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  1.    WFA Survey: Responsible Marketing Frameworks
    Brand safetyDigital policyBrand safetyFood marketingSelf-regulationMarketing to childrenDiversity & InclusionMarketing law

    WFA Survey: Responsible Marketing Frameworks

    Responsible Marketing Frameworks are becoming increasingly critical for brands. WFA ran a survey during the beginning of 2023…

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  2.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Raja Rajamannar & Brian O'Kelley: Towards a sustainable future
    Brand purposeBrand reputationMarketing operationsOrganisation & structure

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Raja Rajamannar & Brian O'Kelley: Towards a sustainable future

    Raja shares how Mastercard has sought to reimagine value through a sustainability lens and outline how marketing has become a driver…

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  3.    Remote Martech workshop: Modern ways to discover consumer insights using available public data

    Remote Martech workshop: Modern ways to discover consumer insights using available public data

    A remote workshop on Marketing Technologies led by Taru Jain, Founder and Director, Maxential and Subhendu Mukherjee, Founder, The…

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  4.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | The big debate motion: Marketers should focus on company, not consumer behaviour change
    Brand purposeBrand reputationMarketing operationsOrganisation & structure

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | The big debate motion: Marketers should focus on company, not consumer behaviour change

    Building on WFA's last debate where 74% of our audience agreed that ‘marketing today is incompatible with a sustainable…

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  5.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Cristina Diezhandino & Ali Hanan: Progressive pathways to growth
    Diversity & Inclusion

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Cristina Diezhandino & Ali Hanan: Progressive pathways to growth

    WFA's Global Marketer of the Year, Cristina Diezhandino, is joined on stage by Ali Hanan of Creative Equals, who has helped Diageo…

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  6.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Mark Adams: Think like a designer, not a marketer
    Content marketingMedia Innovation

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Mark Adams: Think like a designer, not a marketer

    The greatest challenges we face today were produced by design and must be solved by design. They originated in the optimism of the…

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  7.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Rupen Desai: Regenerative marketing: Biggest opportunity of our time?
    Marketing operationsOrganisation & structure

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Rupen Desai: Regenerative marketing: Biggest opportunity of our time?

    Rupen Desai provokes the need to move from extractive growth to a different value creation model, one where people, the planet and…

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  8.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Conny Braams & David Jones: Supercharging sustainable growth
    CreativityGamingMedia InnovationDigital transformationMarketing technologyMarketing technology

    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Conny Braams & David Jones: Supercharging sustainable growth

    Conny and David explore the intersection of marketing, technology and sustainability and our role in supercharging sustainable…

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  9.    Sourcing Forum meeting (April 2023)
    Marketing procurement

    Sourcing Forum meeting (April 2023)

    Overview of the Sourcing Forum held in-person in Istanbul as part of Global Marketer Week, 26th April 2023

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  10.    April 2023 - Community Call

    April 2023 - Community Call

    Notes and presentation slides from GARM community call in April 2023

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  11.    An update on the advertisers’ approach to cross-media measurement
    Media measurement

    An update on the advertisers’ approach to cross-media measurement

    Since early 2021, our advertiser-led, multi-stakeholder programme ‘Halo’ has been breathing life into a new…

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  12.    Brands say Responsible Marketing Frameworks are more important than ever but coverage of all the key issues remains patchy
    Brand safetyDigital policyBrand safetyMarketing to childrenDiversity & InclusionBrand purposeBrand reputationDigital transformationMarketing operations

    Brands say Responsible Marketing Frameworks are more important than ever but coverage of all the key issues remains patchy

    WFA research finds 88% of large corporates have a Responsible Marketing Framework but they rarely cover all priority areas;…

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  13.    WFA Annual Report 2022

    WFA Annual Report 2022

    An overview of WFA’s key projects and initiatives from 2022

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  14.    WFA issues Global Media Charter 3.0
    Brand safetyBrand safetyMedia measurementMedia literacyMedia InnovationNew Media OpportunitiesBrand purposeBrand reputation

    WFA issues Global Media Charter 3.0

    The Charter 3.0 builds on progress made in areas of brand safety and measurement and identifies 5 priority areas covering…

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  15.    WFA issues new rallying cry for fairer, safer, more transparent and more sustainable media ecosystem for global advertisers, with publication of Global Media Charter 3.0
    Media governance

    WFA issues new rallying cry for fairer, safer, more transparent and more sustainable media ecosystem for global advertisers, with publication of Global Media Charter 3.0

    Charter 3.0 builds on progress made in areas of brand safety and measurement and identifies five priority areas covering…

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  16.    WFA launches Sustainable Marketing 2030 to close the gap between intent and action
    Brand purposeBrand reputationMarketing operations

    WFA launches Sustainable Marketing 2030 to close the gap between intent and action

    Fewer than half of marketing departments have taken the lead in their sustainability journeys but the will to transform has…

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  17.    WFA Survey: A Closer Look at Data Clean Rooms
    Data & analyticsData collection & privacyData-driven marketing

    WFA Survey: A Closer Look at Data Clean Rooms

    In recent years, online privacy concerns have prompted major web browsers to phase out support for third-party cookies.  As a…

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  18.    Spotlight: Reach Curves Gone Rogue
    Media measurement

    Spotlight: Reach Curves Gone Rogue

    A webinar with guest speaker Karen Nelson Field PhD (Founder and CEO, Amplified Intelligence)

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  19.    UK programmatic audit suggests improvements in online advertising transparency
    Ad fraud & verificationMedia transparencyProgrammatic

    UK programmatic audit suggests improvements in online advertising transparency

    Clare O'Brien, ISBA's Head of Media, Performance & Effectiveness, shares on the ins and outs of the second iteration of their…

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  20.    Beware advertisers, the EU has a new plan to limit hot air around environmental claims
    Marketing law

    Beware advertisers, the EU has a new plan to limit hot air around environmental claims

    Guardian columnist and brand strategist, Arwa Mahdawi, reflects on the newly proposed EU Directive on Green Claims and its…

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  21.    Saving money without reducing your impact
    Agency evaluation & performanceAgency managementAgency remuneration & contractsAgency review & pitchingAgency rosters

    Saving money without reducing your impact

    Look after your marketing pence and the pounds will manage themselves. Christine Downton, Associate Partner at The Observatory…

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