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The London Design Museum is set to move to Kensington as part of a drastic £80 million revamp, which will see leaving its current home at Shad Thames near Tower Bridge, and setting up shop in its new skin by 2016. The museum will triple in size...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Redscout Innovation agency Redscout recently announced it will be opening a new office in London to be run by Jason Cobbold as managing director. Cobbold joins the agency from Publicis London, where he had served as deputy managing director since...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After two unsuccessful attempts to crack the highly competitive New York market, the London-based M&C Saatchi have finally made some headway. It was announced earlier this morning, that the agency had bought a minority stake in the successful New...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
JWT London recently unveiled its news Debenhams campaign for the 2014 Christmas season. Dubbed “Found It,” the multi-channel campaign will run across all touch points, with a much heavier marketing push than in previous years. As well as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Celebrities in London's Shoreditch (Jack The Ripper Territory) recently got scared out of their wits by O2 thanks to a unique haunted house, which VCCP Kin created as part of the brand's “Connected Devices” campaign. Reality TV stars...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Following a lengthy pitch that also involved competitors such as BBH, GS&P and Anomaly, Crispin Porter + Bogusky won the global creative account for Infiniti, the luxury car division of the Nissan Motor Company. Media will continue to be handled by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a move that reveals a certain symmetry with its parent office, which claimed the San Francisco Examiner as one of its first client back in the 1980's, the New York arm of Goodby Silverstein & Partners has landed a big city tabloid as one of its...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The iconic and terrifying hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's seminal adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel “The Shining” has been spoofed in a pretty spot-on new 90-second ad for Swedish home furniture giants Ikea, just in time for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Karmarama dropped out of the statutory review yesterday for the BBC's creative account, which is looking more lucrative than ever before following the recent ambitious BBC Music ad (created by Karmarama) featuring a host of celebrated artists...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google has been making a concerted effort to promote their rebranded mobile app, with an ad campaign summed up quite adequately by a charming 30-second TV spot (below), which shows a child asking Google if dogs can dream. Other short clips used to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Saatchi & Saatchi London announced yesterday that former Nike UK brand communications director Adam Collins, and Mother's Will Nicholls have been hired as managing partners at the agency. Both Collins and Nicholls will report to chief operating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Samsung recently finished its global agency review, adding Wieden & Kennedy and BBH to the roster, and keeping Leo Burnett and Starcom MediaVest on board. The results have given the Publicis Groupe a fair amount of breathing room considering the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's been announced today that the United Overseas Bank, one of the largest financial services groups in Southeast Asia, has severed its ties with the Publicis Groupe agency Leo Burnett Singapore, who were formerly the banking organisations agency of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nick Kamen was famous for a while. He was a pop star in the eighties and had a hit with a thing called 'Each Time You Break My Heart'. It wasn't terribly good. But his music wasn't the reason he was famous. No, the reason he was famous was for taking...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Friday 19th September 2014 it was announced that Simon Sherwood, the Group Chairman of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), is to retire at the end of the year. Simon Sherwood began his advertising career in 1979 as a graduate trainee at DDB. At the beginning...
Posted by: Creativepool
The Cream Awards focus on talent in the Midlands and recognise the work being produced in the region by bringing agencies into the spotlight. This week the Cream Midlands 2014 finalists were revealed; Big Communications, Chapter, Cogent Elliott,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Gary McCreadle and Wesley Haines, former board partners and creative directors at BBH London and global creative directors on the Axe/Lynx account, have been taken on board by Whybin\TBWA as executive creative directors for its Sydney office,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe and Adobe recently announced a strategic partnership in order to deliver the group's end-to-end marketing platform 'Always-On'. The bespoke platform automates and connects all components of their client's marketing efforts through...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Leo Burnett London has hired the creative team of Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson from DDB Chicago, where they've worked together since 2011. The duo were originally based in London at Mother, but moved onto JWT where...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Publicis Worldwide North America has announced that CEO Andrew Bruce has chosen Julie Levin, a rising star in the advertising industry, to round out his new executive team as chief marketing officer at the agency. Levin will be joining the agency's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week there was a bit of a shakeup at Havas Worldwide London, with Leila Bartlam leaving the agency for a job at Iris as head of TV, film and content, and Lucy Powell moving to claim Bartlam's vacated role. Powell has been a TV producer at Havas...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After a short time spent without a dedicated advertising agency, Grolsch, the Dutch premium lager brand, has given its UK account to VCCP. Grolsch gave VCCP the business without a pitch, and the resulting campaign will air in 2015 to coincide with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Gwyn Jones shocked adland yesterday when it was announced he will be stepping down as CEO of Bartle Bogle Hegarty after 27 years with the agency, and 2 years after a 51% stake in the agency was acquired by the Publicis Groupe. Jones has spent his...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Even with Apple moving more and more of their ads in-house, and the rumour mill all but convinced that the tech giants will be getting shot of them altogether sooner rather than later, it seems that TBWA\Media Arts Lab still have a little creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We would like to formally announce the release of our Annual! A huge year for the Creativepool team and the members. Inside is a diverse compendium of our favorite companies and individuals that make up this pool of talent. Broken down into the...
Posted by: Creativepool
Grey London has fought off stiff competition from such established agencies as BBH, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann and VCCP to claim YouTube's annual, inter-agency 'Film Hack'. The winning submission was entitled '#Tattroulette', and was one...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new role has just been cast at the Publicis Groupe owned advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, in the form of Michael Densmore, who joins the agency as chief global growth officer from an executive spot at McKinney. Densmore will start at BBH...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett announced yesterday that Nigel Tribe had been appointed as head of strategy for Leo Burnett Singapore and global planning director for SKII. This appointment comes hot on the heels of not only some major recent wins for the agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday it was announced that Washington Olivetto, the iconic Brazilian creative director and head of WMcCann Brazil, is to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Clio Awards. The award ceremony (which is owned by Guggenheim Digital...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“If you look at the UK, we are suffering because we are not putting the time into the idea and there’s empirical evidence to say that the quality of our output has gone down. It’s not my opinion. Empirical evidence from the audience...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The London-based creative agency Gravity Road announced yesterday that it had made two new senior appointments in the form of Joanna Osborn and Samirah Ravin. Osborn will serve as the Head of Creative Service and Ravin as Financial and Commercial...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
London-based creative advertising agency Bartle Bogie Hegarty have recently unveiled a beautiful new televised advertisement for Dulux, the UK's most popular purveyors of quality paints. BBH have been working with Dulux for almost 3 years now, after...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
You're familiar with the notion of 'bloopers', I'm sure. 'It'll Be Alright On The Night' has been cataloguing the trips and slips of TV production for decades, while 'You've Been Framed' records disasters on the home front - usually involving elderly...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Patrick Collister has released his annual directory of the world's best communications agencies, campaigns and individuals, covering areas such as advertising, print, digital, as measured by awards won. Patrick Collister’s The Directory Big...
Posted by: Creativepool
Publicis Groupe has taken over complete control of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), ten years after taking a 49% stake in BBH in 2002. This move by the French advertising group ends the independence of one of the most well-recognised agencies in...
Posted by: Creativepool
SoundCloud, VICE, StumbleUpon, Akestam Holst awarded alongside Special Achievement Honourees Stephen Fry and Professor Heinz Gerhäuser & Team, creators of the MP3 file format. On the 16th October the International Academy of Digital Arts and...
Posted by: Creativepool