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.
If you’re a major brand or large agency considering starting an internal production offering, I see two main roads ahead of you.
Gaining consumer attention is a must for any brand, but in a more and more fragmented media world, the industry must seek fresh approaches to break through all the noise and clutter.
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.
There are so many types of creator programs to choose from when considering what works for you, including unpaid user-generated content all the way up to working with celebrities.
By leading across strategy, product innovation, smart use of data and creative transformation CMOs must craft the brand stories that build this critical trust.
A good place to start is your marketing and sales alignment, turning your people into Smarketers. Taking a Smarketing approach combines the strengths of both teams.
Right now, using an average makes it easier for publishers as they figure out how to incorporate attention into their product design, but eventually, we might get to a requirement for every ad placement.
Instead of obsessing over the most recent “first” to hit the market, we should start solving for the new rules of media; surrounding and embracing communities to cultivate the next generation of audiences.
Establishing and working up and down the funnel, aspect by aspect, by definition matures your operation.
By Nirosha Methananda, VP of Marketing at Influ2 The conundrum of doing more with less…
Mark Debenham, VP of Growth Marketing at Adverity , feels it’s time to lift the filter of funnel vision and move to an approach that’s about symbiotic success, with brands driving continuously great results by aligning with customers
Brands that show they understand the needs of their audience and a willingness to experiment will create the biggest impact.
Commitment means seeing things through to the finish line with the same energy you started with, and then keeping pace after.
In a progressively digital world, 46% of respondents reported that at least 20% to 30% of their holiday sales will come from online channels.
The global brand and marketing industry is in the throes of rapid transformation, one where creative is poised to be the last unfair advantage.
