Higgs production in the VH mode at ATLAS and CMS

In these proceedings, the key role played by the Higgs boson associated production (VH) mode in the characterization of the electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism is described through a review of the latest results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments obtained with the data collected during LHC Run 2. A focus is given to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair by ATLAS and CMS achieved through the analysis of the additional data collected during 2017. A review of the ATLAS and CMS searches for $\mathrm{VH(H\rightarrow W W)}$ is also provided together with a summary of the role played by the VH production mechanism in the $\mathrm{H\rightarrow \tau\tau}$ observation carried out by CMS and in the challenging search for the Higgs boson decay to charm quarks published by ATLAS in the beginning of LHC Run 2.