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When looking ahead, it's always important to keep one foot firmly rooted in the past, particularly when examining adland, which has been in a state of flux for years now. With agencies and brands alike shifting their allegiances towards digital with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With digital arguably superseding traditional TV advertising as the most relevant and cost-effective way-forward for the industry this year, it's surprising that we actually enjoyed such a banner year for great, 30-90 second creative content. Of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
UM - iZettle UM has won a four-way competitive pitch to become the exclusive UK media agency and lead agency for Europe for financial technology company iZettle. UM will handle all planning and buying for iZettle on an ongoing basis. This is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
J. Walter Thompson today officially announced Pangaea, an internal AI solution that allows anyone in its global network to ask questions and get answers from any of their 12,000+ colleagues around the world. Built by J. Walter Thompson Worldwide,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Academy Award winning studio Aardman and BAFTA winning production company Independent Films are coming together to offer a new solution to agencies and brands, bringing the best craft from live action and animation together. Focusing on delivering...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
VR is, currently, one of the few remaining new media refuges where advertising is largely non-existent. Up until this point, adland's relationship with VR has primarily been through sponsored activations, games and tailored 'experiences' that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hot on the heels of some pretty significant pullbacks, with Publicis Groupe announcing they would be absent from next year's festival and WPP suggesting they might consider following suit, Cannes Lions has announced the creation of an advisory...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Shares in Ascential, the owner of Cannes Lions, fell more than 3% after Publicis Groupe said it would not enter the awards next year. Sir Martin Sorrell, meanwhile, CEO of WPP, adland's other big hitter, has said that “the jury is out” on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Matt Kennedy and Georgia Horrocks are a creative team at Grey London with a mission to change the industry from the inside. The two young inventors are expecting to take adland by storm with their new innovative piece of wearable tech: The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As adland prepares to descend upon the south of France for the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, we have pulled together a list of the parties you should definitely be seen at. Please note, most events are exclusive and...
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Adland creatives and comedians have joined forces for the world premiere of I AM BATTLE COMIC, a thought-provoking documentary about stand-up comedians on a mission to entertain American troops in the Middle East. Directed by Superlounge Co-Founder...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In an explicitly bold move that might go down as one of the most worthy rebranding exercises in recent history, Grey London has temporarily renamed itself as Valenstein & Fatt (V&F). The agency was initially named for the colour of the wallpaper in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Artificial intelligence was a pretty universally feared and mistrusted concept until very recently, one that was largely ignored by the mainstream media, and relegated instead to the fringes of science fiction. In 2017, however, AI is everywhere....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There was a great deal on internet chatter over the weekend regarding brands (both major and minor) pulling their ads from YouTube following the revelations from the ongoing investigation from The Times, which found that ads from brands including...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By it's very nature, virtual reality can be an emotionally draining thing to experience if you're not prepared for it and the creative industries are starting to realise that, if they utilise this more immediate connection effectively, they can...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This year, there has been decidedly more attention cast on International Women's Day, which is important, as, even in these enlightened times, many women across the world are still being made to feel as if they are somehow 'less than' their male...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Advertising makes people angry sometimes. I get it. Those Go Compare spots and that notoriously broad moneysupermarket dance-off campaign could surely send even the most mild-mannered viewer into a fit of unbridled rage given the right circumstances....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The 2017 Super Bowl came and went last night, with the New England Patriots coming back from the brink of defeat to score their fifth Super Bowl title. The real drama, however, appeared to be happening between the plays. Whilst Lady Gaga's half time...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Super Bowl is a little over a week away and ad land is building up with typical gleeful abandon for its biggest night of the year. I've always struggled to enjoy American Football to be brutally honest. The immediacy and skill appear lost in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Traditionally, Super Bowl ads give brands and agencies alike an excuse to blow their budgets on big names in order to build hype and (more recently) social media buzz. Whilst many advertisers such as Anheuser-Busch (arguably the biggest single...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
People love to complain, especially about things they can't control. Maybe we're all deeply unfulfilled individuals shouting desperately into the void? Maybe we naively think our words of dissent will actually make a difference? Or maybe (more...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AI, VR, AR. 2016 was very much the year of the double letter acronym, and, if our panel of industry experts is to be believed, then 2017 looks set to take the developments of 2016 and push them into overdrive. We asked a number of industry experts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When discussing the trends that will take hold in advertising next year, it's important to understand what a polarising year 2016 has been. As we approach year's end, we've all no doubt grown tired of the generic “I'll be glad when this year is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Celebrating the beauty and loud/quiet wonder (depending on your preference) of the festive season is something all agencies are essentially required to do, otherwise they'd undoubtedly be labelled as scowling humbug merchants. Still, some agencies...
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Halloween has now been and gone, which means it's officially time for adland to unleash the Christmas campaigns. First out to bat are supermarket giants Tesco, who have launched the first phase of an innovative new campaign in Ireland called...
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Gender bias has, until now, been one of those issues a lot of us like to sweep under the rug, even though we all understand it's a major problem. For many, it's a lingering reminder of a bygone age of rampant misogyny and prejudice that we'd rather...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Many in adland shuddered at the idea of former romantic comedy stooge turned genuine Hollywood megastar Matthew McConaughey being named as Creative Director for the Wild Turkey Whisky brand. And with good reason. It's a move obviously made more for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Diversity is very much a hot topic issue amongst almost every industry in the world and is none more so than in the traditional boy's club that is adland. Of course, there have been some genuine leaps forward in recent years, with much of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Smith & Beta, the talent development company that specialises in informing adland employees about all things digital, recently released some rather shocking findings, which were discovered during a survey it conducted of more than 2,000 agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to adland, but one thing that has genuinely given me pause for thought in recent years is the (albeit still rather niche) trend of companies creating beauty products to flog their brand. First there was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TMW Unlimited - Impulse Impulse has launched a TV and online campaign for its new Why Not? fragrance starring Leanne Lim-Walker, a YouTube fashion blogger who embodies the brand's “Live Life on Impulse” personality. Impulse challenged...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As much as we'd all like to believe that we've all moved on from the dark ages of the 1960s and 1970s into an age of genuine enlightenment, the sad fact remains that, for the most part, adland is still a bit of a boys club. This is thanks in no small...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Cheil London Cheil London has boosted its creative department with two new hires. Nick Craske joins as Creative Director, working across all the agency's accounts, and Georgia Barretta takes up the new role of Creative Director Design. Craske joins...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
London office has a very cynical and satirical response to Brexit Unless you've been living under the an actual rock for the last few days, even if you live outside of Europe, you'll undoubtedly have heard of the the current turmoil that's been...
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“The situation can be (in broad terms) broken down as such: Bigots voting for economic isolation, and a grave instability the people who will actually live to see it (for the most part) don't want. Politics is broken. We are not governing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns