Category: News

New IPA TouchPoints report reveals core changes to commercial media landscape

Stuart Mitchell

While the patterns by which the Great British public are consuming commercial media have remained relatively unchanged over time, the methods and channels by which this content is being consumed have changed drastically in line with evolving technology. This is according to the latest (2024) in the series of the IPA Making Sense – The commercial media landscape report. The report draws on IPA TouchPoints 2024 data to lift the lid on how commercial media consumption has shifted over the last nine years, including through lockdowns, by analysing time spent, share…

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Charity Retail Association launches its next year 3 year strategic plan

Stuart Mitchell

The Charity Retail Association (CRA), the UK’s trade association for charity shops, has launched its new strategic plan describing its planned activities over the next three years. CRA’s new statement of purpose is: “To lead and support the sector, inspiring everyone to be involved in charity retail and to understand its social, environmental and economic value in a changing world.” Against a complex and challenging background for retail as a whole, and charity retail in particular, and after extensive consultation with both internal and external stakeholders, the following items have…

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ASA partners with Compare the Market and Acast for latest ad awareness campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA are pleased to announce that Compare the Market and Acast are partnering with us, letting us borrow their branding and donating advertising space respectively, in the latest phase of their (Advertising Standards Authority [ASA]) ad awareness campaign. The ad awareness campaign launched in 2022, to increase people’s knowledge, trust and confidence in the ASA system. After the first phase, thirty six percent of UK adults had seen their ads. With the most recent phase, their research has found that those who saw our campaign were twice as likely…

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New deal demonstrates opportunity to scale finance for carbon removals

Stuart Mitchell

Standard Chartered, British Airways, CUR8, CFC and WTW recently announced the completion of a global first transaction to unlock finance for UNDO, a UK-founded carbon removal project developer specialising in enhanced rock weathering. The breakthrough transaction, which specifically provides debt financing for UNDO, now paves the way to scale finance for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects elsewhere. The precise and novel structure of the transaction helps to overcome significant barriers when providing finance to carbon removal project developers like UNDO. It separates the cost of a project from the sale…

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Investors Call For Climate Strategy Vote At UK’s Largest Listed Companies

Stuart Mitchell

Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) and CCLA, supported by investors representing £1.6 trillion AUM, have written to the chairs of 76 FTSE 100 companies that have not held a vote on their climate transition plans in the past three years setting out their expectations ahead of next year’s AGM season. The letter notes that investors expect companies to set out credible transition plans, that include Paris-aligned targets and detailed strategies for achieving those goals. To enable shareholders to make informed investment and stewardship decisions, companies should outline their climate…

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