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  1.    Spotlight: A 2024 Agency Roundup - Beyond the Surface
    Agency remuneration & contracts

    Spotlight: A 2024 Agency Roundup - Beyond the Surface

    Navigate the dynamic brand/agency landscape by staying informed on recent developments, industry trends, and strategies to overcome…

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  2.    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030 - Creativity into Action
    Sustainability

    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030 - Creativity into Action
    Open to WFA members only

    Learn more about the role of creativity in sustainable transformation from WFA and Kantar.

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  3.    Knowledge Spotlight: Trends in the APAC New Business Landscape
    Agency evaluation & performanceAgency managementAgency remuneration & contractsAgency review & pitchingMarketing technologyMarketing capabilitiesMarketing procurementMarketing technologyMarketing effectivenessMarketing technology

    Knowledge Spotlight: Trends in the APAC New Business Landscape

    This live session is part of WFA’s practical webinar series, Knowledge Spotlights. In partnership with handpicked experts,…

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  4.    Sustainability into Action
    Sustainability

    Sustainability into Action
    Open to WFA members only

    New series of WFA playbooks on sustainability from WFA and Kantar offer marketers guidance on how to put theory into practice,…

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  5.    Benchmark: Marketing academy development and management
    Marketing capabilities

    Benchmark: Marketing academy development and management

    WFA member benchmark on best practices for developing and maintaining a marketing academy

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  6.    Research: Global marketing procurement structures and operating models
    Marketing procurementOrganisation & structure

    Research: Global marketing procurement structures and operating models

    Access WFA’s research on global marketing procurement structures and operating models.

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  7.    WFA position paper on EU Digital Fairness Fitness Check
    Digital policy

    WFA position paper on EU Digital Fairness Fitness Check

    Potential policy positions that will guide WFA's advocacy on the Digital Fairness Act’s future legislative process as well as…

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  8.    Insight Forum meeting overview (December 2024)

    Insight Forum meeting overview (December 2024)

    Overview of the Insight Forum, part of Forum Connect NYC, December 2024

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  9.    Sourcing Forum Connect, New York (December 2024)
    Marketing procurement

    Sourcing Forum Connect, New York (December 2024)

    Overview of the WFA Sourcing Forum meeting, held in New York as part of Forum Connect

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  10.    Marketing Capability Forum meeting overview (October 2024)
    Marketing capabilities

    Marketing Capability Forum meeting overview (October 2024)

    Overview of the WFA Marketing Capability Forum held in person in London

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  11.    How creativity can drive sustainable action
    Sustainability

    How creativity can drive sustainable action

    In 2025, WFA and Kantar will launch a series of case study led playbooks to help take Sustainable Marketing 2030 from theory into…

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  12.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 36: On being AI-able with Mark Ritson and his AI alter ego, the Ritbot
    CreativityAISustainability

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 36: On being AI-able with Mark Ritson and his AI alter ego, the Ritbot

    In this episode of WFA's Better Marketing Podcast, David Wheldon speaks to marketing guru, Mark Ritson, and his AI-generated alter…

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  13.    The World Ahead 2025 with Tom Standage (The Economist)

    The World Ahead 2025 with Tom Standage (The Economist)
    Open to WFA members only

    The Economist’s predictive look to the year ahead. Tom Standage, Deputy Editor of The Economist and Editor of The World Ahead,…

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  14.    Is it time for a marketing makeover?
    CreativityBrand purposeBrand reputationDigital transformationMarketing capabilities

    Is it time for a marketing makeover?

    WFA and The Drum have teamed up to ask marketing leaders about some of the key challenges our profession…

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  15.    Uniting Minds and Functions in 2024

    Uniting Minds and Functions in 2024

    WFA members know that the strength of our forums lies in their focus: servicing specific client-side functions. But that very…

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  16.    Five predictions for 2025
    Marketing technologyAIMarketing technologyMarketing technology

    Five predictions for 2025

    WFA experts look ahead to identify the key issues for brands as they look forward to the new year.

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  17.    WFA CEO looks back at 2024

    WFA CEO looks back at 2024

    WFA’s year has reflected the rapidly evolving and uncertain economic and geo-political landscape in which we and our members…

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  18.    How will the cultural events of 2024 define your 2025?
    Diversity & Inclusion

    How will the cultural events of 2024 define your 2025?

    2024 has been a whirlwind year of changes and challenges. WFA strategic partners, Creative Equals, share four key cultural…

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  19.    Benchmark: Global Marketing Organisation Scale
    Organisation & structure

    Benchmark: Global Marketing Organisation Scale

    WFA member benchmark exploring global marketing organisation scale

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  20.    RAC Programme Meeting Overview (November 2024)
    Marketing to children

    RAC Programme Meeting Overview (November 2024)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Responsible Advertising and Children (RAC) meeting on 27 November 2024.

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  21.    Halo CMM Community Townhall Meeting
    Audience measurementBrand safetyMedia governanceBrand safety

    Halo CMM Community Townhall Meeting

    Discover the Future of Cross-Media Measurement

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