These Are the Top Media All-Stars

For this year's edition of Adweek's Media All Stars, we celebrated 18 executives across the industry, including executive of the year, Lynn Lewis, who serves as the U.S. CEO for UM Worldwide. After taking over as U.S. CEO, Lewis led UM to a series of new business wins throughout 2019, without a single loss. She's implemented a number of changes at UM to foster diversity, including an initiative that aims to increase diverse representation at UM with the goal of aligning with demographic projections of the U.S. in 2040.

Read more: Executives from Droga5, Mediahub, Horizon Media and more are represented. See all of their accomplishments.

Other top stories from this week's issue of Adweek magazine:

The Ohio Department of Health and Dayton agency Real Art have found what just might be the most effective way of showing the danger when people continue to cluster together. Using mousetraps and ping-pong balls, a simple setup demonstrates the explosiveness of one infection in the population. The opening shot in this PSA took eight hours to set up.

Watch it: You won't see a more effective PSA than this one.

On Thursday, WPP's Mark Read told Adweek that the agency holding company was trying to cut expenses across the board, including freezing new hires, reviewing freelance spend and stopping “discretionary” costs, which include travel, hotels and awards show payments. The goal: avoid the worst case scenario of cutting jobs. Now, IPG CEO Michael Roth revealed in a memo that the holding company will not be immune to layoffs. IPG is cutting costs, but agencies face decisions. MullenLowe may have been the first IPG agency to go through a round of dismissals, as it cut jobs in Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

Read: Roth explains the harsh realities of the industry and where the holding company will feel it the most.

Marcel, Publicis Groupe's much-talked about AI platform finally has life. To encourage its employees to join (the more activity, the smarter the platform gets), the company is donating $10 to WHO's COVID-19 Response Fund. Here are some of features in the app:

Read more: There are some concerns about its usefulness and whether women are protected on the app from unwanted messages.

In one month, the Upfronts went from in-person to virtual to indefinitely postponed. NBCUniversal, Fox, Discovery and Disney told Adweek that while they haven’t set a timeframe for their respective virtual presentations, they will no longer be held during the week of May 11. Presenters indicated finding a future week where the stars align for all the networks will be virtually impossible.

Read more: Networks explain where they stand on their upfront presentation.

Best of the Rest: Today's Top News and Insights

Actor Bill Murray returns today in a familiar role in series of vignettes on Jeep’s social channels as the brand encourages consumers to stay off the road as the days are beginning to blend together.

Watch Murray star in the iconic spot.

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Mónica Gil knows a few things about crisis and reputation management, having spent some time in politics on her path to CMO of NBCUniversal’s Telemundo. Further, not only is she the Chief Marketing Officer, with all marketing and communications responsibility, she also leads Human Resources.

Ryan Reynolds captured hearts and votes across Twitter and Instagram.

Bread, butter, and eggs are all available as brands try to stay engaged with consumers—and keep the lights on.

Agency Cornett was inspired by Activista's album revisions.

CGI Instagram star Knox Frost is soliciting donations and sharing dependable advice.

They're shifting talent and resources to help medical workers.