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HAUS XXIV Editorial TeamHAUS

LGBTQ+ representation in marketing is still optional for too many brands. Here’s our standard.

Corporate participation in LGBTQ+ inclusion dropped sharply this year while the people actually spending money moved the opposite direction. That gap is the whole story, and it’s why we wrote down exactly where we stand instead of leaving it implied.

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David KeyesLEADERSHIP

The leadership lesson nobody wants to hear: slow down to build something that lasts

I spent our first two years running on the assumption that speed was the whole game. More clients, more hires, more everything, faster. The data I found this year confirms what I only started believing after it nearly cost us something real: the founders sprinting hardest aren’t the ones still standing at the finish line.

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Elizabeth EarlywineCOMMUNITY

Why Long Beach still beats LA for building something real

Every year someone asks us why we didn’t set up shop thirty miles north, in the zip codes where the agency logos are louder. Every year the answer gets easier to prove with numbers instead of just conviction.

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• HAUSLGBTQ+ representation in marketing is still optional for too many brands. Here’s our standard.
• LEADERSHIPThe leadership lesson nobody wants to hear: slow down to build something that lasts
• COMMUNITYWhy Long Beach still beats LA for building something real