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WFA has launched a new guide to inclusive insights, providing consumer insights leaders with a practical framework to embed inclusion into consumer research, data interpretation and strategic decision-making.
Six takeaways from WFA's first Forum Connect in India, which brought together CMOs, Media and Insights leaders from WFA's global network.
Growth doesn’t start with an ad. It starts where your product decisions meet real people. In this episode of the Better Marketing Podcast David Wheldon sits down with Cheryl Goh, newly named 2025 Global Marketer of the Year, to unpack how Grab scaled across Southeast Asia by turning marketing into a true commercial engine where product, pricing, algorithms, and culture work in sync to earn trust and drive results.
Drowning in AI? Here’s how to come up for air. Gabrielle Robitaille, Director of Policy at WFA, identifies the right guidance for every stage of marketing organisation development.
3 in 4 marketing procurement teams lack KPIs to monitor AI/GenAI impact, as they are still at an early stage of deployment.
What’s next for global marketing in the year ahead? WFA strategic partners share their take.
Eleven new brand owners have signed up to be part of WFA's global network of senior marketers, reinforcing its position as the world’s biggest organisation for client-side marketing and policy leaders.
In 2026, the best marketing leaders will empower their teams with a healthy mixture of curiosity, humility and optimism.
On 3 February, WFA’s world-class, cross-function knowledge exchange is heading to India in association with the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA), with a brief to bring new ideas and inspiration to marketers.
It’s time to review the successes of 2025 and look forward to more progress on cross-media measurement in 2026, says Matt Green, Director, Global Media and Measurement at the WFA.
WFA's new White Paper The Data Integrity Advantage shows why stronger upstream data practices are central to media quality.
Sponsorship is evolving beyond presence to partnerships that shape culture and deliver measurable brand and business performance according to a WFA Global Study with Lumency.
The game has changed for global brand owners, these are the new priorities and actions they are taking.
While many marketers are testing AI, shifting the conversation to mainstream operations is proving more difficult. Gabrielle Robitaille, Director of Policy at WFA, outlines how brands can overcome the barriers to adoption.
Average spend on influencer marketing has been steady but is set to increase to take up a larger share of marketing and media budgets.
In this episode we review a year of conversations with Unicef's Frederique Covington Corbett, culture guru Marcus Collins, Cathay Pacific's Ed Bell, Meta's Nicola Mendelsohn, Marcel Marcondes from AB InBev and Global Marketer of the Year, marketing expert Seth Godin, Leyal Eskin Yilmaz from the Magnum Ice Cream Company, and Ogilvy's Rory Sutherland.
The ability to share experiences and talk to peers to work out what’s best for our individual brands sits at the heart of the WFA. This year has proven how valuable that sense of community is, says WFA CEO Stephan Loerke.
Marketers are willing to increase budgets where performance data justifies it. Tom Ashby, Global Lead, Media Services at WFA, argues that the relationship between budget growth and price inflation is breaking down.
The WFA team presents its annual look at what will be important for marketers and brands in the next 12 months.
A round-up of what we learned at Forum Connect New York 2025.
Deeper collaboration with marketing procurement can be a quiet competitive advantage for CMOs – and a powerful ally. Laura Forcetti, Director of Global Marketing Sourcing at WFA, explains why.