Is advertising messing with women's minds or am I just crazy?
Women and girls have been manipulated by the media in so many ways for so long that it’s simply a part of our culture. My Instagram feed is chock-full of ads for stuff that is meant to make life better but only gives a paralyzing anxiety from not living up to any of it.
“I Owe You” is Adweek Ad of the Day
Sure it’s awesome to be picked for Adweek’s Ad of the Day, but when that acclaim is for the work we did with It’s On Us, the Obama/Biden effort to prevent campus sexual assault, well, we really couldn’t be happier.
Blazing a trail with Adweek
Erica and Katie took to the stage at Adweek’s Women Trailblazers event and immediately began questioning why we can’t discuss things that are inherently a part of being female.
What I want for Mother’s Day
Here is the kind of advertising I hope to encounter in my social feed on Sunday when someone brings me a cappuccino and an almond croissant in bed (hint, hint!), what I’d like to see when I treat myself to a pedicure and get 45 minutes to myself to flip through fashion magazines, what I wish would grab my attention from those cool video triptychs that are popping up all over the subway.
How we keep Lion’s Den vibrating between the real and digital worlds.
Fancy co-founders and co-CCOs, Katie Keating & Erica Fite spoke to a packed house at Adweek Elevate: Creativity, giving the audience a peek behind the curtain at the how and why of normalizing the conversation and moving the cultural needle around women’s sexual health and empowerment. Don’t worry, the video is totally #sfw!
Brands Continue to Overlook Women Over 40 as a Group Worth Marketing To
Women are living longer and better. They are not taking the increase in life expectancy and stretching out old age with more bingo and birdwatching; they are taking advantage of it now. Women are more engaged, more motivated, more in control of their lives than ever before. And brands are missing out.
Erica Fite is confused. And so is just about everyone else.
The only thing that’s clear is that there seems to be a fear of sexually satisfied women. And if we keep being treated like our needs and desires are something shameful maybe there should be.
Subverting Marketing Stereotypes
Fancy has a specialty in a group marketers often ignore: Women 40+. Katie and Erica sat down with Adweek to talk about why.
Katie Keating and Erica Fite featured in Adweek creative 100!!
We are honored, thrilled, humbled to be included among all of the agency superstars as well as the other exceptionally creative artists working in all disciplines.
How can we make working work for moms?
Oh baby, was Erica Fite's story about secretly bringing her 5-month-old son on a shoot in LA so she could keep breastfeeding a crazy one. As she said, "it was a total parenting disaster" but really, 20 years ago, what choice did she have?
Is The Way We Portray Women In Advertising Getting Any Better?
While there are some standouts, where brands are getting it right (Bravo to you GE, Kraft, and Twitter, though really Twitter, please pay attention to the amount of social media harassment of women happening on the platform and actually do something about it...), but women are still largely portrayed in very specific roles that tend to be deferential to others.