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.
When it comes to paid media, creative has to be built to live on everything, everywhere, all at once.
The recent narrative of social media platforms has been dense, fast-moving, unpredictable, and often hyperbolic, perhaps leaving marketers feeling like they need a fortune teller, seer, or psychic to make good, future-proofed decisions around them.
We caught up with Ryan Stewart, Head of Publisher Acquisition at MGID, to find out about his role, and his approach to facing these challenges head on.
As audiences have grown more fragmented across channels, brands are looking for more efficient and effective ways to connect and engage with them.
According to the 2023 Higher Impact report from Amazon Ads, 81% of consumers are more likely to purchase from brands whose views align with their own.
As Google itself celebrates their quarter-century birthday, top executives from around the industry weigh in on Google’s milestone, their influence, and the future.
Meaningful attention offers the possibility of finally getting inside the head of the shopper. We can’t afford to ignore it.
Business travel is back, and it promises some spectacular opportunities for learning and networking.
The big landscape theme for marketers today is the accelerating rate of change in all aspects of reaching customers. Media, customer touchpoints, distribution channels, and the appropriate and effective messaging about your brand are all in a constant state of flux.
Advertisers know where their spend is going and who they’re reaching, publishers can grow their revenues, and users get to see only the most relevant ads. It’s a win-win-win.
There will be bumps in the road – misunderstandings, communication and briefs that need to be clearer, individuals that cause friction, and a lack of structure that brings progress to a standstill.
What does the CMO of the future look like? Spoiler: busy with lots of weighty decisions.
