Outside Voice

WACL, the body working to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and communications industry, has partnered with Spotify’s ‘Outside Voice’ program – an annotated playlist series celebrating and amplifying BIPOC voices in the global creative community – to launch four new annotated playlists created by some of WACL’s most accomplished members.

‘Outside Voice’ is a platform to tell personal stories, discuss creative passions and speak to the challenges creatives have navigated along the way. Each month, spokespeople from the industry create original playlists that feature their favourite music alongside spoken-word annotations.

Starting today, four WACL member-curated ‘Outside Voice’ playlists are now available, with a selection of tracks and personal observations about their experience working in the creative industries and the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion.

The new series includes annotated playlists from: Rania Robinson – WACL President, CEO & Partner of the Quiet Storm agency, and co-founder of the UK’s Create Not Hate initiative designed to get youth from underrepresented communities involved in advertising, Carol Reay – WACL President 1995/6, Karen Blackett OBE – President of WPP in the UK and Nishma Robb – Senior Director of Marketing at Google, WACL Vice President and next President.

The WACL and Spotify ‘Outside Voice’ collaboration will continue at Cannes Lions 2023, where Rania Robinson will represent both WACL and Outside Voice during the Sound of Culture masterclass session being held at Spotify Beach on Wednesday, June 21.