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.
When leveraged ethically and insightfully, social norms tap into the deep emotional wellsprings of behavioral change —creating room for people to feel more seen and aligned with their values.
The underbelly of programmatic has always had issues like these. Right now, this double game appears to be a remarkably common state of affairs among ad platforms and their clients, and I think it’s time we all looked at it a bit harder.
Products (and charismatic CEOs for that matter) alone won’t protect businesses from the inevitable moments when something goes wrong – when tech falls behind, when consumer preferences change, or when market conditions evolve.
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.
Contextual targeting is resurgent. But that doesn’t mean it’s the same contextual advertising that hit the web two decades ago.
Fail to pay due diligence, and when June comes around you’re left slapping a rainbow logo on your standard products and hoping for the best.
Exness, the world’s largest retail market-maker, recently unveiled a significant rebranding initiative, reflecting and reinforcing its position as the market leader.
It’s time to look beyond the surface and uncover the true value of digital advertising campaigns by prioritizing value-rich CPMs and outcome metrics.
By tailoring your compensation strategies to align with the needs of today’s workforce, you can enjoy digital marketing success and do the right thing for your employees in the process.
In an unjust and heartbreaking world where so many of us are screaming into our own echo chambers, this is a tangible way to actually do something.
