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One Show 2026 names top brand leaders for creative marketer jury
NEW YORK: The One Club for Creativity has unveiled the brand-side jury for The One Show 2026 Creative Marketer special award, bringing together senior marketing leaders from some of the world’s biggest companies.
Formerly known as the CMO Pencil, the award honours a top brand executive who has championed creativity as a business driver, backing bold ideas from concept to measurable success.
The 2026 jury includes PepsiCo Foods US chief creative officer Chris Bellinger; eos Products president Soyoung Kang; The Wisdomous Company founder Seth Matlins; Geico chief marketing officer Arianna Orpello Lewko; Intuit chief marketing officer Thomas Ranese; PayPal chief marketing officer Geoff Seeley; Kraft Heinz vice-president for creative, capabilities and innovation Jess Vultaggio; and Supercell head of live games marketing Iwo Zakowski.
Last year, The One Show opened the Creative Marketer award to industry-wide entries, moving away from its earlier invitation-only format tied to top-scoring winners. The shift allows agencies to showcase work highlighting close collaboration with client partners.
Entries for The One Show 2026 are now open, with the extended deadline set for February 6 and the final deadline on February 20. The full jury spans more than 280 creative leaders across 46 countries.
The One Club for Creativity, a non-profit organisation, runs major global awards programmes including The One Show, ADC Annual Awards and ONE Asia Creative Awards, reinvesting entry revenues into education, access and professional development across the creative industry.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
