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The 100 most influential companies in the world, according to TIME
Best ads in the world, awarded at Cannes Lions 2025 | Google celebrates 20 years of Google Earth
Clara Nafría & Ismael Nafría
June 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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The 100 most influential companies in the world, according to TIME
Best ads in the world, awarded at Cannes Lions 2025
Google celebrates 20 years of Google Earth
The 100 most influential companies in the world, according to TIME
TIME magazine has just published its annual list of the most influential companies in the world in 2025.
The companies are organized into five categories: innovators, disruptors, leaders, titans and pioneers. Additionally, this year Impact Awards have been created.
To select the list, TIME editors requested suggestions and applications from across sectors, surveyed contributors and correspondents around the world, and sought advice from outside experts. “We looked at a mosaic of qualities, studying impact, innovation, ambition, and success”.
The list includes companies like Maximum Effort, Alibaba, Nintendo, Gap, Dick's Sporting Goods, DeepL, Waymo, Polymarket, e.l.f. Beauty, DeepSeek, Partiful, Coinbase, Scale AI, Substack, Penguim Random House, LinkedIn, Coursera, Meta, Amazon, Mercado Libre, Walmart, Netflix or Huawei, among many others up to one hundred. For all of them a descriptive profile is offered.
This year, TIME has added a category to the list, Impact Awards, for companies that have made significant contributions in the fields of AI, health, sustainability, equality and culture. The winners have been Google DeepMind (AI), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Health), Schneider Electric (Sustainability), Janngo Capital (Equality) and The Lego Group (Culture).
In addition to the 100 companies featured on the list, this year TIME has introduced the Impact Awards—recognizing five additional standout companies making meaningful contributions in the fields of AI, Health, Sustainability, Equality, and Culture. The inaugural recipients are: Google DeepMind (AI), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Health), Schneider Electric (Sustainability), Janngo Capital (Equality), and The Lego Group (Culture).
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TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025
These are the world's most influential businesses of the year
Best ads in the world, awarded at Cannes Lions 2025
Recently we talked on On the Net Today about the international advertising festival Cannes Lions, held a few days ago in Cannes (France).
In this year's awards, which seek to discover the best advertising creativity of the last year anywhere in the world and across different categories, a total of 34 Grand Prix have been awarded.
The United States (8 Grand Prix), France (6) and Brazil (5) have been the most awarded countries.
Campaign Brief has compiled all of this year's Grand Prix, which you can see in the following article:
Two of the campaigns, "Caption with intention", by FCB Chicago for Chicago Hearing Society, Rakish Entertainment and the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and "Three words", by Publicis Conseil for Axa, have achieved three Grand Prix each.
Google celebrates 20 years of Google Earth
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A few days ago, Google celebrated 20 years of existence of Google Earth, a service that "has helped us explore and understand the world" thanks to its "billions of images" captured and offered through aerial photography, satellite images, Street View and 3D visuals".
Google has published a timeline on its blog about the main moments of the Google Earth service throughout the last 20 years. Last year, users searched for places on Google Earth more than 2 billion times.
This video reviews Google Earth’s main moments:
On the occasion of this celebration, Google has brought historical Street View images to Google Earth, so that it is possible to explore different points of the planet from even more points of view, "whether from a bird's eye view or at street level".
Additionally, Google has also launched several interesting interactive proposals such as images of the transformation over time of 10 cities from different points of the planet or a game for users to guess which city different skylines belong to.
Google Earth has been part of the Google Maps Platform for a couple of months.
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