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Gartner’s hype cycle of a product or service begins when it’s new, shiny, and all the rage. The market buzz increases, and people can’t stop talking about it. Quickly, it hits the peak of inflated expectations. As the interest and...
Posted by: CARMA
There seems to be a lot of buzz around Unreal Eengine 5 (UE5) at the moment, so we decided to check it out. What is Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine is (primarily) a game engine, and has been one of the key players in the game dev world for years. It...
Posted by: Mighty Giant
Hype is a boutique creative communications agency with a distinctly hands-on approach that has been a valued member of the Creativepool community for many years now The agency’s commitment to collaboration and innovative storytelling was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’ve all seen the cringey ads for millennial fashion brands like boohoo and Jameson Carter, but there's a hot new name in town. McDonald’s has ‘launched’ a fake fashion brand to promote its limited edition Spicy Chicken...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As sustainability has become a global business imperative, brands are trying to avoid falling prey to greenwashing. In the rush to prove their environmental credentials, brands and businesses are making exaggerated claims, false assertions, and vague...
Posted by: WMH&I
OLIVER - the only company in the world to exclusively design, build and run in-house agencies and ecosystems for brands - launches its creative campaign to entice Britain’s youth into connecting with nature. The campaign launches in response...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Keith Foggan, founder of creative social agency System, shares his thoughts on the rise of surrealist marketing. What drives these campaigns? Is it simply fitting for this era of escapism, or does it speak to a larger issue that brands are struggling...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Matthew Bushby, Head of Customer Success at Scibids UK, on why agencies should champion the ‘AI heroes’ within their business. Matthew argues that those who can act like a ‘dog with a bone’ and scale these internal obstacles...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Bulla Co is an early-stage Gen Z influencer agency who have recently closed their six-figure pre-seed round. It’s been an exciting time for Bulla Co, as they’ve had a year of significant transformations and expansions. These upcoming...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I don’t think there’s ever a typical day. And I love that there isn’t. I started Tactical ten years ago during the early days of the iPhone and in the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A Radio Times survey recently revealed that two-thirds of people had watched one of their favourite shows again during lockdown, with 43% saying they did so to comfort themselves. Nostalgic videos set to a backing track of Simple Plan’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Everyone’s (us included) favourite buzzword: innovation. Even the most iconic luxury brands can get it wrong. Whether it’s too safe or trend-chasing, thoughtless innovation can devalue a brand to the point of no return. Ensure that...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
Marketing is as susceptible as any discipline to fads and fashions. Whether it’s new buzzwords, calls to action or messaging approaches - or, as we’re currently seeing, brand collaborations. Gucci was one of the first - if not the very...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Super Bowl: it’s the annual advertising extravaganza where 30-second slots costing $7m (that’s $233k a second) and audiences top over 200m (or two-thirds of the entire US population). Whilst the Kansas City Chiefs were victorious this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When people ask me what was my favourite film of 2022, I’d probably join almost everyone else that saw it in claiming Every Everywhere All At Once. But if you asked me what was the most inspiring film that I saw last year? That would be a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There has been much focus on attention in the digital ad industry in the past few years, ever since advertisers realised that viewability wasn’t up to scratch as a metric. While the preoccupation with attention has definitely helped to drive an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2022 has been quite a year for social media platforms with the likes of TikTok booming and Twitter facing uncertainty following Elon Musk’s takeover. Hayley Jones, the Head of Social at The PHA Group has shared her thoughts on this year in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After releasing the first non-fungible tokens (so-called NFT) the world of cryptocurrency but also art are not the same. It completely changed how we look at pieces of art, collectibles, and many popular culture assets, like investments or memes on...
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
"The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart." This is the mantra by which Ken Gerhardt wields his camera and shapes his vision. A commercial and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Brazilian Pop Art illustrator Butcher Billy has created a series of posters for the Netflix production Stranger Things 4 which have captivated audiences and become a worldwide phenomenon on social media, and beyond. The nine artworks - one for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While new forms of advertising are continuously emerging to cater for the technologically advanced consumer, one form of out-of-home (OOH) marketing never goes out of fashion - advertising hoardings. Advertising hoardings are bold, grandiose, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You’ve likely already seen many articles touting the uncapped potential for brands in the metaverse. A visually and audibly rich interconnected 3D space with unlimited creativity is an obvious playground for marketers. Entry points are clearer...
Posted by: WMH&I
From business models to branding, ideas of luxury are shifting rapidly. Keeping up with tech, anticipating sector developments and being part of cultural conversations are only a handful of essentials for luxury brands who wish to sustain the...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
Have we entered metaverse-mania in the world of marketing? Brands are unveiling immersive experiences, ranging from gaming to pure advertising. Meanwhile, a range of platforms - Meta, Roblox, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Matterport among others - present...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For the last twelve years, Matter Of Form have had the privilege to deliver exceptional brand and digital experiences to some of the very best luxury brands in the global travel and hospitality sector. And we have got to know the dedicated tribe who...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
There’s a lot of buzz and excitement around the combination of digital marketing and web scraping. Data has always been the driving force behind marketing strategies, so the arrival of something that can gather external data was always going to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
"People want tech to be helpful in their lives, but they see the futuristic tech as something unreachable today." It is with such simplicity that the team at PunchBBDO describes the premise and the idea behind their campaign for Ford Turkey, named...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There’s been an ever increasing sense of unease around the industry in the past few weeks, as a number of retailers announced that supplies have been slow to come, and there is a labour and stock shortage in the UK expected to last until...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
If you love kittens and have been around the internet for a while, you know about cryptocurrency and the rise of NFTs. Spelled out as Non-Fungible Tokens, NFTs are a new form of bitcoin that is being discussed extensively in the creative industry and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Never have we found so many extraordinary offerings to showcase in a Global Creative Calendar edition. Wherever you are, you will recognize many of the social engagements returning to pop culture's center stage. Historically, we have hit the road to...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Identifying blockchain gaming as a ‘trend’ is misleading, argues Five by Five Australia Client Director Stacia Grooby; but there’s no denying that this technology is set to change the way we think about gaming. Blockchain...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nicole Kidman and Film Director Baz Luhrmann have always had their own “thing.” By good Baz’s own admittance in an old Vanity Fair interview, him and the movie star have worked together since they were much younger and there has...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The phenomenon known as SXSW was launched in Austin, Texas, USA, back in 1987. Starting on 16 March, the unified 2021 SXSW Conference will introduce what's next in the worlds of film, culture, music and technology, providing rich opportunities for...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Sven Lehmann first approached the wonders technology with a PC with a 45-megabytes hard drive. He used to play DuckTales on it. Now Sven and his company, yolo films, are shooting films from remote, without the need for the crew to be physically...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dry January has become something of a phenomenon. Established by a health charity in the UK in 2013, the world now over celebrates sobriety at the end of the festive period - much to the chagrin of many a licensed premise. Supermarkets saw sales of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The emerging workforce spent their formative years collaborating through online services, competing in e-Sports, and solving problems remotely through their games console, mobile or tablet. They have got used to, and excelled at, creating,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial