Day: 24 April 2023

Gerety Awards announce 2023 Final Deadline

Stuart Mitchell

Gerety announces a final deadline extension of May 12th and calls for entries into the portfolio cuts where the UK agency and production company of the year will be chosen.  Lucia Ongay, Gerety co-founder says “Gerety gives validation to agencies and your clients that the work resonates. The same work that will be winning at the other shows this year should also be submitted at Gerety, the makeup of the jury shouldn’t change that and winning will prove it is effective with a female audience”. The 2023 Gerety Awards final…

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TotalEnergies and Paprec Develop the First French Value Chain for Advanced Recycling of Plastic Film

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies and Paprec, leader in plastic recycling in France, have signed a long-term commercial agreement to develop a French value chain for advanced recycling of plastic film wastes. The agreement will secure the supply of TotalEnergies’ future advanced plastic recycling plant in Grandpuits. Following the terms of this agreement, Citeo, the main organization in charge of end-of-life household packaging in France, will provide a stream of flexible plastic waste sorted from post-consumer packaging. This stream will be delivered to the Paprec Plastiques 80 plant in Amiens (France), where a first-of-its-kind…

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FCB NY, Ogilvy UK and Rethink Top Global Shortlist The One Show 2023

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity has announced the entries from 69 countries and regions on the 2023 shortlist for The One Show, now celebrating its 50th year. Shortlisted entries were selected by this year’s esteemed jury to move into the second round of judging, which is taking place now. This year’s finalists — entries which will win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Pencil, or Merit — will be announced later this month. FCB New York leads the world with 86 shortlisted entries. They include 31 for the “A Song For…

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New IPA Foundation Certificate explores real-world application

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s number one professional advertising qualification, the IPA Foundation Certificate, has added real-world scenario-based tasks to its syllabus to help delegates understand how to translate the learning into the day-to-day life of an advertising practitioner. Using Tesco as a case study, the new look qualification tasks learners with outlining what they would do when working on the account and explains how BBH and MediaCom responded to each situation on their way to IPA Effectiveness Awards Grand Prix in 2020. In addition, the 2023 IPA Foundation Certificate looks at key…

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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and UN Women join forces for gender equality

Stuart Mitchell

  The agreement will provide a strong framework for UNODC and UN Women to work together to strengthen joint efforts in promoting gender equality and meeting the specific needs of women and girls when addressing the world drug problem; implementing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda; countering gender-based violence, organized crime, corruption, and terrorism; and strengthening crime prevention and building effective criminal justice systems. Recognizing the different ways in which women are affected by violence, corruption and other crimes is an essential step towards devising more effective strategies to achieve…

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