Red Banyan CEO Evan Nierman was quoted by the Boston Globe on why brands keep facing backlash over tone-deaf ads, from Converse’s KKK-imagery controversy to the Callaway golf spot.
Nierman said reviews that once took weeks now happen in a single Slack thread, leaving campaigns with plenty of reviewers but no one asking how an outsider might read the finished product. Every company, he argued, needs someone whose job is to say, “This could hurt us.”
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