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WFA produces resources, research and guides across a wide range of emerging marketing topics and challenges. All the work is informed by WFA member input and developed in close cooperation with the best experts from across the industry.

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  1.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Dr. Marcus Collins: ‘Cultural Catalyst'
    Global Marketer WeekMarketing effectivenessMarketing technologyMarketing technology

    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Dr. Marcus Collins: ‘Cultural Catalyst'

    Few external forces are more influential to human behaviour than culture, which makes cracking the culture code critical for marketers. With culture driving consumption & ushering brands' futures, Dr. Marcus Collins his presentation is a must see.

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  2.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Jonathan Adashek: ‘Putting Your Trust in AI?'
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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Jonathan Adashek: ‘Putting Your Trust in AI?'

    40% of companies have not yet deployed AI, underscoring a dramatic gap between hype and use. 2024 will be the year of overcoming barriers of entry to AI; including the skills gap, data complexity and, crucially, trust. Jonathan shares on how marketers and communicators can move to build trust in technology and help companies get out of the AI sandbox. 

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  3.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Stephan Loerke: ‘A Shared Global Agenda'
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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Stephan Loerke: ‘A Shared Global Agenda'

    Uncertainty and volatility are on the rise, whilst globalization is perceived to be in retreat. Yet marketers, no matter where they’re based in the world, face a very similar set of challenges. And that creates opportunities.

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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | The Better Marketing Debate: ‘CMO, The Impossible Job?'

    The CMO brief has never been so complex. Against a backdrop of polarised politics, a 24/7 newsreel and endless changes in consumer habits and technology, CMOs are tasked to drive business growth through purposeful and inclusive brands that appeal to new, more diverse audiences. Has CMO become the impossible job? The host of the Better Marketing podcast, David Wheldon, asks practising CMOs and an AI infused version of marketing guru Mark Ritson.

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  5.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Solitaire Townsend: ‘Selling Sustainability’
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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Solitaire Townsend: ‘Selling Sustainability’

    Why are so many companies having a hard time selling sustainability in Canada, the USA, the world? Solitaire Townsend, Futerra Co-Founder and Chief Solutionist, explains that ego-green marketing is dead and why that could be great news for your business.

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  6.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Allyson Witherspoon: ‘Innovation Driving Sustainable Growth’
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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Allyson Witherspoon: ‘Innovation Driving Sustainable Growth’

    From Nashville to Yokahama. Allyson's journey within Nissan is unique: a female marketing leader in a traditionally male-dominated industry. As Corporate VP & CMO at Nissan, Allyson tells us about the company’s world-leading innovative marketing helping to drive Nissan’s global success.

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  7.    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Raja Rajamannar & Stephan Pretorius: ‘The Impact of GenAI on Brand Growth’
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    WFA Global Marketer Week 2024 | Raja Rajamannar & Stephan Pretorius: ‘The Impact of GenAI on Brand Growth’

    Raja Rajamannar, WFA President & CMO at Mastercard, and Stephan Pretorius, Chief Technology Officer at WPP, give you a glimpse into the future of marketing: harnessing the transformative power of generative AI to help build brands and drive sustainable growth. 

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  8.    Media Forum Meeting Overview, Toronto, May 2024
    Media transformation

    Media Forum Meeting Overview, Toronto, May 2024

    Overview of the WFA Media Forum meeting, held in Toronto 

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  9.    WFA Sourcing Forum GMW (May 2024)
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    WFA Sourcing Forum GMW (May 2024)

    Overview of the WFA Sourcing Forum meeting, held in Toronto as part of Global Marketer Week

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    Benchmark: Panel service provider(s)

    WFA member benchmark on how marketing procurement professionals are managing their panel service provider(s).

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  11.    CMO Forum Toronto (May 2024)
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    CMO Forum Toronto (May 2024)

    Overview of the WFA CMO Forum held in person during WFA's Global Marketer Week in May 2024. 

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  12.    Spotlight: Navigating global media demand and pricing trends – 2024 & beyond
    Media transformation

    Spotlight: Navigating global media demand and pricing trends – 2024 & beyond

    Join Mark Gallagher (EVP Global Investment) at Omnicom Media Group as we dig into global media pricing trends for 2024 (and beyond).

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  13.    AI Community meeting overview (April 2024)
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    AI Community meeting overview (April 2024)

    Overview of the AI Community meeting held remotely on 24 April 2024.

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  14.    This month in AI: brands say no to agencies, paid AI search, new regulations and the rise of AI influencers
    Digital policyAI

    This month in AI: brands say no to agencies, paid AI search, new regulations and the rise of AI influencers

    In today’s rapidly changing digital and technological landscape, keeping pace with the latest trends can be challenging. As AI transforms the marketing industry at an unprecedented rate, staying informed has never been more important. That’s why I am launching WFA’s monthly AI update, serving as your one-stop round up of the most important developments impacting your use of AI.

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  15.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 32: On AI, sharing and scaling with Asmita Dubey, L'Oréal
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 32: On AI, sharing and scaling with Asmita Dubey, L'Oréal

    In episode 32 of the Better Marketing Pod, David Wheldon speaks to L'Oréal's CMO, Marketer of 2023 and Global Marketer Week speaker, Asmita Dubey.

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  16.    Facing the Firestorm
    Inclusive marketing

    Facing the Firestorm

    How can brands be resilient in polarised times? Sebastian Parker and Ishani Rege from Creative Equals, WFA's strategic partner for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, sum up the key lessons from a recent WFA webinar on campaign backlash.

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  17.    CMO Forum APAC meeting overview (April 2024)
    Retail media & ecommerce

    CMO Forum APAC meeting overview (April 2024)

    Overview of the WFA CMO Forum Asia Pacific held in person in Singapore

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  18.    Spotlight: The Democratisation of Virtual Production
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    Spotlight: The Democratisation of Virtual Production

    The past few years have seen the emergence and evolution of virtual production.

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  19.    Navigating the Complexity of Marketing Capability Measurement
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    Navigating the Complexity of Marketing Capability Measurement

    Proving the impact of capability building is vital, says WFA Associate Director, Global Marketing Services, Julia Kraft, as she outlines the latest report from the WFA Marketing Capability Forum.

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  20.    The DSA implementation and enforcement tracker
    Advertising & policyDigital policy

    The DSA implementation and enforcement tracker

    A tracker of the implementation measures taken by key online platforms to meet the advertising-related obligations in the EU’s Digital Services Act, and of the enforcement cases of relevance to advertisers.

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  21.    WFA Media Forum March 2024: Forum Connect Amsterdam
    Marketing effectivenessMedia transformation

    WFA Media Forum March 2024: Forum Connect Amsterdam

    Forum Connect in Amsterdam brought together four peer groups (Media, CMO, Insights, Sourcing) around the common theme of ‘integration’.

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