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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 (May 2023)
    Advertising & policy

    RAC Programme Meeting Overview (May 2023)

    Meeting overview, presentations and briefings from WFA’s Responsible Advertising and Children (RAC) programme meeting on 1 March 2023.

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  2.    PAG Meeting Overview (May 2023)
    Digital policy

    PAG Meeting Overview (May 2023)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting on 23 May 2023.

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  3.    Spotlight: Optimising your Influencer spend and learnings from across APAC

    Spotlight: Optimising your Influencer spend and learnings from across APAC

    Embarking on an influencer strategy?  Get insights into the best practices and how to contract your engagement.

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  4.    Meta Q&A on privacy and advertising
    Advertising & policyDigital policyPrivacy & tech

    Meta Q&A on privacy and advertising

    A Q&A session with Meta on recent privacy and advertising developments, and how they impact advertisers.

     

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  5.    Media x Sourcing Forum meeting overview (March 2023)
    Marketing procurementMarketing strategyMarketing structureMarketing procurementMarketing strategyMedia transformation

    Media x Sourcing Forum meeting overview (March 2023)

    Overview of the Media x Sourcing Forum held remotely on 29th March 2023.

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  6.    Sourcing Forum meeting (May 2023)
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Sourcing Forum meeting (May 2023)

    Overview of the Sourcing Forum held remotely on the 17th May 2023.

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  7.    Spotlight: Current trends in global content production
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Spotlight: Current trends in global content production

    With all the change in the industry, it's never been more essential for marketers to stay informed on what's new in content production.

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  8.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 26: On WFA's work and the importance of community in the marketing industry with Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard
    CMO ForumDigital media transformationMarketing operationsMedia transformation

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 26: On WFA's work and the importance of community in the marketing industry with Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Mastercard and WFA's President, about the importance of WFA and Global Marketer Week in building communities within the industry and how his roles at Mastercard and WFA interconnect.

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  9.    Overview of the DSA/DMA Taskforce meeting held remotely on 10 May 2023.
    Advertising & policyDigital policy

    Overview of the DSA/DMA Taskforce meeting held remotely on 10 May 2023.

    WFA’s DSA/DMA task force brings together policy leads within WFA membership to discuss, plan and develop advocacy and outreach on the EU Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act

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  10.    Insight Forum meeting overview (May 2023)

    Insight Forum meeting overview (May 2023)

    Meeting overview from WFA’s Insight Forum meeting on 15 May 2023, which took place remotely.

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  11.    Capability Forum Overview (April 2023)
    CMO ForumMarketing operations

    Capability Forum Overview (April 2023)

    Meeting overview and presentations from WFA’s Capability Forum meeting on 19 April 2023, which took place remotely.

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  12.    “We’re going to have to be amazingly humble”
    Advertising & policyBrand purposeBrand reputationGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing operationsMedia transformation

    “We’re going to have to be amazingly humble”

    WFA CEO, Stephan Loerke, offers his verdict on WFA Global Marketer Week in Istanbul

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  13.    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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  14.    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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  15.    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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  16.    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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  17.    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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  18.    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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  19.    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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  20.    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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  21.    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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