THE WOKE AD MYTH IS DEAD – HERE’S WHY

20. 9. 2024 Inclusion = Income: Proving the business case for inclusive advertising.

30TH ANNIVERSARY GOLDEN DRUM HAS PUBLISHED ITS PROGRAMME, ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT FOR APPLICATIONS

9. 8. 2024 Marketing & Media will be in Portorož, Slovenia, again this year from 9-10 October as a media partner of the festival and will bring you the highlights of the event in a special edition. What can you look forward to in the programme?

CLEAR GENERATIONAL DIVIDE EMERGING IN ATTITUDES TO INCLUSIVITY, SURVEY SHOWS

20. 7. 2024 Younger generations would like to see greater representation in advertising, along with more accessible creative.

HOW CAN BRANDS EFFECTIVELY REACH THE OLYMPIC AUDIENCE WITH CONNECTED TV ADVERTISING?

17. 7. 2024 With Paris 2024 just around the corner, Martin Wexler, (SVP channel partnerships at Acxiom), outlines why brands are putting connected TV (CTV) at the center of their Olympic marketing strategies. He also explains what you can do to achieve medal-worthy performance from your CTV campaigns.

NEW STUDY FINDS REPRESENTATION OF THE DISABLED IN MOVIES AND TV ARE LEAVING AUDIENCES VERY ‘UNSATISFIED’

11. 7. 2024 So far this year, we’ve seen some notable representation for the disabled and those with mental health conditions. Marvel’s Echo put deaf star Alaqua Cox front and center and has her go full force in action scenes as an amputee with a prosthetic leg. Max’s Turtles All The Way Down authentically portrays a mental illness (OCD). But per a recent study, a majority of people are unhappy with how Hollywood handles these topics (or how it doesn’t all together). What A New Study Found Out About DisabilityAnd Mental Health Representation July is Disability Pride Month, and the Inevitable Foundation, which is a non-profit that gives to disabled writers and filmmakers in an effort to destigmatize disability and mental health, decided to poll 1,000 people (half of them are disabled, half of them are not) about their thoughts on these topics being represented in movies and television. Inevitable Foundation’s Study found that 66 percent of those who participated are “unsatisfied” with how disability and mental health are currently represented on big screens and small screens alike.

STUDIE USA: NEW RESEARCH SHOWS AUDIENCES SEEK OUT AUTHENTIC CROSS-CULTURAL CONTENT

20. 6. 2024 Discerning viewers and shoppers want brands to help expand their global horizons and foster a sense of community, according to a wide-reaching Amazon Ads report.

LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY SUPPORTS BRANDS THAT SUPPORT THEM

2. 6. 2024 The LGBTQIA+ community is under legislative pressure across the US. A Horowitz study shows why brands should support them. Horowitz Research has released pretty strong consumer information showing that brands that support the LGBTQIA+ community do see a solid payoff.

STUDY USA: LGBTQ CHARACTERS ARE DROPPING ACROSS BROADCAST, CABLE AND STREAMING NETWORKS

30. 4. 2024 LGBTQ characters are dropping across broadcast, cable and streaming networks

STUDY USA: BY THE NUMBERS: MOST AMERICANS WANT BRANDS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY. BUT THERE’S A BIG CAVEAT

15. 3. 2024 A new survey from Morning Consult found that American adults in every age demographic believe that corporations have at least some responsibility to display diverse, inclusive marketing. This data comes even as DE&I efforts at companies, universities and elsewhere are being criticized or even penalized by conservative legislators.

STUDY SHOWS STRONG CONSUMER SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATION IN ADVERTISING

21. 9. 2023 Survey of 2,300 US adults indicates that consumers actively seek brands that support the LGBTQ+ community and may cease their patronage if these efforts are reduced.

LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATION IN ADS IS SEVERELY LACKING, GLAAD AND KANTAR REPORT FINDS

26. 6. 2023 Just 3% of more than 400 ads from 2022 had LGBTQ+ representation.

STUDY USA: REPRESENTATION IS A DECIDING FACTOR IN CHOOSING WHAT TO WATCH

21. 6. 2023 But some groups like Hispanics remain dramatically underrepresented in the top 50 TV shows, according to Samba TV.

STUDY HOLDS UP A MIRROR TO VIDEO AD CREATIVE’S LACK OF DIVERSITY & BACKWARDS MOVEMENT

20. 2. 2023 Video advertising in North America is more ‘pale and male’ than it has been since 2019, according to new analysis of 1m ads by global media delivery platform Extreme Reach. Melinda McLaughlin, the company’s CMO, shares how the analysis was done, what it means, and what happens next.

GERMANY STUDY: MORE THAN HALF OF GERMANS SUPPORT DIVERSITY IN BRAND COMMUNICATION

12. 8. 2022 A short study by YouGov presented the German population’s attitude towards diversity in brand and corporate marketing communications.

USA STUDY: DIVERSE ADS INCREASE PURCHASE INTENT

27. 6. 2022 Advertising that embraces diversity and representation leads to a greater likelihood of product recommendation and purchase, according to a new survey of consumers in the US and UK. Why it matters Diversity and inclusion is an issue of profound ethical importance, and must be treated as such by advertisers. As an additional benefit, good moral practice also seemingly translates into tangible business results. Findings from the study Matterkind, the activation intelligence provider owned by holding company IPG, surveyed 3,000 consumers in the US and 1,000 people in the UK. It found: