It wasn’t just about gender equality but analysing the reasons there are so few women in top roles in agencies and marketing divisions. Returning to an industry renowned for its long hours after maternity leave puts many people off, something that Helen Calcraft, founding partner at Lucky Generals, thinks is a disaster.
Ageism and disability were also high on the agenda as MEC found that people don’t think the older generation are catered for by advertisers, and Malteser’s attempted to break taboos by featuring a woman with cerebral palsy joking about her love life.
This is not to say that ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 readers are ignoring creativity. Far from it. Paul Burke’s piece on the lost art of copywriting from October 2015 was still the most popular long read in 2016.
New trends such as slow marketing also proved popular after the thousands of people who literally watched paint dry for three minutes on TV, or for the full 11-and-a-half minutes on YouTube.
1. Write now: The lost art of copywriting
October 2015, by Paul Burke
2. The stress report: Why employee well-being is the new bottom line
September, by Nicola Kemp
3. Why slow marketing is going mainstream
May, by Kate Magee
4. Why ageism is adland’s next frontier
November, by Nicola Kemp
5. Sex, chocolate and disability: What marketers can learn from Maltesers’ campaign
September, by Brittaney Kiefer
6. How to stage a creative comeback
October, by Nicola Kemp
7. How agencies should respond to the in-house invasion
October, by John Tylee
8. Digital Mavericks 2016: The women shaking up digital marketing
September, by Sandra Halliday
9. How Sainsbury’s ads revolutionised the UK’s food culture
October, by Paul Burke
10. What next for the 45-plus creative?
December, by Rooney Carruthers
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