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Elon Musk sends a Dragon to Mars This week, SpaceX, the aerospace manufacturer founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, announced its plans to send unmanned Dragon spacecrafts to Mars by 2018. These initial missions will reportedly inform them of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
True North - Chester Storyhouse True North has named and branded the Storyhouse, a new £37 million arts development in Chester, which is being designed by Bennetts Associates. The Storyhouse will be the biggest cultural space outside of London,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Havas London Havas has announced Xavier Rees as CEO of Havas London. Rees joins from his position as Group Managing Director at adam&eveDDB, a role he has held for the last two years and to which he was promoted after four years at the agency. At...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2016 has been widely heralded by all corners of the media as the “Year of VR.” Whether or not this is because they're simply trying to force it to happen or because technology has finally caught up with the concepts we were salivating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Our 2016 Annual came with a new accolade: The Influencer of the Year, where Creativepool honour the individuals within the industry that have surpassed expectations and impacted the market in 2015 and beyond. They're people who don't follow the herd...
Posted by: Creativepool
VML VML has announced the promotion of Chris Wood to Executive Director of Europe, and Amanda Farmer to Managing Director of London, as the agency expands its global operations. Wood, has led VML's London office for the past five years in his role...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH – Uber Uber has hired Bartle Bogle Hegarty as its first retained creative agency in the UK, in an appointment that follows a pitch process that kicked off at the start of the year and was run directly by the client. Creature had been working...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Getty Images Gallery’s latest exhibition, “Creative in Focus,” takes the visual trend predictions made annually by Getty Images and uses them to explore the Jekyll and Hyde nature of modern tastes and behaviours, which are erratic, rebellious...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Grey Group James R. Heekin III, Chairman and CEO of the Grey Group, has announced the promotion of Michael Houston, to Global President of Grey. Houston served most recently as CEO of Grey North America. In his expanded new worldwide leadership...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For some time, it hasn't been a question of 'if' but 'when' and 'who'. Well, now we know the answer. The Independent (and its Sunday title) is the first national UK newspaper to surrender its print edition and become a digital-only...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Hato - Pick Me Up Graphic Art festival Pick Me Up is launching a new identity based around a digital tool allowing anyone to create and submit a letterform to be used in the branding. The new identity has been created by Hato, who also developed the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Start Group Mac Macdonald, the President and Partner at Sid Lee Amsterdam, has been appointed the Group CEO at Start Group, the independent global network formerly known as Start JudgeGill. Based in London, he will focus initially on developing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBDO has had quite a week indeed. We've already reported on the global agency network's involvement in a charming new V&A Museum exhibition and its top placings in this year's Gunn Report, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. AMV BBDO unveil...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Zimmerman - Smokey Bones Within 30 days of breaking ties with Logan's Roadhouse, Zimmerman Advertising has announced its partnership with Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill, serving as the Florida-based chain's new Agency of Record. Smokey Bones is one...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Publicis Worldwide Publicis Worldwide New York promotes Carla Serrano to CEO, effective immediately, according to North America CEO Andrew Bruce. The move is significant, positioning clients versus operations, at the centre of all agency activities....
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Fingerpaint Marketing Fingerpaint Marketing has hired seasoned executive Bill McEllen to lead its ever-expanding New York office in Saratoga Springs. The news is a major win for the full service creative agency, with McEllen bringing with him over...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Mars Agency The Mars Agency has begun its 2016 fiscal year with the promotion of Darren Keen from Managing Director, Europe to Chief Executive Officer, Europe. For 43 years the agency has operated under one Global CEO, and the addition of CEO,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Getty Images has unveiled its highly anticipated visual trends forecast, an industry-leading publication of the key visual trends Getty Images predicts will influence design, advertising and brand communications in 2016. Forecast by Getty...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Australia's fourth largest telco, Amaysim, has revealed the reason behind the recent announcement by American TV acting legend, David Hasselhoff, that he was changing his name to “David Hoff.” The news managed to dupe many major...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Publicis Canada Duncan Bruce, the current President & Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Canada, has been promoted to President & CEO, effective immediately. His promotion comes as a direct result of the agency's marketing transformation and the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Winter's silver lining is dawning on us once again, and brands are wasting no time getting in on the action, not least Royal Mail, who are arguably as vital a part of the UK Christmas season as lukewarm mulled wine and tangled lights. Every November...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Marketers fell over themselves to get involved in pink breast cancer awareness promotions during October, but now it's officially Movember, which means lots of agencies and brands engineering promotions around moustaches to help raise money for men's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Rufus Leonard - ODEON ODEON, the European cinema chain, has been given a glamorous brand revamp courtesy of Rufus Leonard, all based around the franchises iconic “O” motif, which the design consultancy have said they have aimed to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Facebook has your back! Just when we were all quite content in picturing Facebook as an irredeemable, voyeuristic cess pit, (not that it would stop us using it of course) they’ve only gone and revealed themselves as bastions of the revolution!...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last night we had the chance to have a peek at the inaugural FUTURE ARTEFACTS showcase at Shoreditch Studios in London. The aim of FUTURE ARTEFACTS is to bring together the world’s most progressive music, arts publishing, fashion and tech...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Frequency540 Independent digital marketing agency Frequency540 has hired veteran creative talent Tom Quish to oversee creative content and campaign development for a number of its ambitious clients. Quish, former Razorfish creative director, will...
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Leo Burnett India Leo Burnett India has appointed Sachin Das Burma as Group Executive Creative Director at its Delhi office. Sachin comes to the team having built his credentials across several marquee brands. Sachin joins from Draft FCB Ulka where...
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TBWA\Chiat\Day TBWA\Chiat\Day has appointed Andrew Dauska as managing director of the agency's Nissan account, reporting directly to TBWA\Chiat\Day LA president, Luis DeAnda. Andrew, who joins TBWA from Wunderman in Minneapolis, has a proven track...
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Frequency 540 - Lincoln Park Zoo Frequency540, an independent digital marketing agency, has been selected by Lincoln Park Zoo as its new agency of record. The zoo sought a strategic partner to optimise their brand to seed awareness and clarify its...
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Apple file a patent for the Smart Ring In a week that saw the iPhone 6S sell 13 million units in just three days during its launch weekend (compared to 10 million for the iPhone 6 last year), Apple has also filed a patent for a “Smart...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I won't pretend to know a thing about Football, but I know quite a lot about pubs. I've always been adverse to the fancy wine bar or the over-priced nightclub, being more at home in a dusty hovel bearing a name such as the “Bull and Bladder” or...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Retro VGS brings retro gaming into the modern age Even though we live in an age where modern games are genuinely beginning to approach photo realism, the retro gaming market has never been more popular. Whether this is down to simple nostalgia,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To celebrate BT Sport becoming the new home of the UEFA Champions League, OgilvyOne, the UK’s leading customer experience agency has created a series of specially designed and hand painted football-inspired BT Sport ‘Pub Signs’. The...
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Publicis Healthcare acquire Tardis Medical Publicis Healthcare recently acquired Tardis Medical; a highly respected clinical and medical affairs outsourcing organisation and consultancy business. The agency will be aligned with Publicis Touchpoint...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Digitas LBi DigitasLBi has promoted creative strategy director Nic Howell to the role of head of creative strategy. The promotion follows the announcement that former DigitasLBi creative strategy head Ed Beard is to become chief strategy officer at...
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If recent images from China are to be believed, it would appear that after more than a decade of back-biting, exclusivity battles, failed motion control experiments (Playstation Move anyone?) and fanboy wars, that Xbox and Playstation have finally...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns