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.
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.
In 2025, 80% of women still can’t correctly identify a vulva on a diagram. That is a mind-blowing stat, and it’s frankly dangerous that we know so little about ourselves.
Brands are more successful when they integrate naturally throughout the process, instead of just popping in and feeling like an ad drop.
The challenges of globalization are not insurmountable, but they require a strategic approach that balances local knowledge with global ambitions.
Your social presense, the signals, stories, platforms, and people that link you to your audience, is your commercial advantage. But only if you build it intentionally.
We asked leading voices from across the creative landscape what they’ll be watching for on the Croisette.
It’s no surprise then that B2B companies with a strong brand command a 46% higher market share and can often charge a premium.
An Exclusive Celebration of U.S. Latino Power in Marketing and Creativity!
Being valuably different, and not focused on being better, is the key to being a brand that stands the test of time.
As Cannes Lions 2025 kicks off, one thing is certain: the conversations won’t just shape headlines, but help define the next chapter of advertising. Industry experts weigh in.
Marketers should have more confidence in their ability to demonstrate how their brand influences pricing.
You either have health and wellness value in your brand or you don’t. If you do, then it’s time to determine how to incorporate this into your brand marketing and PR.
Emotional intelligence puts the human back in marketing, helping brands cut through biases and connect meaningfully.
When platforms extract value from communities without consent or reciprocity, they recreate the logics of empire.
Digital marketing is powered by fossil fuels. It’s time we started counting the clicks that cost the planet.
