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.
Market researchers and marketers have always maintained that understanding customer attitudes, behaviors, and unmet needs are critical for business success.
In this piece, we speak to industry experts who delve into key tactics and innovative approaches that brands can adopt to optimize their advertising efforts at this event, ensuring a compelling return on investment and leaving a lasting impact on customers.
The Super Bowl is not only one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it is a marquis event for the advertising world. But is the $7+ million price tag (the cost of a :30 spot this year) justified?
2024 marks a crucial turning point for businesses, presenting both opportunities and challenges that will redefine traditional marketing approaches. Previous marketing tactics must evolve to remain effective and impactful, particularly in a time of heightened customer expectations and economic uncertainty.
Loyalty is fundamental to any brand’s performance, if done right. Here are some rules or tricks, which may help you step up your game.
No business wants to face a crisis, but something will inevitably go wrong. In these situations, it is better to be prepared than caught off-guard, hence the importance of establishing a crisis response plan.
Many celebrities bring unique business acumen and a willingness to roll up their sleeves and partner beyond the terms of their contracts, making them value-add business partners beyond their household names.
The brands that break through during or surrounding this year’s big game will be the ones with their fingers on the pulse of the latest trends in engagement, VR, viewer demographics and shoppable experiences.
There has been much discussion in our industry about the collapse of the funnel. What we should be examining is the mindset of an emerging class of customer—one who rarely travels up and down a path from awareness to purchase but is always ready to make a decision about a brand.
Research has recently shown that the presence of a sonic logo can create a positive brand experience, even in the face of “uncertain and anxiety-inducing decision context or negative information about the target brand.”
It is past time for national advertisers to reevaluate OOH, not as a secondary option but as a core component of their marketing strategies.
As we usher in a new year, this wave of companies and how they reinvent themselves is not just rebranding their products, identities, slogans and narratives.
