Julia Walker

1 week ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

A Minecraft Movie— a campy comedy where Jack Black and Jason Mamoa battle zombies and evil pigs in a blocky Minecraft universe — has hit theaters with a boom. The Warner Bros. and Legendary film is the box office’s top grossing movie of 2025, generating over $550 million from global ticket sales. ButA Minecraft Movieisn’t just bringing in revenue to theaters.

1 week ago | campaignlive.com | Julia Walker

Innovation isn’t black and white — it can manifest through technological integration, resourceful campaign strategy, leveraging disruptive cultural moments or, ideally, all of the above. While selecting honorees for the Most Innovative distinction, Campaign favored four agencies representing innovation in unique ways, whether through tackling the disruptive GLP-1 market, designing AI-generated celebrity counterparts for buzzy campaigns or investing in employees’ ethical technology training.

2 weeks ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

Largely inspired by her mother’s home-cooked dishes, Chaheti Bansal films modern and playful twists on South Asian recipes for Rooted in Spice, an account she created in 2021. To date, Bansal has over 1.2 million combined TikTok and Instagram followers. Originating as a 5-to-9 passion project, Rooted in Spice features recipes including samosa sandwiches and papdi chaat with Ritz crackers to inspire South Asian cultural preservation and education.

2 weeks ago | campaignlive.com | Julia Walker |Emma Thumann

President Trump’s new deadline to determine the status of the social media platform has been pushed to mid-June. President Donald Trump has extended TikTok’s deadline to sell to a non-Chinese owner by 75 days, announcing on his Truth Social platform that a TikTok deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed.”The app’s owner, ByteDance, originally had until April 5 to sell to a non-Chinese owner or lose its over 170 million American users.

2 weeks ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

SALT LAKE CITY: Utah has passed a state law protecting the children of influencers, one year after family vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced up to 30 years in prison for child abuse motivated by religious extremism.