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We’re a nation of coffee addicts. We’re also addicted to coffee brands. This has become apparent in the FMCG sector, where well-known coffee shop brands can be seen lining supermarket shelves as they continue to exert their dominance in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Creative at Revolt, co-founder of social enterprise CRACK + CIDER and D&AD judge for Side Hustle, Scarlett Montanaro has a penchant for purpose. Exploring the deeply personal and complex relationship she has with her passion project, she writes about...
Posted by: D&AD
Inspiration
Having won a silver award in last year's Creativepool Annual for New York City Department of Transport, self-employed artist Ben the Illustrator is the focus of this Spotlight Q&A.
Find out about his route into the industry which has led to working...
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Inspiration
- 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...
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Digital ad tech firm Inskin's CEO Hugo Drayton offers his three big trends for the industry in 2019 as well as explaining how Brexit, Blockchain and GDPR will affect advertising and creativity.
What will be the biggest trends in 2019 in your field?...
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Ed Preedy, MD at computer vision company GumGum, believes there'll be much more visual content on the internet next year and explains how companies can harness the trend. He's also enjoyed the recent spate of retro ads and highights the increased...
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John Treacy, ECD at Proximity London shares his thoughts on the year ahead for advertising and tells us what the best campaign was in 2018.
What will be the biggest trend in 2019?
Brands going into ‘acquisition mode’ after GDPR has...
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Inspiration
This November - just like every November in recent years - the nation waited in anticipation for their favourite Christmas ad to officially usher in the beginning of the festive season.
Below, Greg Clark, MD of Sheffield-based creative agency,...
Posted by: Über Agency
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I’m like one of those annoying reformed non-smokers who coughs, passively aggressively, as you spark up a social cigarette. I’m like the vegan who mocks you for eating Quorn, the new mum who tells my childless friends they haven’t...
Posted by: Amy Kean
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Elon Musk announces Yusaku Maezawa as the first ever commercial astronaut for SpaceX
Elon Musk announced last night at an event held at the LA headquarters of SpaceX, that Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the online Japanese clothing company Zozo, will be...
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BBH London - Burger King UK
Burger King UK has appointed BBH London as its first creative agency, without a pitch, following the UK’s franchise’s buyout at the end of 2017. The UK franchise was acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint...
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Wavemaker - RNLI
Wavemaker has been appointed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to handle all of the charity’s media planning and buying in the UK and Ireland for a wide range of campaigns and programmes supporting their long...
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Multiple - Shell
Shell Retail and Shell Global Commercial (Lubricants) have appointed eight creative agencies to their best-in-class agency roster and appointed MediaCom to handle global media planning and buying. The successful creative agencies...
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BrandCooke - London North Eastern Railway
Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) has been rebranded as London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), following the collapse of the private franchise. VTEC, now LNER, is a trainline which runs from London to...
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MullenLowe London - UN Women/Unstereostype Alliance
UN Women and Unilever's Unstereotype Alliance first film explores the character stereotypes that actors are constantly called up to portray in adverts, including the happy housewife, the useless...
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DixonBaxi - DNEG (Double Negative/Prime Focus World)
Branding and creative agency DixonBaxi has created a new identity for the merger of VFX companies Double Negative and Prime Focus World. Double Negative has brought home an Oscar three times in...
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