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First, Vita Coco spend £1.5m on their summer advertising campaign to build “maximum visibility” around the brand and drive sales over the summer period. Last month Vita Coco Kids, the children’s variant of the coconut water...
Posted by: Creativepool
The innovative AKQA, from the world’s largest advertising group WPP, has partnered with Dyson to develop Dyson Link - mobile software that communicates with The Dyson 360 Eye™ robot to carry out connected cleaning from anywhere. On 4th...
Posted by: Creativepool
According to TBWA\South Africa CEO Derek Bouwer, TBWA is looking to acquire as many as six new agencies over the next year within the region. The group, which is owned by the Omnicom holding company recently acquired 80% of HDI Youth Marketers, the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
OnLive, the world leader in cloud gaming, announced today that they are to form a strategic partnership with TP Vision, the manufacturing arm of Philips, which will involve the OnLive Game Service being pre-installed on all new Android powered...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Reports have been leaking in over the weekend that Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media, are looking at placing a takeover bid for ITV. The telecommunications and television company owned by billionaire John Malone has reportedly been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
News has been trickling in through the grapevine over the last 24 hours, suggesting that online retail giants Amazon have purchased the streaming site Twitch for over $970 million (, edging out Google, who have reportedly been in talks to acquire the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
WCRS announced yesterday that creative directors Ross Neil and Billy Faithfull had been promoted to ECD's alongside Leon Jaume, who will continue in the same role at WCRS and the wider Engine group. Both Neil and Faithfull, who were made creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Storytelling has always been at the heart and soul of a successful brand identity, creating an approachable personality to encourage consumer engagement. But with the rise of the tech-savvy Generation Z, brands are innovating by telling their tales...
Posted by: bluemarlin
The health behaviour experts at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide announced yesterday that its New Jersey office had made five promotions and made two new hires. Promotions Former account executive Libber Werner has been promoted to the role of senior...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Subaru of America recently debuted its new advertising campaign for the 2015 Subaru Legacy, the Japanese car manufacturer's new mid-size sedan. The campaign aims to position the car as a smarter alternative to 'mainstream' choices with three national...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Grey San Francisco has been chosen by the iControl Network, the Canadian company that specialises in providing connected home solutions, to be the first agency of record for 'Piper', the company's revolutionary...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Recently it was announced that Radio 1 and Radio 1 Xtra would be shedding a cross section of their DJs. Controller Ben Cooper has handed Mike Davies, Jen Long, Ally McCrae, CJ Beatz, Crissy Criss and Robbo Ranx their cards, and his actions are blamed...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
‘Nobody knows anything’. So goes the famous quote from screenwriter William Goldman, suggesting that it’s impossible to predict public taste. It’s a theory that would certainly be supported by the haphazard history of the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Late last year, a picture of Cheryl Cole appeared on the internet and in various newspapers. Nothing particularly odd about that; Ms. Cole is a constant media fixture. Only this picture, which she had released herself, was of her backside, newly...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
“If you look at the UK, we are suffering because we are not putting the time into the idea and there’s empirical evidence to say that the quality of our output has gone down. It’s not my opinion. Empirical evidence from the audience...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
So ridiculous, it would have been rejected as a plotline in 'The Thick Of It'. That's not (or not necessarily) my opinion, it comes from the creators of 'The Thick Of It' and it refers to the 'advertisement' placed on Twitter by Grant Shapps,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
After having scooped a huge account in the form of the Prudential's 'PruProtect' life insurance business at the end of last month, BBD Perfect Storm now adds another wealthy string to its bow in the form of bed specialist 'Dreams', who yesterday...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mobile advertising specialists Millennial Media were recently hired by outdoor clothing and equipment retailers The North Face to help them shift their marketing campaigns away from traditional channels and focus on a more digital approach, focusing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 1999 a website called Napster appeared on the internet. With little in the way of its own content, and certainly no means nor intention of producing or releasing music, it set a ball rolling that in 2013 tumbled most of HMV’s high street...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The current state of wearables is segmented, run (Nike+ Fuelband, Fitbit Force), sleep (Jawbone Up), watches (pebble, Samsung Galaxy Gear, Sony SmartWatch, metawatch)…, some of them like pebble offer a great amount of customisation, yet it...
Posted by: Deltobran
I'm in the USA - in a beautiful city called Charlestown on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. But I'm travelling, so last night I was in Cherokee which, although it sounds romantic, is actually a rather tacky casino town 300 miles north. The...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
“Normal or diet?” The standard question you ask when you’re going to the bar and someone orders a Coke. I haven’t counted, but in my experience, I would guestimate that eight times out of ten, the answer will be diet...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
I don’t know if you caught Joanna Lumley on TV the other night. She was there to talk about a new movie that she’s made with Martin Scorsese which she was understandably thrilled about. Now I’ve always liked Lumley. I like the fact...
Posted by: Creativepool
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
by Magnus Shaw. I'm going to write about a new piece of technology, but it will involve some intimate body stuff. I'm pre-supposing you guys are broad-minded enough to handle references to sexy-time, but I'm a card-carrying, awkward, repressed...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw Creativepoolers, welcome back to our list of ten of products advertising told us we couldn't live without (when, in fact, we absolutely could). Please feel free to use the comment box to let us know if there's anything we've omitted....
Posted by: Creativepool
Creatives in Japan are currently up in arms about a new form of censorship legislation which is in the process of being approved by the authorities. The Federal Province of Tokyo has made it illegal for creative companies to portray any female...
Posted by: Creativepool