Clean Creatives

🧑🎓 Now hiring! We’re on the hunt for undergrads in advertising, PR and communications to join our Clean Creatives Campus Ambassador program, Class of 2024-2025. Here’s the reality: 🔥 Ad and PR agencies are still working with fossil fuel clients like Shell and ExxonMobil, who are wrecking the planet. 🔥 Those fossil fuel companies are doubling down on pollution, even though the science is crystal clear. 🔥 And your creativity? They’re using it to lie about the damage. But you can help stop this. As a Clean Creatives Campus Ambassador, you’ll use your voice to rally your campus and lead our industry toward a cleaner future. This is your shot to make a real difference—and work with an organization that shares your values. Benefits include: 💰A $3,200 stipend for your work, plus an event budget to fuel your ideas. 🧢Exclusive Clean Creatives merch to rock on campus. 💻Hands-on experience that builds your resume and portfolio with real-world projects. 🤳Access to a network of industry leaders fighting for change. 🧠 One-on-one mentorship from top pros in the Clean Creatives network to help you grow your career. Applications close on November 17th. Read the full details on how to apply at https://lnkd.in/eZzheb6r #NowHiring #CampusAmbassador #CleanCreatives #Advertising #PR #Communications #Students #Sustainability #Environment #ClimateChange #Greenwashing

Here’s Duncan Meisel explaining everything you need to know about WPP, EACOP and the reality of working with the fossil fuel industry as an ad agency. Discovered by Clean Creatives South Africa in an awards submission video, WPP’s subsidiary MetropolitanRepublic, set up a totally fake front grassroots movement to ‘squash all negative PR’ from environmental protests against a heavily polluting pipeline that will harm communities in Tanzania and Uganda. The campaign was seemingly coordinated with the Ugandan government, with a hashtag trending on Twitter with the help of over 70 posts by Ugandan government accounts. MetropolitanRepublic’s award submission also used photos of 15 grassroots activists in Uganda - 8 of those 15 have been harassed, arrested, or beaten by Ugandan police. 👉 The truth is, working with the bad guys means doing bad things which is exactly why we need you and your colleagues to join our movement to stop campaigns that harm both people and the planet.  ♻️Share this video with your network so more creatives can learn how to fight back against harmful marketing tactics like this one. 🔗Read the full investigation by DeSmog about WPP’s work with TotalEnergies here: https://lnkd.in/er6knS32 #WPP #EACOP #MetropolitanRepublic #TotalEnergies #Sustainability #Advertising #Greenwashing #CleanCreatives

This is how Havas Media Network has been working with Shell. ⬇️ 📰 Earlier this year, DeSmog revealed that a Shell ad had received complaints to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority for greenwashing. ADWEEK has now reported that it was the first campaign that Havas Media worked on for Shell since winning the account in September 2023. The ad, created by VML, received complaints which ‘argue that the ad gives a misleading impression of Shell’s environmental impact’, according to the ASA. Speaking to ADWEEK, Duncan Meisel, our Executive Director of Clean Creatives, said that Havas has become “a vital part of promoting their pollution agenda for the foreseeable future.”. “That will have really big impacts on [Havas Media’s] reputation and potentially on their business,” he added. 🗣️ One anonymous senior marketer speaking to ADWEEK about Havas' CEO, said that ‘Bolloré’s previous comments represent a hypocritical attitude toward sustainability’. “Stop gaslighting us,” the person said. “Any CEO, any account director at an agency, is not telling an oil company how to transition. That’s not a conversation that’s happening.” 💬 How does Havas’ work with Shell impact their stance on sustainability? Should VML take all the heat? Let us know what you think in the comments. 🔗 Read the full article by ADWEEK here: https://lnkd.in/ehFsrHau #Havas #ADWEEK #Shell #HavasMedia #VML #Sustainability #Greenwashing #Advertising

We have an incredible line-up of speakers for our ‘Off The Hill’ event in Washington DC next week. Check out our panellists who will be joining us on Monday, October 28th with agency, This January ⬇️ 🟢Amy Hartzler (Do Good Better) is a strategist, storyteller, and conspirator for progress on a range of issues from disability rights and nuclear disarmament, to racial and economic justice. 🟢Alfonso Cuesta (Salta With Us) is an entrepreneur and creative director with over 20 years of experience using the power of creativity to build brands and tell their stories. 🟢Alexander Bryden (Browning Environmental Communications) is a communications strategist supporting organizations working to build a better world. We’ll be exploring how we can bridge the gap between policy and action by engaging consumers and businesses alike in sustainable practices. 🔗 RSVP at https://lnkd.in/eQp84Gxm - drinks are on us! #WashingtonDC #ThisJanuary #Communications #Marketing #CleanCreatives #Sustainability #DC

📕We’ve got an incredible roster of inspiring Clean Creatives Pledge signers, including the crew at Australian-based, Young Folks | B Corp agency. They created a new service called ‘Ask Pearl’, the Auntie who gives you the straight-talking yet gentle advice you never knew you wished you had. Inspired by The #FList2024, Young Folks | B Corp agency scoured our website, visiting offending agency websites and found some alarming info: 🔴 many of the agencies on the F-List also serve clients who are committed to making a positive impact for people and the planet.🔴 ⬇️ So where does Ask Pearl come in? ⤵️  ✔️Do you work at a PR or advertising agency? ✔️Are you a client concerned about your agency’s affiliations?  ✔️Ready to confront your agency’s hidden affiliations? ✔️Or are you questioning if you should?  👉 Ask Pearl. Simply send an email to Pearl about whatever your concerns may be in relation to your agency working with some not-so-great clients, and vice versa. Each letter by Pearl represents ‘a brand coming to terms with the fact that their agency, while publicly championing sustainability and ethics, is working with fossil fuel giants often behind the scenes.’ 🔗 Intrigued? Head to askpearl.com.au for more. #CleanCreatives #YoungFolks #AskPearl #AgonyAunt #Advertising #Marketing #Sustainability #FList2024 #AdAgency 

We’re heading back to Washington DC in just 3 WEEKS for our ‘Off The Hill’ event where we’ll discuss how communicators and creators play a role in a clean future. 🗓️ Join us on Monday, October 28th with This January to explore how we can bridge the gap between policy and action by engaging consumers and businesses alike in sustainable practices. 🔗 RSVP at https://lnkd.in/eQp84Gxm - drinks are on us! #WashingtonDC #ThisJanuary #Communications #Marketing #CleanCreatives #Sustainability #DC

🚂🎡 It’s time to hop aboard the fossil fuel funfair!! Check out this brand new satirical website – Ogilvyland – by climate campaign group Serious People. It’s a free ticket to scarytown! Take a look into our potential future (and, well, reality these days) accompanied with a little dash of humor. Attractions include “Coal Mine Mountain,” “Rising River Rapids,” and the world’s first “oil slide”! 🎢 Why this website, and why now? “Ogilvy has been taking us for a ride,” said Oli Frost, one of the founders of Serious People and “Head of Flame” at Ogilvyland. “They claim to be helping their fossil fuel clients with a ‘transition,’ but those same clients’ actions tell a different story. This is neither fun, nor fair.” Co-founder of Serious People Jamie Inman added: “Burning ever more fossil fuels might be exciting for Ogilvy’s coal, oil and gas clients but it’s terrifying for everyone else. Ambitious brands are accelerating their climate efforts and will increasingly reject agencies like Ogilvy that try to play both sides.” 🎟️ Unfortunately humanity won’t be able to get off these rides if we don’t act now, and continue to push for change. Take a look at the full website here, and make sure to send it to your industry friends - https://lnkd.in/eMwwCC9J

🎉 That’s a wrap on Climate Week in New York! We had a jam-packed schedule and we’re so grateful to everyone for joining us during such a busy and inspirational week of climate action. A huge thank you to Pace Public Relations for kicking things off with us at our breakfast meet-up. We had an amazing turnout to our Happy Hour with Shimek Strategic where our community met up and celebrated the impact of this year's F-List report, which launched last week. The Creatives Industries Climate Gathering alongside Creatives for Climate Collective and Purpose Disruptors was proof that Climate Week is most impactful when we work together. We also hit the main stage at The Nest Climate Campus alongside Kate Ogden (Seventh Generation) and Whitney Dailey (Allison Worldwide), to discuss how brands' marketing budgets are funding the climate crisis. ➕Hit follow if you don’t want to miss updates for future events. Washington DC is next with details on how to RSVP coming soon. #NewYorkClimateWeek #NYCW #PacePR #Shimek #PurposeDisruptors #CreativesForClimate #ClimateWeek #Sustainability

You read The F-List. Now what? Join a welcome webinar TOMORROW (October 3rd) led by the Clean Creatives organizing team to learn actionable lessons from communications professionals who have helped agencies end work with fossil fuels, and connect you with colleagues who are wrestling with the same questions you might be. Our team has been coaching Clean Creatives leaders across the globe on how to grow their skills to make change and we can help you next! 👉 RSVP to join the Welcome Webinar on Thursday October 3rd at either 12:00 GMT or 17:00 GMT. Both sessions will cover the same material: https://lnkd.in/eiDci4YZ Don’t want to watch it alone? ♻️ Share the link or tag an industry friend you’d like to join.

📰 Fossil fuels need to be history, and fossil fuel agencies that work with them will be too. Sign the pledge if you want to be a part of the future of creativity. ➡️ cleancreatives.org/ Whether you’re a small agency owner, creator, or president of a major PR or Advertising holding company, your promise makes a massive difference and will inspire others to do the same. The future of creativity is clean. 🔗 Read ADWEEK's coverage of The F-List here: https://lnkd.in/eJibfcqu #CleanCreatives #FList2024 #Greenwashing #Advertising #Sustainability #ClimateChange