Monday, Nov. 7, 2022

Ethnic and female representation among employees at ANA (Association of National Advertisers) member companies is the highest it’s been since the ANA began tracking DEI levels in 2018, according to a report conducted by the ANA and its Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM)....

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022

More women and people of color are creating television shows but the industry is falling short of equality when it comes to spreading production money around, according to a new study.

The series greenlit for TV's 2020-21 season furthered diversity on and off-screen but white men had a...

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022

The Martin Agency announced its commitment to hire a minimum of 50% directorial/editorial talent from underrepresented groups with regards to gender, race and ability for all their video content production, as part of the agency’s goal to help reshape the advertising industry to better reflect...

Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2022

Hollywood film producer Dan Lin — known for movies such as Disney's live action "Aladdin" and "The Two Popes" — is launching a nonprofit with more than $1 million from the Ford and MacArthur foundations as well as several other philanthropies. His goal is to help more people of color create and...

Friday, Jun. 10, 2022

I learned early on in my filmmaking career that I needed to own my personal content and stories, working with partners aligned with sharing the same narratives. That career, by the way, started just five years ago, following a highly nonlinear trajectory of working in corporate commercial real...

Thursday, May. 5, 2022

Even with a significant reduction in the number of television episodes directed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of dramatic television episodes directed by women and directors of color continued to increase. 34% of dramatic television episodes in the 2020-21 season were helmed by...

Monday, Mar. 14, 2022

NBCU LAUNCH, the umbrella brand that houses the comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across NBCU’s television portfolio, has forged a new partnership with Telemundo to increase the number of Hispanic female directors in scripted television.

The partnership is an extension...

Friday, Mar. 4, 2022

Two years ago, I penned a POV for SHOOT magazine titled, “It Will Take All of Us To Make A Difference,” a viewpoint that discussed how we can come together to make real change, to include Black and other minorities in the ad industry, most notably on the production side. I thought it...

Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021

The Television Academy, in partnership with ReadySet, has completed a rigorous evaluation of its membership, as well as its overall policies, procedures and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and has identified key focus areas and developed strategic goals to drive systemic...

Monday, Dec. 6, 2021

“Diversity” is the ANA’s Marketing Word of the Year for 2021.

Since 2014, the ANA has surveyed its committee members to select the marketing word of the year. In choosing the word, the ANA staff identified a list of 12 final candidates. Members were then asked to cast their votes to...

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