Day: 15 March 2022

Channel 4’s Legal & Compliance Department Launch Third Free E-Learning Resource for Production Companies

Stuart Mitchell

A free interactive e-learning module focused on the duty of care of contributors has been published by Channel 4. The broadcaster’s Legal & Compliance team have drawn up the course to offer guidance on the measures indies and producers can take to ensure the welfare of people who appear in their programme. Journalist and presenter Anna Richardson provides the voiceover in this, the third free interactive online training course to be made available to the industry from Channel 4’s Legal & Compliance team. Commissioners and producers have a responsibility to ensure…

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UN Commission on the Status of Women stresses the empowerment of women and girls in fighting climate change, 14-25 March 2022

Stuart Mitchell

Gender inequality and the climate crisis are two of the most urgent global challenges. A growing body of evidence shows that when we invest in the empowerment of women and girls, they become leaders and change-makers contributing to innovative climate change solutions. Media advisory: UN Commission on the Status of Women stresses the empowerment of women and girls in fighting climate change, 14-25 March 2022 Pre-existing inequalities and gender-based cultural norms and barriers increase the vulnerability of women and girls to the impacts of crises like climate change and conflict.…

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IBM Launches Brand Campaign to Accelerate Innovation with Clients and Partners

Stuart Mitchell

IBM has announced the launch of its new integrated global platform, “Let’s create,” the company’s most significant brand initiative in more than a decade. “Let’s create” reflects the vision, strategy, and purpose of today’s IBM. It reinforces the company’s focus on innovation and collaboration to create long-lasting value for clients and partners while helping them address their most pressing business issues. “‘Let’s create’ is an invitation for our clients and partners to co-create with IBM using our hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and our consulting expertise. Together, we…

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Walgreens Advertising Group Announces Launch of Self-Serve Programmatic and Clean-Room Solutions

Stuart Mitchell

Walgreens Advertising Group (wag) announced it will be launching new self-serve programmatic and clean-room solutions allowing brand advertisers to run campaigns more openly on their own terms. The new self-serve programmatic solution will offer the ability to target consumers by applying audiences based on Walgreens first-party data to campaigns run on each advertiser’s preferred demand-side platform (DSP). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220215005586/en/ “We’re excited to bring our advertising clients more flexibility in managing the reach and frequency of campaigns on their preferred DSP, while…

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Philanthropy & scientific research: new “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative” call for projects

Stuart Mitchell

The BNP Paribas Foundation supports research on climate change and biodiversity erosion, two of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. Its ambition is to improve the understanding of the interactions between climate and biodiversity and assess the effects of their disruption on our environment and human societies in order to allow all actors to adapt their behaviour. Building on the success of the four previous editions, the BNP Paribas Foundation is launching a new call for projects for the 2023-2025 period. With a budget of €6 million over three years,…

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