OAAA Announces 2025 OBIE Awards Shortlist and Inducts American Express into the OBIE Hall of Fame

The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) is unveiling the shortlist for the 83rd Annual OBIE Awards, celebrating creative excellence and innovation in out of home (OOH) advertising. For more than eight decades, the prestigious OBIE Awards have set the benchmark for outstanding OOH creative — highlighting the intersection of artistry, technology, and strategic storytelling while spotlighting award-worthy work that is shaping the future of the industry. As part of this year’s celebrations, American Express will be inducted into the OBIE Hall of Fame, recognized for its enduring…

WARC Rankings 2025: Media 100 is now released! The world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media

The WARC Media 100, the ultimate independent global benchmark of the world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media, is now released. Compiled by WARC Creative, helping companies deliver creative marketing that works, the annual Media 100 Ranking is an aggregate of the results of the most important global and regional media awards of 2024. The shows tracked are determined in consultation with the WARC Rankings Advisory Board and by a yearly global panel survey. Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, WARC Creative, said: “The WARC Media 100 are annual worldwide league…

CAP – Community Radio: Advertising No-Nos

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Community Radio: Advertising No-Nos. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Since 2002, community radio has been an invaluable tool for local communities and small non-profit organisations to represent their interests over the airwaves. In many ways, they’re the legitimised descendants of the “pirate” stations of the 1960’s, allowing those bypassed by more established media routes…

10 Power Purchase Agreements signed and 1.3GW contracted in 2024

Lightsource bp, a leading developer and operator of utility-scale renewable energy projects, achieved a significant milestone in 2024 by securing 10 power purchase agreements (PPAs) totalling 1.3GW across Europe, the Americas and APAC. This achievement underscores the company’s experience and track record in delivering renewable energy solutions, tailored to meet the diverse needs of corporate and utility buyers across global markets. As energy buyers worldwide increasingly prioritise cost competitiveness and energy resilience, the renewable energy market continues to grow. To date, Lightsource bp has contracted with leading global corporations such…

New Year brings new companies committing to transform their supply chains to protect forests

11 companies, including Boden, Nobis, Native Shoes, Bobo Choses, Finisterre, SMCP, and moodytiger have pledged to eliminate the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in their textile and paper packaging supply chains, and joined solutions-driven non-profit Canopy’s CanopyStyle and Pack4Good initiatives. This bold commitment underscores growing sector dedication to protecting climate-critical forests and global biodiversity. They are joined by Next Gen innovators Circulose, Palouse Fiber Packaging, and Medoola, forward-thinking companies making packaging or viscose out of clothing waste, wheat straw, and food waste, respectively.  This cohort of companies is rounded…