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  1.    Rethinking capability team structures
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    Rethinking capability team structures

    Marketing Capability team models differ from company to company, so which one is the best? Brenna Brandes, Global Marketing Services Manager at WFA, explains the strengths and weaknesses of some of the most common models.

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  2.    Spotlight: Go faster with less
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    Spotlight: Go faster with less

    Less budget. Less time. Less resources. These challenges can fuel a new way of approaching content operations that boosts efficiency, quality, and results.

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  3.    Benchmark: Social media compromises/hacks
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    Benchmark: Social media compromises/hacks

    WFA member benchmark on how to manage social media hacks

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  4.    Benchmark: Recommended online training platforms (digital marketing skills)
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    Benchmark: Recommended online training platforms (digital marketing skills)

    WFA member benchmark on recommended online training platforms that help develop digital marketing skills

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  5.    Spotlight: Shift - A Marketing Re-think
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    Spotlight: Shift - A Marketing Re-think

    The pandemic has further intensified consumer adoption and reliance on the internet. While this increases opportunities for global marketers, it also introduces a growing set of challenges, requirements and capabilities. Many of which are not yet fully on the radar.

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  6.    Planet Pledge Leaders' Forum: Poll results
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    Planet Pledge Leaders' Forum: Poll results

    This report contains results from a survey amongst WFA Planet Pledge signatories and some considering singing. 17 companies responded. 14 were already signatories. 

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  7.    The Media Capability Gap
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    The Media Capability Gap

    A research report on the anatomical structures and priorities of the client-side media department.

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  8.    Marketing has the chance to lead post pandemic but structures need an overhaul
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    Marketing has the chance to lead post pandemic but structures need an overhaul

    Companies are asking ever more from their marketing leaders but if they want to achieve the customer-centricity they covet they must first look at how they are set-up, says Marketing Week Editor-in-Chief, Russell Parsons.

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  9.    What marketing talent wants
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    What marketing talent wants

    Company and marketing department attributes that resonate with today's marketer

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  10.    Spotlight: Shortcutting your marketing transformation
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    Spotlight: Shortcutting your marketing transformation

    COVID has accelerated the need to transform legacy marketing structures and processes for the digital economy.

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  11.    Marketing Transformation - Delivering the future fit organisation
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    Marketing Transformation - Delivering the future fit organisation

    The subject of marketing transformation and how to deliver a Marketing function that is ‘future fit’ for the digital economy is more important than ever. 

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  12.    Benchmark: Global marketing procurement team structures & workload allocation
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    Benchmark: Global marketing procurement team structures & workload allocation

    WFA member benchmark regarding workload allocation and related team structures.

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  13.    Webinar: Global Marketing Operations in 2020
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    Webinar: Global Marketing Operations in 2020

    Marketing operations is ramping up its role and taking on a more strategic function as major multinationals seek to transform their marketing organisations.

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  14.    Global Marketing Operations 2020
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    Global Marketing Operations 2020

    This document provides an overview of results of a study into marketing operations amongst WFA members, run in March 2020.

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  15.    Benchmark: Digital Marketing workload and responsibility structuring
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    Benchmark: Digital Marketing workload and responsibility structuring

    This WFA member benchmark covers how brands are structuring workload and responsibility regarding digital marketing within their procurement team.

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  16.    Benchmark: Procurement systems for marketing
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    Benchmark: Procurement systems for marketing

    This WFA member benchmark covers the usage of buying channels / procure-to-pay systems that WFA members employ and whether they would recommend them.

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  17.    Media Transformation - Case Study 2: Royal Philips
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    Media Transformation - Case Study 2: Royal Philips

    The adoption of programmatic and ‘precision at scale’ principles, the changing nature of technology and data ownership and the shifting partner relationships. Clients in the media space find themselves in radically different roles to the recent past.

    We’re seeing a growing focus on education and company-wide transformation of the client-side media function. The agents of change leading this are typically in global media roles, as is the case in this inspiring media transformation case study written by Sital Banerjee, Global Head of Media & Marketing Performance at Philips.

    This is the second part of a serial of Media Transformation case studies that WFA is publishing, to provide inspiration and education to clients in media and marketing roles.
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  18.    Webinar: Digital Asset Management
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    Webinar: Digital Asset Management

    The Marketing Technology landscape continues to grow at lightning speed and shows no sign of slowing. Fuelled by an expectation economy, “always on” campaigns and an increasingly complex network of marketing channels, there are now close to 7000 technology vendors pushing disruptive innovation. Few companies really understand the modern marketing landscape and finding a good explanation of how it all fits together is a real challenge.

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  19.    The hidden gem: How clients benefit from long-term partnerships
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    The hidden gem: How clients benefit from long-term partnerships

    Insights on how relationship longevity contributes to quantifiable value for brand advertisers through more effective collaboration and institutional knowledge.

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  20.    Building a future-proof marketing procurement strategy
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    Building a future-proof marketing procurement strategy

    In 2019, with the help of WFA WBR Insights surveyed 100 heads of marketing procurement from major brands across Europe to find out how leading companies have been procuring effective tools for a modern marketing strategy, and what challenges they're facing to implement them.

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  21.    Media Transformation Case Study: Deutsche Telekom
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    Media Transformation Case Study: Deutsche Telekom

    This document examines the international ‘media transformation’ that Deutsche Telekom has been through over recent years and summarises obstacles and key learning.

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