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‘I’m a big fan of beers and awards, but I’m an even bigger fan of positive change’

on Jun 25, 2021 | 0 comments

By Tom Crossley

With a recent ad industry census showing that just 19% of the workforce identify as working class while as little as 3% of the profession is made up of Black talent, the School of Communication Arts’ chief exec Tom Crossley has penned an open letter asking that creatives do more to encourage young people from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds into the industry.

It is an accepted if uncomfortable truth that the creative advertising industry has, to be frank, an awful track record with regards diversity and inclusion.

This issue has once again been raised in the Advertising Association’s Read full story ›

Source: The Drum