Advertising can be a force for good that promotes change towards a more diverse and inclusive world. To help marketeers in this effort, UNICEF presented their "Promoting diversity and inclusion in advertising" playbook.

Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Media Forum on 27 October 2021.

Senior marketers now have more knowledge and greater interest

Expected investment has risen nearly three-fold in the last two years

The pandemic has changed everything but what new priorities, behaviours or ways of working from the last two years would jury members for the Global Marketer of the Year retain for the future?

Jon Baldwin Quintanilla, WFA’s Junior Policy and Communications Manager, shares key take-outs from the recent WFA webinar with The Economist’s Deputy Editor, Tom Standage.

The ad industry should embrace the societal benefits that new tech rules from Brussels could deliver

WFA benchmark on In-housing Digital Media, from agencies' point of view

How a UK broadcaster evolved its creative platform to challenge perceptions about disability and promote its Paralympics coverage

This article was originally published in Contagious I/O on 3 September 2021

Most common forms of discrimination globally were reported on the basis of age and family status

Women and ethnic minorities in the marketing industry report poorer lived experiences than men and ethnic majorities

But marketing still outperforms many other industries globally on DEI

The WFA DSA Task Force met on 6 October 2021 to discuss the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, as well as to develop a position on possible regulation on targeted advertising based on personal data.