Posts about Inclusive thought leadership
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
How will the cultural events of 2024 define your 2025?
2024 has been a whirlwind year of changes and challenges. WFA strategic partners, Creative Equals, share four key cultural…
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Advertising & policyBrand purposeCreativityInclusive marketing
Reflections on 2024: Inclusion, Innovation, and the Future of Marketing
In this 60-minute session in partnership with Creative Equals we look back on an eventful year for brands and what it means for…
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Agencies & partnersAI
Knowledge Spotlight: 2024 Media trends in Asia Pacific
This live session is part of WFA’s practical webinar series, Knowledge Spotlights. In partnership with handpicked experts,…
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Inclusive marketing
Scared to speak up about DEI or sustainability in the current environment? Don’t be: fortune favours the bold
I’ve fumbled two big opportunities to get rich quick. The first was when I wrote a feature for the Guardian about Bitcoin when…
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CreativityGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing technologyAIMarketing technology
CMO, the impossible job?
Marketers at this year’s Global Marketer Week responded to the challenge that being CMO had turned into an impossible…
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Brand purposeBrand reputationCreativityGlobal Marketer WeekMarketing technologyAIDigital media transformationMarketing technology
How to build better brands?
CMOs at Global Marketer Week provide key pointers on what will help build stronger, more resilient brands.
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Inclusive marketing
Facing the Firestorm
How can brands be resilient in polarised times? Sebastian Parker and Ishani Rege from Creative Equals, WFA's strategic partner for…
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Inclusive marketing
Unstereotype Alliance: ‘State of the Industry' report 2023
The industry-led coalition convened by UN Women published the third iteration of its report examining the progress of DEI across the…
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Inclusive marketing
Six WFA partner predictions for 2024
Six of WFA's strategic partners of WFA share their global marketing predictions for 2024.
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Cannes LionsInclusive marketing
Unstereotype Alliance: ‘Say Nothing, Change Nothing’ campaign
The industry-led coalition convened by UN Women launched "Say Nothing, Change Nothing" at Cannes Lions 2023, a global campaign to…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
All you need to know about the Global DEI Census 2023
The Global DEI Census 2023 – which will investigate the state of diversity, equity and inclusion in the marketing industry…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Making the numbers count
Talent is the lifeblood of marketing. Brands need to meet their needs for a better lived experience if they want to attract and…
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Inclusive marketing
WFA names new Global Diversity Ambassadors
Marketers from Reckitt, Estée Lauder and The Walt Disney Company join founding Ambassador Jerry Daykin to help steer…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Putting wages on an equal footing
Knowing that you are paid fairly is a critical part of the inclusion equation, says Michele Prota, Global Chief Talent Officer at…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Don’t be disingenuous on inclusion: brands must ensure behaviour and messaging align
Nathalie Lam, Philips Global Head of Sponsorship and Marketing Transformation Lead, explains how Philips wants its creative content…
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Inclusive marketing
Inclusive marketing is just better marketing
Inclusive marketing isn’t just a sideline or a charity project, it’s just better marketing, says Jerry Daykin,…
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Inclusive marketing
Inclusive Marketing - Why representation matters to your customers and your brand
A WFA session around how to embed true representation across the entire marketing process
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Insight & Strategy | Ford: Very Gay Raptor
How a car brand stood up against discrimination on social media and earned 184 million impressions in the process.
This…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Webinar: Diversity & Representation - Ensuring media & advertising supports inclusion
Deep dive on diversity & representation in media, following the launch of a new WFA guide to addressing DEI issues in the media…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
New guide addressing Diversity & Inclusion in brand safety
The guide has been developed by the European Association of Communication Agencies (EACA)
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Is it an advantage to be a woman in marketing?
Absolutely—but not in the way some people seem to think, says Guardian columnist and brand strategist, Arwa Mahdawi
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CreativityCannes Lions
Innovation at Cannes
Judging this year’s Innovation Lions highlighted both the power of innovation to drive real change and the importance of…
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Inclusive marketing
Inclusive equals results
New research shows how embracing diversity in content delivers better results. Will Gilroy from the WFA and Daren Poole from Kantar…
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Inclusive marketing
Industry’s unprecedented show of unity to tackle DEI
More than 100 organisations have come together behind the first-ever global diversity, equality and inclusion census of the…
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Inclusive marketing
Unstereotype Alliance 'State of the Industry' report 2021
Global action platform report identifies key goals and recommendations for the marketing industry to improve diversity and…
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Inclusive marketing
One year after George Floyd
Smooth words and engagement from the ad industry still need to be translated into real action, argues Belinda Smith, CEO Americas,…
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Inclusive marketing
Insight & Strategy | Frida Mom: Fourth Trimester
How a women-led team created an ad that embraced truth and reflected the realities of breastfeeding and motherhood to launch a new…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Gender equality in marketing: are we making progress fast enough?
We've asked six industry leaders to share their perspectives
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Inclusive marketing
Delivering diversity is a must-pass test
The pandemic has highlighted the need to push the diversity and inclusion agenda harder and faster. Stephan Loerke, WFA CEO,…
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Inclusive marketing
Insight & Strategy | Mattel: Creatable World
Why a toy maker decided to remodel conventions with a genderless doll range
This article was originally published in…
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Inclusive marketing
Insight & Strategy | Doritos: The Best Gift
Why Doritos made an emotional film about sexual diversity and doubled down on inclusivity in Mexico
This article was…
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YouTube video trends: how the world is responding to the rallying cry for racial justice
Three specific ways people tuned in and raised their voices in support of anti-racism on YouTube following the killing of George…
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The big questions this year, answered by LIONS Live
In the absence of the annual industry meetup on the French Riviera, in June WFA asked seven industry experts: “If you…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Time to stop covering up our diversity
We're at an important moment in the diversity conversation and understanding 'covering up' is part of unpacking that, says Jerry…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
Putting an end to racially-loaded terms in marketing
WFA CEO, Stephan Loerke, calls on the industry to change the narrative and to stop using terms such as 'whitelist' and 'blacklist'…
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Advertising & policyInclusive marketing
UN Women and WFA call on the industry to fight racism and inequality
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, and Stephan Loerke, CEO, WFA, issue a joint…
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Adland commits: 10 ways to hold the industry accountable #BlackLivesMatter
UK advertising and media leaders have issued an open letter calling on the industry to address inequality and take action against…
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UK Advertising Needs You
A showcase for Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in the UK ad industry.
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Seek out good actors and elevate them
A view by Jerry Daykin, Media Director at GSK Consumer Healthcare
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There is no general consumer
A view by Aline Santos, Unilever EVP Global Marketing and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer
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Diverse coalitions create breakthrough solutions
A view by Jane Wakely, Lead CMO, Mars Incorporated
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Accelerating to equal
A view by Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officr, P&G
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Inclusion starts at home
WFA has compiled some practical tips for fostering a culture of inclusion across all levels of an organisation
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True equality is a work-in-progress
A view by Raja Rajamannar, WFA President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Mastercard
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Women's Empowerment Principles
The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) are a set of Principles offering guidance to business on how to promote gender…
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Elastic Generation: The Female Edit
Report exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of British women aged between 53 and 72.
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Gender Bias in Advertising: Research, Trends and New Visual Language
In 2017, discussions around gender and media have reached a fever pitch. We’ve seen movements for gender equality in…