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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.    Elastic Generation: The Female Edit

    Elastic Generation: The Female Edit

    Report exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of British women aged between 53 and 72.

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  2.    Marketing with purpose: Mars' Jane Wakely
    Global Marketer of the Year

    Marketing with purpose: Mars' Jane Wakely

    Campaign is showcasing the six CMOs shortlisted for WFA's Global Marketer of the Year award.

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  3.    Priceless success: Mastercard's Raja Rajamannar
    Brand purposeGlobal Marketer of the YearMarketing strategyMarketing strategy

    Priceless success: Mastercard's Raja Rajamannar

    Campaign is showcasing the six CMOs shortlisted for WFA's Global Marketer of the Year award.

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  4.    Empowering marketers and unstereotyping ads: Unilever's Keith Weed
    Brand purposeGlobal Marketer of the YearMarketing strategyMarketing strategy

    Empowering marketers and unstereotyping ads: Unilever's Keith Weed

    Campaign is showcasing the six CMOs shortlisted for WFA's Global Marketer of the Year award.

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  5.    From transparency to equality: P&G's Marc Pritchard
    Brand purposeGlobal Marketer of the YearMarketing strategyMarketing strategy

    From transparency to equality: P&G's Marc Pritchard

    Campaign is showcasing the six CMOs shortlisted for WFA's Global Marketer of the Year award.

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  6.    Project Reconnect masterdeck 2019
    Trends & forecastsBrand purposeBrand reputationGlobal Marketer Week

    Project Reconnect masterdeck 2019

    Project Reconnect is WFA’s effort to develop a better understanding of what people want and expect from brands and help marketers better align marketing strategies and practices with people’s changing expectations and sensitivities.

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  7. We are looking for a Digital Policy Manager

    The successful candidate will be part of WFA’s policy team

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  8.    WFA CEO: 2017 in review

    WFA CEO: 2017 in review

    Stephan Loerke, WFA's CEO, looks back at 2017 and what it meant from a brand owners' perspective

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  9.    4 public affairs predictions for 2018

    4 public affairs predictions for 2018

    The WFA public affairs team share their predictions for what the next 12 months hold for brands.

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  10. 6 marketing predictions for 2018

    The WFA marketing team share their predictions for what the next 12 months hold for brands.

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  11. Global Marketer of the Year

    WFA names shortlist for Global Marketer of the Year

    The WFA has unveiled the shortlist for the inaugural Global Marketer of the Year, featuring executives from Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, Mars, Mastercard, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.

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  12.    It’s the Most Contagious time of the year
    Brand purposeMarketing strategyMarketing strategy

    It’s the Most Contagious time of the year

    Pope Francis, Donald Trump, H.H. the Dalai Lama and Jack Ma walk into a marketing conference…and Most Contagious 2017 begins.

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  13.    Are you ready for GDPR? The WFA guide to GDPR guide for Marketers (2017)
    Advertising & policyDigital policyData governancePrivacy & techGDPRDigital media transformation

    Are you ready for GDPR? The WFA guide to GDPR guide for Marketers (2017)

    When it comes to the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation, 7 out of 10 marketers are in the dark. Maybe you’re one of them. Since the regulation came into force in 2018, anyone marketing to people within the EU needs to be fully GDPR compliant. This means making major changes to how you capture and process consumer data and how your consumers interact with your brand online through your website or your app.

    Ignore GDPR and you run the risk of heavy fines and damage to your reputation. But you don’t need to face this alone. At WFA we’re working hard to give members the advice they need. 

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  14.    EU Pledge Factsheet 2017
    Advertising & policy

    EU Pledge Factsheet 2017

    The EU Pledge is a commitment by leading food & beverage companies to the European Commission’s Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, supported by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

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  15.    EU Pledge Annual Reports
    Advertising & policy

    EU Pledge Annual Reports

    In line with the Terms of Reference of the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, EU Pledge signatories are required to monitor and report on the implementation of their commitments. EU Pledge member companies have committed to carry out independent, third-party compliance monitoring of the two central EU Pledge commitments every year in a representative sample of EU Member States.

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  16.    Sourcing Forum Meeting Overview NY December 2017
    Marketing procurementMarketing procurement

    Sourcing Forum Meeting Overview NY December 2017

     Meeting headlines: 1. Media auditing: an increasing need for change 2. Evolving the relationship with agencies through performance evaluations 3. Towards calculating return on relationships 4. Influencers: from tactical to strategic sourcing

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  17.    WFA top priorities for AVMSD trilogue discussions (2017)
    Advertising & policy

    WFA top priorities for AVMSD trilogue discussions (2017)

    Priorities for WFA regarding the AVMSD revision.

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  18.    10 things you should know about GDPR
    Digital policy

    10 things you should know about GDPR

    Not fully aware of the implications of GDPR? You’re not alone.

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  19.    What great brand stories can do for business
    Brand reputationCMO Forum

    What great brand stories can do for business

    In a year where the technicalities and transparency issues of media came under severe scrutiny, great brand stories are a critical counterpoint to the current challenges of media governance.

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  20.    Media Forum Meeting Overview Amsterdam November 2017

    Media Forum Meeting Overview Amsterdam November 2017

     Meeting headlines: 1. Overcoming internal media resourcing issues 2. “I just want the receipts from all my transactions” – programmatic audits for full transparency 3. “It’s not sexy but it plays an important role” – the changing face of ‘independent media advisors’

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  21.    Webinar: Total view attribution

    Webinar: Total view attribution

    This webinar with Ebiquity explains how you can develop a holistic attribution system that takes the best of these approaches to provide the correct overall scaling of different media channels whilst providing the necessary detail of digital media performance that digital marketers crave.

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