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.
If your current restaurant loyalty program is missing the data to launch these kinds of personalized retention campaigns, not all is lost!
This year’s Cannes Lions Festival had it all – from parties and out-of-office ‘meetings’ to panels and discussions honing in on the trends, opportunities and challenges of the advertising industry.
New work from Barkley provides teens free access to gyms, prioritizing physical and mental health
Mobile apps have grown in relevance and popularity as a safe and effective way to interact with customers.
Broadly speaking, a customer effort score measures how easy or difficult it is for a customer to resolve a given issue with a company’s customer service team.
As global leaders prepare to immerse themselves in the prestigious event, they are naturally curious about the trends and themes that will shape this year’s festival.
The push for a more inclusive and diverse advertising industry is becoming a priority not just for marketers, but for consumers as well.
I am about to throw another wrinkle in your plan, because I can tell you, without a doubt, that creator content outperforms brand content.
We spoke with leaders in adland to get their thoughts and predictions for this year’s festival, from emerging technologies like AI and AR to sustainability and purpose-driven campaigns.
A sonic identity is the essence of your brand translated into sound. It’s the idea that sound or a set of auditory elements are essential to distinguishing your brand and building a preference for it because it has something interesting to say or add, and is worth paying attention to.
While most of us are now comfortable being back in the room, the halfway house of hybrid chemistry meetings and pitches seems here to stay.
Whether you’re launching or expanding a program, be sure to do the foundational work to get your brand ready for success in partner and affiliate sales.
