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.
Education-led marketing is a smarter way to connect with buyers, build lasting relationships, and drive real results. Ultimately, brands that make this shift don’t have to fight for attention. They stand out because buyers seek them out.
As content creation abilities and consumer expectations continue to evolve, it’s becoming ever more essential for brands to be bolder and embrace a new approach.
Without the right information, education and level of engagement, sustainability will always just be a buzzword that’s thrown around as a supposed point of difference for brands.
We don’t need to allow curse-like fears to hinder the dreamers of our industry. Marketers are all creative people, so let’s act like we truly care about creativity.
Brand safety in practice feels anything but personal — an endless problem with layers upon layers of confusion, oversimplifications, and reactive responses.
Why brands need to start bringing people back into the shopping process
Studying the emotional relationships customers have with both your brand and your competitive set is the first step to pulling together your next marketing playbook.
As uncertainty becomes increasingly certain, and change is inevitable, marketers must assess and adapt to achieve the best business performance.
Now that people have spent a couple of years doing more online shopping and business online, consumers have higher expectations that digital experiences work well.
This week, Gabriela Carlos, Media Measurement Director at Croud, is on-hand to discuss how measurement works in a cookie-less world, business intelligence, and more!
Let’s reassert our place in the strategic and creative high ground along with our newfound dedication to DEI that gets the new generations excited about our industry.
Rather than narrowing down social strategies to match creative production capacity, then, we need ways of reducing the workload of taking campaigns out in a truly omnichannel way.
The world of OTC is awash with oval logos, bland brands, and garish colours. And in a category where everything looks the same, consumers can get tired of looking at it. To create intangible worth, over-the-counter products must disrupt the category and wear their values
With a firm focus on acquisition, expansion and retention, and armed with fresh human-level data, you’re set up for financial marketing success in 2022.
Here’s what brands, publishers, and technology partners can expect from major TV advertising verticals in the upcoming year.
