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Meeting overview, presentations and briefings from WFA’s Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting on 2 May 2018 in Brussels.
Meeting headlines: 1. Fair & motivating remuneration = better results 2. Understanding the 3 primary remuneration model constructs 3. Demystifying ZBB or Zero-Based Budgeting 4. Effective PBR requires co-created KPIs easily understood, and measured, by all parties 5. Content production: working with crowdsourcing platforms 6. Project Spring: “moving from what we’re buying to what we expect what we buy to do”
Overview of the Media Forum held in April 2018 in New York City.
Seven tips for more effective agency compensation
Meeting headlines: 1. Project Spring: sourcing enabling marketing and driving business success 2. Convincing marketing of the value of sourcing to the business 3. Using software solutions to evolve your relationships with partners 4. Driving better agency management through effective data reconciliation 5. Remuneration: “there are no right or wrong models, but for each you can do it in the good or bad way”
London Meeting Overview
Overview of the Media Forum held in March 2018 in Shanghai.
Meeting headlines: 1. Digital rosters & rate cards in China? No “one size fits all” 2. “To in-house or not to in-house…” – navigating the Chinese programmatic market 3. Understanding the world of Key Opinion Leaders and influencers in China 4. Influencers: from tactical to strategic sourcing in China
Dubai March 2018 Meeting Overview
Meeting overview, presentations and briefings from WFA’s Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting on 20 February 2018 in Brussels.
Meeting headlines: 1. Rosters & beyond: different approaches to manage the marketing long tail 2. Agency compensation: towards a deliverable-driven project model 3. Project Spring: marketing sourcing, facilitator of business growth
Overview of the Digital Governance Exchange (DGX) meeting held on 8 February 2018 in London.
Meeting headlines: 1. “People not pixels” - driving increased trust in the market place 2. Building transparency, block by block(chain) 3. Overcoming global media agency ecosystem design issues 4. “Best of breed vs one throat to choke” – decisions around the right agency model for your organisation
Pope Francis, Donald Trump, H.H. the Dalai Lama and Jack Ma walk into a marketing conference…and Most Contagious 2017 begins.
Meeting headlines: 1. Media auditing: an increasing need for change 2. Evolving the relationship with agencies through performance evaluations 3. Towards calculating return on relationships 4. Influencers: from tactical to strategic sourcing
“AI can be the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity,” warns Stephen Hawking during the opening night of Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon.
Some soundbites for marketers from this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon
Meeting headlines: 1. Overcoming internal media resourcing issues 2. “I just want the receipts from all my transactions” – programmatic audits for full transparency 3. “It’s not sexy but it plays an important role” – the changing face of ‘independent media advisors’