Hossner Commie McMullen Nicolas Farcy Daniela Santos Lauren Arnold Moos Lamerus Kat Feather Gabor Sebok Ash Chaudhry Michael Szumowski #CannesLions #SeeYouNextYear #SameTimeNextYear #TheRealMeetingsHappenInTheQueueForCoffee #OneMoreRoséForTheRoad #MusicMovesPeople #MassiveMusic #Monks