How Brands Stay Genuine During Pride

Our research at Nielsen shows that globally LGBTQ+ people felt the best way to improve inclusion in the media was to avoid stereotyping and tropes. That means that marketers have to get to know the community they’re trying to reach. You can’t do that one time a year. You can’t do that by speaking to just one segment of a population. Keep it intersectional, informed by the community and closely tied to what matters to them.

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Get Over the Rainbow-Washing: How Advertisers can create lasting change for the LGBTQI+ community

Around the world, Pride is celebrated in June to empower and amplify the LGBTQI+ community through parades, parties, protests, and marches, deriving from the Stonewall Riots in NYC. Cut to fifty-plus Prides later, we are seeing more companies showing their support for the LGBTQI+ community by incorporating Pride colors into their products, rainbow logos on social media, and sponsoring Pride events, jumping on the rainbow train, so to speak. 

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Gender Equality in 2022: An HR Perspective

BEN is a data driven company, and data points are our currency. To that end, we in HR are committed to performing regular audits, compiling data, and presenting results to executive leadership, including the CEO.  These audits keep us honest, limit assumption-based decision making, and help us achieve our continual goal of gender equality and representation.

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NFTs, Hybrid Commerce, and More for Advertising in an Unpredictable and Complicated Reality

NFTs are new tools in the marketing technology stack for brands to use to reaffirm loyalty and amplify cultural impact. Brands ceding control to consumers has been one of the fundamental tenets of digital marketing. NFTs promise to accelerate and amplify consumer control with the ability for consumers to take authentic and documented ownership of the brands they love.

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Coming Soon: A&M Series

For over a century, The AD Club has provided exclusive access to the “Who’s Who” of advertising. This fall, over the course of seven weeks, you will hear from masters of the industry who are redefining our business. This is an opportunity for you or your employees to better understand the business and build the skills…

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