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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
Mars - Winning Yes, we all know they're much smaller than they used to be (Mars have admitted as much). But they're still one of the leading chocolate brands, and need the power of advertising to maintain that position. Fortunately, the Mars people...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
McVities - Sweet Friends The image of two tough-nut window cleaners going all soppy over some soft toys is undeniably amusing, and that's what we find in the latest execution of McVities 'Sweet' campaign. Clearly a lot of time and money have been...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
Jackpot Joy - Bus Stop There's so much to baffle me here (which leads me to suspect these people are not really addressing me). Does Barbara Windsor really need money so badly that she's forced to appear in online bingo ads? Can't Eastenders give...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Persil - Dual Action Mums Agency: TMW | Executive Producer: Kate Myles Who does the washing? Women do! Of course they do! This is the 1950s after all. No, hang on, it's 2015 - and women still do the washing, but they're cool women now. Not only are...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Pinterest, the visual social network, plans to significantly further how it monetises its site by improving how advertisers use it. The site, which sells itself as a “Discover-based” social media platform, will serve up more user data to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
eHarmony - Popcorn There's some furious competition between TV dating sites right now, and that means a plethora of TV ads. One campaign simply shows happy daters on happy dates, but eHarmony have gone more leftfield, using a bizarre scenario to...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Warner Brothers - 'American Sniper' All too often, ads for movies contain too much information and far too much of the movie itself. In short, they're a bit desperate. But this is much more like it. Lean, intriguing but giving little of the story...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Ah! There you are. I trust the festivities were kind to you? But now, here's 2015 in all its fresh-faced glory. Swollen with potential and pitfalls, what will this new year bring? Frankly, I have no idea - but I do know there are a few troublesome...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
Compare The Market: Meerkats On Safari Try as I might, I still can't bring myself to dislike the meerkats. The campaign has been running so long, it should have run out of steam, but when Alexander tells Oleg (you see, I even know their names) he's...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
H&M goes Gaga for Christmas H&M has thrown their hat into the Christmas ring with a glamorous new TV spot starring pop royalty Lady Gaga and classic crooner Tony Bennett. The duo are featured singing the classic “It Don't Mean a Thing (if it...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Let’s keep things simple. I’ve seen an ad campaign I really like. It’s funny, witty, smart, highly noticeable and very memorable. I know, I know - if you’ve read my articles for Creativepool, you’ll be aware I rarely...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
When Creativepool went looking for a fine fellow to write a column called ‘The Week In Advertising’, it made very good sense to search for a writer with a calm perspective and a measured, balanced approach. Well, they were all busy, so...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
News emerged yesterday that suggested the Publicis Groupe is in talks to acquire the Sapient corp, the French advertising giant looks to recuperate from its failed $35 billion merger with Omnicom and speed up its transformation into a digital-focused...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Over the weekend, popular picture messaging service Snapchat (which has been in the news of late due to the recent server hacks dubbed “The Snappening” by opportunistic perverts everywhere) revealed its first ads for US users, a move that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced recently that Matomy Media Group has agreed to sell just under 25% of itself to the French media conglomerate Publicis after the Israel-based company floated on the London stock market. Publicis will be buying 20% of Matomy's shares,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This is how it happened - or at least how I became involved. Scrolling through Twitter yesterday, I noticed a message which expressed alarm at real zombies being at large in real Scotland. It was followed by this link:...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
You're probably familiar with the magazine Private Eye. If not, you just need to know it's the longest running satirical publication in the UK (maybe the world), is edited by Ian Hislop from 'Have I Got News For You', and is still remarkably fresh,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Royal Air Force will be focusing their recruitment efforts on full time and spare-time recruits in a new multi-channel national ad campaign from WCRS that spans TV, radio, social media and online display advertising. The bulk of the campaign is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Buzz advertising, or the ability for your advertisement to create conversation, is an art, slowly being perfected through past decades of advertising history. Many advertisements achieve good buzz marketing naturally, through internet and televised...
Posted by: Creativepool
A survey recently conducted by, GlynnDevins, North America's premier marketing and advertising agency serving senior living communities, has found that most over 70's find that they are being portrayed in an unrealistic or stereotypical manner by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Advertising might be only one aspect of the great social media boom, but it's a pretty large one and it's only going to get larger. In fact, by 2017, Mintel, the leading global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, has predicted that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Boston-based furniture retailer Bernie & Phyl's has named the New York agency DeVito/Verdi as its agency of record. The award-winning agency was granted a seat at the company's table by Rob Rubin, Bernie & Phyl's president of merchandising and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DigitasLBi Chicago will be bringing in writers from Buzzfeed, the web's foremost social news and entertainment website, to help generate more effective social advertising campaigns. Writers will be brought in through the “Buzzfeed in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At the annual Small Agency of the Year Awards held by Advertising Age in Austin, Texas on the 24th of July (last thursday), BOHAN Advertising and Tiny Rebellion both walked away with much coveted Gold awards. BOHAN was named Southeast Small Agency of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Advertising Club of New York, a professional organisation that represents the vision and mission of the global advertising industry, honoured 12 members for Outstanding Support and named 6 new board directors at the 118th Annual Meeting of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Haven't you heard? Online advertising doesn't work. All those banners, buttons and MPUs? Waste of time. Those pre-play spots on YouTube, and those Facebook campaigns? Completely useless. Google Adwords and sponsored tweets? Utterly worthless. Sorry,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Starcom MediaVest Group's global chief executive officer, Laura Desmond, has recently been named chair of the board of directors of the Ad Council, succeeding Debra Lee, chairman & chief executive officer of BET Networks. The council will be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Architectural Association and Foster + Partners are pleased to announce the award of the 2014 Foster + Partners Prize, which is presented annually to the AA Diploma student whose portfolio best addresses the themes of sustainability and...
Posted by: Foster + Partners
One in three Britons is now overweight. One in five is obese. As far as one can trust statistics, that's the picture giving rise to some hefty soul searching this week. How did this happen? What is to be done about it? And who's to blame? That's the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
By way of distraction from the work I was supposed to be doing today, I clicked on a link to a piece of writing on a reputable music website. About a paragraph into the article an unexpected thing happened. The webpage was suddenly obscured by a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Since an art director colleague introduced me to Banksy many years ago, I’ve enjoyed his stuff enormously. In that time he has painted throughout the world, from Sydney to Camden, LA to Palestine. The art critics bemoan him - too obvious, too...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
One of the advertising industry's most respected figures passed away suddenly on Saturday at the age of 75. David Abbott was a founding member of the London-based Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, an agency which has created countless award-winning campaigns...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett, one of the world's leading creative advertising networks, recently announced the departure of KV Sridhar, the chief creative officer for India and the subcontinent. Affectionately known as 'Pops' amongst co-workers and friends, Sridhar...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns