(Blackenterprise.com) — Of the 52 professionally produced ads by advertising agencies aired during Super Bowl XILV this year, all of the creative directors were white, 6% of which were women, according to a study by the Madison Avenue Project. “I have been authoring report cards on race and gender hiring practices for more than two […]
(Crain’s) — This fall, Soigné Kothari will bring a little bit of Bombay to the Big Apple, opening her first-ever store at 717 Madison Ave. Her store, Soigné K, will feature high-end fashion from Indian designers. She targeted Madison Avenue for her shop because of its undisputed status as the city’s most luxurious shopping corridor—and […]
Cyrus Mehri is fighting against racism in the advertising industry.
The BrandLab initiative is working to improve minority representation in advertising.
(AdAge.com) — The ad industry has grown a little more comfortable talking about a diversity problem as old as the industry itself, but is it putting its money where its mouth is? The good news: Money is flowing into diversity efforts. The bad news: Critics describe it more as a trickle — and one so […]