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The second awards show of the week in Cannes last night saw the focus shift to the Craft and Entertainment Tracks, with Nike's Dream Crazy from Wieden+Kennedy Portland picking up the first ever Entertainment for Sport Grand Prix. The Digital Craft...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Lions Entertainment, the Festival’s two day-specialist event, kicked-off yesterday, bringing the worldwide entertainment industry together with global brands for a programme of speaker sessions, live performances, curated roundtables and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Regardless of your opinions on electronic music, it can't be denied that, more often than not, the sheer versatility offered by the genre makes it perfect for soundtrack work. Indeed, many of the greatest soundtracks of recent years have been almost...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced over the weekend that Finnish mobile gaming company Rovio Entertainment's CEO, Mikael Hed is to leave the company after five years, which have seen him helm them through a genuine pop culture phenomenon in the shape of Angry Birds;...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Every year, Cannes Lions scores the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health and Entertainment. This latest creative calendar edition is designed to ensure you...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Charis Tsevis’ personality is as complex as his art. Having grown up in Athens, he’s developed a passion and appreciation for different cultures which has influenced the way he works. “I’m a dedicated scholar of gestalt...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You there. Yes, I’m talking to you - the creative with an eye for disruptive advertising. You want to take a leaf out of Fleabag’s book and speak directly to your audience, right? In fairness, this whole ‘breaking the fourth...
Posted by: Google
Lisa Parfitt is MD of ENGINE Sport & Brand Experience, a member of the European Sponsorship Association, and was recently appointed to professional network Women in Football's board. As well as being passionate about her job, Parfitt's love of sport...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The founder of immersive production studio REWIND has predicted that mixed reality will have as big an impact on the world as the iPhone did when it was first released in 2007. Sol Rogers, who is behind augmented and virtual reality work for the...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
According to research conducted by The EXPERIENCE Institute, there are three main reasons people attend events: education, destination and networking. Your focus may be on advancing knowledge and skills, visiting locations exotic or nearby, or...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s all just fun and games until something wins a Cannes Grand Prix. Then it might be worth taking more seriously. Below, our deputy ECD, Jason Cascarina, reveals what makes live streaming video platform Twitch so appealing to the masses and...
Posted by: Proximity London
Technology has become an essential part of modern life. It influences almost every aspect from work to entertainment. Additionally, the gadget you’re using to read this text can not only gather your data but use it to make decisions without...
Posted by: Liam Smith
Email marketing platform Mailchimp has launched a new original video series charting the success and failures of three very different entrepreneurs. Introduced through the company’s new business entertainment platform Mailchimp Presents and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tag's CEO David Kassler previously spent a decade at the helm of private equity-backed companies such as EMI Music, Phones 4u and Deluxe Entertainment. Below, he shares some of the things he's learned along the way. What makes your company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity saw the fourth awards ceremony of the week take place last night at the Palais des Festival where the latest set of winners were announced. The event saw the Experience, Impact, Innovation and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The first round of awards were handed out at the opening show of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity last night with focus on the Communication and Health Tracks. Grands Prix in Communications went to Google Creative Lab New York,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is underway and tonight the first awards ceremony will take place at the Palais des Festivals where the first wave of winners will be announced. Ahead of the five awards shows taking place every...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Love Island is back. For the rest of the summer in the UK, our screens will be blessed with the sights of sun-kissed sceneries and troublesome twenty-somethings with enviable physiques. While you can accuse the show of being many things, it’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
At least for now, it’s pretty safe to assume that the organisers of major conferences and large-scale events are humans… and as we all know, even their very best-laid plans can go awry. I hope no crossed lines of communications have...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
An ad for UK banking brand Halifax has become the first to utilise a new technology in cinemas, which sees the 60-second film go beyond the big screen. That New Home Feeling is created by adam&eveDDB and follows a slinky toy as it moves around a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The new brand identity for vegetarian burger company, Dirty Beets, was created by London-based Designhouse and is themed on a hand-drawn tattoo. The powerful, contemporary wordmark uses a customised version of Harbour Bold and the visual identity is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
US-based creative agency Mekanism prides itself on delivering work aligned with the 'Soul & Science' of storytelling, which means the human and data side is considered on every brief. It's an approach that helps the company to deliver meaningful...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Adam Kerj is chief creative officer and MD at Accenture Interactive, Nordics. Having had a long and successful career at global agency level, he's experienced the ups and downs of doing day-to-day client work and believes it's currently the most...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
If you're a fan of video game art, then you're in the right place. Today’s innovations and improvements in game art design and development have been shaped by the first steps that were taken in the past. Today, video games are considered more...
Posted by: Dream Farm Studios
This time of year, inspiration hits a feverish pace at some of the world's top hot spots. In London alone, the high-profile annual festivities include Marketing Week Live, Advertising Week Europe and Design Thinking and Innovation Week. Music and...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Content which engages the right consumers rather than attracting an endless stream of clicks from irrelevant customers is what brands should be aiming for. A panel at Creativepool’s Connect: London festival agreed that it is better for content...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Think about the word “hybrid,” and it’s likely to evoke thoughts of eco-friendly cars, new types of plants cultivated by combining those that already exist, human robots in sci-fi novels, or even crossbred dogs. By its very nature,...
Posted by: AdventureLAB
It's been 32 years since South By Southwest launched in Austin, Texas. March will see more than 150,000 people will convene in the city once again to redefine the cutting-edge in interactive, film, music and culture. The event will focus on trends...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
- By Rhiannon Murphy, head of TV at the7stars - Television, or at least our relationship with it, has changed. Over the past 20 years we’ve gone from celebrating the launch of a fifth terrestrial channel on our TV screens in the UK to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brands need to be authentic and transparent in today’s modern media landscape in order to engage customers and get closer to audiences. As technology continues to disrupt the market, the likes of Spotify, Amazon and Netflix are changing the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In the months ahead, this Global Creative Calendar will once again open exciting new doors of possibility. Entering any one of them is sure to impact your life for the foreseeable future – and also, most likely, in far-reaching ways that you could...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
2018 was the year when Harry married Meghan, Cardi B went stratospheric, and football brought the world together. Shutterstock has analysed search and download data to determine the past year's most searched for newsworthy names and events around...
Posted by: Shutterstock
While most of this year is history, I hope you are ready, willing and able to celebrate the fact that the best is yet to come. Are you focused on sharpening your skills for 2019? If so, some of the world’s most elite organisers are preparing...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency