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.
The real question isn’t whether brands should embrace unhinged marketing. It’s how far they’re willing to go.
In an era dominated by endless short-form content streams, algorithm-driven feeds and AI-generated matter, people aren’t just tired – they’re tuning out.
We spoke with industry experts to explore how sensory marketing can breathe new life into customer interactions.
To craft your brand in these new spaces, no need to obsess over control when balance does the trick.
For traditional marketeers, TikTok can seem really unnerving. It’s an unexplored space and success means making your brand vulnerable.
Advertising Week spoke with Durand in depth about the future of streaming vs. linear, media buying strategies and measurement, and her company’s innovative approach to performance video and media buying.
Learn how these Twitch creators work with brands to create an authentic and engaging experience for their followers.
That’s a huge amount of change and, in this context, figuring out what the future of advertising might look like and building the ability to remain relevant in it is a very pragmatic, even an existential exercise – not just a theoretical one.
Google decided long ago that brands would have to spend money to defend their most precious assets from their competitors: their brand names.
A Conversation with Victor Lee, President of Advantage Unified Commerce
The idea of combining commerce-related initiatives across advertising, marketing and content is only a matter of time.
The advertising business needs to optimize and develop customer support, which is the key to building a successful software business today.
Over half of consumers now feel online experiences are more important than in-person ones – so it’s more vital than ever to imbue a new generation of digital journeys with deep-rooted emotional connection.
High profile mergers aren’t a rare occurrence in the business world – just see Disney’s $4bn acquisition of Marvel in 2009 or Verizon’s $130bn takeover of Vodafone.
