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.
Confidence isn’t just a nice-to-have right now—it’s essential. And brands and their marketers are at the heart of rebuilding it. It’s more than just putting out the right messaging.
As experiential marketing evolves, the brands that will stand out are those that treat taste not as an extra, but as a foundational element of storytelling.
With the pressure on new CEO Fernandez to improve performance, I wonder if increasing creator/influencer marketing is the right tactic for the company today.
In 2025, the ability to navigate uncertainty with confidence will separate the leaders from the laggards.
These unreachable destinations ignite imagination. With the right stories and tech, they can become symbols of aspiration. The challenge is balancing adventure with responsibility, encouraging sustainable travel while protecting these extraordinary places.
If charities are to continue to garner the donations needed to further the causes they champion, a new approach to brand suitability is vital.
Performance marketers, relying on this shaky foundation, often over-credit mobile and desktop environments because their identity resolution seems “perfect,” while under-crediting CTV or larger screens, where device matching is weaker.
Asking these five questions and taking relevant actions will go a long way to ensuring you deliver effective marketing that drives business growth over the long term.
By building a memorable brand, B2B businesses can wean themselves off a relentless focus on ROI, and instead build successful relationships with customers and prospects in new, exciting and efficient ways, building long-term value.
Let a fluent device unlock entertainment and creative effectiveness for your brand by pairing a lovable character with engaging narratives, humor, and cultural references. Once your star is born, you won’t look back.
In the end, the brands that embrace this reality, that push past the status quo, will be the ones that redefine pharma advertising for good. The stakes have never been higher. The potential for breakthrough work is enormous.
With memorable takeaways that blend utility and appeal, brands move from a fleeting impression to a lasting presence, staying top-of-mind long after the trade show is over.
Enacting customer-centric privacy controls builds trust, further improving brand reputation. These policies can attract more customers.
While the 9:16 format may present some novel creative challenges, the potential for brands to improve performance and drive meaningful results is significant.
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