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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.    RAC Programme Meeting Overview (February 2024)
    Advertising & policy

    RAC Programme Meeting Overview (February 2024)

    Meeting overview, presentations and briefings from WFA’s Responsible Advertising and Children (RAC) programme meeting on 21 February 2024.

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  2.    Benchmark: Gen AI on marketing creative
    Privacy & techAI

    Benchmark: Gen AI on marketing creative

    WFA member benchmark on guidelines on the use of generative AI in marketing creative

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  3.    AANA response to consultation on HFSS marketing restrictions in Australia

    AANA response to consultation on HFSS marketing restrictions in Australia

    The Asutralian national advertiser association, AANA, recently responsed to a consultation carried out by the Australian government as a response to their innitiative to further limit the advertising of HFSS products. 

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  4. Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Recommended PR agencies

    WFA member benchmark on recommended PR agencies

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  5. Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: recommended adaptation/translation agencies

    WFA member benchmark on recommended adaptation/translation agencies, specifically those who can offer copywriting services too. 

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  6.    PAG Meeting Overview (February 2024)
    Advertising & policyDigital policy

    PAG Meeting Overview (February 2024)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting on 20 February 2024

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  7. Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Recommended market research sources of data

    WFA member benchmark on recommended market research sources of data for market research agency benchmarks 

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  8.    Sourcing Forum Meeting (February 2024, remote)
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Sourcing Forum Meeting (February 2024, remote)

    Overview of the WFA Sourcing Forum meeting, held remotely on 22nd February 2024

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  9. Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Recommended POSM production companies

    WFA member benchmark on recommended POSM production services across Europe

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  10. Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Recommended packaging design agencies

    WFA member benchmark on recommended packaging design agencies. 

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  11.    Tackling the nitty gritty of Generative AI
    Marketing technologyAIMarketing technology

    Tackling the nitty gritty of Generative AI

    No new technology comes without risks and Generative AI is no exception. Brands need to be alert to the challenges if they want to take advantage of the opportunities, says WFA Associate Director, Digital Policy, Gabrielle Robitaille.

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  12.    Brands are trailing on data transformation
    Advertising & policyMarketing effectivenessMarketing technologyMarketing technology

    Brands are trailing on data transformation

    If there’s one key learning from the latest WFA research on data transformation, it’s that too few companies have yet taken the right actions to cope with the loss of cookies. Tom Ashby, Global Lead, Media Services at WFA, explains.

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  13. Marketing structureCMO Forum

    Benchmark: Internal brand communications and engagement

    WFA member benchmark around tactics to help imbed a new brand strategy within their global organisation.

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  14.    CMO: The impossible job?
    CMO

    CMO: The impossible job?

    Has CMO become an impossible job? Five industry leaders share their view.

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  15.    Spotlight: Housekeeping: In-house agency trends and challenges
    Agency managementIn-housingMarketing structureCMO ForumMarketing operations

    Spotlight: Housekeeping: In-house agency trends and challenges

    WFA webinar on in-house agency trends and challenges

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  16.    Unstereotype Alliance: ‘State of the Industry' report 2023
    Inclusive marketing

    Unstereotype Alliance: ‘State of the Industry' report 2023

    The industry-led coalition convened by UN Women published the third iteration of its report examining the progress of DEI across the global advertising industry in 2023, including an assessment of progress within workplaces, advertising content and consumer sentiment.

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  17.    Spotlight: ANA Programmatic Media Supply Chain Study

    Spotlight: ANA Programmatic Media Supply Chain Study

    Hear the authors of the groundbreaking report discuss their findings into the state of programmatic media, with key actions for advertisers.

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  18.    Spotlight: Creative briefing - using AI to stoke EI
    CreativityMarketing technologyAIDigital media transformationMarketing technology

    Spotlight: Creative briefing - using AI to stoke EI

    WFA members have always been quite humble in accepting that their briefing processes have enormous room for improvement. Bad briefs are said to cost the global economy $200 Billion in lost opportunity annually.

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  19.    Spotlight: Creative Production & The Economic Climate
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Spotlight: Creative Production & The Economic Climate

    Global economic instability including fluctuating inflation and currency rates has prompted WFA members to question the impact this will have on their Creative Production processes and what actions can be taken to future-proof creative and production eco-systems.

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  20.    Halo CMM Community Townhall Meeting
    Cross-media measurement

    Halo CMM Community Townhall Meeting

    Discover the Future of Cross-Media Measurement

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  21.    WFA Submission – 2nd report on the application of the GDPR
    Advertising & policyDigital policyGDPR

    WFA Submission – 2nd report on the application of the GDPR

    WFA’s submission to the European Commission 2024 report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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