BET’s Head of Media Sales Says Diversity Needs to Be a ‘Business Decision’

Office With a View: Louis Carr says he has watched the Black consumer market grow to $1.5 Trillion annually. “You would think… people would rush to that marketplace looking for opportunities,” he says

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BET media sales president Louis Carr (Photo courtesy of BET/TheWrap)

When it comes to reaching the widest audience possible, BET President of Media Sales Louis Carr believes advertisers need to do a better job when it comes to diversity and inclusion.

“In 2020, you had a lot of marketers right after the situation with George Floyd and the Central Park Karen saying ‘We’ve got to do better’ — and some have, but most haven’t,” Carr told TheWrap for this week’s Office With a View. “There is data showing that consumers — especially young consumers and consumers of color — said, ‘We don’t want advertisers to sit on the sidelines anymore.’

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