This year has been incredibly challenging for the advertising and marketing industries, and the influencer market is no exception. When Covid-19 was declared a pandemic in March, most brands pulled their influencer marketing budgets or held on campaigns until they had more clarity as to what was going to happen.

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As Senior Vice President of People Development at LiveIntent, Abby Hamilton works to create cutting-edge talent programs with a digital-first mindset. Her critical HR work helps to fuel LiveIntent’s lasting partnership on numerous Ad Council campaigns, including Coronavirus Response, Love Has No Labels and Autism Awareness. A leader in the email marketing space, the organization works to place Ad Council campaigns alongside trusted content within email newsletters from thousands of publishers.

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The Ad Council has been a nonpartisan 501c3 nonprofit for decades. As the country moves through the final hours of an unprecedented voting season, we want to highlight three organizations, More in Common, Civic Alliance and Keep Our Republic, that aim to support democracy and help spread critical messaging within the workplace and among the general public, before, during and after Election Day. We hope these resources will be as useful for you as they have been for us.

Within the media, tech and advertising industries, ADCOLOR is widely regarded as today’s best in class when it comes to discussing, celebrating and championing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the corporate sphere. Each year, ADCOLOR hosts the ADCOLOR Awards, ADCOLOR Conference and the well-known ADCOLOR FUTURES program, all with the aim of promoting diversity and inclusion with the creative industries.

As the senior vice president of talent strategy and program development at the ANA Educational Foundation, which aims to educate and inspire the next generation of advertising talent, Elliot Lum draws on a 20-year marketing background that includes working as a brand manager for Colgate and as head of partnerships for Columbia Records. This summer, Elliot was a critical partner on our “Fight the Virus, Fight the Bias” campaign, which addresses the rise in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. We talked to Elliot about what he’s learned from his career—and from 2020.

With less than 20 days remaining until the 2020 presidential election, advertising campaigns across the country encouraging voter engagement have sped into high gear. And rightly so—the election was on track for historic voter turnout as a result of record voter enthusiasm until the COVID-19 pandemic.

With many Americans not yet committed to getting a COVID-19 vaccine when available, leaders in communications, policy and health unite to create a research-driven public education campaign

National integrated effort, created by dentsumcgarrybowen, to provide information and resources at new Coping-19.org website that will help Americans address mental health challenges

New partnership kicks off with a fully integrated PSA promoting diversity and inclusion

Research indicates COVID-19 had a nominal impact on rate of loneliness worldwide but significantly increased unhappiness; Younger people (ages 18-34) are more than twice as likely to suffer from loneliness, compared to adults 55+