Good morning: ANA supports humanitarian efforts in Ukraine

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Good morning, Marketers, and marketing and advertising industries respond to Russia.

At a time when it feels like there’s little that can be done it’s good to see the marketing and advertising industries doing what they can. According to data from the ANA, 23 percent of ANA member respondents do business in Russia. Of those, 25 percent have suspended or reduced their media spend in that country. One third say they intend to cease or scale back operations in Russia.

“The ANA strongly supports and applauds their actions and those of the greater marketing community to assist with humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and promote peace,” the group said in a statement.

Surveying its members on what marketers can do, the ANA heard responses that echo some things we’ve been suggesting here: “Be mindful of our activities during times of crisis. If we are connected to consumers and culture, we need to be thinking through the context within which our messages are received.”

The truth is, no matter how great your product or service and how polished and relevant your messages are, understand that many people have other things on their minds right now, and tailor your tone accordingly.

Kim Davis

Editorial Director

Shorts 

People. Suzanne Spence has been named CEO at Mobkoi, the mobile advertising platform owned by The Brandtech Group. Mobkoi’s client base includes luxury brands like BMW Group, Bose, LVMH and Richemont. This is a short journey between desks for Spence, who was previously CEO at Brandtech’s Mofilm, a video content creation network.

Spence was previously head of brand partnerships at social story-telling platform Wattpad, prior to which she spent almost ten years at Google, working primarily with YouTube. The Le Pape brothers, who had been co-CEOs of Mobkoi will become co-Chairs.

About The Author

Kim Davis

Kim Davis is the Editorial Director of MarTech. Born in London, but a New Yorker for over two decades, Kim started covering enterprise software ten years ago. His experience encompasses SaaS for the enterprise, digital- ad data-driven urban planning, and applications of SaaS, digital technology, and data in the marketing space. He first wrote about marketing technology as editor of Haymarket’s The Hub, a dedicated marketing tech website, which subsequently became a channel on the established direct marketing brand DMN. Kim joined DMN proper in 2016, as a senior editor, becoming Executive Editor, then Editor-in-Chief a position he held until January 2020. Prior to working in tech journalism, Kim was Associate Editor at a New York Times hyper-local news site, The Local: East Village, and has previously worked as an editor of an academic publication, and as a music journalist. He has written hundreds of New York restaurant reviews for a personal blog, and has been an occasional guest contributor to Eater.