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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.    Microsoft / ‘We all win’

    Microsoft / ‘We all win’

    Microsoft-owned Xbox has created a controller to meet the needs of gamers with disabilities.

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  2.    WFA launches new guide on diversity and inclusion in marketing
    Inclusive marketing

    WFA launches new guide on diversity and inclusion in marketing

    New report supports the case for an equitable and accurate representation of race and ethnicity, ability, sexuality, gender identity and age in marketing. New WFA Diversity & Inclusion Task Force launched. Group to be led by new WFA Diversity Ambassadors: former EA Marketing lead, Belinda Smith, and GSK’s Senior Media Director for EMEA, Jerry Daykin

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  3.    WFA position on data and privacy
    Advertising & policyDigital policyAd techData governancePrivacy & tech

    WFA position on data and privacy

    This position paper outlines WFA's vision regarding data and privacy.

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  4.    Webinar: Better sponsorship outcomes through better category management
    Marketing procurementMarketing strategyMarketing procurementMarketing strategy

    Webinar: Better sponsorship outcomes through better category management

    This webinar examines processes and tools for better sponsorship investment management.

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  5.    Benchmark: Media Buying In South Korea
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: Media Buying In South Korea

    WFA member benchmark on Media Buying In South Korea

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  6.    Webinar+: Crisis clinic – Managing your global content production in the Covid epidemic
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Webinar+: Crisis clinic – Managing your global content production in the Covid epidemic

    This webinar focusses on how experts are expecting the global content production ecosystem to evolve and how brands can respond.

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  7.    WFA submission - Report on the application of the GDPR
    Advertising & policyDigital policyData governanceGDPR

    WFA submission - Report on the application of the GDPR

    WFA's submission to the European Commission 2020 report on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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  8.    Webinar: Mind the gap - Video advertising reach in the age of increasing media fragmentation
    Marketing effectivenessCMO Forum

    Webinar: Mind the gap - Video advertising reach in the age of increasing media fragmentation

    In this webinar focusses on what the future may hold for online video and how brands should treat this medium going forward.

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  9.    Maintaining an appropriate level of governance with agencies
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Maintaining an appropriate level of governance with agencies

    Financial Progression has released a bulletin for WFA members to assist them in deciding how best to undertake their contract compliance audit programme in 2020

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  10.    Eighty percent of multinationals deferring campaigns but the same number are creating new content in response to the Covid19 crisis
    Marketing operations

    Eighty percent of multinationals deferring campaigns but the same number are creating new content in response to the Covid19 crisis

    WFA compendium collates best-practice examples of how marketing teams are developing campaigns in response to the crisis

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  11.    Survey: Data ethics (2020)
    Advertising & policyDigital policyPrivacy & tech

    Survey: Data ethics (2020)

    WFA survey on how members are managing challenges around data ethics and what practices exist within their company.

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  12.    Benchmark: TV inflation in Indonesia
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Benchmark: TV inflation in Indonesia

    WFA member benchmark on TV inflation in Indonesia 

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  13.    Selling to China’s 'now' consumer through social commerce

    Selling to China’s 'now' consumer through social commerce

    Following up on a recent webinar for WFA members, Ali Zein Kazmi, VP Partnerships & Strategic Development, Asia & China, Ogilvy, provides insights into the opportunities and challenges of doing social commerce in China

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  14. Advertising & policy

    Alcohol marketers seek to prevent minors from seeing alcohol ads

    There is a perception shared by some that minors see many alcohol ads. The story that isn't being told, however, is that the industry has made big efforts in recent years to significantly reduce minors’ exposure to alcohol ads. WFA Policy Manager Julia Quintella explains.

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  15.    COVID-19: Promoting positive gender roles in marketing and advertising

    COVID-19: Promoting positive gender roles in marketing and advertising

    Key considerations for businesses developing a number of socially beneficial communications for the public in an effort to address the impacts of COVID-19

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  16.    WFA announces changes to global leadership team

    WFA announces changes to global leadership team

    New appointments to Executive Committee from Just Eat, Pernod Ricard, Sanofi and TATA

    Unilever’s David Porter and Nigeria’s Bunmi Adeniba take on Regional VP roles

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  17.    Webinar: How advertising lost sight of creativity and what to do about it
    CreativityMarketing effectiveness

    Webinar: How advertising lost sight of creativity and what to do about it

    System1's Orlando Wood introduces his bestselling book with the IPA, ‘Lemon : How the Advertising Brain Turned Sour’ (2019).

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  18.    Survey: Covid-19 global response (March 2020)
    Trends & forecastsMarketing strategyMarketing structureMarketing operationsMarketing strategy

    Survey: Covid-19 global response (March 2020)

    This survey gathered input from senior multinational marketers on how they are reacting to the global Covid-19 epidemic.

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  19.    Webinar+: Crisis clinic - Managing your media in the Covid epidemic
    Marketing strategyMarketing operationsMarketing strategy

    Webinar+: Crisis clinic - Managing your media in the Covid epidemic

    This interactive webinar and clinic with WFA, Digital Decisions and Ebiquity offers the chance to to hear how consultants are expecting the media markets to evolve, and how you can respond.

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  20.    Value at the time of the virus
    Agency management

    Value at the time of the virus

    Marketing procurement can help brands and their agencies in this rapidly-changing environment. Laura Forcetti, WFA’s Global Sourcing Lead, explains how.

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  21.    Webinar: WFA in 2020 - What’s now, what’s next
    Advertising & policyDigital policyMarketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Webinar: WFA in 2020 - What’s now, what’s next

    The WFA team presented on priorities shared by our multinational marketing communities over the past year and in the future.

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