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.
In this Q&A, Scott Knox, President & CEO, Institute of Communication Agencies and Jamie Matthews CEO of independent agency Initials, will be delving into the current challenges North American agencies face, particularly after the pandemic.
If you’re looking to get the finishing touches to your summer and autumn outfits, join us as we walk you through the top trainer trends of 2021.
Old print vehicles aren’t grabbing attention or influencing purchase behavior the way they once did. Most Americans—46% according to Pew Research Center—don’t even look at print circulars anymore.
The retail sales season will soon be upon us, starting with back-to-school sales next month through to retail’s most significant sales event – Black Friday.
If there’s anything certain about today’s world, it’s that it’s uncertain. And in the world of B2B, nowhere is that uncertainty more well-founded than in B2B events.
Between two products of identical quality and cost, today’s consumers will choose the product that stands for something they support ten out of ten times. We promise.
Successful agencies actively strive to develop and maintain long-term client relationships. And it’s easy to see why.
It’s like the American populace have been bottling up their feelings for decades and finally exploded in a roaring symposium of joy, sadness, fear, excitement, anger and more.
It’s no exaggeration to suggest that Covid-19 has brought out the best in retail brands. This was especially evident on the supermarket frontline, where uncomplaining staff provided reassurance and support as anxious customers descended on food aisles last year.
Retailers have experienced a cataclysmic shift over the past year. What used to be considered standard is no longer relevant as online shopping has progressed at warp speed.
A recent survey found that 6 out of 10 consumers think that brands have a responsibility to be encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. Major brands, from Budweiser to Krispy Kreme, are stepping up to this challenge by offering incentives unique to their brands.
For digital media, advertising and numerous other industries, automation is the key solution needed to improve efficacy and efficiency, allowing businesses to outperform the competition.
