Tag Archives: black lives matter

I have to be real – it’s exhausting to see the amount of lip service in the ad industry about turning the leaf for better multi-cultural/ethnic activity. We see pledges and manifestos usually in the form of carefully calculated social ...

The Black Lives Matter movement has been the defining one of 2020 – pandemic excepted – and this new effort by Translation for Apple’s Beats by Dr. Dre is arguably its best commercial expression. It asks a simple but pertinent ...

Cephas Williams, founder of the Black British Network, has launched an inspirational campaign, which features on Out of Home (OOH) digital screens throughout November and December, publicising his moving Letter to his son Zion written in the wake of the ...

As well as Covid-19 2020 has been all about “rights,” Black Lives Matter leading the field. Then there’s LGBT of course and all its seemingly never-ending variations. In the US arguably the most important new “right” was the 19th amendment ...

WPP has joined its industry peers in releasing US diversity data and it makes pretty horrible reading. WPP, it seems, has the lowest percentage of black executives at a scarcely believable 2.2%. CEO Mark Read says: “We have a huge ...

In the first Media and Marketing podcast on MAA journalist John Reynolds discusses Black Lives Matter and its impact on advertising with Rania Robinson, CEO, Quiet Storm; Mihir Haria-Shah, head of broadcast Total Media and Christopher Kenna, founder, Brand Advance. ...

That America is undergoing a crisis is unarguable: call it an identity crisis (Black Lives Matter), a political crisis (Trump and division) or a medical one with Covid-19. Brands have never been more prominent in such matters and now they’re ...

Hitherto all-conquering Facebook (with advertisers and media agencies anyway) is now like a rabbit in the headlights as the Anti-Defamation League in the US bites, sparked by Black Lives Matter. Now Verizon, which spends around $2m on Facebook and Instagram, ...

Burger King is reopening in France so here’s Burger Klean, a spoof airline safety ad from the brilliant Buzzman. Burger King and David Miami have also landed The One Show’s top creative gong for ‘Moldy Whoppoer.‘ Pretty revolting I’d say ...