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2024 in Review: The Top Films of the Year

By The Geek Dec 31, 2024

Films have always been more than just a two-hour escape from reality for me—they’re a reflection of who we are, a mirror held up to our dreams, fears, and wildest imaginati...

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2024 in Review: The Best Television

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2024

If there’s one thing 2024 taught us, it’s that even with competition from movies and social media, television (both broadcast and streaming) remains undefeated. From gritty...

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2024 in Review: Who We Lost

By Reel 360 Dec 31, 2024

“Death ends a life, not a relationship,” wrote Mitch Albom in Tuesdays with Morrie. These words remind us that while loss may take someone from our physical world, their in...

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2024 in Review: The Top 10 Albums of the Year

By Reel 360 Dec 31, 2024

Music in 2024 wasn’t just a soundtrack to our lives—it was a cultural phenomenon that inspired, challenged, and got us dancing in the kitchen, on our treadmills, in our car...

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2024 in Review: The year’s best ads

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2024

Choosing the best ads of 2024 is like picking your favorite child—if your children were wildly creative, emotionally charged, and sometimes unexpectedly hilarious. This year,...

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Uber is Reel 360’s Creative Marketer of 2024

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2024

Choosing the best advertiser of the year is never easy, but 2024 proved to be particularly challenging. With brands stepping up their creativity across multiple platforms, the ...

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2024 in Review: From Hawk Tuah to Trump

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2024

If we had to sum up 2024 in three words, they’d be: Trump, Tuah, and mergers. Oh, my. This year felt like a mashup of a political thriller, corporate soap opera, and the inte...

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2023 in Review: The Top 10 Films

By The Geek Dec 29, 2023

As the curtains draw to a close in 2023, it's evident that this year, marked by an almost six-month work stoppage due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, represented a remarkable...

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2023 in Review: Who We Lost

By Reel 360 Dec 29, 2023

Loss is an immutable facet of the human experience, a thread woven into the very fabric of our existence. It is an emotional terrain marked by the ebb and flow of sorrow, a uni...

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2023 in Review: The Best Campaigns of the Year

By Colin Costello Dec 29, 2023

Some people love Apple. And some people hate Apple. For 2023, the Reel 360 News Team fell on the love side as the brand has been crowned as Reel 360 News' Creative Marketer of ...

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2023 in Review: The Biggest Stories of the Year

By Colin Costello Dec 29, 2023

Professor Adrian Bejan presents an argument based on the physics of neural signal processing. He hypothesizes that, over time, the rate at which we process visual information s...

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2022 in Review: The best TV series

By The Geek Dec 31, 2022

Let's be super real here. 2022 was a ridiculously great year for TV series. Although we can stream an episode whenever we want, this year's crop of shows gave us compelling rea...

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2022 in Review: The 10 best films of the year

By The Geek Dec 31, 2022

2022 was a contradiction of sorts when it comes to film. The box office, for the most part, underperformed. While films such as The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Panther: W...

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2022 in Review: Who we lost

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2022

The older I get, the more I realize how naive I was believing that the people who entertained me would always be around. Of course, they would. Death was never on the radar. Pe...

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2022 in Review: The best campaigns of the year

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2022

I love advertising. No, really. Even in this day and age of advertising-free streaming, I do love seeing the genius and hard work of an agency, a creative team, and a productio...

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2022 in Review: The biggest stories of the year

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2022

Would you believe it if I told you the biggest story of 2022 that could be found on Reel 360 News was about something that couldn't be found? In early December, sister publicat...

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Women directors comprise only 17% of top 250 grossing films

By Megan Penn Jan 4, 2022

Hollywood made femme-centric history in 2020 with more female filmmakers than ever before directing top-grossing films. For the first time, three women were nominated at the Go...

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2021 in Review: The Best of Reel 360 Interviews

By Colin Costello Dec 30, 2021

For many of us, 2021 began the same way 2020 ended - still stuck indoors. For our midwest sister outlet, Reel Chicago, forced hibernation was mainly due to inclimate weather an...

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Interview: Havas CEO Stephanie Nerlich looks ahead to 2022 and beyond

By Colin Costello Dec 30, 2021

To say it has been another unprecedented year would be a severe understatement, especially in advertising where agencies continue to be affected by 2019, 2020 and now 2021. Des...

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2021 in Review: The best ad campaigns

By Colin Costello Dec 30, 2021

So, here we are at the end of another year. In 2021, we experienced more freedom from the pandemic during the spring and summer as cases lowered, but here we are, back in a kin...