Day: 22 August 2022

Amazon’s Custom Electric Delivery Vehicles from Rivian Start Rolling Out Across the U.S.

Stuart Mitchell

Starting in July, customers across the U.S. will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities. This rollout is just the beginning of what is expected to be thousands of Amazon’s custom electric delivery vehicles in more than 100 cities by the end of this year—and 100,000 across the U.S. by 2030. The vehicles are designed from the ground-up with safety,…

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UNESCO welcomes Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira as Champion for the Ocean and Youth

Stuart Mitchell

Lisbon recently hosted the UN Ocean Conference, a major event in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (‘the Ocean Decade’), led by UNESCO. This international conference aims to strengthen international cooperation on the ocean, promoting better understanding and protection of it. On the opening day, Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, announced the nomination of the Brazilian Big Wave surfer Maya Gabeira as a goodwill ambassador, appointing her to the position of “UNESCO Champion for the Ocean and Youth”. UNESCO’s advocacy on ocean-sustainability issues We are children…

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M&S Launches New Recyclable Tomato Packaging

Stuart Mitchell

M&S is announcing a further move to make its grocery products more sustainable with the introduction of new widely recyclable packaging for its British Collection vine tomatoes. The new packaging replaces a hard to recycle plastic sleeve with recyclable cardboard and a small amount of plastic film; just enough to preserve the freshness of the tomatoes and still enable the pack to be recycled as cardboard in a household recycling bin. Three on the vine tomato varieties, Piccolo, Pomodolci and Capella will be available in the new packaging, available across…

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Agency rosters face ongoing reform and revamps

Stuart Mitchell

In-housing benefits as advertisers seek to respond to digital, Covid, sustainability and diversity and inclusion challenges, shows new WFA research Agency rosters are in an era of constant change, with the majority of multinational advertisers already changing or planning to reform current structures for working with external partners, according to new research from the WFA and The Observatory International. In the wake of a menu of challenges such as the global pandemic and exponential rise of digital, combined with added pressure in areas such as sustainability and diversity and inclusion,…

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AdQuick.com, Clear Channel Outdoor Innovate to Deliver Real-Time Availability Data to Modernize Out-of-Home Media Buying

Stuart Mitchell

AdQuick.com, the leading out-of-home (OOH) advertising platform in the world, recently announced a partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, one of the world’s largest Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising companies, to provide AdQuick customers with real-time printed and digital display availability. This partnership is the first-of-its-kind, and further automates how marketers plan, optimize and execute OOH campaigns more precisely and quicker than ever before.   “The past two years have changed the pace of the OOH marketplace,” said Matthew O’Connor, CEO of AdQuick. “Today, marketers must move even faster and embrace new levels of…

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