Another day, another epic fail from a brand putting on the diversity mantle or shouting about social distancing. Ads keep missing the goalposts on the climate emergency, diversity, ocean plastic–pick a theme. Behind every misstep is bad advice, lack of understanding or someone who didn’t listen. The majority of a company’s value is inevitably tied…
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The impact of this year’s class of Young Influentials–leaders in media, marketing and tech who have yet to hit their 40s–can be felt from the way we shop for cool clothes, the shows we binge and the gin we drink to how we think about race. Our cover subjects, teen TikTok superstars and siblings Charli…
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