Month: July 2018

ACLU Makes Six-Figure TV Ad Buy as Trump Closes in on Supreme Court Pick

Stuart Mitchell

As President Trump closes in on his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, the American Civil Liberties Union launched a six-figure TV ad buy today in Maine and Alaska. The ads call on Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski to insist Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court take a clear public position on a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions. “President Trump has promised to replace Justice Kennedy with someone who would take away the constitutional right to have an abortion altogether,” said Faiz Shakir, ACLU national political…

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The Industry Panels that help the ASA and CAP in their regulatory decision making

Stuart Mitchell

This is a copy of text from the CAP/ASA website but I feel it may be useful to some people here so please feel free to explore the site and see what else they have to offer. The ASA and CAP often need to make decisions in areas that are very complex and in exceptional cases we may need to take a view from industry experts to ensure our recommendations and decisions accurately reflect the realities faced by the industry we regulate.  The advertising industry is central to the success…

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Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama Launches Vaccination Campaign and Calls to “Strengthen Your Defense”

Stuart Mitchell

Colombian soccer legend El Pibe Valderrama, known as one of the best Colombian and South American soccer players of all time, joins forces with ADRA, a global humanitarian organization, through a public awareness campaign to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines to fight diseases. Each year vaccines save approximately two to three million lives from diseases such as measles, polio, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, more children are being vaccinated worldwide than ever before. Even so, there are millions of children…

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Hack For Good with Studio Republic; local tech agencies get together to create something in one day to benefit homelessness services!

Stuart Mitchell

Ethical digital agency, Studio Republic will be running a hack day on Friday the 10th of August. The idea of a hack day is to bring together creative people, developers, designers, any kind of makers, to block out a day of time and make something from scratch, just for fun, no strings attached. Hack for Good will gather local design and technology agencies to make something worthwhile in one day. Studio Republic are putting their own spin on the hack by introducing a theme for the day. Over the past…

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EY and SheWorks! join forces to attract more women to the workforce by offering flexible job opportunities worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

EY have announced a new collaboration with SheWorks!, the cloud-based technology platform that provides women access to remote and flexible job opportunities around the world. This commitment, officially announced at the Labor Inclusion session during the Women20 (W20) Argentina meeting in New York City in June, will support and accelerate the SheWorks! platform in order to maximize employment opportunities for women through the gig economy. The initiative has the ambitious objective of leveraging this technology to create 100,000 job opportunities for women by 2020. Julie Teigland, EY Regional Managing Partner—Germany,…

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