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A market of extreme competition While America’s top 100 retailers account for approximately 40% of its retail market, China’s equivalent enjoy just 6.4% of total sales of consumer goods. What this means in practice is a market of...
Posted by: AKQA
China is booming. The growing economy, advanced technology and investment from outside the country mean content consumption is on the up and the opportunities for brands is endless. At Creativepool’s Connect: London festival, digital creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Many of us know the story of rapid economic growth in China. In 2006 China's GDP surpassed the UK's, and by 2016 the Chinese economy was more than 6 times larger. As such in the last ten years China has transformed itself in a number of key areas...
Posted by: Qumin
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Jones Knowles Ritchie, supported by Cogs Agency and with production support by 90...
Posted by: Christie H.Kristensen
2 weeks to go ! PARIS - April, 6-7 From April 6 to 7, leaders in tech, retail and more from China and Europe will descend upon Paris for the annual China Connect conference, the largest European gathering of experts on Chinese consumer trends and...
Posted by: China Connect
J.Walter Thompson London and HSBC have brought one of the world’s longest rivers to the sky by creating an ambitious and unique soundscape in Gatwick Airport’s new Sky Bridge. “A Living River” is the world’s longest and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Grimshaw Architects, the London firm behind the Eden Project (the bubble-shaped ecological park and Cornish tourist attraction) has signed a £100 million deal to design a similar scheme in Qingdao China called (rather obviously) “China...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Cogs Agency with production support by The Flying Kick Asia and Shooting Gallery...
Posted by: Creativepool
WPP China is set to move 26 of its media and ad companies along with 3000 staff currently spread across 10 locations into a gigantic new building in Shanghai, which we will (for now) affectionately call “WPP Towers.” The JWT and Ogilvy & Mather...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced yesterday by Leo Burnett Asia Pacific CEO Jarek Ziebinski, that Danny Mok has been appointed as CEO of Leo Burnett China, effective as of today (February 10). Mok will report directly to Ziebinski, and will be responsible for the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
FedEx, the American global courier delivery service, is looking to bolster interest in its UK division with a new film featuring the famed Nevisian hot sauce maker Llewellyn Clarke, whose “Hot Pepper Sauce,” is shown travelling from the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
China will soon be the proud owners of the world's most secure computer network, meaning all communications between Shanghai and Beijing will be (theoretically at least) completely impenetrable to hackers, giving the fledgling superpower a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Leo Burnett London has hired the creative team of Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson from DDB Chicago, where they've worked together since 2011. The duo were originally based in London at Mother, but moved onto JWT where...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tham Khai Meng, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide's chief creative officer, recently announced that Cesar Agost Carreno, the vice president of creative at Ogilvy & Mather Mexico has been appointed to the agency's Worldwide Creative Council (WCC). Carreno...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann recently won back the Chinese Coca-Cola account they lost to Leo Burnett back in 2007. The switch will not be affecting Leo Burnett's Publicis Groupe siblings or WPP's Ogilvy, which handle the Coca-Cola owned brands Sprite, Minute Maid and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DigitasLBi announced yesterday that they had given the position of chief product officer to Pipa Unsworth, ex deputy managing director of the global marketing and technology company's rival agency; Syzygy. Throughout her career, she has also held...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we spoke to Paul Alderson, Managing and Creative Director at North Eastern wellness branding specialists Wonderstuff. Wonderstuff does not pitch. The team has been expanding solely through referrals and word of mouth, but their plans to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As we all know, the creative industries thrive on the principles of diversity, open expression, and global collaboration. These are not principles even the most ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump would ever align him with and with the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If a fair proportion of the mainstream legacy media were to be believed, TikTok represents a very real threat to our children. In reality though, anyone that’s ever spent even a little time scrolling through the app will tell you it is, in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
While much of the online discourse this year has surrounded the rise of AI and its increasing relevance, social media remains the engine that keeps the fires of the internet burning. Of course, AI will shape the future of social media but how and why...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Eleven years on from the start of the No More Page 3 campaign, which saw women’s rights advocates bring an end to the controversial topless pin-up page, feminist and sex positive porn pioneer Erika Lust is leading a campaign called ‘One...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As Twitter's instantly recognisable blue bird has spread its wings, to make way for the platform's new X logo and branding, Natalia Kaczmarek, Senior Digital Content Creator at Whiteoaks International, asks if Twitter's move to X a smart one and if...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Finding so many extraordinary offerings to showcase in this creative calendar edition is a wonderful feeling. You are sure to recognize many of the social engagements taking pop culture’s center stage. Even if you can't hit the road to learn new...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
How did you get into the industry? From a tender age, the world of design and illustration beckoned me. My childhood was filled with doodles, sketches, and imaginations that translated onto paper. Pursuing Fine Arts was a natural progression,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Rebrands are usually orchestrated very carefully. Months (or sometimes years) of planning reaches a point where an organisation transitions from one brand to another, with every touchpoint and all ramifications carefully considered. And, of course,...
Posted by: Novagram
By Alex Jenkins, Editorial Director at Contagious. It feels like the last twelve months has seen the ad industry stuck in a creative recession. As someone who’s monitored the output of the global ad industry for over a decade, I can’t...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As Alphabet throws its billion-dollar hat into the ring, the race is on to put chatbot AI on the map. The breakthrough technology made headlines last year when OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool went public, but how could this usher in a new age for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
GWI, an audience insights technology company, has just published a forecast report with 5 of the most need-to-know trends for anyone looking to understand the consumer mindset in the year ahead. Taker | Maker has highlighted the report's key insights...
Posted by: Taker | Maker
This year’s developments in packaging design reflect a world in flux, still evolving from disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, and becoming increasingly aware of its own vulnerability - and responsibility - in the midst of climate...
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
Born, raised and educated in Wigan (home of Northern Soul and pies), filmmaker and director Martin Swift has spent the last 14 years or so working in commercials, documentaries, music videos and film/TV titles sequences, so he’s truly seen all...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As part of our Getting to Know series interviewing some of the most interesting up-and-coming figures in the creative industries, today we spoke with Darius Dazhi Wang, a multidisciplinary designer living in NYC. Currently working as a Motion...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I consider myself more a realist than a royalist but that doesn’t mean the Platinum Jubilee has completely passed me by. I mean, as a freelancer I’m not getting any time off and the constant TV coverage is started to frustrate me even...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Performance metrics for digital advertising have transformed our industry. Transparent, targeted, and accountable campaigns are more impactful than ever. The challenge to brands is wading through the variety of digital advertising options. Choose...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been a year of great recovery for the creative industries, but still not quite one in which everything was as opened up as we hoped. With so many creative professionals left at home with their own imagination, you can bet that the most...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Annual 2021 represented a milestone in the realm of creativity this year. Following nearly two years of Zoom calls, restrictions and social distancing, The Annual was a chance to celebrate and to showcase the best creativity has to offer, an occasion...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial