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  1.    Spotlight: Sustainable storytelling - what are you scared of?
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    Spotlight: Sustainable storytelling - what are you scared of?

    There are many reasons WFA members have hesitated to communicate around their sustainability efforts: The risk of exposing themselves in other areas of the business. Coming across as lacking authenticity. Inadvertently greenwashing. Or simply because they do not see the potential business benefit.

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  2.    Mondelēz and Sanofi join Planet Pledge
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    Mondelēz and Sanofi join Planet Pledge

    Two more major global brand owners have signed up to WFA’s Planet Pledge, a worldwide commitment to making marketing a force for positive change both internally and among consumers.

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  3.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 12: On marketing in Africa with Folake Ani-Mumuney
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 12: On marketing in Africa with Folake Ani-Mumuney

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Folake Ani-Mumuney, Global Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications at First Bank of Nigeria, about why brands need to start focusing more on the African continent.

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  4.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 11: On sustainability with Reckitt's Sonia Thimmiah
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 11: On sustainability with Reckitt's Sonia Thimmiah

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Sonia Thimmiah, Head of Sustainable Brands & Customer Partnerships at Reckitt.

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  5.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 10: On digital platforms and the cookieless world with “The Ad Contrarian” Bob Hoffman
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 10: On digital platforms and the cookieless world with “The Ad Contrarian” Bob Hoffman

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with “The Ad Contrarian”, Bob Hoffman.

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  6.    What’s worth keeping post pandemic
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    What’s worth keeping post pandemic

    The pandemic has changed everything but what new priorities, behaviours or ways of working from the last two years would jury members for the Global Marketer of the Year retain for the future?

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  7.    WFA launches Global Marketer of the Year 2021
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    WFA launches Global Marketer of the Year 2021

    Partners with The Drum to celebrate the work that global and regional marketers have done to strengthen their brands and businesses during the second year of the pandemic

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  8.    Five CMOs with five post lockdown tips
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    Five CMOs with five post lockdown tips

    Leading global marketers share five back-to-school tips with WFA’s Better Marketing Pod with David Wheldon

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  9.    In conversation with four marketing stars for the future
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    In conversation with four marketing stars for the future

    WFA worked with industry publication The Drum to identify this year’s Future 50, the best new marketing talent from around the world who are taking our industry forward.

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  10.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 9: On purpose, Orlando Bloom and teaching from Tasmania with Professor Mark Ritson
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 9: On purpose, Orlando Bloom and teaching from Tasmania with Professor Mark Ritson

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with the inimitable marketing professor and industry commentator, Mark Ritson.

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  11.    Get comfortable with sustainability
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    Get comfortable with sustainability

    The key insight from the WFA’s Marketing and Sustainability: Closing the Gaps research is that marketers need to get more comfortable with the topic. Scott Young from BVA Nudge Unit explains how that’s possible.

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  12.    Marketing’s Missing P: Planet
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    Marketing’s Missing P: Planet

    Is marketing at odds with sustainability? Thomas Lingard, Global Climate & Environment Director, Unilever, shares his view on how marketers can be a positive force for change.

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  13.    L’Oréal, NatWest and PepsiCo sign up to WFA Planet Pledge
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    L’Oréal, NatWest and PepsiCo sign up to WFA Planet Pledge

    13 companies now on board pledge to help marketers lead on sustainability  

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  14.    How are you helping marketing get on the sustainability journey?
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    How are you helping marketing get on the sustainability journey?

    We asked three leading CMOs how their organisation was taking action to improve the sustainability of their messages and their products.

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  15.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 8: On making an iconic doll relevant again with Lisa McKnight
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 8: On making an iconic doll relevant again with Lisa McKnight

    WFA podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Lisa McKnight, SVP and Global Head of Barbie & Dolls at Mattel, Inc.

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  16.    WFA launches framework to help marketers lead on climate change challenge
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    WFA launches framework to help marketers lead on climate change challenge

    Initiative is designed to put marketers in a position where they can help lead brands’ responses to climate change

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  17.    Marketing and Sustainability: Closing the Gaps
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    Marketing and Sustainability: Closing the Gaps

    What can Marketers do to drive Sustainability in their industry?

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  18.    WFA launches Planet Pledge for Marketers
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    WFA launches Planet Pledge for Marketers

    WFA launches framework to help marketers lead on climate change challenge

    New research suggests marketers lag corporate progress on the sustainability journey

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  19.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 7: On sustainability and courageous marketing with Conny Braams
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 7: On sustainability and courageous marketing with Conny Braams

    WFA Podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Conny Braams, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, Unilever.

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  20.    Marketing has the chance to lead post pandemic but structures need an overhaul
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    Marketing has the chance to lead post pandemic but structures need an overhaul

    Companies are asking ever more from their marketing leaders but if they want to achieve the customer-centricity they covet they must first look at how they are set-up, says Marketing Week Editor-in-Chief, Russell Parsons.

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  21.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 6: On humor and catching the 'F-train' with Ivan Pollard
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    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 6: On humor and catching the 'F-train' with Ivan Pollard

    WFA Podcast host, David Wheldon, speaks with Ivan Pollard, Senior VP and Global CMO, General Mills.

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