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  1.    Spotlight: Beyond ChatGPT - Practical use and innovation in marketing, e-commerce, and search with GenAI
    Marketing technologyMarketing technology

    Spotlight: Beyond ChatGPT - Practical use and innovation in marketing, e-commerce, and search with GenAI

    Learn how GenAI is being rolled out in marketing across the globe.

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  2.    PAG Meeting Overview (September 2023)
    Digital policySelf-regulationMarketing law

    PAG Meeting Overview (September 2023)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting on 19 September 2023.

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  3.    Spotlight: Spark more insights-driven decisions with generative AI
    Consumer insightData & analytics

    Spotlight: Spark more insights-driven decisions with generative AI

    Generative AI can’t make big decisions for you, but it can help you make better decisions.

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  4.    Spotlight: Understanding the Accounting Principles of the Rapidly Growing Retail Media Landscape

    Spotlight: Understanding the Accounting Principles of the Rapidly Growing Retail Media Landscape

    In recent discussions around Retail Media it has become evidently clear that accounting principals within organisations has become a…

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  5.    Benchmark: Recommended Capability Vendors
    Marketing capabilities

    Benchmark: Recommended Capability Vendors

     WFA benchmark containing member-recommended capability training vendors .

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  6.    Winning, and losing, together

    Winning, and losing, together

    WFA’s partnership with Marketing Matters celebrated its 8th year during Singapore’s iconic Formula 1 week. F1 fans know…

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  7.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 29: On what we can learn from emerging markets with Cristina Diezhandino, Diageo
    CreativityBrand purposeBrand reputation

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 29: On what we can learn from emerging markets with Cristina Diezhandino, Diageo

    In episode 29 of the Better Marketing Pod, host David Wheldon speaks with Cristina Diezhandino, Chief Marketing Officer at Diageo…

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  8.    Bad health is bad for business
    Alcohol marketingFood marketingMarketing to children

    Bad health is bad for business

    Rebecka Allén, Director of Consumer Policy, explores why food and alcohol brands risk falling out of grace with WHO and…

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  9.    Benchmark: Approaches to entertainment marketing
    Marketing procurement

    Benchmark: Approaches to entertainment marketing

    WFA member benchmark on how organisations are approaching the entertainment marketing category

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  10.    Benchmark: The Evolution of Couponing
    Marketing procurement

    Benchmark: The Evolution of Couponing

    WFA member benchmark on how organisations are evolving their approach to couponing.

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  11.    Benchmark: Brand Health Tracking Programmes

    Benchmark: Brand Health Tracking Programmes

    This WFA member benchmark explored perspective on Brand Health Tracking programmes among members of the Insight…

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  12.    Benchmark: Consumer Segmentation

    Benchmark: Consumer Segmentation

    This WFA member benchmark explored perspective on Consumer Segmentation among members of the Insight…

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  13.    Benchmark: Consumer Data Platforms

    Benchmark: Consumer Data Platforms

    This WFA member benchmark explored perspective on Consumer Data Platforms usage among members of the Insight…

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  14.    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030

    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030

    In the weeks since WFA launched its global research-based thought leadership project “Sustainable Marketing 2030”, in…

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  15.    Insight Forum meeting overview (Jun 2023)

    Insight Forum meeting overview (Jun 2023)

    Meeting overview from WFA’s Insight Forum meeting on 28 Jun 2023, which took place remotely.

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  16.    Will AI boost DEI efforts in advertising or destroy them?

    Will AI boost DEI efforts in advertising or destroy them?

    Several years ago, I launched a website called rentaminority.com where — clue is in the name — you could quickly and…

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  17.    Creating a Global Culture of Marketing Effectiveness
    Marketing effectiveness

    Creating a Global Culture of Marketing Effectiveness

    Marketing effectiveness is THE key priority for most, if not all, of WFA’s various peer groups. That is why late last year we…

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  18.    Over-emphasis on activation and tactics limits marketing effectiveness, WFA study finds
    Marketing effectiveness

    Over-emphasis on activation and tactics limits marketing effectiveness, WFA study finds

    Effectiveness culture is not being delivered because the steps required before and after activation are not in place. Five key areas…

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  19.    New insights on platform safety trends through GARM’s latest measurement report
    Brand safetyBrand safety

    New insights on platform safety trends through GARM’s latest measurement report

    WFA’s Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) releases Volume Five of the Aggregated Measurement Report. As a part of…

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  20.    The risks are rising for big brands
    Brand safetyBrand safety

    The risks are rising for big brands

    Brands face unprecedented risks and will need the right processes and tools to negotiate these challenges. Will Gilroy, WFA Director…

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  21.    Spotlight: Reframing your Brand’s Value Proposition when the world changes around you

    Spotlight: Reframing your Brand’s Value Proposition when the world changes around you

    Our guest speakers from Mondelez and BVA Nudge-Consulting will share insights on how brands can evolve to adapt to changing consumer…

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