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.
Instead of asking “what’s the minimum we can do to get this out the door?”—ask “what’s the sharpest, most emotionally resonant idea we can build a world around for our brand?”
Experian’s Debbie Oates explains that there’s help on hand to understand the new tectonic shifts in the make-up of the average UK household, so marketers can avoid being left behind.
The bridge between marketing and finance isn’t built on a false sense of certainty, but on honest, measurable uncertainty that both teams can plan around.
Planning around propensity, not persona, means the messaging is more relevant and consistent from the very top of the funnel to the bottom. Not brand or performance – just marketing, executed with purpose.
The tired consumer isn’t unreachable. Reach them with a tangible shift towards respect and understanding. If you can be that kind of brand, you’ll matter—now and long after the headlines shift.
Push forward, stay aggressive but flexible and always know the sun will rise tomorrow, even if ROAS doesn’t.
We sat down with Rob Rakowitz, Head of Marketing at Vidmob, to talk about how CMOs can find a path through current economic challenges, and why creative data is so important to brand growth and competitive leadership.
Automation has opened up incredible possibilities for marketing teams. But with great power comes great risk of sounding like every other brand in the feed.
Brand safety isn’t just about protecting your reputation—it’s about empowering your brand to thrive, innovate, and lead with confidence.
By creating connective tissue between message, medium, and moment, we unlock the kind of storytelling that earns attention and action.
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.
An always-on content strategy—which reflects a brand’s values—is key toward ensuring you stay connected with audiences so they feel top-of-mind.
By deepening their understanding of youth passions and fandoms, marketers can foster engagement that is not only meaningful in the present but also lays the groundwork for future brand affinity.
