At Advertising Week Europe 2025, most brand sessions centered on scale, spend, and safe bets. Burger King UK, on the other hand, showed up with postpartum hunger, hospital room selfies, and an unapologetically human campaign that sparked a national debate.
At Advertising Week Europe 2025, the question wasn’t whether influencer marketing works—it was whether it’s gotten too powerful. And if you were in the packed audience at this headline session, you know one thing for sure: no one held back.
While many sessions at Advertising Week Europe 2025 buzzed with the usual talk of performance metrics and AI-driven innovation, one quieter, more intimate discussion delivered something rarer: a blueprint for building brands that don’t just include disabled consumers—they center them.
Education-led marketing is a smarter way to connect with buyers, build lasting relationships, and drive real results. Ultimately, brands that make this shift don’t have to fight for attention. They stand out because buyers seek them out.
As content creation abilities and consumer expectations continue to evolve, it’s becoming ever more essential for brands to be bolder and embrace a new approach.
Without the right information, education and level of engagement, sustainability will always just be a buzzword that’s thrown around as a supposed point of difference for brands.
There’s a reason that “passion projects” are often met with skepticism inside creative companies.
To better understand consumers and the barriers ahead for EV brands, you need to focus on the entire journey from purchase to ownership to renewal and create better experiences during the moments that matter most.
Brands can use many techniques, including adding product schema and ensuring the site is mobile-friendly.
Despite having the resources to reach large consumer bases, even the largest brands are underperforming in reaching the mobile gaming-first audience.
Marketing as an industry has been guilty of keeping performance and branding in silos, but creative teams shouldn’t think that way. As I said before, a good designer – even one fresh out of school – knows how to create with a goal in mind.
With the threat of a potential ban getting closer, marketers are necessarily seeking guidance in these uncertain times.
The biggest lessons any marketer could learn from BTS’s cutting edge marketing is follow your fans, learn from them and grow with them.
Marketing to a global audience isn’t easy. However, you can streamline the process by embracing diversity while forging key partnerships in your target market.
We don’t know for sure, but is it possible that a sea change of sorts is happening, such that we’re shifting away from the rampant cancel culture which has notably marked the last several years?
Being a part of that change is good for your budget, your company’s reputation, and your overall chances of remaining competitive in the future.
As the misapplication of AI and other tools threaten to undermine the shared understanding of reality that we rely on to make decisions, combining transparent AI models with the strongest available data will give agencies the edge they need to turn lukewarm responses into RFPs, and RFPs into wins.
As traditional feature or benefit differentiators fade, marketers must imagine novel ways to captivate consumers in order to stand out, and to maintain their relevance.
