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  1.    Spotlight: Go faster with less
    CMO ForumMarketing operationsMarketing organisation

    Spotlight: Go faster with less

    Less budget. Less time. Less resources. These challenges can fuel a new way of approaching content operations that boosts efficiency, quality, and results.

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  2.    Benchmark: Global Category Management – POS & displays
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Global Category Management – POS & displays

    This WFA member benchmark examined the category management of POS & displays.

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  3.    Why I love marketing procurement
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Why I love marketing procurement

    It may not be the most well-known route into a C-suite role but Alice Tomlinson, who started working for the WFA last year, outlines why marketing procurement is proving to be an attractive career.

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  4.    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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    My top 10 take-outs from talking to marketing's brightest minds

    The biggest brains in marketing offer their top tips to smarter, more effective marketing. David Wheldon highlights 10 great pieces of advice from recent episodes of the WFA’s Better Marketing podcast

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  6.    WFA launches Global Marketer of the Year 2022
    Brand purposeBrand reputationCreativityGlobal Marketer of the YearMarketing effectivenessMarketing structureContent marketingMarketing capabilitiesMarketing operations

    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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  7.    Take note: 5 back-to-school lessons for marketers
    Marketing capabilitiesMarketing operations

    Take note: 5 back-to-school lessons for marketers

    Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Mastercard and WFA President, shares five lessons to help marketers succeed and make the most of the rest of 2022 and beyond.

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  8.    Benchmark: Negotiations with tech titans or big digital platforms
    Marketing procurementValue of advertisingMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Negotiations with tech titans or big digital platforms

    WFA member benchmark on obtaining savings or other forms of value when negotiating with tech titans or big platforms.

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  9.    Marketing facing “worst-ever” talent crisis
    Marketing capabilitiesMedia transformation

    Marketing facing “worst-ever” talent crisis

    Data and analytics, eCommerce and measurement top skills shortage

    Over-specialisation, poor training and talent management key reasons for lack of staff development  

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  10.    Agency Roster Transformation
    Agency managementMarketing structureCMO Forum

    Agency Roster Transformation

    In-housing benefits as advertisers seek to respond to digital, Covid, sustainability and diversity and inclusion challenges

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  11.    Agency rosters face ongoing reform and revamps
    Agency managementMarketing structure

    Agency rosters face ongoing reform and revamps

    In-housing benefits as advertisers seek to respond to digital, Covid, sustainability and diversity and inclusion challenges, shows new WFA research

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  12.    Media Forum APAC (June 2022) eCommerce in South-East Asia
    Marketing technologyRetail media & ecommerceMarketing technology

    Media Forum APAC (June 2022) eCommerce in South-East Asia

    Building on the recent WFA study Global eCommerce and Marketing, this Forum continues the conversations around eCommerce with a particular lens on South East Asia and how brands can better manage and maximise media investment in eCommerce

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  13.    Benchmark: Recommended brand activation agencies in Germany

    Benchmark: Recommended brand activation agencies in Germany

    WFA member benchmark on recommended brand activation agencies in Germany.

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  14.    Benchmark: Purchase funnel media investment allocation for fast moving CPGs
    Marketing effectiveness

    Benchmark: Purchase funnel media investment allocation for fast moving CPGs

    A WFA member reached out with a view of trying to establish some benchmarks for the % of media investment that goes into each stage of the purchase funnel for fast moving CPGs.

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  15.    Marketing in the metaverse: a brave new world of nonsense or the key to your brand’s longevity?
    Marketing technologyDigital media transformationMarketing technology

    Marketing in the metaverse: a brave new world of nonsense or the key to your brand’s longevity?

    Guardian columnist and brand strategist, Arwa Mahdawi, reflects on the possibilities and challenges that the metaverse has in store for brands

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  16.    Creative effectiveness is not about taking risks
    CreativityMarketing effectivenessContent marketing

    Creative effectiveness is not about taking risks

    Having spent more than 10 years reporting on what works in marketing communications, the key to the effectiveness of creativity is down to more fundamental matters, says Marketing Week Editor-in-Chief, Russell Parsons

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  17.    Benchmark: Market research - challenges and solutions in sharing Nielsen’s data

    Benchmark: Market research - challenges and solutions in sharing Nielsen’s data

    WFA member benchmark on the challenges and solutions in sharing Nielsen’s data. 

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  18.    Benchmark: Sourcing approach to agency pitch

    Benchmark: Sourcing approach to agency pitch

    This WFA member benchmark examined the current sourcing approach to agency pitch.

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  19.    Global eCommerce and Marketing - Delivering a Successful Strategy
    Retail media & ecommerce

    Global eCommerce and Marketing - Delivering a Successful Strategy

    eCommerce-focused multinationals are spending significantly more on performance ads than brand messages

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  20.    Benchmark: Global Category Management – Influencer Marketing
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    Benchmark: Global Category Management – Influencer Marketing

    This WFA member benchmark examined the category management of Influencer Marketing

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  21.    Benchmark: Recruitment of marketing sourcing talent
    Marketing procurementMarketing structureMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Recruitment of marketing sourcing talent

    WFA member benchmark on recruiting marketing sourcing talent

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