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Leaders

O.R Radhakrishnan named executive creative director at Enormous Brands

O.R Radhakrishnan has beed scooped by Enormous Brands, the Mumbai, India-based agency, which provides complete marketing and brand solutions to brands. Radhakrishnan joins EB as executive creative director from McCann Mumbai, where he served as...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

HHGregg moves creative business back from Leo Burnett to Zimmerman

HHGregg, the electronics and home appliances store, announced yesterday that it will be leaving Leo Burnett and Spark SMG to return to Zimmerman Advertising, which handled the brand's creative and media planning since 2007. The retail chain moved its...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

The children’s book made with AI in a weekend – is it creative?

At what point does a genuinely interesting experiment become an “affront to artists everywhere?” That’s the question I shall aim to answer over the next 500 or so words. It’s a quandary that revealed itself to me when perusing...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Cracking Prime Day 2.0 with Creative Ads

For brands looking to make a splash this October during Amazon Prime Day, creative mobile campaigns are key. In this article, Paul Coggins, CEO of Adludio, argues that the ad industry has sat on its creative laurels for too long. If the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Not a 9-to-6 job: How Chief Executive Nicolas Geahchan remains motivated

Chief Executive Nicolas Geahchan is both a creative leader and a business head. Nicolas has always considered advertising one of the most interesting jobs people could make. Creative professionals get paid to think creatively, and there's no way the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Impero chief urges gender pay action

The founder and director of independent creative agency Impero has urged the industry to fix its gender pay gap problem by saying there are no excuses for inequality. Michael Scantlebury said it’s all well and good for agencies to publish...

Posted by: Ryan Watson
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Leaders

Linear production 'too long and expensive' - Shutterstock chief

The growth of video on social media has contributed to a need for cheaper, faster branded content, according to a marketing executive at Toronto-based Shutterstock Custom. Paul Cowan, VP of enterprise and SMB marketing, believes the introduction of...

Posted by: Ryan Watson
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Leaders

Creative Opinions: The Wunderman/Possible Merger

Mergers are funny old things. More often than not, they're lambasted as job-eating, austerity driven moves that are more about branding than innovation, and result in work that lacks personality and clients feeling like they've been thrown from...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Creative Opinions on AI

Dan Koren, Head of ADI at Wix.com, on how AI is creating a new market standard for web design. Currently, artificial intelligence is mainly associated with robotics and self-driving cars. Nonetheless, major advances in AI technology have opened the...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Burger King announced as Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year 2017

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced Burger King as the Creative Marketer of the Year 2017. The award will honour Burger King for embracing and encouraging creativity across their brand communications and for the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Creative industry employment dwarfing other sectors

When people ask me what I do for a living, I often simply reply; “I write.” This response is often met either by furrowed brows, genuine interest or complete surprise, as it would appear that to some people, the concept of actually making...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Karmarama bail on BBC creative review

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
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Leaders

October's latest vertical and horizontal moves in the creative world

The last week has seen a lot of creative moves, with announcements made from all corners of the globe. Perhaps the biggest announcement was made by video advertising firm TubeMogul, who hired Mauricio Leon, formerly of ZenithOptimedia, as commercial...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Leo Burnett win the NSPCC's creative account

Leo Burnett Change, the specialist social change agency, have been appointed as the creative account for the NSPCC, as the child protection charity gears up for a major campaign that will launch this autumn. The agency won the account after an...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

10 top tips to help you win creative awards

After 11 year's of running The Annual we've picked up a few key pointers on how to craft a winning awards entry. Below is the Top 10 tips from ourselves, previous judges and winners on how to create the perfect submission. 1. Tell A Story An...

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Leaders

Should Creative Directors be on the Board?

Creativity is typically viewed as a softer skill. Consequently, it’s rarely valued in business as much as it ought to be. When budgets are planned and operations strategised, finance and technology are favoured, with creative roles habitually...

Posted by: Dawn Creative
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Features

Global creative calendar: April 2024

Across this month’s full slate of alluring extracurricular activities, everyone open to new experiences has worlds to gain. Current and future leaders spanning all industries are going all in: Curtains will soon draw back and stages will...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Features

Creative Freedom vs Cultural Sensitivity: The England Kit Controversy

As creatives, we’re always treading a fine line between letting our creative souls run free and pleasing not only our clients but our audiences. Never is this more apparent than when a piece of creative stirs controversy and we’re forced...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Sparking the fires of creative revolution with Guerilla #CompanySpotlight

Gueriilla Communications is a creative integrated agency that enjoys what they do and like to have fun with the people they work with. The clue is very much in the name. To learn more about the defiantly northern agency, we spoke to James Allen,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Global creative calendar: March 2024

Warning: Featured happenings in this edition of our global creative calendar are closer than they appear. Over the past several years, these updates have presented thousands of opportunities to advance knowledge, sharpen skills, immerse within...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Workshop

Drawing the line on creative tinkering

There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse. Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern. The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues. OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side. How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit. In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask… “What’s the worst thing you can see?” * Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender. That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list. Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues. * It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.

Posted by: Andy Gregory

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