As the final chapter of 2025 closes, it’s time to pause, reflect and try to make sense of a year that was as transformative as it was turbulent. If any of us in this industry entered the year thinking we understood the future of marketing, we leave it with a far more nuanced and perhaps humbler perspective. Like many other industries, the marketing world finds itself looking back on a year defined by rapid shifts, bold experimentation and a consumer base whose expectations se