CULTURE
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It’s Pride Month—Here are 4 Tips to Help You Authentically Represent the LGBTQ+ Community
In this era of inclusion, which has become synonymous with diversity, brands need to show what really matters. In the LGBTQ+ community, it’s important to connect through imagery that feels real and avoids using stereotypes as shorthand. -
Why It’s Still Important To Take Part In Industry Events
Despite the pandemic, the benefits of attending conferences – albeit virtually or in person – have never really changed. Here, industry trade show regular, Josh Paterson of Grammatik Agency explores the benefits of the future of events and how a hybrid experience will be the way forward in the months ahead. -
With Signal Loss a Reality, Creative Is The Intelligent Place for Advertisers To Focus
Advertising has long been about three things: audience, placement, and creative. But creative, the third path through these woods remains the road less traveled. This is a huge missed opportunity. Creativity is the most important factor in campaign performance. -
How to Avoid Cancel Culture and Win the Hearts of Younger Consumers
When did you start caring about workers forming unions and striking for better pay? How old were you when any alarm set in over the potential for monopolization of information and access to it became a critical concern in your mind? -
3 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Becoming Company President in 2020
I can’t compare and contrast what it was like to lead a company before and during the pandemic, but I can share three lessons I learned during this time that my team and I will carry forward into the future. -
Risky Business: How to Thrive in the Chaotic Digital Marketing Ecosystem
If 2020 was the year of upheaval, 2021 is the year of progression. Businesses and marketers need to be pushing forward. Now is the time to dominate your industry and tackle influence, attention and profits. -
The Creative Lens: A Special Kind of Agency
New Zealand-founded agency Special Group has recently taken out Campaign UK’s Global Creative & Independent Agency of the Year award. Founder, Tony Bradbourne, reveals some of the secrets of its internationally renowned creative. -
The Best I’ve Ever ‘Ad with Brett Armstrong, TikTok ANZ
Ahead of AWAPAC 2021, Advertising Week presents a Q&A with Brett Armstrong, General Manager, Global Business Solutions, TikTok ANZ -
Who Are The Zenners? Discovering The Generation Missing Out On The Advertising Action
There is still only a very limited number of brands that use older people in their content for products and services that aren’t age-related. Brands are often too quick to assume that younger demographics are the only ones engaging with digital. -
Why TV Ads Are Still King
Consumers are devoting their time to an ever-more diverse portfolio of devices and formats, so it can be tempting to assume that traditional formats must have lost some of their shine; mass digitization during the pandemic has only fueled these assumptions.