Global Search Engine to Find Ad Women Launches Ahead of International Women's Day

Lina Franzon and Johanna Johansson have been building it since 2016

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After nearly three years in the making, Ad-women.com, the global search engine for finding women in the ad industry, officially launched on Thursday morning just one day before International Women’s Day.

The network, founded by TBWA Stockholm copywriter Lina Franzon and Volt in Stockholm art director Johanna Johansson, has registered 300 women based around the world so far (although they “hope for that number to explode”). Their titles range from full stack developer to content manager to account director, to name a few, but any woman in the advertising industry can create a profile free of charge.

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