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Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on CHK Design head honcho Christian Küsters

How did you get into the industry? I have always been interested in popular culture. Starting with comics, magazines, films, music etc I was good at art in school and started designing (fictional) album covers at an early age at school. In...

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#CompanySpotlight on Wonder Vision

Wonder Vision is a creative production studio driven by design and obsessed with detail. Starting with powerful ideas, they solve content production challenges for some of the world’s most ambitious brands. This week, we caught up with...

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Features

#Barbiecore and the rise of the Nostalgia influencers

By Dale Barnett, Insights Editor at Influencer Intelligence Nostalgia Marketing is a common strategy used to associate the target audience’s positive emotions about the past with a product or service to boost sales. Marketers use references to...

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Inspiration

Burger King gives up on the Whopper | #BehindTheIdea

BBH is putting the spotlight on the nation’s most famous chicken burger - Burger King’s Chicken Royale in a campaign that taps into a truth that for some, the Home of the Whopper, isn’t all about the beef. But instead of a...

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Leaders

Creative education needs an urgent lesson in reinvention

Ian Wharton served as part of the creative leadership for design and innovation agencies in WPP and Publicis Groupe. He is the Founder of health technology startup Aide Health, an advisor at Justified Studio, the author of Spark for the Fire: How...

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Inspiration

The text message saving Ukrainian lives | #BehindTheIdea

Recognising the crisis unfolding at the border where traffickers have been waiting for Ukrainian refugees to arrive, BBD Perfect Strom and Unseen have come together to ensure their safe arrival. They have worked together to lobby the biggest telco...

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Features

Pink vs Grey: Barbieheimer is the marketing stunt of the year

In 2023, a meme could quite literally make or break a campaign. Whether or not that’s exciting or profoundly depressing will depend on many things (including, of course, your age) but it can’t be denied the memes generated in the wake of...

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Inspiration

It’s raining dog food... but why and how? | #BehindTheIdea

Kibble rains down over a Yorkshire village, much to the delight of its canine residents, in a new TV campaign for dog food brand Harringtons. It is the first work by the creative agency Dog Cat & Mouse since winning the account in a three-way pitch...

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Features

What AI really thinks of the world’s biggest companies

AI fever has swept the world over the past year, and businesses are scrambling to figure out how best they can take advantage of it to improve efficiency and profits, so it’s interesting to see how artificial intelligence interprets some of the...

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Features

Game, set, match made in heaven – when brand alignment works. Or not.

For those who think Wimbledon wouldn’t be the same without strawberries and cream and a glass of Pimm’s, you’re not alone. Every year, an estimated 191,000 portions are eaten, accompanied by more than 276,000 glasses of the tipple....

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Inspiration

Zoom jump on the Wes Anderson trend | #BehindTheIdea

Jumping on the recent Wes Anderson trend that’s sprung up on social media since the auteur’s latest film “Asteroid City” was released, Bella Vecchi, a Creator at VaynerMedia, started an Instagram campaign for Zoom on the same...

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Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on CGI Artist Alex Massey

How did you get into the industry? After several years surviving in retail after finishing university, I ended up moving to Toronto, Canada and got my first job as a 3D scanning artist and modeller for SGSCO. It was great fun using industry leading...

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Industry

At Cannes Lions 2023, purpose was out and humour was in

If Cannes Lions 2022 has a singular united theme, it was “purpose.” Indeed, it’s perhaps been the unifying theme for the last decade. In the ensuing 12 months, however, we’ve all been purposed to death so when it came to the...

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Features

The best beer and band brand joints #MoneyMonth

Beer and music are two things I’d probably struggle to live my life well without. There is also a definite link between the two. I mean, who has ever been to a live gig and not been struck by the sticky floors and the ridiculous queue at the...

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Inspiration

#CompanySpotlight on animation specialists Stormy Studio

Stormy Studio is an award-winning business-focused animation studio in the UK that produces high-quality 2D and 3D business explainers and marketing animation for global brands and businesses. To learn more, we spoke to company founder and creative...

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Inspiration

Creating a meat milkshake for serious Diablo 4 gamers | #BehindTheIdea

To launch the eagerly awaited fourth installment in Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series, B-Reel has revealed its new campaign daring gamers to taste something no one on earth has ever tried before: a Demon Meat Shake. After the open Beta...

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Features

How to craft a winning Annual entry in 5 steps!

A simple guide to help you create the perfect Annual submission. 1. Download the Entry Pack The Entry Pack is your key to understanding the process of taking part in The Annual. Contained within is a whole host of information about the process,...

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Inspiration

Fighting fire with Candour | #CompanySpotlight

This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on the London-based Documentary Production company, Candour. We spoke with Co-founder and producer Zachary Crawley on the studio’s humble beginnings and its current status as a defiantly...

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Inspiration

How Barbie can inspire brands to get creative with cinema #PurposeMonth

Legendary characters and stories are having a moment in film. Iconic pop culture video game Super Mario Bros. had a box office hit with its animated film amassing $1 billion globally earlier this year, meanwhile, Greta Gerwig’s highly...

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Inspiration

What Brand Believers Know That You Don’t

Long before digital marketing started to suffocate emotional creativity in favor of unnecessarily complex, performance-based blindness, my agency presented a TV spot for a high-end audio brand. We were excited. We had a powerful concept, and we...

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Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on Emptylayer 3D Artist, Denis Donea

How did you get into the industry? I developed a passion for the 3D world after completing my degree in interior design, and it has been nearly a decade since then. Despite the passing of time, I still find it exciting and engaging. Throughout this...

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Industry

How to hire a great filmmaker

Hiring a filmmaker can be a daunting task, especially for businesses or brands that are not familiar with the film industry. With the rise of video marketing, it is becoming increasingly important to create high-quality video content to promote...

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Inspiration

#CompanySpotlight on Flying Duck Studio Lab

Flying Duck Studio Lab is an ethical and inclusive creative studio whose goal is to share positive and inspiring story-telling by bringing top-notch productions to the world and working towards changing the industry for the better. They specialise...

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