The Media Leader Podcast
In February, the Institute for Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) released its latest Agency Census. The findings showed an agency market in contraction: employment at creative agencies fell 14.3% last year – and that’s before Omnicom completed its acquisition of IPG and subsequently announced it would cut thousands more jobs globally.
New hiring dropped over 40%, with young people especially finding it hard to break into and remain in media and advertising careers.
However, the Census also registered continued progress in gender representation and ethnic diversity at agencies, even if pay gaps persist, and geographical diversity is lacking.
Lianree Robinson is the campaigning chair for Women in Advertising & Communications Leadership (WACL). She also works as the CEO of The Marketing Academy Foundation and as a mentor for Who’s Your Momma London.
If that wasn’t enough to keep Robinson busy, she’s also begun writing a monthly column for us at The Media Leader.
Robinson joins host Jack Benjamin to discuss the findings of the IPA Agency Census and provide a sense-check of the progress the media and advertisingd to gender and ethnic industries have made with regar inclusion.
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Highlights
5:38: IPA Agency Census toplines
7:16: What has caused the creative agency labour market contraction?
10:20: Challenges faced by under-25s employees
19:24: Progress, but “relatively slow progress”, on gender representation and ethnic diversity
24:43: Persistent gender and ethnic pay gaps
27:59: WACL’s key priorities
31:33: Geographical diversity needed
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