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Brand Impact Awards 2025: credits

Production credits for all the winning projects at the Brand Impact Awards 2025

Creative Bloq

Hitmaker Max Martin Back With Taylor Swift For 'Showgirl'

For her much-awaited new album "The Life of a Showgirl," Taylor Swift reunited with Swedish producer Max Martin, who revolutionized modern pop with a formula that blends technology, simplicity -- and a feel for the perfect hook.

International Business Times

Why Michael Johnson Champions Herbal Medicine as a Lifestyle, Not a Cure-all

Whether it's seeking natural remedies or alternatives to symptom-driven treatments, the demand for herbal solutions is growing into a megatrend.

International Business Times

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Under-fire Grand Slam Track series denies Michael Johnson earned $2m while athletes went unpaid

The series owes competitors millions of dollars in appearance fees and prize money and had its final meet for this season cancelled

The Independent UK

Grand Slam Track denies Michael Johnson earned $2m from scrapped series

Michael Johnson’s GST said it was ‘categorically false’ he had pocketed $2m from the series while his athletes were unpaid – and that he was facing losses

The Guardian - UK

Alexis Ohanian thinks Chelsea can be first of many billion-dollar women’s teams

The Reddit founder, husband of tennis great Serena Williams, invested in the club in May.

The Independent UK

Olympic champion Gabby Thomas ruled out of Tokyo World Championships

The 28-year-old will miss out on the chance to improve on her silver medal from the 2023 World Championships in Budapest

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BBC removes Michael Johnson from World Championship coverage as athletes still owed millions

Johnson’s Grand Slam Track league is mired in a financial crisis and owes millions to some of the sport’s top stars that competed earlier this year

The Independent UK

California man killed his wife so she couldn’t testify against him in domestic violence case, prosecutors say

The case was the first ‘no body homicide case’ to be filed in Shasta County in California, say prosecutors

The Independent UK

Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track misses the vital village-fete feel of athletics

Shearing off apparently extraneous matter is how the featherless chicken was hatched. But ditching field events is too much plucking

The Guardian - UK

Michael Johnson admits Grand Slam Track cannot pay its athletes until new investors are found

Johnson says he has to ‘own’ the failings of his new athletics championship

The Independent UK

Michael Johnson admits Grand Slam Track on hold until 2025 debts are paid

The four-time Olympic champion admits the new circuit owes millions in prize money from its debut season and will not return until athletes are paid in full

The Guardian - US

Will of man suspected of being army’s top IRA spy Stakeknife to be sealed, high court rules

Judge rules that Freddie Scappaticci’s will cannot be made public for 70 years in a legal first

The Guardian - UK

Will of man believed to be Stakeknife will not be made public, High Court rules

Freddie Scappaticci was believed to be Britain’s top agent inside the IRA, which he always denied before his death in 2023.

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The Guardian - UK

World Athletics monitoring outstanding Grand Slam Track payments to athletes

Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, said ‘it’s not good’ as athletes wait on payments from the series, which was cut last month from four meetings to three

The National (Scotland)

Josh Kerr: Getting to the top is the easy part, it's staying there that's tough

Josh Kerr has enjoyed a hugely successful first half of 2025 and as he looks forward to defending his world 1500m title in September, he's…

The Independent UK

The key change helping Georgia Hunter Bell step out of Keely Hodgkinson’s shadow

The Olympic bronze medalist from Paris drops down in distance to test her speed at the Stockholm Diamond League in her pursuit of a rare double later this year at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships

Evening Standard

Grand Slam Track: Organisers claim new athletics competition a success despite slashing season finale

Michael Johnson claimed the competition has achieved its launch goals despite closing early due to financial difficulties

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The Independent UK

Michael Johnson explains why he cancelled Grand Slam Track meet in LA

Organisers of Grand Slam Track remain confident the new athletics competition will continue in 2026 despite the premature end to its inaugural season

The Independent UK

Olympic medallist Fred Kerley arrested again after allegedly hitting ex-girlfriend

The US sprinter will not take part in Grand Slam Track this weekend

International Business Times

Duplantis Kicks Off Diamond League Amid Johnson-led Changing Landscape

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis heads up a stellar cast of athletes kicking off the 16th Diamond League season in Xiamen on Saturday amid a changing landscape that has seen Michael Johnson launch his Grand Slam track series.

The Independent UK

Matthew Hudson-Smith claims Grand Slam Track glory as Emmanuel Wanyonyi stuns 1,500m field

Olympic 800m champion Wanyonyi produced the performance of the night to beat Josh Kerr, Yared Nuguse and Cole Hocker

The National (Scotland)

Susan Egelstaff: Athletics is struggling; is Grand Slam Track the answer?

In terms of public interest and media attention, athletics is struggling. Grand Slam Track is the brainchild of former Olympic champion, Michael…

The Independent UK

Gabby Thomas headlines Grand Slam Track winners on day one of first-ever event

Dina Asher-Smith finished third in the 200m while there were wins for Sydney McLaughlin-Lavrone and Kenny Bednarek

Sports Illustrated

Michael Johnson’s New Grand Slam Track League Promises Speed, Star Power and a Big Payday

The inaugural season of the new professional track series is set to kick off in Kingston, Jamaica, with lofty goals of revolutionizing the sport.

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