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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 Survey: Responsible Marketing Frameworks
    Advertising & policyDigital policyInclusive marketing

    WFA Survey: Responsible Marketing Frameworks

    Responsible Marketing Frameworks are becoming increasingly critical for brands. WFA ran a survey during the beginning of 2023 to broader understand the composition of these frameworks, some of their weaknesses and areas for potential collaboration across teams. 

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  2.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Raja Rajamannar & Brian O'Kelley: Towards a sustainable future
    Advertising & policyBrand purposeBrand reputationGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing structureMarketing operations

    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 of better behaviours within their partner ecosystem. Building on this, Brian lauches results from a unique global pilot initiative, in partnership with Mastercard and a select group of global brand owners, to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of programmatic advertising.

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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 Tenth Floor

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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 reputationGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing structureMarketing operations

    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 future’, we explore whether brand owners have the right focus in terms of becoming part of the solution. Join us as our two teams explore the deltas of our role in a sustainable future.

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  5.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Cristina Diezhandino & Ali Hanan: Progressive pathways to growth
    Advertising & policyGlobal Marketer WeekInclusive marketing

    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 agitate for change in the global marketing industry and deliver against a shared ambition - more diverse and inclusive creative leadership. Through a Progressive Marketing Flywheel of inclusion, creativity and purpose, this session will inspire us to think differently about one of the toughest, yet most meaningful, metrics: return on inclusion.

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

    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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  7.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Rupen Desai: Regenerative marketing: Biggest opportunity of our time?
    Global Marketer WeekMarketing structureMarketing operations

    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 prosperity, all thrive together, never one at the cost of one another.

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  8.    WFA Global Marketer Week '23 | Conny Braams & David Jones: Supercharging sustainable growth
    CreativityGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing technologyGamingDigital media transformationMarketing 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 growth for brands, people and planet.

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  9.    Sourcing Forum meeting (April 2023)
    Marketing procurementMarketing 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.    An update on the advertisers’ approach to cross-media measurement
    Cross-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 cross-media measurement concept.

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  11.    Brands say Responsible Marketing Frameworks are more important than ever but coverage of all the key issues remains patchy
    Advertising & policyBrand purposeDigital policyBrand reputationGlobal Marketer WeekInclusive marketingDigital media 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; marketing and children, influencer marketing, data ethics, diversity and inclusion, responsible media and environmental sustainability.

    While 87% say they are increasingly critical, only 47% link their frameworks to ESG goals.

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  12.    WFA Annual Report 2022

    WFA Annual Report 2022

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

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  13.    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
    Global Marketer Week

    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 competition, accountability, responsibility, sustainability, and people.

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  14.    WFA issues Global Media Charter 3.0
    Brand purposeBrand reputationCross-media measurement

    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 competition, accountability, responsibility, sustainability and people.

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  15.    WFA launches Sustainable Marketing 2030 to close the gap between intent and action
    Advertising & policyBrand purposeBrand reputationGlobal Marketer WeekSustainabilityMarketing 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 grown

    Forty-one percent say they now have a sustainability story they are proud to communicate, up from 25% in 2021

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  16.    WFA Survey: A Closer Look at Data Clean Rooms
    Advertising & policyMedia & analytics

    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 result, advertisers have felt the need to seek alternative solutions for data-driven advertising and measurement, such as clean rooms, which offer a secure and privacy-compliant environment for data analysis and activation. 

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  17.    Spotlight: Reach Curves Gone Rogue
    Cross-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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  18.    Beware advertisers, the EU has a new plan to limit hot air around environmental claims
    Advertising & policySustainability

    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 consequences for advertisers and consumers

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  19.    Saving money without reducing your impact
    Agency management

    Saving money without reducing your impact

    Look after your marketing pence and the pounds will manage themselves. Christine Downton, Associate Partner at The Observatory International, explains how to reduce costs without reducing long-term business growth or affecting your agency relationships.

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  20.    How do you create sustainable growth? 3 more experts share their views
    Advertising & policyBrand purposeBrand reputationGlobal Marketer WeekSustainability

    How do you create sustainable growth? 3 more experts share their views

    Ahead of WFA Global Marketer Week in Istanbul, we asked three thought-leaders for their views on how to achieve the holy grail of sustainable growth

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  21.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 25: On the role of business in reaching the sustainable development goals with Rob Cameron, Nestlé
    Advertising & policyBrand purpose

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 25: On the role of business in reaching the sustainable development goals with Rob Cameron, Nestlé

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Rob Cameron, Global Head of Public Affairs at Nestlé, about what can marketers do to drive the sustainability agenda and the role of business in achieving the SDGs.

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