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Kari McCreath, Director of New Business & Partnerships at SuperAwesome, the digital marketing platform based in the UK which specialises in content designed for children, who led Creativepool founder, Michael Tomes, and a host of other industry...
Posted by: Creativepool
McCann HumanCare - Docusol How could I not begin this week's run of creative excellence with a spot involving a singing nappy? The online film, by McCann HumanCare, is part of children's constipation brand Docusol's “Make a Nappy Happy”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It’s fascinating to see how communications adapt (or fail to adapt) to changing media formats. Old Spice skillfully repurposed their ‘The Man your Man Could Smell Like’ TVC content for social media. Earlier this year, Jeep’s mobile-optimised...
Posted by: Jones Knowles Ritchie
The poster campaign for Depaul, the homelessness charity, exemplifies how copywriting can deliver a real sucker punch in emotional impact. “There is another side to the story” is the creative idea, and the execution is pleasingly literal,...
Posted by: Jones Knowles Ritchie
Following the formation of the candy ‘master brand’ Maynards Bassetts at the start of 2016, the confectionary giant has teamed up with Wieden+Kennedy London to launch their first major advertising campaign in 20 years. The brands came...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Former apprentice star & agency innovators warn brands & agencies to make responsibility a mind-set. Today, Christie H.Kristensen from Creativepool hosted a session at Advertising Week Europe exploring how an innovation mindset helps brands to...
Posted by: The Media Foundry
DDB New York DDB Worldwide has announced the appointment of three executive creative directors at DDB New York. After a strong year of new business growth in 2015, including Pure Leaf, Qualcomm and Huawei, the agency is increasing its creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
January: Charlie Hebdo cover unites millions against religious fascism For this one, there really are no words that would suffice. It does, however, underline the power that powerful and intelligent creative work still has to bring us together, even...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's been one hell of a year, so boiling it all down into a few humble little articles is no easy task. But we're going to try. This year we expanded our horizons a little bit, encompassing the entire creative spectrum, and as such, these lists will...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virgin Trains is uniting its East and West Coast rail franchises for the first time ever in a combined integrated campaign that aims to use subtle wit and humour to help the brand become one of the best loved in the UK. The “Be Bound for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Affinity – Panasonic/Birch & White/Johnson & Johnson Tech driven advertising and media agency Affinity has won a trio of high profile clients as it continues to enjoy sustained growth. The Sydney-headquartered independent agency has been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Award-winning design consultant Emma Sexton hosts the first ever UK design event for non-designers at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf on 22nd September 2015. Unleash The Power is the first design event of it’s kind, on a mission to challenge...
Posted by: Hands Down™
The Martin Agency – Geico The Martin Agency scooped well-deserved Grand prix at Cannes last month for its brilliant take on pre-roll ads with “Unskippable,” ad for US car insurer Geico, and the agency is displaying that same acerbic humour...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mother - Atom Atom, the digital App based bank that’s set to launch later this year, has asked Mother, the world’s largest independent marketing agency to be their strategic creative partner. The partnership is the result of a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Now, I'm not saying it's ever a good thing to see more of Piers Morgan on television than is strictly necessary (less than not at all would be ideal), but for once I actually thing his smug, deflated David Cameron face has been put to good use. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It’s Coca-Cola’s 100th birthday, and to honour this century old institution, designers at Trussardi have given the can a makeover. If there’s one thing Coca-Cola have proven they can do is make their product a must have item...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gyro Gyro London has appointed David Harris as Executive Creative Director. Teamed with the strong leadership of Gyro London Managing Director Kate Howe, Harris will help to intensify gyro’s growing presence as a business-to-business...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst beloved author and British institution Sir Terry Pratchett and professional Hollywood stoner icon Seth Rogan might not have a lot in common on paper, both have lent their support to a new campaign for Alzheimer's Research UK, which launched on...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TBWA\Chiat\Day LA TBWA\Chiat\Day LA has announced Renato Fernandez as Worldwide Creative Director at the agency, with responsibility for the Gatorade brand. Previously Creative Director for Gatorade in the U.S., Renato's promotion extends his role...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
18 Feet & Rising 18 Feet & Rising bolsters its management line up by bringing in Brad Fairhead as partner, with a remit to further build 18 Feet & Rising’s work in the more progressive areas of communications. Fairhead has 20 years experience...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On the 25th of March 2015, Creativepool met up with Annette King, CEO at Ogilvy & Mather Group UK, after we all watched the hilarity between comedian Jimmy Carr and Ogilvy & Mather Group's Vice Chairman, Rory Sutherland when they took to the stage at...
Posted by: Creativepool
There is most certainly much business going on at Advertising Week Europe. When one sees the great work from Karmarama for the week itself, you’ll see that this not your “typical” gathering of advertising folk. Yes, there will most...
Posted by: Advertising Week
Karmarama has used inspirational quotes from influential people such as director Richard Curtis and TV chef Jamie Oliver as a basis for a new print and poster campaign that aims to raise awareness of this year's Advertising Week Europe. The work...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Barclays - Code Playground There can be few things more important to a kid's education right now, than teaching them code. Whilst nothing is guaranteed, it's surely their best bet for a productive career in later life. So Barclays have launched an...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
White Lodge, the award-winning creative direction and production house for the fashion, luxury and lifestyle industries, recently announced that Dutch director Menno Fokma has been added to their growing roster of clients and unveiled the first piece...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The London Design Museum is set to move to Kensington as part of a drastic £80 million revamp, which will see leaving its current home at Shad Thames near Tower Bridge, and setting up shop in its new skin by 2016. The museum will triple in size...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
MRM//McCann MRM//McCann, the global customer experience marketing agency, announced yesterday that EVP, managing director of MRM//McCann Detroit, Jill Cooley, will be promoted to the global role of EVP, worldwide account director. Also, award...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
UK radio is in surprisingly good shape. As the first electronic media mankind ever enjoyed, we might reasonably expect it to have been overtaken or eradicated by something more futuristic. In fact, listening figures are pretty robust and, although...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Information has been trickling in over the bank holiday weekend to suggest that Ogilvy & Mather have won the consolidated global and North American accounts for Coke Zero. The agency had already been handling the brand outside the US, but until now,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, Jeremy Clarkson was forced to apologise for having said a bad thing. A very bad thing. It is the only word in the whole English language that I can think of that is 100%, totally and utterly off limits. The word is “n****r”....
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The new campaign from AMV BBDO for the UK's largest electrical retailing and services company, Currys and PC World, takes a clever approach, examining the kind of subtle and not-so-subtle manipulations our partners occasionally make in order to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
On Monday the 28th of April, New York Women in Communications will present the 44th annual Matrix Awards, honouring seven extraordinary women who have made significant contributions to the communication industry. The ceremony, hosted by the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For all its joys and thrills, fun and frolics, 2013 still managed to deposit a substantial quantity of manure into our desperate existence. So, as 2014 crashes unbidden into our lives, let us exorcise the demons which threatened to engulf us this...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
If you read my column earlier this week, you'll know I'm in America. If you didn't, I'm in America. In fact, I'm now in America's oldest town, St. Augustine - on Florida's Atlantic coast. And despite the temperature being in the low eighties (which...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw