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RuPaul's Drag Race has become a global sensation in recent times, and a great context to promote inclusivity and love as part of a reality TV competition. The most famous Drag Race in the world has just recently landed in the UK as well, where the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It gives us great pleasure to announce this year’s Creativepool Annual winners, revealed last night at the Annual Awards Ceremony at Protein Studios. A total of 251 winners were crowned between both the creative Annual categories and the Award...
Posted by: Creativepool
Say what you want about Boris Johnson, but the bumbling buffoon/Mayor of London really knows how to put on one hell of a show! His New Year’s Eve fireworks, delivered in partnership with Unicef, saw in 2016 with a truly breathtaking show...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
National Trust, the independent charity which looks after places of historic interest or natural beauty for the benefit of the nation, has launched a new digital platform in partnership with DigitasLBi. The agency used their blended team of creative,...
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Wandering around a supermarket when it's not busy like at 8am on a Saturday morning makes one of life's necessary evils ever so slightly more pleasurable. Not much more, admittedly I'd rather be asleep, for one thing but ever so slightly. One thing...
Posted by: Creativepool
Will my work get seen by the "right" people is a key question when deciding on whether or not to enter any award. As a part of our commitment to making The Annual the "Most Award" we make sure that your entries are delivered to, and downloaded by,...
Posted by: Creativepool
How did you get into the industry? I was living the dream of being an indie filmmaker in New York-in other words, struggling to pay the rent and eating a lot of iffy cheeseburgers-when a friend hooked me up with a gig at a SoHo ad agency....
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Throughout my career as a sound designer, I've witnessed rapid changes in the audio landscape. As I reflect on this, I realise that there has never been a better time to work in audio. Radio listenership is currently at an all-time high, podcasts...
Posted by: Chris Turner
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I would say my main role is a cross between Mother Hen and judge - I support, listen, advise and in the end make a decision if one is needed from me. A typical day depends on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This year, Creativepool celebrated 10 years of creative excellence with the eighth edition of the Creativepool Annual and handed out over 250 prizes at a lavish Annual Launch Party in the centre of London. Without the individuals, however, the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Josh Partridge, VP & Head of EMEA at Yahoo Advertising explains why advertisers must raise their digital creative game if they’re to attract customers. Internet nostalgia is a funny thing. We talk about digital transformation as if it’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I studied and qualified as a Graphic Designer where I worked for many years. During this time, I found a passion for 3D animation which I then self-taught myself and began introducing this into my job and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Comedians Stevie Martin and Lola-Rose Maxwell discuss how their experience of writing, performing, directing and editing their hit viral sketches influenced their recent success in creating authentic and genuinely funny comedy ads. Stevie (left)...
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Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? Not at all. isla is quite a one-of-a-kind organisation and we don’t have a blueprint to follow, so the team and I are on a steep, but exciting learning curve as the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Avon’s refreshed brand created in partnership with Wunderman Thompson UK showcases ‘Embrace your Power’, a new global platform, visual identity, creative approach and integrated campaign. For over 135 years, Avon has stood for...
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If you ask anyone in my family to identify my mum, they’ll refer to the jingle jangle of the mass of gold bracelets on her wrists. That metallic cacophony to me, more than a look or smell, is the truly evocative sound of home, and of love. So...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2022 will forever be remembered as the year the Queen died and the year Vladimir Putin cemented himself as “Hitler 2.0” by invading Ukraine. But, as if often the case, a lot of good still managed to squeeze its way out of the muck and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As companies rapidly evolve, it is to be expected that the priorities and expectations of roles within a brand evolve as well. But no position has changed quite as rapidly as the CMO. Once considered the nexus of all things creative, the CMO is now...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been the most competitive Christmas ad season ever. People want a reason to smile, and brands have pulled out all the stops to provide it with a series of feelgood festive ads. Advertising effectiveness company System1 have unveiled their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
Gillette Venus from P&G has launched its latest salvo from Grey New York to de-stigmatize pubic hair. This month it premiered the song “It’s Time to Care (For Your Pubic Hair)” featuring female rapper Princess Nokia. The brand...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“We have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Bang. Politically liberal users on Twitter surged by 24% as news broke of Trump’s permanent ban from the platform in January...
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As the Metaverse continues to evolve and take shape, retail brands and their creative leads, directors, and managers should be embracing early adoption to grab the opportunities this next-level, web3 presents. But as the shapeshifting Metaverse...
Posted by: We Are Amnet
Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World is a recurring tune in creative work around the globe, and for good reason. It carries enormous poetic and symbolic power, which once again is masterfully demonstrated in the campaign by Hell Yeah! and Olio...
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With an integrated multi-media approach, Zulu Alpha Kilo and Subaru Canada partnered to celebrate the launch of the Wilderness edition trim line in Canada with a spectacular spot to cut through the competition and stand out from the crowd. The...
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A globally acclaimed and multidisciplinary creative director would have all the reasons to feel proud or even entitled - but if there's anything that this industry has taught Simon Waloszek, it is the value of humility and being yourself at all...
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Where to start with the past 12 months? The year 2020 AD has been... interesting to say the least. There isn't a single person, company, agencies or otherwise who can claim not to have been affected by Covid-19. And as we all wait for the vaccines...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hard-hitting. Impactful. Crude in its sheer honesty. There are a lot of words that we could use to describe the beautiful campaign by Affixxius for the Leicestershire Police - but none of those would do it justice as much as spending just two minutes...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you establish a collaboration-friendly infrastructure in your team, especially in these corona times? Among the many things the pandemic has done for us, losing team meetings and face-to-face interactions was a hard blow to all of us, and few...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's no wonder brands have invested big in the power of social media this year. With the vast majority of consumers stuck at home for long periods of time, online ads and social media were the only touchpoints between them and their target users. We...
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Some days ago we asked our community why they chose to become freelancers. The answers were quite interesting: the thrill of the unknown, the variety, the freedom, the flexibility. In truth, flexibility seems to be quite a common theme for seasoned...
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The Jefferson Talent Group have teamed up with Fiona Wilson to look at health and happiness in the marketing industry, running a series of workshops to discuss mental health and wellbeing. Alongside these workshops, we’ll explore the good, bad...
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You'll often hear writers say that structure is important. Structure is what holds a story together. Structure is sometimes what propels a story forward. Structure is loved, but also much hated. But even within the strict rigidity of structure,...
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The team at in-game advertising platform Bidstack spent last week in Cologne for Europe’s biggest gaming event - Gamescom. Here, its CMO, Simon Gosling, offers a comprehensive look at some of the key things they took away from this year’s...
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Tim Leary famously referred to virtual reality (VR) as "LSD for the 90s". And after my recent trip to the Virtual Cinema at SXSW, it became obvious why. Up until now, VR for me, had been a pretty shallow experience, rather like a ride on Space...
Posted by: Russell Schaller
In the media world, not a week goes by without an article or discussion on the waning appeal of traditional media and the consequent flow of ad money to digital. But let’s set that aside for a minute because the bigger battle right now is between...
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