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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.    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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  2.    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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  3.    WFA Annual Report 2022

    WFA Annual Report 2022

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

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  4.    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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  5.    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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  6.    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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  7.    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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  8.    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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  9.    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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  10.    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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  11.    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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  12.    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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  13.    Benchmark: Recommended Partners for Marketing Capability Skills Frameworks and Assessments
    Marketing capabilities

    Benchmark: Recommended Partners for Marketing Capability Skills Frameworks and Assessments

    WFA member benchmark of recommendations for Marketing Capability Skills Frameworks and Assessments

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  14.    Spotlight Sonic Branding: The Power of Sound in Building Your Brand Identity

    Spotlight Sonic Branding: The Power of Sound in Building Your Brand Identity

    Drive greater emotional engagement through music

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  15.    EU Sustainable Food Systems Framework initiative
    Advertising & policy

    EU Sustainable Food Systems Framework initiative

    WFA-EU Pledge position on the EU Sustainable Food Systems ramework innitiative

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  16.    Benchmark: best practices for negotiations with your CRM agency(s)
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: best practices for negotiations with your CRM agency(s)

    WFA member benchmark on best practices for negotiations with your CRM agency(s).

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  17.    DGX Benchmark: Google Analytics
    Advertising & policyDigital policyPrivacy & tech

    DGX Benchmark: Google Analytics

    WFA’s third member benchmark on Google Analytics and regulatory decisions finding its use in breach of GDPR.

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  18.    WFA names first-ever co-chairs for Planet Pledge

    WFA names first-ever co-chairs for Planet Pledge

    Asahi and Mars leaders will lead efforts to boost action and knowledge of sustainability within marketing organisations around the world.

    AB InBev, Nissan and Schneider Electric join signatories.

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  19.    WFA Forum: New York Media Forum Overview - 28th February 2023 – Marketing Effectiveness and First Party Data Strategies
    Cross-media measurementMarketing effectivenessMarketing structureMedia transformation

    WFA Forum: New York Media Forum Overview - 28th February 2023 – Marketing Effectiveness and First Party Data Strategies

    Meeting overview and agenda from WFA’s New York Media Forum on the 28th of February 2023

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  20.    Spotlight: Stronger relationships produce stronger results - the proof
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Spotlight: Stronger relationships produce stronger results - the proof

    Does the strength of relationship between marketer and agency correlate with effective work?

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  21.    Benchmark: supplier performance management software
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: supplier performance management software

    WFA member benchmark on supplier performance management software.

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