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.
From creative and strategy to experiential and digital, here’s how key voices from across the industry are interpreting the latest findings, and what they believe marketers must prioritise to navigate the road ahead.
Whether it’s a last-second game winner, a viral TikTok trend, or a breakout Twitch stream, the path to relevance is no longer about reach alone. It’s about resonance.
During Converge @ Cannes, a group of brand, media, and advocacy leaders broke down why abandoning the LGBTQ+ community is not just a moral failure—it’s a catastrophic business decision.
Forecasted weather data empowers businesses to anticipate rather than react. By understanding how customers respond to expected weather, companies can optimize inventory decisions, align campaigns with consumer expectations, and prepare logistics for potential disruptions.
People hate being screamed at by a sea of beige messages that aren’t interesting enough to merit a response. We’re sick of tricks. Sick of AI generated falsities, sick of AR, VR and whatever Meta black hole Zuck’s cooking up next.
There’s been a lot of chatter in the marketing world recently about the positive correlation between brands that take the time to truly understand their customers’ needs, desires and aspirations and business success.
The future of advertising lies in meaningful engagement, and branded content is the key to unlocking it.
While there are clear challenges ahead for publishers, a recent study from The Rebooting found that 80% of publishers expressed some form of confidence in their business.
How brands respond to the latest changes taking place on Meta’s platforms remains to be seen. But advertisers do have options, and this is a moment for them to rethink their approach to blocklists and banned words and take a fresh approach to their online advertising budgets and the role of news sites in their advertising mix.
Chrome has long been a linchpin in campaign creation, audience targeting, and performance analysis, offering seamless integration with Google’s vast ecosystem. Its sale could fragment this unified environment, forcing those in the advertising industry to rethink how they approach everything from data collection to media buying.
As we look to the future, the path forward is clear: focus on the customer, adapt with purpose, and create value that resonates in a rapidly changing world.
When creative and media teams have a collaborative relationship built on testing innovations and measuring lifts in performance, they can create a positive flywheel that powers higher performance now and in the future.
By analyzing data-driven insights, marketers can quickly determine which content is making the biggest splash — and go on to create more of it for stronger acquisitions.
The recent uproar surrounding Jaguar’s brand refresh has been astonishing. What began as a teaser of a new brand identity quickly spiralled into a feeding frenzy of criticism.
Hyper-personalisation should exist to enhance the user experience, but brands need to be wary of how close they are to crossing the line.
