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2025 in Review: The Best TV Series

By The Geek Dec 31, 2025

If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that attention is the rarest currency left. Every platform wanted it. Every headline fought for it. And somehow, television still found ways ...

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2025 in Review: The Best Films

By The Geek Dec 31, 2025

Every year, I try to fight it. I swear I won’t rank films like sports teams. I tell myself art shouldn’t be competitive. And every year, cinema laughs in my face, drops ten...

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2025 in Review: Who We Lost

By Reel 360 Dec 31, 2025

“Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it.”Haruki Murakami. Each year asks us to pause, but some pauses are heavier than others. In 2025, we lost voices, visio...

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Our 2025 Marketer of The Year is The NFL

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2025

In a year marked by volatility, exhaustion, and cultural whiplash, one brand didn’t just cut through the noise. It rose above it. The National Football League earns Reel 360 ...

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Our Creative Agency of 2025 is 72andSunny

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2025

Alright, deep breath. Because if 2025 felt chaotic, heavy, and occasionally on fire, 72andSunny didn’t flinch. They leaned in. That’s why they’re our Creative Agency of 2...

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2025 in Review: The Best Campaigns

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2025

Choosing the best ads of 2025 wasn’t about polish or perfection. It was about survival. This was the year of wildfires and whiplash, mergers and mass layoffs, Trump headlines...

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2025 in Review: The Biggest Stories

By Colin Costello Dec 31, 2025

In 2024, the industry battle cry was “Survive ’til 2025.” After pandemics and strikes, film, television, production, and yes, even advertising, rallied around the same ma...

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2025 in Review: The Best Albums of the Year

By Reel 360 Dec 31, 2025

If 2025 proved anything, it’s that albums still matter. In an era ruled by singles, TikTok loops, and algorithmic churn, the artists who cut through weren’t just chasing hi...

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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...