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WFA Media Forum brings together global media leads to share insight and drive actions on their priority issues.
Join the ForumThe global media market has never been so complex. Planning, strategy and channel selection; routes-to-market; internal and external capability; media measurement, verification and evaluation; media auditing and consulting are all changing rapidly.
WFA Media Forum connects professionals from increasingly diverse roles to exchange, learn from each other and find practical solutions to their most pressing challenges. In addition to global media leads, it’s not uncommon to find programmatic and data specialists within this network, as well as those from the procurement side of the business. The connecting tissue is a common interest in paid media – offline and online. Value is delivered through critical research and reports, physical and remote forums and online tools and benchmarking services.
How do the models compare, and how can brands determine the right mix?
WFA Forum Connect is returning to Amsterdam, bringing together WFA’s marketing communities around the common goal of better marketing effectiveness .
19 Nov 2026
Join WFA and mediasense to unpack new research on how global advertisers are evolving their media organisations for 2027 and beyond.
The Media Forum is chaired by Mathias Chaillou, Chief Media Officer, L'Oréal.
As part of WFA Global Marketer Week, our specialist forums will hold standalone forum sessions to discuss and develop workable solutions to help brand owners address the challenges facing each role.
WFA has launched a new Transparency Tool, in partnership with Ebiquity, designed to help benchmark contact transparency across key areas of media practice.
Overview of the WFA Media Forum meeting, held in New York as a part of WFA’s Forum Connect
WFA members know that the strength of our forums lies in their focus: servicing specific client-side functions. But that very strength also risks exacerbating the global silos that we need to break down.
The latest WFA and Ebiquity study indicates a further rise in media budgets next year, but positive movement is likely to be more targeted than in previous years says Tom Ashby, Global Lead Media Services at WFA.
Matt Prohaska, Lauren Coppin and Michael Ouellette from Prohaska Consulting as we hear more on what should advertisers do now, to be ready for the 2025+ digital media ecosystem.