Society and Sustainability
Brands must be a force for good and a force for growth through action. This means using marketing to promote equality and inclusion to achieve a better world for humanity and drive more growth and value for business.
Foundational to this success are solutions that leverage increasingly sophisticated measurement systems, partnerships with primary media and platforms, and clear accountability for brand safety and reduced ad fraud.
The ANA’s Approach
We enable brands to be a force for good and a force for growth and stand at the forefront of the latest research and industry-wide initiatives driving diversity, equality, inclusivity, and brand safety across the marketing industry.
CMO Growth Council
The CMO Growth Council was established in 2018 to assemble the most vibrant, diverse, and dynamic force of chief marketers from some of the world’s most successful brands. Its ultimate aim is to support the international community with a first-of-its-kind roadmap for driving business growth through marketing.
Agenda Items
This growth priority directly influences key industry concerns the ANA is addressing to drive business, brand, and industry growth.
Latest Content
Articles, insights, research, and more to advance your marketing and advertising.
Ethics Issue Alerts
ETHICS ALERT: Fake Warranties and Marketing Offers Cloaked as Unpaid Invoices
ANA’s Consumer Affairs department has seen an increase in fake car warranty offers and marketing offers cloaked as unpaid invoices. In response, the group has create this update, providing guidance and resources on the subject.
Webinars
Meet the Future Majority
In this webinar, learn about the rising expectations younger multicultural consumers have when it comes to brands and a brand’s role in social justice movements, what is driving brand authenticity, and how can brands can be seen as credible accomplices.
Webinars
Resilience: Why Face-to-Face Moves from Strength to Strength
In this webinar, learn about real-life past and present challenges that nonprofits have worked or are working through, and how addressing these problems has helped them push ahead and move both their mission and fundraising goals forward.
Featured Events
National, regional, and online events to help you learn and grow throughout the year.
Industry Conferences
Training
Equipping marketers with the skills they need to advance their careers, their brands, and the industry.
- Got Bias? How to Develop a Mindset of Inclusion in the Workplace (Virtual Open Enrollment)
- Got Bias? How to Develop a Mindset of Inclusion in the Workplace (Virtual)
- Implicit Bias; Explicit Results (Virtual)
1-Day Conferences
| October 6th |
Abbot presents How Purposeful Brands Affect Society, hosted by Alabama State University Virtual Event (Eastern Time) |
Webinars
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Committees
Bringing marketers together to learn from each other and debate new approaches and solutions to industry hurdles.
A benefit of ANA membership, committee meetings feature a mix of member case studies, perspective from outside experts, and benchmarking/best-practice sharing that drive thought leadership on key industry issues. Each ANA committee meets three to four times per year and can be attended in person or remotely. Depending on the committee, 10 to 30 participants may attend — big enough for diversity of opinion, yet small enough for more intimate exchanges.
- LGBTQ+ Forum
- Sustainability Committee
- Ethics Policy Committee
- Data & Direct Marketing Committee (formerly the Print in the Digital Age Committee)
- DE&I Forum