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  1.    Radical Innovation, latest in the series of WFA playbooks on Sustainable Marketing
    Sustainability

    Radical Innovation, latest in the series of WFA playbooks on Sustainable Marketing

    The latest in the series of playbooks on Sustainable Marketing from WFA and Kantar offers insights on innovation as a strategic growth driver.

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  2.    It’s time for radical innovation
    Sustainability

    It’s time for radical innovation

    Brands could create long-term wins through product, service and business model innovation.

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  3.    Spotlight: Managing CO2 emissions in media
    SustainabilityMedia transformation

    Spotlight: Managing CO2 emissions in media

    Across the WFA membership, advertisers continue to explore how they can reduce the carbon footprint of their media investments—often in complex and evolving environments.  As WFA broadens its Sustainability work via the launch of a new member-wide Sustainable Marketing Community, we are hosting the first in a series of Sustainable Marketing webinars, starting with a deep dive on Media Sustainability.

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  4.    Diageo - How can brands successfully communicate on water sustainability actions?
    Sustainability

    Diageo - How can brands successfully communicate on water sustainability actions?

    Diageo looked to explore the water sustainability conversation and understand how to best communicate effectively on this topic, by leveraging search and social data in a way that would positively resonate with consumers and influencers alike.

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  5.    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030 - Creativity into Action
    Sustainability

    Spotlight: Sustainable Marketing 2030 - Creativity into Action

    Learn more about the role of creativity in sustainable transformation from WFA and Kantar.

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  6.    Sustainability into Action
    Sustainability

    Sustainability into Action

    New series of WFA playbooks on sustainable marketing from WFA and Kantar offers marketers guidance on how to put theory into practice, starting with the power of storytelling.

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  7.    How creativity can drive sustainable action
    Sustainability

    How creativity can drive sustainable action

    In 2025, WFA and Kantar will launch a series of case study led playbooks to help take Sustainable Marketing 2030 from theory into practice for marketers. The first playbook, published in January 25, focuses on creativity.

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  8.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 36: On being AI-able with Mark Ritson and his AI alter ego, the Ritbot
    CreativitySustainabilityAI

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 36: On being AI-able with Mark Ritson and his AI alter ego, the Ritbot

    In this episode of WFA's Better Marketing Podcast, David Wheldon speaks to marketing guru, Mark Ritson, and his AI-generated alter ego, the Ritbot. 

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  9.    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 35: On redefining customer proposition with Michelle McEttrick, Primark
    Brand purposeBrand reputationMarketing structureSustainability

    WFA Better Marketing Pod Ep 35: On redefining customer proposition with Michelle McEttrick, Primark

    In this episode of WFA's Better Marketing Podcast, David Wheldon speaks to Primark's Chief Customer Officer, Michelle McEttrick, about pivoting from a 'no marketing' approach to putting brand at the core of a new customer proposition and expansion strategy.

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  10.    PepsiCo - Driving impact at the 2024 UCL final
    Sustainability

    PepsiCo - Driving impact at the 2024 UCL final

    Pepsi piloted simple, fun and engaging sustainability solutions for fans to win rewards for recycling.

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  11. Advertising & policySustainability

    Benchmark: Sustainable communication, advertising production and advertising behaviours

    WFA member benchmark covering three topics relating to sustainability: communicating sustainability credentials on pack or at point of purchase, sustainable advertising production and auditing the portrayal of behaviours in advertising.

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    GARM & Ad Net Zero announce global framework to measure media's carbon emissions

    Please note that GARM was discontinued on August 8. See more here.

    The Global Media Sustainability Framework is a cross-industry collaboration between WFA’s Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the Ad Net Zero community. It allows advertisers, media owners and agencies to measure across six major media types.

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  13.    Mastercard - A Journey to reach Net Zero by 2040
    Sustainability

    Mastercard - A Journey to reach Net Zero by 2040

    In a world where sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity, Mastercard embarked on an ambitious journey to reach Net Zero by 2040.

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  14.    Telefonica - Eco Rating, an environmental scoring system for mobile phones
    Sustainability

    Telefonica - Eco Rating, an environmental scoring system for mobile phones

    Telefónica teamed up with four other major mobile networks – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telia and Vodafone – to create Eco Ratings, a simple way to understand the environmental impact of each handset.

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  15.    Reckitt - Virtual Productions
    Sustainability

    Reckitt - Virtual Productions

    Reckitt embraces their virtual studio, so they can move at pace and at scale, be more creative than ever before and have less impact on the environment.

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  16.    Pernod Ricard - Kahlúa's sustainable coffee farming
    Sustainability

    Pernod Ricard - Kahlúa's sustainable coffee farming

    In 2017, Kahlúa embarked on a 10-year programme to develop sustainable coffee farming in its home region of Veracruz, Mexico. The goal was to source 100% of its coffee from sustainable sources by 2022 and improve the lot of local coffee farmers.

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  17.    Arla - Reducing the emissions from campaign productions
    Sustainability

    Arla - Reducing the emissions from campaign productions

    Together with production agency Tag, Arla measured and reduced the CO2 emissions from three campaign shoot productions.

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  18.    WFA’s Planet Pledge welcomes seven more multinationals
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    WFA’s Planet Pledge welcomes seven more multinationals

    AkzoNobel, Arçelik, Beam Suntory, Group Bel, HP, Nestlé and Vodafone take number of companies to have signed the global pledge to 38.

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  19.    What marketers need from COP28
    Sustainability

    What marketers need from COP28

    2023 marks the halfway point to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). During COP28, the world will also learn the findings of the first Global Stocktake of the Paris agreement.

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  20.    Happily Ever After? Promoting Climate Storytelling at COP28
    Sustainability

    Happily Ever After? Promoting Climate Storytelling at COP28

    Tomato soup, big pink ships and a climate bra from Kim Kardashian. The last five years have seen climate messages reach us in new, louder, ways. They have been lifted out of science reports and transported to our social media feeds and supermarket shelves. Done well, these messages are more colourful and more compelling than the science alone can ever be.

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  21.    Media Forum Overview - Global Marketer Week Istanbul 2023
    Advertising & policyDigital policyCross-media measurementMarketing structureValue of advertisingInclusive marketingSustainabilityRetail media & ecommerce

    Media Forum Overview - Global Marketer Week Istanbul 2023

    Meeting overview and agenda from WFA’s Global Marketer Week Media Forum on the 26th of April 2023.

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