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.
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.
Meet John Denny, VP of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing at CAVU Ventures. Watch as he talks about the opportunities and challenges in the CPG and Grocery space, and how Amazon Ads can help grow your business.
Consumers want to buy from trustworthy brands that share their values. Marketers want transparency into the effectiveness of their marketing.
If all stakeholders can elevate the marketing process automation conversation, there is no limits to what we can accomplish.
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.
