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Workshop

How to achieve the perfect portfolio - Part 2

So, carrying on from Part 1; you’re working and you’re producing great creative work. It’s time to tell the story of your illustrious career, but more importantly, it’s about keeping the new chapters coming. Remember to check...

Posted by: Fabrik
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Leaders

Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

Affinity – Panasonic/Birch & White/Johnson & Johnson Tech driven advertising and media agency Affinity has won a trio of high profile clients as it continues to enjoy sustained growth. 

The Sydney-headquartered independent agency has been...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Angry Birds 2 gets bigger, badder, birdier

Whilst it probably won’t go down in history as one of the very best video games of all time, Angry Birds is arguably one of the most important and influential, especially of recent years. Indeed, years before it was dethroned by the godawful...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Social Media Recruitment: Getting It Right

How to get social media recruitment right and the hazards to watch out for. It’s widely known that in 2015 the majority of job seekers find their jobs through a social network. And I’m guessing that the vast majority of recruiters either...

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Leaders

How the Google algorithm stole a blogger's domain name.

You may remember, in the early days of the internet, some very smart cookies enriched themselves considerably by buying up the domain names they figured would be in demand, just as soon as major corporations woke up to the new technology. Smart...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Alfa Romeo paint Instagram red

Doner recently unveiled a brand new (and very colourful) integrated campaign for Alfa Romeo. The “Made of Red” campaign strives to encapsulate the passion and attitude evoked by the colour red, a colour which is so integral to the Italian luxury...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Dannes Lions, the latest addition to the winners circle

The advertising industry is not exactly renowned for taking the piss out of itself. Indeed, the only major zeitgeist defining piece of entertainment set around the industry in recent memory (Mad Men) glamorised ad land to almost the point of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week

Isobar - Chambord Isobar has been appointed as the UK social and digital agency for Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur, owned by Brown-Forman Beverages. Isobar will manage all social and digital strategy and activity in the UK, continuing to build...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The Week In Advertising

Very - Can't Wait For Summer Quite a plush and expensive looking spot for Very, here. And a nice little twist at the end. It's just a shame the whole thing is focused on models with 'perfect' beach bodies, rather than the actual people likely to be...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week

Brothers & Sisters - Pearl & Dean Pearl & Dean, the UK’s best known cinema advertising contractor, has appointed Brothers & Sisters, without a pitch, to produce a new summer campaign. The campaign will celebrate the unique relationship Pearl &...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week

Underdog Underdog won the all-round creative duties for T Bhimjyani Realty this week. Previously part of Neelkanth Group, the Indian firm has been in the realty business for over 40 years and has successfully executed over 550 residential &...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week

VCCP Nationwide has appointed VCCP as its lead advertising agency in a move to keep the momentum going behind the revamped brand building strategy launched last year. VCCP will take over lead duties on the £20 million account from 18 Feet and...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Sony seek to redefine television

Having already (arguably) conquered the world's of home entertainment, gaming and films (though what with the recent hacks that last one comes with a pretty major caveat), Sony are branching out into TV broadcasting (or at least an approximation of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Droga5 deletes Cameron Diaz

Whilst it might have passed many of you by (and for shame if it did), this Sunday gone (the 8th of March) was International Women's Day; an annual celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women across the world. To mark the occasion, No...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Matomy scores Europe's leading mobile ad platform

The Matomy Media Group furthers its strategic digital advancement by announcement the acquisition of MobFox, Europe's leading mobile programmatic advertising platform. The acquisition follows the group's strategic partnership with the Publicis...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

Adam & Eve DDB dominate the IPA Effectiveness Awards

At the IPA Effectiveness Awards ceremony last night, which was held at the London Hilton on Park Lane, the big winner was Adam & Eve DDB's Foster's “Good Call” campaign, which has become synonymous with Channel 4 comedy over the last...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

M&C Saatchi turn the clocks back for smokers

To coincide with the end of daylight savings on Sunday, which saw the clocks in the UK set back an hour, M&C Saatchi Sydney has created a new campaign for QUIT, the anti-smoking charity, which revolves around a website that can give smokers a rough...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Hollywood stars lend their voices to Nature

TBWA Media Arts Lab recently launched a star-studded new campaign called “Nature Is Speaking” for Conservation International (CI), the nonprofit environmental organisation based in Arlington, Virginia. The bold and cinematic ads, which...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

“It's the [bad] taste.” Farewell to the last of the PG Tips chimps.

Growing up in the '80s, there were only four TV channels. Consequently, when we got to school, it was a pretty safe bet that we had all watched the same telly as everyone else the night before. So in the playground of a morning, we would all run...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

Top 10 Creativepool Companies of 2013

2013 is nearly over, and hasn't it flown! We have had a great year and thought we would take a moment to showcase our Top 10 companies of the year. These are the companies with the most views and follows. Some award winning, talented and awesome...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Leaders

Bat Wings: 60 years of the BBC ident

"All branding is about setting yourself apart and trying to be clear to your audience or customers that you stand for this set of values.” Absolutely spot on…and so it should be, because those words of wisdom come from Martin Lambie-Nairn...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Inspiration

Is this the most ineffective press ad of all time?

I'm sorry for implanting a most unwelcome picture in your head, but I was taking a bath the other evening. The radio was on, I was leafing idly through a magazine and that's when I saw it - the least effective print ad of all time. In fact, it was so...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Funny business. British comedy writing is in crisis, but why?

Last week, I wrote about the key differences between copywriting and 'writing'. And while I attempted to make the challenges inherent in copywriting clear, I wouldn't say the profession is in crisis. Unlike the art of writing comedy. Quite when the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Bad reception. Why the worst thing about DAB isn't the advertising.

'Share the love!' says a one and half foot, massive headed, dead-eyed creature in a white jump-suit. Ordinarily the shock of this vision would wake you from your nightmare. You'd slope off for a wee and crawl back into bed. But this isn't a bad...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Intrude out. Where now for disruptive advertising?

Disruption has always been key to the advertising model. Very few people opt to be exposed to marketing messages, therefore effective advertising has traditionally intruded into the content the audience has chosen to consume - a TV show, a magazine...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Yes we Cannes! What's happening at the festival today?

Have you ever been to Cannes? Not on a cycling holiday, but the festival? No, not the movie festival - the creativity festival, The Lions? Ever been to that? Me neither - but I do find myself reading about it every year; largely because the industry...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Travis Perkins appoints Amaze as its lead digital partner

29th May 2013: One of the largest building supplies providers in the UK, Travis Perkins Plc, has appointed Amaze as its lead digital partner. The brief was won following a four-way competitive pitch. As Travis Perkins’ lead digital partner,...

Posted by: AmazeRealise
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Leaders

Should celebrities be plugging advertisers in interviews?

The old adage asserts, 'Word of mouth is the best advertising'. And there's a lot of truth in that. When a satisfied customer recommends a product or service to a potential customer, a form of potent and cost-free advertising has taken place and it's...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Spotlight... Rob Pratt, Senior Designer & Art Director

Company Brand & Deliver Job title Design Director Social media Creativepool.com/robpratt Twitter: @prattrob Website: robprattdesign.co.uk Tell us a bit about what it is that you do I’ve worked across iOS apps, websites and digital...

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Job Description - Broadcast Journalist

What is the work like? Broadcast journalists research and present news items for broadcast on radio, TV and online. Their job is to tell each story in a compelling way - combining the facts with the most apt sounds or pictures. Many journalists...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Workshop

Market conversations in the web 2.0 world

Kitcatt Nohr & Lazar Dzamic Since December 2007, Lazar Dzamic has lead the digital planning offering at Integrated agency, Kitcatt Nohr. Along with Planning Director, Richard Madden, Lazar leads digital strategy as Digital Planning Director, for...

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Features

Sailing close to the wind. Did Kayak's ad deserve to be banned?

by Magnus Shaw. Perhaps surprisingly, I've only ever worked on a couple of campaigns which have attracted public complaints. One was a press piece for a now defunct cable TV network. At the time, it was the only service carrying the Disney Channel...

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Features

Off and On; The twisting tale of the ITV logo.

by Magnus Shaw. Perhaps surprisingly, there's only been an official ITV logo since 1989. Until then, the network was divided into autonomous regions, each with their own brand. If you're in your thirties or forties you'll remember your own - Thames...

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Inspiration

Opinions - Stephen Hawking - the man. The brand.

by Magnus Shaw Elvis Presley, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe - throughout the modern era, one or two human beings have exceeded their brief to be carbon-based lifeforms, walking around, eating dinner and making other carbon-based lifeforms. For want of...

Posted by: Creativepool

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