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Last year, consumers spent $8.9billion over the Black Friday weekend while brands advertising budgets surged 168% compared to the rest of November. As consumers and brands gear towards celebrating Black Friday, lesser advertising and product discount...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Black Friday, one of the year's undeniable major retailing occasions, returns on the 25th of November. This occasion encourages businesses to develop new marketing strategies and make better-informed business decisions to remain competitive and deal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the holiday season creeps up on us once more, the country braces itself for another round of Christmas adverts, from the humorous to the heart-wrenching. But which brands have got the festive formula down and have helped cement themselves as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
timeTo is an organisation that focuses on providing regular training for agencies and employees as well as support for sexual harassment in the workplace. Within the training supplied by timeTo there is emphasis on the intention behind the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hiring the best team to bring your animation projects to life is not an easy task. Animation projects require extensive production, and the proper studio needs to deliver the desired visual output while also guaranteeing a smooth experience...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You might have seen BLVR’s Compton Cowboys campaign for Andis - ‘an unusually tender, insightful work for a barbering campaign’ - ECD Austin Lane led the creative vision on this. Photography, painting, drawing, and filming were all...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The profession of motion graphics design is relatively new on the design front. Technology-enabled design professions are growing. And there are so many different types of designers out there, it’s tricky to keep them all straight! There are...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Art Directors are the masters of creativity and the ones responsible for steering the visual and thematic heart of a project. They are responsible for what commercial campaigns look like and guide the hands and imaginations of various creatives to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Everyone likes a freebie and with the news this morning that we are potentially heading into one of the worst recessions in history, the concept of getting something genuinely useful for nothing has never seemed more enticing. With that in mind, I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TV is a huge part of everyday life, with iconic British soaps like Coronation Street and Eastenders still going strong today. Alongside these shows, certain British adverts have made a lasting impression on viewers. We all have memories of particular...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hey fellow creatives! Follow along as we take on a brand new art director challenge–one that dissects the graphic styles of decades past to influence our project for today. But we won't just be exploring retro design. We'll also be diving head...
Posted by: Kevin Forister
Horror films and advertising are not exactly a natural fit, at least on paper. But when the cause is just, and the idea is good enough you’d be surprised what creatives can pull out of the bag. Such is the case with this oddly sinister short...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Unless you find yourself in a particularly enviable position, if you work in the creative industries (particularly in advertising) then at some point you’re going to have to pitch for work. The pitching process, as it once was, doesn’t...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Anyone who commits to lifelong learning can expect many prolific returns. Expanding one's knowledge presents opportunities to better understand the world and our fellow humans while advancing our skills. In a constantly changing world, innovation...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
The Wild bills itself as a “social-first” creative agency, which sits alongside social-first publisher Jungle Creations. To learn more, we spoke to Tom McGirr, Executive Strategy Director at The Wild, a man who feels that brands have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Did you know that 46% of consumers in the US only buy from businesses they can trust? Only after they do research and read reviews to get familiar with the company do they consider buying. The first step in all this is finding out about your brand....
Posted by: Alina Tytarenko
In a rapidly competitive environment, every brand looks to set themselves apart. They want to create an unmistakable image to achieve the highest possible brand recognition among consumers. A branding designer or brand manager is responsible not...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Content is king. This is an adage we’re probably all sick of by now, but it still rings true in many ways. What is the internet without content, after all? This is why content managers remain one of the most important individuals for many...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are a society entrenched in pessimism, compounded by a lack of leadership and lack of trust. The future requires long-term goals and forward thinking. We need to aim forward and work backwards. This is what was proposed at the LS:N Future...
Posted by: LEAP
Ida Hay is aSwedish/Norwegian illustrator and visual designer based in British Columbia, Canada who started drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pen. She has always been colour sensitive, already as a young child her family noticed her...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What is a brand? It’s far more than just a colour scheme and a few catchy phrases. Indeed, it’s more suitable to think of a brand as an identity - it’s what the company stands for, what it hopes to achieve and how it wants to be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Here’s a surprising fact: the CW’s average viewer is 58 years old. If you’ve ever seen any of the network’s content - shows like Arrow or The 100 - you would be forgiven for finding this surprising. Nonetheless, the statistic...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In 2004, a Guardian article highlighted a new, innovative medium that stood out through “the intimacy of voice” paired with “interactivity (…) convenience and portability”. The journalist Ben Hammersley was talking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For brands looking to make a splash this October during Amazon Prime Day, creative mobile campaigns are key. In this article, Paul Coggins, CEO of Adludio, argues that the ad industry has sat on its creative laurels for too long. If the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The job of a retoucher is far more complicated and exciting than just making exceptionally pretty people even prettier. Editing images and videos, or photographic retouching, helps the creative present his or her project in the best light...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The best graphic designers inhabit that space between the creative and the business-minded; the tangible and the intangible. It would be quite easy (and reductive) to simply take the phrase literally and describe a graphic designer simply as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was always going to happen eventually. With so many competitors breathing down their necks offering more streamlined, cohesive and cost-effective alternatives, there was only so many serial killer documentaries Netflix could throw at the problem -...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A small but passionate team born from the ashes of some of the biggest agencies in the world, the spectacularly named Orange Panther Collective was founded on the cusp of the pandemic in March 2020. From social gurus to brand strategists, big...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It takes literal seconds for a potential customer to form an opinion of your brand and opinions that are already formed can be almost impossible to change. That’s why advertising remains such a valuable tool and, while what you have to say (the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The written word is a funny thing. It’s something `almost all of us have a basic understanding of and use every day to reply to emails, forward distracting memes to our co-workers and message our significant others about dinner. But how often...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week we’re getting to know former Engine Creative Director and current ECD at The Brooklyn Brothers, Orlando Warner. While he’s only been in his ECD role for a few months, Orlando has already been making waves over at Brooklyn...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What is a brand? It’s far more than just a colour scheme and a few catchy phrases. Indeed, it’s more suitable to think of a brand as an identity - it’s what the company stands for, what it hopes to achieve and how it wants to be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Each year, the Cannes Lions score the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health, Entertainment, and even more. The latest edition of our Global Creative Calendar...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
As more mainstream agencies have been putting out campaigns for non-health brands, Guy Swimer, ECD at McCann Health London, ponders the creative world of healthcare. He discusses how the creative and competitive bar in healthcare is being raised and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Saatchi & Saatchi recently launched Churchill Insurance’s “Bring Chill to the Nation” campaign with Churchill’s iconic mascot ‘Churchie’ leading the creative, introducing his very own blissed-out world, the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial