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.
Automation has opened up incredible possibilities for marketing teams. But with great power comes great risk of sounding like every other brand in the feed.
Brand safety isn’t just about protecting your reputation—it’s about empowering your brand to thrive, innovate, and lead with confidence.
By creating connective tissue between message, medium, and moment, we unlock the kind of storytelling that earns attention and action.
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.
Consumers will come to expect more individualized attention and curation from brands, whether digitally or IRL, in 2024. The companies that anticipate these trends and take bold action to eclipse consumers’ expectations will thrive.
Though it was previously believed that celebrity endorsements had a limited impact on cannabis sales, the reverse appears to be true. Celebrity marijuana brands seemingly outsell brands with less star power,
As marketers, truly knowing our audiences sets us up for success. But to make an emotional connection, we must move beyond superficial traits and demos. We need to uncover the inner drives shaping behaviors and decisions.
The PR power behind the “Barbie” film is epic. Visibly noticeable as it turned the tide of fashion, the Barbie craze is truly a revolution!
The increasing number of online retailers, the growing adoption of early smartphones and internet connectivity, and the changing preferences of younger generations more inclined to shop online all pointed toward an e-commerce boom.
As a marketer, you have two choices: Get aboard the most relevant trends or get run over by socially savvy competitors.
