Day: 18 June 2025

FCB NY and NY Times Magazine Repeat Atop ADC Global Creative Rankings

Stuart Mitchell

FCB New York and The New York Times Magazine are once again among the top firms in the ADC Global Creative Rankings for 2025, based on point totals for wins at last week’s ADC 104th Annual Awards ceremony during Creative Week in New York. FCB New York is ADC Global Agency of the Year for the second consecutive year.  The agency won this year’s prestigious ADC Black Cube for Best of Show for “Spreadbeats” on behalf of Spotify, as well as a total of four Best of Disciplines, 13 Gold…

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Amazon retail media ad revenue to exceed $60bn this year as it becomes a leading platform for full-funnel activation

Stuart Mitchell

Unlike its Big Tech peers, Amazon’s advertising revenue claims only a small share of total company earnings. Paid search formats remain the core of Amazon’s ad offering, but the company has achieved incremental growth through upper-funnel ad spend and is seeing ad revenue, set to exceed $60bn in retail media alone this year, outpace its overall growth, finds WARC. Alex Brownsell, Head of Content, WARC Media, co-author of the report, says: “E-commerce giant Amazon offers more than retail media advertising—it’s quickly becoming a leading platform for full-funnel activation, with streaming…

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BLK Launches “Solidarity is for the Homies” — A Pride Campaign Celebrating Black Brotherhood in All Its Forms

Stuart Mitchell

BLK, the leading social and dating app for the Black community, is proud to introduce “Solidarity is for the Homies,” a Pride Month campaign that spotlights the unique bond between queer and straight Black men. The campaign is a tribute to the power of Black brotherhood—and a challenge to reimagine it as a space where everyone belongs.  Across generations, Black men have leaned on one another for survival, joy, protection, and pride. But within those relationships, queer Black men have often been left to navigate silence, bias, or invisibility—even in the…

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Global Dementia Emergency: only one in five countries has a plan, as cases set to nearly triple

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) warns that the world is heading towards a global health crisis, with just 45 (23%) of the World Health Organization’s 194 Member States having a national dementia plan in place despite unanimously pledging to do so by 2025. The stark finding appears in ADI’s new report, From Plan to Impact VIII: Time to deliver, released ahead of a crucial vote at the 78th World Health Assembly later this month. ADI is calling on all governments to vote to extend the WHO Global Action Plan on dementia until 2031 and to fund concrete action immediately.…

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Climate Group to coordinate coalition to slash methane emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Climate Group is taking on the coordination of the Subnational Methane Action Coalition – a group of states, regions and provinces leading on tackling harmful methane pollution and building a cleaner, healthier future.  As well as driving the coalition’s expansion, the non-profit will support members to reduce methane emissions by coordinating knowledge sharing and leveraging expertise from partners in academia, the non-profit sector and philanthropy. The coalition was founded by the Government of California in 2023 at COP28 in Dubai, UAE. Urgently and drastically cutting methane is essential to limiting…

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