The Midas Awards for the World’s Best Financial Advertising team announced the 2015 Midas Report rankings. The Midas Report, unveiled in 2010, was launched to recognize and rank the most successful global companies in the financial and marketing communications industry.
The Midas Report creative ranking system is based on points earned for winning entries and provides a historical account of the highest ranking companies within the competition. Midas Report points are calculated as follows: King Midas Award, 9 points; Midas Award for Innovation, 7 points; Gold Ingot Award, 6 points; Silver Ingot Award, 4 points; and Finalist Certificate, 1 point.
This year’s Midas Report rankings were extremely competitive. Agencies from around the globe with a robust number of points competed for coveted slots. McCann XBC New York scored the number one slot with 96 points, up from last year’s number one by 31 points.
“We are so lucky to work with clients who care about putting meaningful, impactful work out into the world every day, all over the world. And our team is honored to be ranked number one in the Midas Report because of that work,” stated Joyce King Thomas, chairman and chief creative officer, McCann XBC New York
Jupiter Drawing Room Johannesburg, South Africa is ranked #2 with a total of 79 points, up a dramatic 32 points from last year’s report.
Finishing third was FP7/DXB Dubai (Part of McCann Worldgroup), coming in with a total of 76 points. FP7/DXB Dubai was a staggering 42 points up from its place on the on the 2014 Midas Ranking report.
Here’s a Top Ten rundown of Midas Report rankings:
1) McCann XBC
New York City, USA
96 points
2) The Jupiter Drawing Room
Johannesburg, South Africa
79 points
3) FP7/DXB (Part of McCann Worldgroup)
Dubai, UAE
76 points
4) Publicis NA
New York City, USA
52 points
5) King James Group
Cape Town, South Africa
51 points
6) BBDO Toronto
Toronto, Canada
31 points
7) Diamond Integrated Marketing
Toronto, Canada
30 points
8) R/GA
New York City, USA
26 points
9) Joe Public
Dubai, UAE
22 points
10) Leo Burnett Chicago
Chicago, USA
21 points
Sony reports healthy profits on strong sales of sensors and games
Sony's profit rose 69% in July-September from a year earlier on the back of strong sales of its image sensors, games, music and network services, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said on Friday.
Quarterly profit was 338.5 billion yen ($2.2 billion), up from 200 billion yen in the year-earlier period, while consolidated quarterly sales edged up 3% year-on-year to 2.9 trillion yen ($19 billion).
Tokyo-based Sony's latest quarterly results were boosted by healthy demand around the world for image sensors used in mobile products.
Sales also held up in its video games division. During the latest quarter, 3.8 million PlayStation 5 game consoles were sold globally, compared with 4.9 million units sold the same period a year ago.
Demand remained strong for PS5 game software, according to Sony.
The top-selling music releases from Sony for the quarter included "SOS" by SZA, David Gilmour's "Luck and Strange" and Kenshi Yonezu's "Lost Corner."
One area where Sony's business suffered was its pictures division, including TV shows and movies, which was impacted by production delays caused by the strikes in Hollywood.
Among the recent hit films from Sony was "It Ends With Us," a romantic drama based on a novel.
Sony, which also makes digital cameras and TVs, maintained its 980-billion yen ($6.4 billion) profit forecast for the fiscal year through March 2025, up 1% from the previous fiscal year.
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