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Leaders

Top 5 Ads of the Week

CHI & Partners - The Times The Times and The Sunday Times The Times and The Sunday Times have partnered to create their first joint brand campaign, which aims to bring to life the focus of their joint journalistic efforts. Created by CHI&Partners...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

BBD Perfect Storm BBD Perfect Storm has strengthened its management line up with the appointment of David Shiel to the role of Client Services Director. Shiel, who was previously at The Engine Group where he was a Partner, will support BBD Perfect...

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Leaders

Top 10 Account Wins of the Week

Possible - Specsavers Specsavers has appointed Possible, the WPP digital creative agency, to handle digital service design. The agency pitched for the account in March, with the work previously handled by Biglight. Recently iProspect won Specsavers'...

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Leaders

Seaweed packaging wins Lexus Design Grand Prix Award 2016

An eco-friendly prototype packaging product made from seaweed has been named as the Grand Prix winner of this year's Lexus Design Award for emerging designers. The “Agar Plasticity” project was created by a team of three Japanese...

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Industry

2016 Creative Industry Top 100 Influencers

Our 2016 Annual came with a new accolade: The Influencer of the Year, where Creativepool honour the individuals within the industry that have surpassed expectations and impacted the market in 2015 and beyond. They're people who don't follow the herd...

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Leaders

Top 10 Account Wins of the Week: Week 2

Havas Chicago - Moen Moen, the number one faucet brand in North America, has named Havas Chicago as lead strategic brand and media agency of record. The decision follows a comprehensive agency selection process, as Moen plans to strengthen its brand...

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Inspiration

Brand Case Studies: Fritz-Kola

How do you take on two of the world’s biggest corporations and win? Well you start by saying "it can be done better". At least, that’s what Mirco Wolf and Lorenz Hampl told each other as they sat in their kitchen one day, eating a frozen...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week

McCann London – The All England Lawn Tennis Club The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) has announced the appointment of an integrated team of Interpublic agencies, led by McCann London, to help build and grow the brand of The Championships,...

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Leaders

NBBJ designs a floating ice rink for the Thames

London and New York are perhaps the two most popular cities for tourists on the planet, and there are countless parallels to be drawn between them. From the underground system and the cultural similarities, to the sheer vastness of the cities...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

The Top 5 Ads of the Week

RKCR/Y&R - BBC One In this imaginative new festive ad for BBC One, an unloved sprout rather aptly named Sprout Boy makes friends with a host of BBC stars including Doctor Who, Luther, Mary Berry and Sherlock. The campaign, which includes a TV trail,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Agency of the Week: Leo Burnett

Turning sound waves into cups using 3D printing How do you 3D print a radio ad? Leo Burnett Melbourne has answered that question by getting experimental for Slurpee, the frozen drinks company (essentially the Australian “Slush Puppy”)....

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Leaders

Agency of the Week: DDB Worldwide

Crafting Fargo-inspired wooly wear DDB NZ has teamed up with one of New Zealand’s leading knitwear and textile designers to create the “Fargo Woollens” clothing range to celebrate the second season of FX’s black comedy-drama...

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Leaders

The Latest Highlights & Trends in Tech

Adidas and the 3D printed shoe 3D printing has taken off in a way many (myself included) never really expected, and the latest major brand to get on board with the technology is sportswear heavyweights Adidas, who have developed a concept for a 3D...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

adam&eveDDB ask Brits to share their teatime with the nation

Frozen food bigwigs McCain are launching two multi-million pound marketing initiatives this week that aim to shine a spotlight on the modern, midweek, British family dinner. The first is a week-long series of consumer generated content TV ads, and...

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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

M&C Saatchi M&C Saatchi has announced that Ben Welsh, formerly ECD at M&C Saatchi Sydney, is to be appointed as creative chairman of Asia. The appointment marks a change in emphasis for the Network, demonstrating its spotlight on Asia, a region...

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Inspiration

Whipped Woodlouse? Why The Economist is giving away insect ice-cream

A few years ago, I arrived at Stockport station in Cheshire. It was early morning and I was feeling distinctly peckish. Fortunately, as I reached the foot of the stairs from the platform, a well-known retailer of baking goods was holding a promotion,...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Inspiration

Visual Narratives With Super Cool Studio Superfiction

Seoul based company Superfiction recently released this sweet little animation (with a bit of a twist) and it made us want to look into more of their work. This Korean company’s work is based on the concept of the happy life and creative play....

Posted by: Jade French
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Leaders

Watch Jean Claude Van Damme get 'Fripples'

When Jean Claude Van Damme took distressed denim to the dance-floor last year, a legend was born. This time round, it’s the audiences turn to bust a move. In the latest social activation campaign from Coors Light and VCCP, we see JCVD “Do...

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Leaders

These Advertising Emojis are adsolutely marvellous

Emojis have become a niche market in and off themselves of late, with every minor property or release appearing to warrant its own batch of respective icons. So why has it taken this long for the advertising industry to get in on the action? The...

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Leaders

Account Wins of the Week: Part 1

MXM - Bob Evans Farms Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM) announced this week that it has been named digital agency of record for Bob Evans Farms after a consultant-led review. Bob Evans operates over 500 full-service restaurants across 19 states...

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Leaders

The five briefs I don't want on my desk

Mussel meat A leading discount frozen food company is selling bags of 'mussel meat'. I may be wrong, but I suspect these are the unfortunate shellfish deemed too manky to be sold whole, and are therefore mushed up and flogged in a heaving mass. Good...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Inspiration

The Week In Advertising

Iceland, Peter Andre: When this low-market frozen food retailer had the strapline 'That's why Mums go to Iceland', they attracted enormous condemnation from those who pointed out, quite rightly, it was very sexist. They need worry no longer, for now...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Inspiration

We Love These Blurred Lines

Category blurring is a phrase you may have heard thrown about the office, but might not fully understand what it is exactly or how it works. Given that it's become a top tactic for leading brands across multiple FMCG categories, it would seem now is...

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Leaders

TBWA partner with Airbnb as new Global AOR

TBWA, the Omnicom owned global advertising agency, has been named the global agency of record for Airbnb, the San Francisco-based hospitality website, which effectively acts as a social networking site for lodgers and landlords looking for short-term...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Why the news is always bad.

Earlier this year, Jeremy Paxman suggested some editions of Newsnight should simply inform the viewing audience there was nothing much to talk about, before rolling the closing credits. Knowing Paxo, he was probably just being provocative, or even...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Inspiration

The Froyo Revolution

In providing a healthy alternative to ice cream, frozen yoghurt sells itself. While the US has been indulging in froyo for decades, the UK is currently experiencing a market explosion with new shops popping up on high streets across the country. But...

Posted by: bluemarlin
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Leaders

The rise and rise of the no-makeup selfie

For the past week, Facebook has been awash with no make-up selfies. You will now be looking at your colleagues, friends, bosses maybe even girlfriends, with new eyes, knowing now exactly how everyone looks first thing in the morning, albeit via the...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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Leaders

The SYZYGY Group dramatically raise their stakes in Ars Thanea

The SYZYGY Group (a digital communication and marketing network based in Frankfurt) made a big move for the big leagues earlier this week when they significantly upped their investment (from a 26% share to a major 70% share) in the Warsaw-based,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Human Flesh Fonts

Font design has never been so competitive, so technically advanced, so multi-platformed. These days just about anything can be formed into an eye catching font, aesthetically enticing enough to be snapped up by graphic designers, all you need is...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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Inspiration

Privatised health care? Advertising opportunities galore!

Whether you consider it a good idea or not, thanks to the coalition government, it seems the increased involvement of private companies in the NHS is a racing certainty. And what could possibly go wrong? Just look how affordable and reliable the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Horsing around. How Tesco could turn a crisis into an opportunity.

by Magnus Shaw. If you're going to be rumbled loading beefburgers with something other than beef, try to ensure it's not horse. Oats would be better. Or sweets. But, not cat or hamster - and definitely not horse. As Tesco has discovered, people...

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Features

5 minutes with... David Freer - Founding Partner at O Street

"We are a multi-disciplinary (only bit of jargon, promise!) design company with a head office in Glasgow. We pride ourselves in offering a wealth of big company experience with small company overheads. Our sleek approach also allows us to work with...

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Features

Spotlight - Tom Hughes - Illustrator

Work just as hard on promoting yourself as you do drawing pictures. If no one knows you exist, no one can commission you. Describe your work in one sentence. Bright, humorous character illustration What's the most important thing you've learnt in...

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Features

Over promise, under deliver. How lazy clients kill campaigns.

by Magnus Shaw. A couple of years ago an ailing roadside restaurant chain called in a radical TV chef to boost their menu and therefore their revenues. They refurbished some tired looking outlets, hired new people and ran a fairly hefty marketing...

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