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Becoming a freelance designer (or any kind of freelance) is not an easy decision to make. It’s pretty tough actually. You give up on things like having a fixed salary, paid vacations and stability in your financial life that some people love. But...
Posted by: Fernando Ifran
For the fourth year in a row, BBDO has been ranked the most effective agency network in the world in the WARC 100. The annual WARC 100 from the World Advertising Research Centre tracks the rankings of campaigns based on their performance in more than...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Imagination, technology, art, and science fuse together at the heart of the international agency, AKQA. Founded 22 years ago in London by Ajaz Ahmed, the agency has seen significant growth in this time, boasting over 2,000 global employees and 21...
Posted by: Creativepool
BBDO has had quite a week indeed. We've already reported on the global agency network's involvement in a charming new V&A Museum exhibition and its top placings in this year's Gunn Report, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. AMV BBDO unveil...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
VCCP has announced the acquisition of independent media agency Adconnection. The business will be fully merged with VCCP’s existing media operation, VCCP Media, creating a combined media capability with billings in excess of £50 million....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TBWA Helsinki has teamed up with Fremantle Media, the producers of hit American reality shows such as “American Idol” and “The X Factor” to produce ad campaigns for the Finnish ad agency sitcom “Buy This!”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Publicis Worldwide has acquired a minority stake in Arcade, the home grown ad agency based in Singapore. The agency also has offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Jakarta and Indonesia (the Indonesian office was opened recently...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Grey Group announced yesterday that they have agreed to acquire a majority stake in the largest independent advertising agency in Peru, Circus Peru SA (known colloquially as simply “Circus”). The Grey Group is owned by holding company...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hijacking the CNN Republican debate to promote House of Cards On December 15, 2015, Netflix hijacked the Republican Candidate Presidential Debate on CNN in the US to build anticipation for the upcoming fourth season of “House of Cards,”...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s Company Spotlight we look beyond the UK and the US to an agency based in Venezuela; a country currently in the midst of a political humanitarian crisis. But they often say the greatest creativity thrives in times of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Clients. We love them, sometimes we hate them. They are what keeps this industry going - the makers of the creative sector, in a sense. Without them having needs, agencies wouldn’t be offering solutions; it is a business relationship based on...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
For this week’s company spotlight, we spoke to Brendan McKenna, Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director at Hawkeye, a Publicis company. How was your company born and where are you based? Hawkeye is actually an amalgam of multiple...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Leo Burnett London sends a child to space for the NSPCC Leo Burnett London has launched a new brand campaign for the NSPCC, the first within their rebrand with the new strap line; “Every Childhood is Worth Fighting For.” The campaign is inspired...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As creatives, people are always telling us to “think outside the box” but one eclectic group of individuals took the advice quite literally. Thought Boxes, you see, as as much an idea as it is an agency - a group of creative thinkers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There are few teams in the Creativepool community as talented as KIND. Every single one of their works oozes earthy tones and premium taste, culture and distinctiveness made design. It's hard to find, really; such delightful elegance, such delicacy...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Following an influx of newbies to the creative and design teams we wanted to start a ritual for our people to come together socially. This would be a regular calendar event they would look forward to, input into and that would add an insight into the...
Posted by: Proximity London
Coating everything in chocolate for Sydney's newest attraction Sydney’s newest attraction, The Calyx, opens its doors at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney on 11 June 2016, forming the centrepiece of the Garden’s 200th Birthday. The Calyx...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Unifying the Power of Play To promote its range of merchandise for Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” blockbuster, US department store Target has pegged 72andSunny to create a campaign highlighting the “Unifying Power of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Translating New Year resolutions for Booking.com Booking.com recently revealed the “Best 2016 Ever” campaign from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, which encourages people to turn their (most likely) doomed New Year’s resolutions into...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Putting on a peep show in Chicago for Breast Cancer Awareness Month With one week remaining for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Havas Chicago has unveiled a rather provocative new installation designed to extend awareness of the disease and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The return of Winston Wolf This week, Direct Line launched the next stage in its popular campaign featuring Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolf from the cult classic Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. This time, the spot focuses on the insurance company's...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AARP, a Washington-based advocacy group for the over-50 crowd, has created a marketing agency to help companies target products and services to the baby boomer market, which AARP thinks doesn’t currently get enough attention from advertisers. This...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After a formal review, global customer experience-marketing agency, and the digital and direct marketing arm of Interpublic's McCann Worldgroup, MRM//McCann, announced late last week that Cisco Systems had chosen them as their global demand...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
American brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev has recently announced an agency review of their US media, an account with an estimated ad spending of $600 million! This is the latest in a series of reviews launched globally by the brewer, including a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann Worldgroup announced yesterday that Devika Bulchandani has been promoted to the role of president at McCann XBC, the shop formed in 2012 as an agency dedicated to MasterCard, one of McCann's biggest clients. Bulchandani will be succeeding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Publicis Kaplan Thaler has been named as the lead creative agency for the American seafood restaurant chain, Red Lobster, two months after its account was put into review following a departure from parent company, Darden. Media for the brand is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Richards/Lerma, a creative agency based in Dallas, Texas, have recently been selected as the creative agency by Mexican themed fast-food restaurant Pizza Patron. This new relationship will see the agency undertaking all traditional, digital and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
VCCP Partnership has been awarded the Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Creative Showcase Grand Prix to become Agency of the Year. The agency scooped the award after receiving the most honours for outstanding digital campaigns throughout...
Posted by: VCCP
Years back it was said that creative people that chose to go freelance were either too old to be considered for full-time employment or simply not good enough to cut it in a top agency. In those days, I’m going back to the 80’s here, the...
Posted by: Creativepool
“Fake it until you make it” is a common adage in the creative industries but never before has it rang so true as with the spoof ad agency created to satirise the notoriously amoral oil and gas company Saudi Aramco. Climate collective...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we’re talking to Milton Lebron, Co-founder & Executive Creative Director at Might & Matter, a relatively young agency based in Miami, Florida that are looking to establish meaningful connections that go beyond mere...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gravita is a full-service agency based in Leeds that was very much ahead of the curve as far as remote working is concerned. Indeed, they were a fully remote company from the very start when the doors opened back in 2012. They have spent the last 10...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Mobile advertising is fast becoming the rule rather the exception and one agency that knows this better than most is the Barcelona-based BcnMonetize. Founded in 2016, the leading mobile advertising agency helps businesses of all sizes generate ROI...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Greenwich Design, is a family-run business that “brings brands to life” by connecting them with customers in surprising and innovative ways. It started life over 50 years ago and has spent that time working with some of the biggest and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Co-founder and COO Alex Evans is brutally honest about this: the toughest challenge in leading Studio Blup to its current position was delegating and learning to let go. Alex has an exceptional energy and drive for creativity, one he was clearly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Maria Sharapova settles into an internship at VCCP London In what might just about be the most surprising piece of agency news of the year, Maria Sharapova has reportedly spent the last week as an intern at VCCP London. The former world number one...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
