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WFA Inclusive Marketing Community

The WFA Inclusive Marketing Community is a global platform for senior marketers who share the common belief that more inclusive marketing communications can help drive topline growth.

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WFA Inclusive Marketing Community

The group provides a forum for best practice and insight exchange and creates frameworks for members on how to deliver on more inclusive marketing that can help drive measurable return on investment.

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Our ambassadors

  • Susan Akkad
    Susan Akkad Susan SVP Corporate Innovation, The Estée Lauder Companies
  • Efrain Ayala
    Efrain Ayala Efrain Global Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Marketing, Reckitt
  • Jerry Daykin
    Jerry Daykin Jerry Head of International Media (Burger King, Popeyes, Tim Hortons & Firehouse Subs), RBI

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  1.    Media Image Landscape: Age Representation in Online Images

    Media Image Landscape: Age Representation in Online Images

    To get a sense of how older adults are depicted in online images, researchers reviewed a random sample of more than 1,000 online images from brands and thought leaders posted on news sites and social media with at least one million followers

    Read more about "Media Image Landscape: Age Representation in Online Images"
  2.    The Inclusion Index

    The Inclusion Index

    Kantar Inclusion Index surveyed 18,000 people in 14 countries and working in 24 different industries (to date) to produce a new global standard in marking progress towards achieving equality and inclusive ways of working.

    Read more about "The Inclusion Index"
  3.    Women's Empowerment Principles

    Women's Empowerment Principles

    The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of Principles offering guidance to business on how to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and community. Established by UN Global Compact and UN Women, the WEPs are informed by international labour and human rights standards and grounded in the recognition that businesses have a stake in, and a responsibility for, gender equality and women’s empowerment.

    Read more about "Women's Empowerment Principles"
  4.    How to create LGBTQ+ inclusive advertising

    How to create LGBTQ+ inclusive advertising

    This guide aims to help brands bring to life a campaign in paid advertising for a general audience that includes or features LGBT+ people. That means including scenes or images with LGBT+ people in general advertising,or conversations and language that refers to LGBT+ people and their relationships.

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  5.    Bias and inclusion in Advertising: An analysis of 2018 Cannes Lions Film Craft Ads

    Bias and inclusion in Advertising: An analysis of 2018 Cannes Lions Film Craft Ads

    This study examines representations of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation (LGBTQ), and ability (with a focus on people with disabilities) among characters in Cannes Lions ads from 2018. Furthermore, it compared findings from 2018 to gender representations in Cannes Lions Film Craft advertisements from the previous decade (2006-2017).

    Read more about "Bias and inclusion in Advertising: An analysis of 2018 Cannes Lions Film Craft Ads"
  6.    AdReaction: Getting gender right

    AdReaction: Getting gender right

    AdReaction: Getting Gender Right delivers new insights into the role of gender in brand strategy, creative response and media targeting.

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  7.    The Gender Equality Measure

    The Gender Equality Measure

    The questions used in the Gender Equality Measure (GEM™) module, which helps business leaders make better decisions by addressing unconscious bias within media and programming.

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  8.    What Women Want

    What Women Want

    Study by Kantar reports that despite an increased focus on equality, major brands are still not effectively acknowledging women’s priorities, or communicating with women in an empowering manner at every step of the customer journey. 

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  9.    Getting To Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage

    Getting To Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage

    New research from Accenture, in partnership with Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), reveals that companies that embrace best practices for employing and supporting more persons with disabilities in the workforce have outperformed their peers

    Read more about "Getting To Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage"

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