Month: August 2025

The Black British Business Awards 2025: A powerful agent for change

Stuart Mitchell

Thirty-six business leaders, innovators, creatives and trailblazers are named today as finalists for the Black British Business Awards 2025 (BBBAwards). Recognising exceptional performance of Black professionals and entrepreneurs, this is the premier UK awards ceremony of its kind, attracting nominees from some of the most prestigious global brands and founders of exciting UK businesses. Finalists this year come from companies including JPMorganChase, Goldman Sachs, Sephora, Dentsu Creative, LinkedIn and Kantar.  Now in its 12th year, the BBBAwards have already recognised more than 400 Black professionals and entrepreneurs for their contributions to…

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New Report Reveals “Long-Lasting” Impact of Capacity Building for Charities

Stuart Mitchell

An independent evaluation report analysing the 10-year impact of the capacity building programme, the Weston Charity Awards, has revealed outcomes that are “overwhelmingly positive and long-lasting.” Almost all leaders reported that their charity is more operationally fit after winning a Weston Charity Award (96%), with four out of five stating that the improvements are still felt to this day (83%).  Charities also reported having more effective senior leadership (98%) as well as a clearer organisational purpose and being better able to deliver impact (91%). Founded in 2014 by Pilotlight and the…

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The Future of Programmatic 2025: new research by WARC explores major trends in programmatic advertising

Stuart Mitchell

WARC’s The Future of Programmatic 2025 report, released today, highlights emerging trends in programmatic. Based on insights from both WARC and external research, it provides an overview of the programmatic marketplace, a deep-dive into three specific trends – the rise of sell-side curation, AI-powered brand safety, and the growth of programmatic out-of-home advertising – and includes practical guidance for marketers evolving their programmatic and ad tech capabilities. Paul Stringer, Managing Editor, Research and Insights, WARC, says: “The past few years have been challenging for open web programmatic advertising due to…

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UN Climate Change Launches New Report on Advancing a ‘Just Transition’ in Climate Policy

Stuart Mitchell

As the world accelerates action to address climate change, the question is no longer whether to pursue a just transition—but how to embed it meaningfully into national climate strategies. To help answer that question, the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures (KCI), with the support of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, released a technical paper today: Just Transitions in National Climate Frameworks and Climate Policies: Experiences in Alignment, Planning and Progress Tracking. The report tracks progress on just transitions and examines how countries are…

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Climate Group urges European Commission to maintain climate investment targets

Stuart Mitchell

Joint letter urges EU to safeguard 30% climate and 10% biodiversity spending in post-2027 budget to address escalating environmental and health threats. Climate Group joined 62 other businesses and civil society organisations in signing a letter calling for the European Commission to maintain at least 30% horizontal spending target for investments in climate and the environment in the post‑2027 Multiannual Financial Framework.  Dedicating at least 30% of the overall EU budget to the climate and 10% to biodiversity is a sustainable and urgent investment, which protects European communities from existential…

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