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[blysse-and-blunder]

in lieu of a reading week

11pm, tuesday, feb 20, 2024

hello beloveds. just wrote two increasingly passionate paragraphs about what social media and my use of it over the years has done to benefit my life, and got so genuinely moved that i had to come talk to you about it.

reading really wild mix of reading material of late. surprisingly high amount of YA, because people keep recommending me things and i keep going 'sure, let's try it!' so i'll use that as an organizing principle and save discussing some of the others for a future post. in order of completion:

firekeeper's daughter, angeline boulley, read by isabella lablanc. finished in a rush, very engaged in the last three-four hours. i was never prepared for the next thing this plot threw at me, though in retrospect saw how it all made sense. i didn't know a thing about it going in, which i think actually enriched the experience a lot, but for a novel set in michigan's UP and sugar island, it resonated with a lot of things i associate with ontario after living here for five+ years. the hockey, the ojibwe /anishinaabe names and cultural connections, the murdered and missing indigenous women. but it also mixes in elements reminiscent of, like, braiding sweetgrass (and tangentially mexican gothic) and various fan fiction tropes i recognized in their shape if not their execution. highly recommend the audiobook-- they cast the audiobook's narrator very carefully, and she does a superb job juggling the mix of scientific jargon, teen narrator unreliable/dramatic narrator (loving), and Anishinaabemowin.

castle in the clouds, kerstin gier, translated by romy fursland. maybe 33% through. it's giving grand budapest hotel and somehow also the princess diaries? it's also reminding me somehow of, like, the kind of novel i wanted to write as a second or third grader, which means eva ibbotson, and a particular flavor of plucky, intelligent heroine. i was hooked by the first page+ but have yet to see a ton more of the same high action and suspense, and have let this one slip a little further onto the back burner. it's cute escapism at the moment, though that may change.

fourth wing, by rebecca yarros, read by rebecca soler (and apparently also teddy hamilton, although i haven't gotten to him yet?) about 25% through. trying desperately to give us a gritty, hardcore, new and dangerous and fun take on dragons and their human riders, while also trying to be idk divergent? the hunger games? there's a love triangle, the protagonist has naturally ombre hair, the premise of the novel is brutal training where young adults are all dying in improbable droves due to how cutthroat and brutal it is. a testament to the narrator that i am, despite myself, having a great time. there are a few too many supporting characters who want our main girl straight up dead for me to really find the threats believable, but i'm intrigued by the prospect of alternate versions of this world's history than what she has learned and a potential for discovering how their kingdom has? manipulated them? could be asking too much.

fairest, gail carson levine. finished in a long saturday morning spent reading in bed. i was such an intense and dedicated fan of the original ella enchanted novel that i couldn't read most of levine's other books (exceptions for her short stories made grudgingly) because they weren't sequels and weren't the same and wouldn't be as good. in fairness, reading this now as a much-older-than-the-intended audience, perhaps i was too harsh-- but i think little-me was right to be a little suspicious. it's a snow white retelling, and again i think largely successful in building a more detailed plot in which the elements of the retold fairy tale are embedded, but where the focus in ella was on language and obedience and free will, here we're trying to articulate things about beauty and body image, and it's harder to say that it really succeeds? i like that we gave the Wicked Queen more nuance, positive and negative qualities, moments of sympathy, a name and a precarious political position. i was not nearly as charmed by the romance (fine, fine, it's not ella and char but it couldn't be, it's fine). i still love the use of unfamiliar / fairy-tale languages and how levine puts them on the page in such fun spellings. probably aimed at the youngest audience, of the four titles here, but treats its reader as almost more intelligent than fourth wing, possibly? YA from ~twenty years ago was a different world.

listening graded like twenty quizzes today with just a mess of random panic at the disco bumping in my headphones. it's a hell of a feeling, etc. i'm halfway through this particular round of grading, and they're doing so well, so it's mainly a quick check to make sure they got the basics right and i can jam while doing so.

watching spent a very pleasant ~2 hours yesterday watching as much as we could of the film amadeus with @hematiterings, @pep-squad-lizzie, and @dimir-charmer. love a film that isn't afraid to lean into all its sensory indulgences, and to be a little heavy-handed with its symbolism (the chocolate is about repression!) and to, just generally, spend money on costumes, locations, hiring lots of extras, and so many wigs. there's a live event performance of this film with orchestra + choir being advertised all over our subway right now, so it does very much feel like we're being followed by this guy:

...but what's sticking in my head right now is the costumes.

playing 41+ hours into hollow knight. i have opened half of my stag stations! i have the dream nail, surprisingly early i think! i have saved bretta! i have somehow missed the mantis lords, i think, but have made it to the city, the resting grounds, and have now been throwing myself fruitlessly against the crystal guardian and a soul warrior in alternation. i am...not good at combat. current plan is to grind to get quick focus, and i'm close! also, @spoonierbard stepped in and gave me a much needed morale boost by winning me the final mask shard necessary to get increased lives, which has helped tremendously, and the grubs rewarded me with the grub song charm which has helped tremendously.

making many potential projects, none executed (or even really attempted). soon, hopefully. fallow section for now. does music count? music counts, right? i joined a second choir! enticed by the chance to perform mozart's requiem in full with an orchestra, and finally fulfill the broken promise of 2020. that's my hobby right now. oh i also just cleaned out a ton of storage in my phone + icloud, which felt generative in its own way. besides backing things up better than i have in a while.

working on submitted the travel money application i've been thinking and dithering about since...this time last year? no real expectation of getting it, but it did actually help me consider some next steps in the diss, so that's nice. now prepping to take my class on two fun on-campus field trips next week, one to the manuscript library and one to the medieval collection in our little hidden art museum! i need to write some notes up for the TAs and docents to use, and finish organizing my list of desired manuscripts, like, yesterday. midterm grades posted today, a little late but hopefully not too bad, still well before the drop date. the aforementioned quizzes (i have like 28 more to grade, but they're reasonably painless). plus i was going to work on my fucking dissertation this week, and prep to teach the next few lectures in advance so i'm not scrambling monday nights, plus send a bunch of emails, design a CFP poster, put in some RAship hours so i can speak intelligently in my meeting tomorrow, and....prep for the guest lecture i'm giving on the 28th! it's a reskin of the conference paper i gave this summer, freshly edited, but i need to expand the intro bits to include a useful overview, since these students aren't a conference of celticists.

weirdly at peace with how my work-life balance is balancing right now, though. it's the extra sleep and the increased sunshine, and the little cat who is being so so whiny right now. i must conclude these lines and feed Herself.

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Check out books by order

Best of October 2015!

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[samwaverley]

Renewable Energy Innovations Boosting Green Economy

Here’s a roundup of leaders and thinkers' insights on how renewable energy innovations are boosting the green economy.

As the world grapples with climate change and environmental degradation, the push toward a greener economy has never been more crucial. Renewable energy innovations are at the forefront of this shift, driving the transition to sustainable practices and shaping the future of energy consumption. From solar and wind to emerging technologies, these advancements are not only transforming the energy…

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Renewable Energy Innovations Boosting Green Economy

Here’s a roundup of leaders and thinkers' insights on how renewable energy innovations are boosting the green economy.

As the world grapples with climate change and environmental degradation, the push toward a greener economy has never been more crucial. Renewable energy innovations are at the forefront of this shift, driving the transition to sustainable practices and shaping the future of energy consumption. From solar and wind to emerging technologies, these advancements are not only transforming the energy…

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Renewable Energy Innovations Boosting Green Economy

Here’s a roundup of leaders and thinkers' insights on how renewable energy innovations are boosting the green economy.

As the world grapples with climate change and environmental degradation, the push toward a greener economy has never been more crucial. Renewable energy innovations are at the forefront of this shift, driving the transition to sustainable practices and shaping the future of energy consumption. From solar and wind to emerging technologies, these advancements are not only transforming the energy…

[spotlyts]

Renewable Energy Innovations Boosting Green Economy

Here’s a roundup of leaders and thinkers' insights on how renewable energy innovations are boosting the green economy.

As the world grapples with climate change and environmental degradation, the push toward a greener economy has never been more crucial. Renewable energy innovations are at the forefront of this shift, driving the transition to sustainable practices and shaping the future of energy consumption. From solar and wind to emerging technologies, these advancements are not only transforming the energy…

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The Best QLED TVs of 2023

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XGIMI Elfin Mini Projector Review

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Thinking the unthinkable

On SEPTEMBER 24th, I'll be speaking IN PERSON at the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY!

Time and again, I find myself thinking about radium suppositories: specifically, I get to thinking about the day that the consensus shifted from "radium suppositories are great" to "stop putting radioisotopes up your ass."

The thing is, people really liked radium-based quack remedies. They drank radium-infused water, smeared radium cream on their faces and bodies, and yes, rammed radium suppositories up their assholes:

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/radium-girls/

The fact that this made whatever ailed you sicker didn't deter the radium true believers: if you're getting sicker, then you must need more radium.

When I think about the debate over radium, I imagine that the people who understood that radium was really bad for you must have run up against critics who told them they were being unreasonable. "You can't tell people to stop using radium. Tell them to use suppositories with less radium. Tell them to use them less frequently. But you can't just tell people, 'stop putting radium up your asshole.' They won't take you seriously."

About 20 years ago, I started pitching various institutions that reviewed consumer tech policy on the idea that they should reject any product that had DRM. After all, DRM didn't just restrict how you used a gadget today, it provided a facility for nonconsensually, irreversibly field-updating that gadget to add new restrictions tomorrow. How could a reviewer in good conscience say, "Go ahead and buy this device if you need this feature," if they knew that at any time in the future, the gadget's maker could take that feature away and leave the buyer with no recourse?

Here's the warning I (half-seriously) suggested magazines run alongside such products:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

No one took me up on my offer. Over and over again, magazine editors, managers of nonprofit review outlets, and indie gadget reviewers told me that it was unrealistic to publish a roundup of, say, this year's portable music players with the recommendation, "Just don't buy any of these. None of them are fit for purpose."

In other words: No one wanted to publish, "The correct amount of radium to stuff up your asshole is zero."

But the correct amount of rectal radium for you to administer is "none" and the correct car for you to buy today is none of the cars:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

This isn't the first time the correct automotive recommendation was "don't buy any of these cars." Back before seatbelts came standard in cars, the correct car was "don't buy a car." Sometimes, the correct answer is "none of the above." Even if that makes you sound unserious, the alternative is that you counsel people to put radium up their asses in a bid to seem "reasonable."

Today, DRM-infected products are routinely downgraded and bricked:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/5/24236237/ftc-software-tethering-letter-consumer-reports-ifixit

Even when companies face public uproar over these disastrous decisions and vow to reverse them, they can't, because these downgrades are one way:

https://www.stereocheck.com/news/music/unfortunately-you-cant-revert-to-the-old-sonos-app-anymore/

That's bad enough when it's your smart speakers, but what about when the company bricks your wheelchair:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair

Or your $100,000 exoskeleton:

https://paulickreport.com/news/people/paralyzed-jockey-michael-straight-wants-to-keep-walking-but-manufacturer-wont-repair-exoskeleton

The reality is that we're living at the end of a catastrophic experiment in deregulation and its handmaidens, corruption and regulatory capture, and there are lots of "normal" things that we just need to stop doing. Not do less of them – just stop.

Like, the correct amount of collusion between realtors representing sellers and realtors representing buyers is zero:

https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2024-03-19/realtor-rules-just-changed-dramatically-heres-what-buyers-and-sellers-can-expect

We got that one right, but there's plenty more that we're still engaged in this pathetic, denialist bargaining over. What's the correct degree to which White House officials should cycle back into working at the industries they oversaw? Zero. How many times should such a person come back to work at the White House? Again: zero:

https://prospect.org/power/2024-09-19-next-administration-can-stop-ethics-scandals/

When the Biden admin dropped its executive order on ethics just hours after the inauguration, they trumpeted that it "went further than any other towards slowing the revolving door and limiting conflicts of interest while in office":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-ethics-commitments-by-executive-branch-personnel/

And it did. But it was also full of loopholes, because banning these conflicts of interest altogether was viewed as politically unserious, so the correct amount of radium up the administration's asshole was set at non-zero. The result? Well, it's about what you'd expect:

https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/what-the-hell-is-anita-dunn-even-allowed-to-work-on/

Congress hasn't updated consumer privacy law since 1988, when it took the bold step of…banning video-store clerks from telling the newspapers which VHS cassettes you took home. Since then, a coalition of commercial surveillance companies and the cops and spies who treat their data-lakes as massive, off-the-books anaerobic lagoons of warrantless surveillance data has prevented the passage of any new privacy protections for Americans.

The result? Stalkers, creeps, spies (both governmental and corporate), identity thieves, spearphishers and other villainous scum are running wild, endangering every American's financial, physical and political wellbeing. The correct amount of commercial data-brokerage for America is zero:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

In other words, we should order every data-broker, every tech giant, every consumer electronics company and app vendor to delete all their surveillance data. All of it. The correct amount of radium in that asshole is – as with every other orifice zero:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

From the perspective of the radium pitchmen, the most shocking thing about the past four years has been antitrust enforcers – like Lina Khan, Rohit Chopra, and Jonathan Kanter – who refused to bargain about how much radium we needed to stick up our butts. Fearless of being branded as "unserious" and "unreasonable," they seriously, reasonably said the right amount is none, actually.

None. Which is why they're so mad at Khan and co. Which is why they're so bent on getting Kamala Harris to fire Khan – despite the fact that this would burn precious political capital in the senate. Some people just love the feeling they get from a radium suppository – especially the suppository salesmen:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-19-lina-khan-doesnt-need-to-be-confirmed-again/

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction/a>

Image: Museum of the Health Sciences https://www.uab.edu/amhs/

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back/chest/arms roundup featuring @usefulandgay

[tundrafloe]

In 2019, the New York Times asked Noel about being a style icon on Bake off. "There are many roundups devoted to his colorful sweaters and shirts (which have featured smiley faces, ice cream cones, tomatoes and tigers)."

Noel: ''It's good for boys who wear makeup and aren't regular people.''

[blysse-and-blunder]

in lieu of the sunday scaries

9 pm, sunday, february 12, 2023

although my to-do list from last night doesn’t really show it, i think i’ve done a good job with today.  feeling deadline pressure as the end of the month looms, but it’s funny how the stuff that exerts the most psychic pressure (laundry) can make everything else feel more manageable once it’s done. if i had a nickle for every time something i bring up in the following post featured an animated suit of armor which is otherwise totally empty, i’d have two nickles-- which isn’t much, but it’s fun that it happened twice.

reading i’m in a funny rotation of three books right now, depending on mood and time of day: the tyrant baru cormorant (just finished chapter 16, coming up to the end of part 2); mexican gothic (about halfway through); and the nonexistent knight by italo calvino (not counting the audiobook i just started for commutes, the glass hotel, emily st john mandel).  i actually picked the nonexistent knight out for a housemate of mine for christmas, and she’s lent it back to me to read for myself now, and the further we get the more justified i feel in picking it out. it’s not what i’d call ideal representation of the middle ages, but at the same time the tongue-in-cheek or satirical moments and the poking fun at medieval romance is actually exactly what i love about medievalism-y 20th century fiction. this is what i sort of wish the name of the rose actually felt like, if that makes sense?  it reminds me of when i read orlando furioso a few years ago, and i think i’m appreciating this a lot more than i would have if i hadn’t read that.

i already knew from reading his book invisible cities that i liked calvino’s turn of phrase; it’s a short book but i’m reading it extremely slowly, sifting every sentence a) to make sure i’ve understood the ideas and b) because the language is very fun. mid-century, post-war italian satire and surrealism, such a departure (deliciously) from what i read most of the time. it is so good for me to read things in translation, god. the fact that this one has a narrative, rather than the different vignettes of invisible cities, the fact that we follow the character of the knight agilulf and watch how he behaves in the army of king charlemagne as a knight who doesn’t exist physically, i.e. is just an empty suit of armor, walking around, but does seem to have feelings and thoughts, and wants to do his job as flawlessly as possible to make up for the whole lack-of-corporal form thing, is very affecting.  there’s something going on with the difference between having a presence and ‘existing’, especially in the context of all these famous heroes of medieval romance who didn’t “exist” either, really (this is not the historical charlemagne, for one)... pull quotes:

“World conditions were still confused in the era when this took place. it was not rare then to find names and thoughts and forms and institutions that corresponded to nothing in existence. but at the same time the world was polluted with objects and capacities and persons who lacked any name or distinguishing mark. it was a period when the will and determination to exist, to leave a trace, to rub up against all that existed, was not wholly used up since there were many who did nothing about it...” p. 31

watching did i write it here, or just think it, that this year i’m going to try and watch more movies? it’s almost-- not quite-- a resolution, that 2023 is going to be my year of film, whatever that means. part of it means just starting things on my own, not waiting for anyone to be free to watch things with me, and part of that also is being okay with pausing in the middle of something and coming back to it if necessary. i’m also letting myself cast a wide net in terms of quality and content: for example, i made my flight home in january an olivia wilde double feature, watching both booksmart and don’t worry darling , and beginning atomic blonde which i had to finish later off the plane. since being home, i’ve watched in the mood for love, netflix’s persuasion (2022)(lmao), and now the first half of scorcese’s the age of innocence. but rather than focus on a film here, since there’ll be a lot more of that soon, instead i’ll note for the record that i have now finished full-metal alchemist, thanks to @pep-squad-lizzie​ ! which seems appropriate to mention now since i was already thinking about empty suits of armor with hopes and dreams and obligations to those they care about. i’m not sure i can definitively say who my favorite is, but al is never not on my mind.

listening posting ‘call your girlfriend’ as covered by erato, for posterity and to commemorate getting to jam out with some dear friends this weekend, on this and many other good things. this song and video is like a decade old now, we’ve all seen it yes? if not, enjoy:

playing: pentiment thoughts next time! friday night was boardgame night, we had some lovely people over and played first spyfall, which i think everyone was a bit too polite and/or nervous to really get gungho about, and then broke into two groups of three to play azul and, for those of us willing to learn a new one, azul: queen’s garden. this more complicated take on the original azul game actually, for me, feels a bit different in terms of the kind of planning ahead it requires, and i think in that sense doesn’t feel like a replacement for azul at all, but a whole new game in a way. beautiful game. i didn’t really grok how to anticipate the vagaries of the rotating wheel, which tells you which tiles will be scored which round, in time for it to help my score. also the way that each tile had a suit (birds, trees, various flowers) which assigned it a point value, and a color, and matches could be made according to either one but not both, resonated with my many hours of gin rummy and solitaire. it compels me.

making i did a version of a rice-cabbage-sweet potato-- avocado bowl thing today, a recipe lifted directly from one of my previous meal-kit meals but which i’ve re-imagined as a vehicle for consuming weird leftovers. my housemate and i made the brilliant decision to make monday night cake last week, but the labor was mostly hers, i just zested and juiced the lemon. looking forward to doing some of my own baking (bought plums!! plum bread here we GO) and/or other crafty things soon! i am promised a craft brunch with some dear ones next weekend, where i will be attempting to write and decorate many several pieces of mail.

working on trying not to focus on the way time before my upcoming presentation is flying by, but instead spending that time maybe working on the slides?? maybe? possibly narrowing down what i’m going to be saying?? perhaps? chapter two feedback is trickling in and i think i’m feeling positive about it on the whole, but i get to turn that chapter loose into a pasture until 3 is in better shape, which this presentation script will hopefully aid me in accomplishing. tl;dr everything is diss work, except actual diss work, which is translation.

[rwrbmovie]

📌 roundup: emmys fyc

As requested by (two lol) anons, here’s a roundup of all of RWRB’s Emmys FYC campaign content. Click the links to find out more on each one. I’ll update this post as needed. Keeping this as our pinned post for a while so it’s easy to find. All posts + billboards and posters under #emmys fyc

🔗 The RWRB Google calendar

🗓️ Emmys schedule

June 13-24 - nominations-round voting

July 17 - nominations announced

August 15-26 - final-round voting

September 8 - Emmy Awards show

🔗 FYC campaign links

Podcast: The Awardist | TZP & NG

Panel: Deadline Contenders | TZP & Schechter

Interview: Gold Derby | Shahi

Exhibit: Prime Experience

Panel: Prime Experience | cast & creative team

Interview: Deadline | cast & creative team

Feature: Emmys Magazine | TZP, NG, ML, Schechter

Interview: Forbes | TZP

Interview: Gold Derby | TZP

Interview: Gold Derby | CMQ

Interview: Gold Derby | NG

Interview: Men’s Health | TZP

Interview: AwardsWatch | TZP

Interview: AwardsWatch | NG

Interview: In Creative Company | ML & CMQ

Interview: AwardsWatch | ML & CMQ

Interview: AP | TZP & NG

Interview: On Demand Entertainment | TZP & NG

Interview: Film at LACMA | ML

Panel: LACMA Emmy Contenders Showcase | TZP, NG, Uma, ML, CMQ

Panel: Gold Derby Meet the Experts | ML

Interview: TV Insider | ML

Interview: Awards Buzz | ML

Interview: Half Hour With | ML

Interview: AwardsDaily | ML

Conversation: SAG-AFTRA | TZP & Shahi

Conversation: Actors on Actors | TZP

🔗 FYC campaign links - AS NOMINEES

Pop up: Food truck

Panel: Gold Derby | TZP, ML, Schechter

Interview: THR | TZP & CMQ

Panel: Deadline | TZP, ML, Schechter

Panel: Variety | TZP, ML, Schechter

[samwaverley]

Adapting Ads to Adopt Diversity

Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image and builds stronger customer loyalty. Here are insights on how brands are tackling cultural sensitivities and adapting diversity in ads.

Cultural sensitivity has emerged as a pivotal component of effective advertising in today’s globalized marketplace. As societies become increasingly diverse, brands are recognizing the necessity to adapt their marketing strategies to reflect and respect various cultural backgrounds. Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image…

[sallymajors]

Adapting Ads to Adopt Diversity

Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image and builds stronger customer loyalty. Here are insights on how brands are tackling cultural sensitivities and adapting diversity in ads.

Cultural sensitivity has emerged as a pivotal component of effective advertising in today’s globalized marketplace. As societies become increasingly diverse, brands are recognizing the necessity to adapt their marketing strategies to reflect and respect various cultural backgrounds. Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image…

[rachellepryce]

Adapting Ads to Adopt Diversity

Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image and builds stronger customer loyalty. Here are insights on how brands are tackling cultural sensitivities and adapting diversity in ads.

Cultural sensitivity has emerged as a pivotal component of effective advertising in today’s globalized marketplace. As societies become increasingly diverse, brands are recognizing the necessity to adapt their marketing strategies to reflect and respect various cultural backgrounds. Celebrating diversity not only helps brands connect with a broader audience but also fosters a positive brand image…