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How Will Trump 2.0 Affect Marketing and Advertising?
Trends and Technology January 17, 2025Donald Trump's first term in the White House put businesses' ability to deduct advertising expenses on the chopping block. Experts say his next term could have equally significant — and surprising — implications for the industry.
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Responsible Marketing: Getting It Wrong the Right Way
Leading Edge January 2, 2025For many brands, corporate fragility is the Achilles’ heel that prevents them from admitting wrongdoing or accepting criticism, even at the expense of their own credibility and integrity. Instead of embracing feedback as an opportunity for growth, fragile organizations recoil from criticism, opting to deflect blame or bury their heads in the sand. This defensive posture stems from the misguided belief that admitting fault is a sign of weakness rather than brand strength.
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Marketing Organizational Structure Toolkit
Playbooks January 1, 2025This toolkit for optimizing marketing organizational structures includes a checklist, how-to guide, and job descriptions for must-have marketing roles.
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Digital Advertising Has a Carbon Problem, but There's a Solution
Trends and Technology December 27, 2024The advertising industry, which is a major contributor to rising greenhouse gas emissions through digital advertising, has a growing role in reducing carbon levels and fostering sustainability.
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Ethical Marketing: Building Trust with Consumers
POVs December 21, 2024One thing about marketers is they’re also consumers themselves. In this POV from the ANA’s Center for Ethical Marketing, Senny Boone outlines some of the tools that she and her team have for reporting and responding to unethical marketing practices.
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Brands for Good: Four Brands’ Commitment to Sustainability
Pulse December 20, 2024Often when brands think about creating a positive impact on society, many first look toward sustainability issues like waste, pollution, and energy use. And while those are important, there are many other areas of society that need support and awareness, such as desertification, wildlife preservation, homelessness, and sea life environments.
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New Year’s Is Upon Us – Make Ethical Marketing Your Key Resolution
Ethics Issue Alerts December 17, 2024As we look ahead to the New Year 2025, we all are making resolutions to do and be better – aspiring and planning is a wonderful way to refresh and invigorate your outlook. This is also a perfect time to add the ANA ethics tools to your resolutions. And it’s easy! Here are the ways you can champion ethics in 2025 for your own ethical approach and to advance our industry.
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Programmatic Transparency Benchmark: December 2024 Findings Update
Research Reports December 12, 2024The ANA announced findings from its 2024 Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, which provides a unified measurement framework to the programmatic advertising industry. The study finds 7.9pp improvement of ad spend efficiency, but less than half of spend reaches consumers.
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These Brands Show Support for Women and Take Steps Toward Change
Pulse November 21, 2024It has been proven that brands that approach societal issues through campaigns are more likely to connect with generation Z and millennial audiences, and therefore gain higher brand trust and favorability. A large area of focus within the current societal issues for brands is around women. Specifically, the prominent issues women face today, such as unrealistic beauty standards, inadequate emotional support, and outdated stereotypes.
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Ethics Code FUNdamentals: Best Practices for Marketing Regulated Products, AI, and More
Webinar Rewinds November 20, 2024In this webinar, senior staff from the ANA's Center for Ethical Marketing walked through two sections of the “ANA Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices” —Regulated Products and Services and Digital Innovation.
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DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness, and Belonging) in Marketing
ASK Answers November 14, 2024How can my brand ensure that we are embracing DEIB, both internally and in our marketing efforts?
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Trick or Treat: Consumers with Respect and Ethical Marketing
Ethics Issue Alerts October 31, 2024As Halloween approaches, don’t let scary marketing practices haunt your sweet ethical marketing campaigns. Treat consumers with respect and instill brand trust all year. The Center for Ethical Marketing warns against these five ghastly marketing practices and offers tips for handing out ethical marketing treats:
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Sustainability in Media Planning: How Brands Can Start Reducing Carbon Emissions in Advertising
Pulse October 30, 2024The advertising industry plays a major role in carbon emissions, adding to the growing concern that over the next decade the planet could reach dangerous levels of global warming. The biggest culprit in the industry at fault, which may surprise some, is digital advertising.
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Ethics Code FUNdamentals: Best Practices for Respecting Consumers — DEI, Privacy, and Security
Webinar Rewinds October 23, 2024In this webinar, senior staff from the ANA's Center for Ethical Marketing walked you through two sections of the “ANA Ethics Code of Marketing Best Practices” — Diversity and Inclusion Marketing Principles and Data Privacy, Security, and Stewardship.
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These In-House Campaigns Showcase Messages of Inspiration
Pulse October 18, 2024Engaging consumers through empathy not only prioritizes a human-centric approach to advertising, but also fosters genuine connection and community through relatable and inspirational content. Focusing on positive emotions, and the ways all people can help create a better environment physically and emotionally for themselves and others, can help boost ad recall and brand loyalty. It’s common sense too: Everyone wants to feel good – and feel connected to others around them.
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Ultimate Playbook for Data Clean Rooms
Research Reports October 16, 2024Data clean rooms provide companies a secure and controlled environment to bring data together in a collaboration exercise for an analysis of a consolidated data set. Data clean rooms have a long way to go until they reach mass adoption by client-side marketing companies. This playbook is intended to close this gap.
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Achieving Equity in Influencer Marketing
Event Recaps October 15, 2024The Influencer Pay Equity Guide is a collaborative initiative by the ANA, 4A's, and PR Council designed to address the significant compensation disparities and challenges faced by BIPOC and marginalized creators in the influencer marketing industry.
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Marketing and Gender Equality
ASK Answers October 4, 2024How can brands level up their portrayals of women to ensure gender equality?
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Indeed’s Rising Voices Program Raises Tides for BIPOC Entertainment Talent
Smarties Awards September 30, 2024Indeed created its “Rising Voices” program to create more opportunities for BIPOC entertainment talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
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Ad Taxes Would Be a Disaster: Here’s What You Can Do to Stop Them
Podcast Clips September 30, 2024The ANA’s Chris Oswald provides an update on where Congress stands with eliminating the advertising tax deduction and shares what marketing professionals and brands can do right now to ensure it doesn’t happen.
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