Tag: Ad Council

The Ad Council’s 64th Annual Public Service Award Dinner in Honor of Unilever CEO Paul Polman Celebrates the Power of Advertising for Social Change

Stuart Mitchell

On the 30th November the Ad Council, the non-profit leader behind iconic and impactful public service campaigns including “Love Has No Labels” and Smokey Bear, held its 64th Annual Public Service Award Dinner honoring Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever. Samantha Bee, host of TBS’s Emmy-winning Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, emceed the event, which concluded with a live performance from musicians Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. The event was held at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City. Attended by more than 1,500 prominent executives from the media,…

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New PSA Campaign Urges Americans to Bring High Blood Pressure Under Control

Stuart Mitchell

We covered this previously but this a lot more detailed, the American Heart Association (AHA), American Stroke Association (ASA), and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced a new public service awareness (PSA) campaign in partnership with the Ad Council. The campaign seeks to raise awareness of the serious, life-altering consequences of uncontrolled high blood pressure, and motivate people to work with their doctor on developing and committing to a treatment plan to manage their blood pressure. Launched on the heels of a new guideline that means more people will…

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Ad Council releases new High Blood Pressure Control PSAs

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council have released new PSA’s to educate people more about High Blood Pressure Control. About 85 million Americans (1 in 3 adults over age 20) have high blood pressure, but only half of those individuals have their condition under control. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to heart failure, heart attack, stroke, vision loss, kidney disease, and even death. However, people with high blood pressure can create a treatment plan with their doctor that can help reduce their risk for heart attack, stroke, and other  related health issues.…

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The Ad Council Launches “CreateForChange”

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council, the nonprofit leader behind iconic and impactful public service campaigns including Smokey Bear and “Love Has No Labels,” joins the Taproot Foundation to announce CreateForChange, a program that connects advertising, media, technology and communications professionals to nonprofit causes. Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council, and David Sable, Ad Council Board Chairman and Global CEO of Young & Rubicam, announced the program yesterday at the Ad Council’s Board of Directors Meeting. “The Ad Council has been powering the collaborative pro bono efforts of the communications…

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New PSAs focus on the importance of adopting teenagers from foster care

Stuart Mitchell

New public service advertisements (PSAs) launched today by the Children’s Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in partnership with the Ad Council, AdoptUSKids and KBS, highlight the importance of adopting teens from foster care and emphasize that adoptive and potential adoptive parents do not have to be a perfect parent in order to adopt youth from foster care. Older children in foster care, particularly teenagers, have a hard time being adopted from foster care. Of the estimated 428,000 youth in…

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