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.
As we brace for a recession, we as an industry must carefully consider our current models of measurement and targeting.
Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing, so marketers must use it to look to the past to survive the future.
The automotive advertising world is being impacted and challenged, but it also can embrace new innovative routes to create market differentiation.
While entrepreneurship is exciting, it requires some industry research, substantive data and creativity to help you stand out from the crowd.
Whilst we are seeing a significant shift in travel, tourism and long-term moves, creating a clear and defined destination brand can hold significant power for a location.
Companies, employees, and the general public are still negotiating continuous challenges in the world of work, finances, and leisure, be it by navigating different prices, staff shortages, absences, or a change in services available.
Greater transparency comes with close collaboration with your technology provider. Part of that means using a shared language to communicate your brand suitability preferences and safety needs.
Here are some things I learned along the way for brands and businesses to consider when working with influencers.
We’re calling on other agencies across the industry to start their B Corp journey, and as such, I’d like to share six key pieces of practical advice for those who want to achieve the certification.
Netflix doesn’t need a big, bombastic ad service to dominate, and it has no interest in helping brands solve their existential media problems.
The creative world, alongside other disciplines, needs both specialists and generalists. But it’s time to correct the misconceptions.
With TikTok’s ad revenue set to increase from $3.88 billion in 2021 to $11.64 billion in 2022, it’s clear that this platform will have staying power among brands, marketers and consumers themselves.
