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One of my old agency colleagues said to me the other day: ”Clients routinely overrate themselves and underrate their agencies.” Whether you think this is harsh probably depends on which side of the fence you work.
The Data & Technology workshops considered how organisations should be approaching their technology and programmatic model choices; how they might adopt processes to better exploit data, and how can this account for global vs local structures.
The following, non-exhaustive list, emerged from a WFA member-only round-table discussion during a CDO Forum.
Challenges with contracts, transparency and remuneration are considerable and commonplace among members. The Transparency & Contracts workshops considered solutions to some challenges.
Many WFA members have identified a lack of skilled resource as one of their major transformation challenges. The People & Capabilities workshops considered approaches companies should be considering to build capability worldwide.
Meeting headlines: 1. Understanding ad fraudsters, and how to deal with them 2. Constant reappraisal of verification solutions is necessary 3. Market-leading programmatic strategies: integrated and customised
Meeting headlines: 1. “Data Driven Marketing is ‘table stakes’…you have to know your customer” 2. “It’s beautiful and expensive…but what does it do?” – making the most of MarTech 3. Brand safety developments…“A relentless focus on cost will exacerbate the problem”
WFA member benchmark. For additional details, please log in.
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The Coalition for Better Ads has released initial Better Ads Standards for desktop and mobile web that reflect consumer advertising preferences in North American and European markets. The initial Better Ads Standards are based on research during which consumers were asked to read articles on simulated high quality content pages, and then to rate comparatively the different ad experiences they received. Over 25,000 consumers rated 104 ad experiences for desktop web and mobile web. The Coalition’s research identifies the ad experiences in both North America and Europe that ranked lowest across a range of user experience factors, and that are most highly correlated with an increased propensity for consumers to adopt ad blockers. These results define initial Better Ads Standards that identify the ad experiences that fall beneath a threshold of consumer acceptability.
Meeting headlines: 1. Effective agency management comes down to internal capabilities; 2. The future of connection planning: stop over-complicating; 3. Uncertainty can be a positive;
WFA's Matt Green will walk through the major findings from WFA’s recent report on programmatic.
Internet users rarely agree on anything. Except maybe one thing.
The first CMOFORUM of the year kicked off in Singapore in February.
Mobile World Congress is big. Surprisingly big.
Meeting headlines: 1. Integrated briefing: client leadership is key 2. Instinct vs. insight: Creativity in the face of data-driven marketing 3. Artificial intelligence and the future of communications planning
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Overview of the Digital Governance Exchange (DGX) meeting held February 2017 in London.
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Meeting headlines: 1. Devising a new Code Of Conduct for the media industry 2. “The contractual foundation of the industry is deficient” – global trends in media transparency 3. Making a success of the in-house programmatic model & technology selection OTHER ITEMS & ACTIONS: - How to utilize AI in media planning - How the ePrivacy directive will impact the digital advertising ecosystem
In this webinar, WFA will share the results from a recent study into how big brands are developing their start-up collaboration.