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1,000 Dreams Fund to Fuel Awareness and Funding for Underserved Female Content Creators with Streams for Dreams Charity Event on Twitch

Stuart Mitchell

To help celebrate Women’s History Month, the 1,000 Dreams Fund (1DF), a national non-profit that provides micro-grants to young women in the U.S., is launching its Streams for Dreams program on social video service Twitch. This new charity initiative is designed to support women who are pursuing their dreams in content creation, while raising awareness for the continued gender gap in financial funding for young women in the ever-expanding gaming and broadcasting space. As part of the event, 1DF is introducing the Twitch BroadcastHER Grant, which will directly benefit female…

Movember partners with Delete to deliver a branded content campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Movember have worked with Agency Delete and WeTransfer on new branded content to help support this years Movember campaign. Following a donation of free ad space from WeTransfer, Delete worked in collaboration with Movember to take advantage of the support the site’s seven million impressions would give the charity’s 2017 campaign. In line with the visual nature of WeTransfer, Delete has designed a series of digital canvases to bring the campaign to life in an artistic manner, aimed to inspire new ‘Mo Bros’ and ‘Mo Sistas’ to sign up and…

International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science

Stuart Mitchell

New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science. The UK Metascience Unit is run jointly by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The unit has today announced details of a cohort of 29 early career researchers receiving funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme. AI changing how we work and think One project at The University of Manchester will explore how AI is changing the way researchers work,…

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of the Big Issue, has more than tripled its investment in businesses making a social impact in the past year, its 2024/25 impact report has revealed today. The leading social investor has reported a drastic increase in year-on-year deployment, investing a collective total of £9.4 million in 50 British organisations in the past year – more than three times the investment made in 2023/24 (£2.7 million in 13 businesses). 139 social businesses and charities now sit in Big Issue Invest’s portfolio of investees,…

Harnessing AI for good: world-leading trial monitoring alcohol ads

Stuart Mitchell

ASA are publishing the results of a cutting-edge trial that used artificial intelligence (AI) at scale to check whether alcohol ads are sticking to the rules. The findings show that the overwhelming majority of alcohol advertisers are compliant, and the trial itself marks a major step forward in how innovative technologies like AI can strengthen regulation and support responsible advertising. Our goal was to see whether AI could help us spot potential problems that traditional monitoring or public complaints might miss, while giving a clearer picture of overall compliance. We’ve…