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First-of-its-Kind Digital Experience Supports Teen Mental Health Through Roblox Gameplay

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NEW YORK, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the “Love, Your Mind” campaign (from the Ad Council, with lead partner Huntsman Mental Health Institute) launched the Love, Your Mind World, the first nonprofit experience on Roblox dedicated to teen mental health. Developed with guidance from leading mental health experts, the immersive experience aims to reach the 76% of people under 18 who play video games in the United States, offering mental health education and coping strategies to support their emotional wellbeing. The Love, Your Mind World (trailer here) is now open to all US users ages 13 and over on Roblox, an immersive gaming and creation platform.

The Love, Your Mind World was designed in collaboration with dentsu and developer studio The Gang, and includes audio and video from Headspace. The experience offers valuable educational resources for teens: the majority of Roblox users ages 13-17 (72%) agree it’s very or extremely important for them to actively take care of their mental well-being, but more than half (55%) say they have no knowledge to a moderate amount of knowledge about how to do it, according to a Roblox Research Panel fielded September 2024.

“This experience will help equip teens with tools to understand and express their emotions, and learn important coping mechanisms in a fun, interactive way,” said James Ashworth, MD, interim chair, Department of Psychiatry, medical director of psychiatric services, Huntsman Mental Health Institute. “We are meeting teens where they are and connecting them with valuable information in a way that seamlessly ties into the game experience.”

Features of the Love, Your Mind World include:

Three interactive zones, or “obbies,” for users to practice positive mental health strategies through engaging quests and gameplay elements, developed with experts from Huntsman Mental Health Institute. The Friendship Forest obby, now available, helps teens see that asking for help is a sign of strength. Two additional obbies, Mindfulness Mountain and Labyrinth of Light, will debut throughout March.Five custom digital fashion items, or “UGC” wearables (user-generated creations) for Roblox avatars that can be claimed by completing different quests within the experience. The items were developed by dentsu and The Gang exclusively for the Love, Your Mind World in partnership with e.l.f. Beauty, Headspace, Pacsun, and Walmart.Free guided meditation and mindfulness exercises developed by Headspace featuring two of its expert meditation teachers, Eve Lewis Prieto and Dora Kamau. The age-appropriate content helps players stay grounded, allowing negative thoughts and emotions to pass by, while teaching them practical ways to combat stress and anxiety.Safety features to provide a secure and comfortable space for teens to explore the emotional wellbeing content within the world. For example, chat features will not be available between users and all usernames will be made anonymous during gameplay.

Prominent gaming creators @lilahbloxy and @kvssidy are helping promote the obby launches throughout the month by sharing their gameplay experiences and encouraging followers to engage in the world’s mental health content. Additionally, e.l.f. Beauty’s Gamer in Chief, Anna Bynum, will livestream a playthrough of the Love, Your Mind World on March 20 at 5:00 p.m. EST on the e.l.f.you! Twitch channel.

“As a leader in immersive gaming experiences, innovation and technology, we at dentsu gaming recognize the critical need to address mental health, especially among teens, with our trusted partners,” said Magali Huot, vice president, global gaming strategy at dentsu, an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. “Roblox is the perfect platform to provide a fun, safe and approachable space where teens can learn about how to prioritize their mental health. Our goal with the Love, Your Mind World is to empower them with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate their emotional well-being both online and offline.” 

A range of partners are contributing to the effort with donated in-platform elements. e.l.f. Beauty, Track and Field: Infinite and Walmart provided one-way portals from their Roblox experiences, helping direct more users to the Love, Your Mind World. Added promotion is provided by Roblox. GEEIQ and Latitude are providing pro bono measurement and insights to help evaluate the impact of the world. Additional support for the overall “Love, Your Mind” campaign comes from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.

“We’re so grateful for the collective effort that has brought this dynamic experience to life on a platform that offers an immersive, engaging way to reach teens,” said Laurie Keith, vice president, emerging media and technology at the Ad Council. “By providing expert-vetted resources, extensive game development expertise and custom in-game elements, our partners have made this experience not only fun and engaging for Roblox users, but also deeply impactful.”

“Part of our mission is to empower people to navigate Roblox and the digital world with civility and confidence,” said Tami Bhaumik, vice president of civility & partnerships at Roblox. “We do this by creating safe community spaces and delivering helpful resources in collaboration with global experts in the areas of human development, mental health and digital literacy. The new Love, Your Mind World complements this by offering teens an experience tailored just for them, designed to help meet their needs for more mental health resources.”

This immersive experience is the latest initiative of the Ad Council’s “Love, Your Mind” campaign, which aims to create a more open, accepting and proactive society when it comes to mental health. In just under a year, the campaign has driven more than 1.4 million visitors to LoveYourMindToday.org for access to free mental health resources.

About “Love, Your Mind”
“Love, Your Mind” is a national campaign that offers inspiration, community and educational resources to encourage people across the U.S. to be more open and proactive when it comes to their mental health. The campaign was created by the Ad Council, with lead partner Huntsman Mental Health Institute, to resonate with people across the U.S. who experience mental health challenges – while also holding attitudes and beliefs that may discourage them from seeking help. Additional funding for “Love, Your Mind” is provided by the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, among others. The campaign includes partnerships with leading creative agencies and media platforms to reach a variety of different audiences and convenes experts, community leaders and influential voices to reduce the stigma around seeking help.

For more information about the “Love, Your Mind” campaign and to access free mental health resources, visit LoveYourMindToday.org or follow the campaign on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

About dentsu
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

Dentsu, innovating to impact.

www.dentsu.com
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About The Gang
The Gang is a 200-person strong developer studio with more experience building branded UGC activations than any other company. It has created and launched bespoke UGC experiences for the world’s biggest and most innovative brands including Amazon, Givenchy Beauty and Vans. https://www.thegang.io/ 

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Weibo Corporation to Report First Quarter 2026 Financial Results on May 28, 2026

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BEIJING, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB and HKEX: 9898), a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content, will announce its unaudited financial results for the first quarter 2026 before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, May 28, 2026. Following the announcement, Weibo’s management team will host a conference call from 7 AM – 8 AM Eastern Time on May 28, 2026 (or 7 PM – 8 PM Beijing Time on May 28, 2026) to present an overview of the Company’s financial performance and business operations.

Participants who wish to dial in to the teleconference must register through the below public participant link. Dial in and instruction will be in the confirmation email upon registering.

Participants Registration Link: https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb549b1f6935046d98b52a0fe61be918e

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.weibo.com.

About Weibo Corporation

Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.

Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. The Company generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Designed with a “mobile first” philosophy, Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. To support the mobile format, we have developed and continuously refining our social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables our customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement and marketing effectiveness

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Perceptive eClinical Launches Technology-Enabled Clinical Supply Consultancy in Alliance with Trialzen

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Expert-led clinical supply strategy powered by advanced planning and analytics technologies.

NOTTINGHAM, England and LASNE, Belgium, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Perceptive eClinical, a leading provider of interactive response technology (IRT) and eClinical solutions, and Trialzen, an expert-led Forecasting and Supply Technology company, today announced an alliance supporting Perceptive eClinical in the launch of its Clinical Intelligence Consultancy Service, Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. This transforms its long–standing clinical supply expertise into a fully integrated, expert–led service spanning the entire clinical trial lifecycle and enabled by Trialzen’s advanced clinical supply planning technologies.

Perceptive Clinical Intelligence combines Perceptive’s deep expertise in randomization and clinical supply optimization with data-driven, technology enabled mathematical optimization, simulation, and forecasting to support smarter planning across the trial lifecycle. This integrated offering helps sponsors design, stress test, and manage clinical supply strategies with greater confidence and operational control. By formalizing its in-house expertise and therapeutic experience, Perceptive unifies randomization, trial supply management technologies and clinical supply consulting to enable more informed, scalable, and lower risk supply decision making.

“Clinical trial supply decisions are too critical to rely on tools alone,” said Malcolm Morrissey, Head of Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. “While supply discussions often focus on stock levels and overage, the real risk is patient impact. Supply availability determines whether visits happen, treatment is delivered on time, and sites can operate with confidence. Effective supply management means looking beyond IP numbers to understand patient continuity and visit level risk across the entire trial.”

Industry benchmarks show that approximately 50% of Clinical Finished Goods (CFG) manufactured for clinical trials are never administered to patients, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted drug supply each year1.

“Setting up Perceptive Clinical Intelligence reflects the next step in Perceptive’s evolution, combining deep clinical supply and randomization expertise with data–driven technology to enable smarter supply planning, and increased supply confidence, and continuity across the trial lifecycle,” said Shaun Hopgood, Chief Operating Officer at Perceptive eClinical.

Perceptive eClinical and Trialzen have each delivered proven results for sponsors, with real–world engagements generating savings exceeding $1 million and materially reducing supply overage.

A Technology Enabled, Expert-Led Approach

Delivered by Perceptive’s in–house specialists, the consultancy is built on 30 years of experience supporting biotech and large pharma across randomization and clinical supply management. It combines Perceptive’s proven supply–modelling expertise with Trialzen’s advanced calculation and simulation engine, fully integrated into Perceptive’s next–generation platform, Clinphone Pro.

Anchored in deep oncology expertise, where global scale, complex dosing, and multi–layered supply chains increase planning risk, the consultancy also draws on experience across Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Infectious Diseases, and supports emerging areas such as Precision and Nuclear Medicine, and Cell and Gene Therapies. 

Reflecting on this alliance and its objectives, Cedric Druck, CEO and Co–Founder of Trialzen, commented: “Trialzen was built by clinical supply experts who spent years watching planning decisions get made on spreadsheets and gut feel, then handed off to execution systems with no feedback loop. This collaboration with Perceptive closes that gap. By integrating our forecasting and simulation capabilities directly with their IRT platform, we enable sponsors to move from scenario planning to operational action in a single environment, with full transparency at every step.”

At the heart of this alliance is a shared belief that clinical supply planning and execution should live in one connected environment. “Together, Perceptive and Trialzen are working toward a unified way of operating, where strategic decisions and day–to–day execution come together, enabling greater visibility, smarter scenarios, and more confident supply decisions from manufacturing through to patient dosing”. said Tony Street, Senior Vice President Strategy at Trialzen.

Clients benefit from:

Faster study start-up and smoother amendments through early supply optimizationHigher quality supply decisions driven by expert oversight and data backed insightGreater confidence through strategic expert consultancy for complex trialsMid-study forecast adjustments and up-to-date quantitative support for key decisions

About Perceptive eClinical

Perceptive eClinical is a trusted leader in delivering advanced trial capabilities. With over 30 years of proven Interactive Response Technology (IRT) and supply management expertise, more than 500 regulatory approvals and support for three million patients worldwide, we deliver reliability, security and precision. This is reflected in our consistently high customer satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 over the past three years. Our future-proof IRT solution, Clinphone Pro, helps sponsors manage the speed, complexity and personalization of modern clinical trials. Built for flexibility and seamless integration, it supports smarter, more efficient studies across all phases and therapeutic areas. In 2025, Perceptive eClinical was recognized as a leader in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Assessment for RTSM Solutions, affirming our commitment to innovation, global delivery excellence and measurable value for sponsors and CROs.

About Trialzen

Trialzen is a technology company built by industry experts specializing in clinical trial supply forecasting and planning. Its Forecast & Planning Solution (FPS) is a purpose-built SaaS platform that enables sponsors and CROs to model, simulate, and optimize clinical supply strategies across the full trial lifecycle. Built by clinical supply experts, Trialzen combines advanced mathematical modelling and analytics with a transparent, user-friendly interface, allowing teams to evaluate scenarios, anticipate risk, and make informed supply decisions with speed and confidence. 

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McKinsey & Company, Clinical Supply Chains insights

Media Contact: Zara Broadfield, Marketing Director Perceptive eClinical, zara.broadfield@perceptive.com 

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Mouser Electronics New Product Insider: Over 9,000 New Parts Added in First Quarter of 2026

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SHANGHAI, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As an authorized distributor, Mouser Electronics, Inc. is focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies, giving customers an edge and helping speed time to market. Over 1,200 semiconductor and electronic component manufacturer brands count on Mouser to help them introduce their products into the global marketplace. Mouser’s customers can expect 100% certified, genuine products that are fully traceable from each manufacturer.

Last quarter, Mouser launched more than 9,000 part numbers ready for shipment. Some of the products introduced by Mouser from January through March 2026 include:

STMicroelectronics STM32C5 Arm® Cortex®-M33 Microcontrollers
The STM32C5 microcontrollers (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics are specifically designed to boost the performance of billions of tiny smart devices across factories, homes, cities, and infrastructure while meeting stringent cost, size, and power constraints. Based on ST’s proprietary 40 nm manufacturing process, the STM32C5 MCUs can run tasks noticeably faster than many entry-level chips currently in use. This gives products more room to include features such as improved sensing, smoother control, and enhanced user experiences while keeping dynamic power consumption low. The MCUs also integrate security features that help safeguard products against tampering and cyber risks.EDATEC ED-CM0NANO Single-Board Computer
The ED-CM0NANO is a single-board computer (SBC) from EDATEC, based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero (CM0). The ED-CM0NANO features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1 GHz, a Broadcom VideoCore-IV graphics processor, and a wide range of connectivity options. Optional Wi-Fi® support with an external antenna enables wireless connectivity, while integrated real-time clock (RTC) and watchdog timer enhance system reliability. These features make the ED-CM0NANO ideal for industrial control systems and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.Sensata Technologies MGD Resonix™ Refrigerant Leak Sensor
The MGD Resonix™ sensor from Sensata delivers high accuracy and fast response times in a compact module that fits into the smallest heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration equipment. The MGD series offers superior resistance to overexposure and poisoning, as well as to high temperatures (working temperatures up to 105 °C) and humidity. These devices also have a service life of more than 15 years with no need for calibration, making them the ideal leak-detection component for A2L HVAC and refrigeration systems.u-blox ANN-MB3 Triple-Band GNSS Antenna
The ANN-MB3 from u-blox is a best-in-class L1/L2/L5 triple-band RTK real-time kinematic (RTK) solution ideal for the F20 high-precision GNSS. Optimized for seamless integration, the ANN-MB3 antenna delivers exceptional performance with a robust design. The antenna’s compact (62 × 80 × 25.5 mm) form factor and flexible installation options enable the adoption of high-precision positioning technologies across industrial, automotive, and robotics applications.

To see more of the New Product Insider highlights, go to https://info.mouser.com/new_products/.

For more Mouser news and our latest new product introductions, visit https://www.mouser.com/newsroom/.

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