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  1.    Spotlight: Journey with GenAI: real-world applications and current progress
    CreativityAI

    Spotlight: Journey with GenAI: real-world applications and current progress

    Trying to keep up with AI? Intentful’s Marina Petrova offers a much-needed update and reality check.

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  2.    Benchmark: Gen AI on marketing creative
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    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.    The Marketer's Forecast 2024
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    The Marketer's Forecast 2024

    MediaLink's global annual survey of 400+ marketing leaders

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  4.    Spotlight: The impact of AI on Production
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    Spotlight: The impact of AI on Production

    Are we seeing genuine innovation or just greater efficiency?

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  5.    Spotlight: Beyond ChatGPT - Practical use and innovation in marketing, e-commerce, and search with GenAI
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    Spotlight: Beyond ChatGPT - Practical use and innovation in marketing, e-commerce, and search with GenAI

    Learn how GenAI is being rolled out in marketing across the globe.

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  6.    Key trends from Cannes jurors and commentators
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    Key trends from Cannes jurors and commentators

    Cannes Lions jurors and commentators share their views on this year's edition of the festival.

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  7.    My five takeaways from Cannes 2023
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    My five takeaways from Cannes 2023

    This year’s Cannes Lions had a real buzz about it. Clients seemed re-energised by the reprioritisation of creative effectiveness and real purpose, and the challenges of addressing sustainability and inclusion. Stephan Loerke, WFA CEO, provides his take-aways from five days in the south of France.

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  8.    If Artificial Intelligence can end humanity, just imagine what it can do for marketing!
    Digital policyAI

    If Artificial Intelligence can end humanity, just imagine what it can do for marketing!

    If we are to believe all the articles currently being written on the subject of Artificial Intelligence, it’s highly probable that it will cause the end of humanity.

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  9.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Mark Adams: Think like a designer, not a marketer
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    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 industrial revolution and to tackle them we have to understand our place in history, embrace the optimism that got us here and ‘design’ our way out.

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  10.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Conny Braams & David Jones: Supercharging sustainable growth
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    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 growth for brands, people and planet.

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  11.    How to be more creative in 2023?
    Creativity

    How to be more creative in 2023?

    Sir John Hegarty shares three tips for marketers on how to be more creative than ever during the course of 2023.

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  12.    Reasons to be optimistic: How the best work of 2022 can help marketers up their game in 2023
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    Reasons to be optimistic: How the best work of 2022 can help marketers up their game in 2023

    Guardian columnist and brand strategist, Arwa Mahdawi, takes a look at the lessons 2022 has taught marketers for the year ahead.

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  13.    Media Forum Meeting Overview (20th October 2022)
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    Media Forum Meeting Overview (20th October 2022)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Media Forum on the 20th October 2022

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  14.    Bringing back the talent

    Bringing back the talent

    Attracting and retaining talent is undoubtedly the most important challenge in the communication industry right now. Our business is solely about talent; it’s 75% of our costs and 100% of our value, says Christian de la Villehuchet, Global Chief Integration Officer at Havas and President of the European Association of Communications Agencies.

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  15.    Spotlight: E-commerce content creation - setting up for success
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    Spotlight: E-commerce content creation - setting up for success

    To support an efficient and effective e-commerce content creation strategy it is essential that brands establish a clearly defined workflow and engage the right creative and production partners.

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  16.    Ditch the metaverse FOMO
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    Ditch the metaverse FOMO

    Brands need to think twice before entering ‘the metaverse’. Rob Foster, senior consultant at The Observatory International, explains why strategy should be more important than fear of missing out.

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  17.    Re-finding our marketing mojo
    Creativity

    Re-finding our marketing mojo

    Our industry can still be the place where the best people do their best work, says Will Gilroy, WFA Director of Policy and Communications.

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  18.    Marketers failing to overcome key barriers to creativity, WFA research
    Creativity

    Marketers failing to overcome key barriers to creativity, WFA research

    Many client-side marketers failing to prioritise creativity, despite recognising its power to deliver more effective marketing 

    Risk averse cultures, short-term-focus and too many decision makers are all key issues

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  19.    Advertising’s creativity crisis: if creativity is a ‘super-power’ why is everyone so afraid to use it?
    Brand reputationCreativity

    Advertising’s creativity crisis: if creativity is a ‘super-power’ why is everyone so afraid to use it?

    Guardian columnist and brand strategist, Arwa Mahdawi, reflects on the decline in creative effectiveness that is threatening the global marketing industry

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  20.    WFA launches Global Marketer of the Year 2022
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    WFA launches Global Marketer of the Year 2022

    Partners with The Drum to celebrate global and regional marketers and the work they do to strengthen their brands and businesses

    New WFA Hall of Fame celebrates the work of all the marketers who have been shortlisted in the five previous rounds of the award

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  21.    Clients and Creativity
    Advertising & policyCreativity

    Clients and Creativity

    With creative communications effectiveness on the decline, what can brand owners do to reverse the decline and drive sustainable brand growth? 

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