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.
With 80 percent of customers saying they are likely to switch brands after a single bad experience, identifying and delivering on customer expectations is more important than ever before.
It’s a misconception that only big brands advertise on Amazon. Amazon Ads products are designed for everyone, including small businesses, and have helped these businesses grow their sales.
There are shoppers around the world—right this second—looking for products just like yours. So why not help get your brand in front of them?
Today, we sit at a new inflection point for digital. If our industry nails this, we are positioned to reach our incredible potential.
By Mark Wieczorek, Chief Insights Officer at Front Row Navigating the complex landscape of modern business…
Increased B2B spend is a positive development, but it isn’t enough to drive brand to the bottom line. To do that and to fully realize a marketing mandate, money needs to be well spent, not merely spent.
Cheetos and Amazon Ads seamlessly integrated their strengths, leveraging the extensive consumer touchpoints across Amazon channels and the inventive storytelling of Cheetos.
Advertisers will need to take a moment of bravery and recognize that they need to break from the past and shift what they measure and value. The result will be a better Internet and better business results.
Brands that demonstrate how they’re keeping audiences rooted in what’s real – whatever that means to them – and supporting them from being overwhelmed amid an algorithmic apocalypse will resonate.
By Kristal Walton, SVP, CPG & Retail Industry If you work in marketing, especially tactical…
Once marketers and advertisers understand their audience’s activities across various digital domains, including things like social media, streaming, gaming and shopping apps (and TikTok of course!), they can use this intelligence to capture waning attention in the most effective way possible.
Knowing your enemy is one thing, having the courage to fight them is very definitely another. Courage manifests in different ways.
