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Rebrand Roundup: Rum, recipes, railways and other stories

The Specialist Works - Gousto Recipe box company, Gousto, has unveiled a rebrand, reflecting its commitment to offering families ‘good food all round’. The new brand identity is the next phase of a major growth strategy for Gousto, who...

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Top 10 Account Wins of the Week

Soul - Wightlink Soul has been appointed by the ferry travel company Wightlink, one of the UK’s largest domestic ferry operators, to establish the firm as the preferred choice for trips between the Isle of Wight and the mainland. The agency...

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Hoot Comedy Tom Bazeley, (second from left) former CEO of M&C Saatchi, is rejoining the world of production and IP to become chief executive of Hoot Comedy, a comedy production company he helped set up five years ago. He will rejoin Hoot Comedy this...

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Top 10 Account Wins of the Week

Maxus - Perfetti Van Melle Perfetti Van Melle UK has announced the appointment of Maxus as its lead media agency. Maxus won the account following a competitive four-way pitch that included the incumbent agency. The account is worth £4 million...

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Rebrand Roundup: Camden Lock, Twinings, Action Against Hunger and more

Ragged Edge - Camden Lock Parent company Market Tech recently approached Ragged Edge to define and create a coherent brand for the iconic Camden Market. The approach had to be relevant to a broad millennial audience and work both on and offline, but...

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Top 10 Account Wins of the Week

FCB Inferno - Holland & Barrett Health food retailer Holland & Barrett International has added FCB Inferno to its UK agency roster. The majority of their spend will be placed with FCB Inferno who will support their shift to a more digital and...

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#TechTuesday: More Pokémon, a self-driving bus and a talking T. Rex

The Week in Pokémon We already reported last week on the rather nifty Pokédrone, but in the wake of Pokémon Go's phenomenal success, there have been many more products announced to capitalise on the game's current ubiquity. Nintendo's...

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#TechTuesday: TV remotes for dogs to printing chocolate with XOCO

Facebook brings wireless internet to the developing world Hoping to establish itself as the social media network that cares, Facebook this week announced it is developing wireless internet access hardware and software that can be used in areas where...

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Top 10 Account Wins of the Week

Karmarama - Confused In the first of four major wins this week, Karmarama has won the account for Confused.com, an ambitious brand in a competitive and highly creative sector. The pitch process began at the beginning of the year and was against...

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#TechTuesday: From playful electronics to drone football

Purposefully ridiculous, playful electronics from Slovenia Technology doesn't always have to be completely serious, sometimes it can be fun too! Enter the Slovenian designer Dan Adlešič, who recently updated his collection of toy-like...

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The Latest Highlights & Trends in Tech

Exploring New Realities The New Revolution at Six Flags As a fan of both roller coasters and VR, this news really excited me, and had me semi-considering booking an immediate flight to LA. This is the rather boldly named “New...

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The Week in Tech

Amazon is going underground Many of you might have been surprised this last week by a sneaky new app Amazon stealthily dropped onto Android devices (I know I was). What made this particular app so surprising, however, is that you couldn’t download...

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Top 10 Hires Of The Week

DigitasLBi Design Group Julian Baker has been appointed as senior designer at DigitasLBi Design Group. This global marketing and technology agency moves businesses into the digital age. By embracing change, they can merge creativity and tech...

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Is social media making bullying acceptable?

It could be argued we might all benefit from a little digital detox, and TV presenter Sue Perkins has announced she's going to be spending some time away from Twitter. Unfortunately this isn't a lifestyle choice. She's actually been forced off the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Ogilvy CommonHealth find fame in the future

Two Ogilvy CommonHealth mainstays were inducted into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame's Future Famers Program at an awards dinner held at the Pierre Hotel in New York on tuesday night (February 3). Account executive Lisa Gelbman, and content...

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Top Hires of the Week

M&C Saatchi appoint new creative quartet M&C Saatchi Sydney recently bolstered their creative ranks quite considerably with four significant new appointments. The news comes just weeks after M&C Saatchi won the B&T Grand Prix Agency of the Year and...

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AKQA to revolutionise 'Mobile Experience' at Universal Orlando

AKQA has managed to retain its Audi digital business following a lengthy review process. Audi is also currently looking for a separate agency entirely to handle its social media business, as the company looks to further modernise its marketing...

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Isn't it high time we got serious with the social media trolls?

We can't really go on like this. The alarming evolution of 'trolling' from pestering people online to the loss of life, has been eye-watering in its speed. The last week has seen a situation develop whereby a family whose daughter is missing, was...

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Closed ears. How the music industry ruined itself.

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...

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Features

The internet - the staggering truth revealed.

The World Wide Web, it's a wonderful thing to be sure. You've got your social media for endless moaning and pictures of your holidays. You've got your YouTube for Little Mix videos and footage of other people's pets. And you've got your online...

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Shhhh. What did the Twitter Silence achieve?

Today I learned an inquest has been opened into the death of a young girl, bullied to suicide by users of social media. This dreadful story adds a terrible darkness to the storm surrounding the abusive use of the internet. And, as happened with...

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The shape of things to come. Highly (in)accurate predictions for 2013.

by Magnus Shaw. Very little is certain in this life, but the mad rush of predictions for the year ahead is a rock on which we can depend in the awkward gap between Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, most of them will be wildly inaccurate - with...

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How to... Create a portfolio that best suits you.

Your portfolio is one of the most important things that need to be considered when thinking about applying for a new job. Us "old schoolers" have all spent countless hours trudging around Soho with our A2 portoflio in tow, ending the day with a...

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Taxing. What we can learn from the Starbucks fiasco.

by Magnus Shaw. There's only one thing that surprises me about the Starbucks saga, and it isn't their reluctance to pay tax. As large corporations are only really answerable to shareholders, that is to be expected. No, it's the fact they thought...

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Features

How to... Write a great radio ad

by John Fountain. Tony Hertz is an award winning radio producer. Over the past 40 years there have only been two D&AD Black Pencils for radio and Tony has won both of them. Today he runs Hertz Radio, but many years ago he ran a company called The...

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Snap decision - why Facebook bought Instagram

Last Sunday Facebook surprised the world. Without waiting for their market flotation later this week - and like a big shot investment banker casually ordering the 1900 Cristal Brut - the social network laid down $1b in cash and stock to acquire...

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Inspiration

Room 101 - ten things to hate about TV advertising

If you look to the left, you'll notice this is the one hundred and first column I've written for Creativepool. I must admit I let my century pass by unnoticed, which is rather typical of my lack of attention. But it does allow me the opportunity to...

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