Cannes DOOH · La Croisette · the Palais · Le Suquet · June 2026
A French Riviera festival and trade-fair city near 74,000 in an Alpes-Maritimes of 1.1 million, from La Croisette to the Palais to Le Suquet, bookable by the hour, priced per play, matched to how Cannes actually moves.
Cannes billboard and DOOH (digital out-of-home) costs span from a few cents per play on urban panels to premium La Croisette, Le Suquet and landmark networks. On Blindspot, Cannes screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.32, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Cannes play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the arteries at commute peak, the malls through the afternoon, the nightlife and tourist cores after dark.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and footfall, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The Boulevard de la Croisette, the palm-lined seafront of palace hotels and beach clubs, packs the city's densest luxury, visitor and event crowd.
The Palais des Festivals with its red-carpet steps and the adjacent Vieux Port anchor the Film Festival, MIPIM and MIPCOM delegate flow, the city's business engine.
The Rue d'Antibes, the main shopping street a block back from the sea, anchors the city's densest daytime retail and resident traffic.
Le Suquet, the hilltop old town above the Vieux Port, packs the walkable restaurant and going-out crowd with its castle-topped skyline.
The beach clubs and the promenade along the Bay of La Napoule anchor a heavy visitor and weekend flow through the season.
The La Bocca district and the western arterials toward the airport road anchor the city's everyday resident and commuter intercept.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Cannes's media owners, JCDecaux, Clear Channel France, Exterion Media among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.
Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a highway bulletin to a single mall screen, Blindspot puts Cannes's digital out-of-home and classic OOH formats on one map, each priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter here:
Large-format LED on highways, bridges and boulevards, motion, dayparting and dynamic triggers.
Pedestrian-scale panels and citylights in high-footfall retail and downtown corridors.
Highway and arterial bulletins built for commuter frequency on the busiest routes.
High-intent shoppers from midday to evening across the city's retail destinations.
Palm Bus city bus and the Cannes station approaches on the Cote d'Azur line plus stations and place-based screens with captive dwell.
Landmark and spectacular placements for brand statements in the city's signature locations.
Location insights
Cannes runs along the Bay of La Napoule on the French Riviera, its life set by the Boulevard de la Croisette, the palace hotels and the Palais des Festivals with its red-carpet steps. Mornings and midday load the Rue d'Antibes and the Croisette with shoppers, office traffic and, in season, the delegates of the Film Festival, MIPIM and MIPCOM; evenings pull crowds to the Vieux Port, Le Suquet old town and the beach-club promenade; weekends fill the beaches and the Boulevard. Palm Bus runs the city network and the SNCF station sits on the Cote d'Azur line. The festival and trade-fair calendar sets the peaks. Buy the midday Croisette push and the old-town evening peak.
The Palais des Festivals and the main arteries surge 7:30–10 AM and 5–8 PM. Book exactly those hours and your frequency climbs for the same budget.
Le Suquet and the city's malls hold heavy footfall from noon to evening, long windows where dwell and shopping intent, not rush, do the work.
La Croisette shifts from daytime to social and tourism after dark. Different audience, same screens, swap the creative, not the location.
Location intelligence summary
Cannes doesn't have one rush hour; it has rotating audiences sharing the same streets. The only buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the windows when your audience owns the city, skip the ones when it doesn't.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch | La Croisette + The Palais des Festivals | 6–11 PM |
| Commuter frequency | Rue d'Antibes, The Palais des Festivals | 7:30–10 AM · 5–8 PM |
| Retail foot traffic | Le Suquet, La Croisette | 12–8 PM |
| B2B / decision-makers | The beaches, The Palais des Festivals | Weekdays 9 AM–6 PM |
| Tourism & events | La Croisette, La Bocca | 10 AM–8 PM |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Cannes’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Morning commuters read in 2 seconds; evening crowds dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: television and media executives filling The Palais des Festivals each spring and autumn for MIPTV and MIPCOM, the industry's biggest program markets for buying, selling and financing TV content (see DOOH for Events), and yachting industry buyers moving along La Croisette and the beaches each September for the Cannes Yachting Festival, Europe's largest in-water boat show.
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roadside & citylight digital | from ~$0.32 per play | $100 buys hourly bursts on the Centre arterials | drive-time and pedestrian reach |
| La Croisette spectacular | from ~$0.49 per play | the palace-hotel seafront | luxury and event dwell |
| Palais des Festivals digital | from ~$0.45 per play | the congress and red-carpet blocks | delegate and business reach |
| Rue d'Antibes retail digital | from ~$0.42 per play | the main shopping street | shopper and resident crowd |
| Palm Bus screens | from ~$0.33 per play | the city bus routes | walk-up and commuter riders |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Cannes screen: the format (pricing runs higher on palm Bus screens than on roadside & citylight digital), the zone (La Croisette carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
City test
A week of midday and evening bursts across the Croisette and the Rue d'Antibes.
Multi-zone Cannes push
La Croisette, the Palais and Le Suquet running together across peak dayparts.
Riviera flagship
Full Croisette and Palais saturation timed to the Film Festival, MIPIM and MIPCOM.
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, JCDecaux, Clear Channel France, Exterion Media among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Specs vary by screen: orientation, resolution and file format differ from one panel to the next. Every screen shows its exact requirements in the platform before you upload, so there's no separate spec sheet to track down before you book.
Yes. Every Cannes screen on Blindspot is bookable by the hour, with no minimum contract and no retainer. You pick the exact windows, so you can buy the morning commute on The Palais des Festivals, the afternoon retail stretch around Le Suquet, or the evening social hours in La Croisette, and skip everything between. Because you pay per play instead of for a fixed four-week flight, the same budget concentrated into proven peak windows buys more useful frequency than the same money spread across every hour including the overnight ones nobody sees. Availability and the per-play price are visible before you commit, and you can start with one screen and one daypart.
Blindspot puts the bookable digital out-of-home screens across Cannes on a single map: roadside and boulevard LED, street-level panels and citylights, transit and station screens, mall and place-based displays, and landmark placements, all priced per play and bookable by the hour. That spans zones from La Croisette through to La Bocca & the west. The underlying screens are owned and run by media operators such as JCDecaux, Clear Channel France and Exterion Media, and Blindspot books time on their existing, already-permitted structures rather than reselling a fixed package. You see each screen, its zone, its per-play price and its live availability before committing, so you are choosing specific screens and hours rather than buying an unspecified network bundle.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Content approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than most people expect, because you are buying plays rather than weeks. A $500 budget in Cannes typically funds a multi-day hourly presence on a high-traffic corridor such as The Palais des Festivals, a concentrated burst across the busiest retail and transit screens at peak hours only, or thousands of plays on central urban panels where the per-play price is lowest. At entry prices around $0.32 per play, the arithmetic is straightforward and visible before you commit. What it will not stretch to is 24/7 coverage of a landmark spectacular, and that is the point of hourly buying: concentrate a small budget where and when it is seen instead of thinning it across hours with no audience.
No. Blindspot has no minimums, retainers or platform fees; you can run a focused hourly burst on a single screen or a full multi-zone Cannes campaign.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Cannes by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
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