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As part of our continuing coverage of the 2016 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity as official partner, we'll be bringing you the daily highlights from the festival. Ogilvy & Mather take Glass Lion and Two Grand Prix On the third day of the Cannes...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ikea is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some of us, it's essentially hell on earth; a gigantic shrine to consumerism with added meatballs, which pushes products you'd need a masters in engineering to assemble with any genuine level of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Millennials (or Gen Y) is the name given to people born between 1980 and late 1990’s, and whilst you may imagine them to be young, could be anywhere between 18 and 35 years of age. In fact by the year 2020, half of our workforce will be...
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Purposefully ridiculous, playful electronics from Slovenia Technology doesn't always have to be completely serious, sometimes it can be fun too! Enter the Slovenian designer Dan Adlešič, who recently updated his collection of toy-like...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Coke Ad looks cool, uh? The new Coke campaign, featuring a lively dog and its not-so-lively owner is a celebration of the most Disneyesque style of animation (with an hint of the golden-age of Dreamworks too) by the amazing guys at Psyop. In...
Posted by: Nucco
Former apprentice star & agency innovators warn brands & agencies to make responsibility a mind-set. Today, Christie H.Kristensen from Creativepool hosted a session at Advertising Week Europe exploring how an innovation mindset helps brands to...
Posted by: The Media Foundry
Kicking off the first annual World Recycle Week on April 18, the goal of the “Rewear It” campaign, is to collect 1,000 Tons of used clothing at H&M stores worldwide, and keep them out of landfills by recycling them. It's rare indeed for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Scope Overflowing champagne bottles, foamy shower scenes, underwear models in pillow fights. We’re all familiar with the sexy tactics deployed to turn us on to brands because it’s well-established that ‘sex sells’. Yet a study published in...
Posted by: Canvas8
The Voxburner Youth Marketing Strategy Conference saw speakers from music streaming platforms to FMCG brands deliberate the weird and wonderful world of young people’s lives, loves and hates. And how to market to them, of course. Here are our...
Posted by: ECHO
Say what you want about adland, but it's always been an incredibly progressive industry, so it's only natural that many of the industry's biggest and best agencies and brands would want to piggyback on the social media frenzy surrounding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Sample Sale is an exciting and inspiring new event that will open its doors to discerning and design-conscious shoppers for three days only, from 4 to 6 March 2016. It will be London’s first multi-brand product sample sale, curated by the...
Posted by: The Sample Sale
Hasan & Partners - Valio Less than a month before the death of Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the legendary Motörhead frontman filmed a milk commercial for Finnish dairy giant, Valio. The 40-second video is a remake of an iconic 20-year old...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you take on two of the world’s biggest corporations and win? Well you start by saying "it can be done better". At least, that’s what Mirco Wolf and Lorenz Hampl told each other as they sat in their kitchen one day, eating a frozen...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
January: Charlie Hebdo cover unites millions against religious fascism For this one, there really are no words that would suffice. It does, however, underline the power that powerful and intelligent creative work still has to bring us together, even...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
January: Google lets users design their own phones Internet kingpins Google unveiled a new prototype this year for their modular smartphone, which will allow users to swap out components and essentially design their own phones. The phone will work...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Black Friday isn't a real thing. At least it wasn't until recently, but in recent years it appears to have become one of the most successful American imports since Breaking Bad. Thankfully the droves of rapid shoppers largely migrated online this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sometimes, ads lie. This is a fact, but as an affiliate and propagator of the industry, it's a fact I often attempt to mask with frilly words and subtle humour. It's (more often than not) a comforting and well-intentioned lie, but it's a lie...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Until recently, it would have been difficult to imagine butter gracing the front cover of British Vogue. But in June, the new superfood to watch made its fashion debut as part of a new breed of cultured products being championed by both chefs and the...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Live Stream: 9:30 - The Future of Retail and Commerce Marketing Competing on price and availability is being replaced with competing on experience. Big Data and personalization is now a reality and influencing everything from pricing, product...
Posted by: Creativepool
The old hallways of Central Saint Martins are now currently home to 180 cutting-edge brands and designers from around the world. This instagraming dreamworld spread over 6 floors was a collaboration-haven with a stunning display of new textures,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To mark the launch of a new, more sophisticated and calorie conscious lunchtime menu item called the Ricebox, as well as London Fashion Week, KFC challenged British designer Katie Eary, to design a clothing collection in a lunch hour to reflect the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Twitter was ablaze recently with India’s fashion-conscious youth deciding to forego the usual narcissistic selfie in favour of an altogether more dignified and original “Shoefie,” as part of a new campaign in the region that kicked off...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If you haven't already acquainted yourself with illustrator and graphic designer, Eero Lampinen, I strongly advise that you clear your schedule. Based in Helsinki, his work offers a brilliantly skewed vision of the world, one influenced by magic...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Digitas LBi DigitasLBi, has announced Alvaro Cabrera as chief strategy officer for North America. In his new role, Alvaro will report to Tony Weisman, CEO of DigitasLBi North America. As CSO, Alvaro will work closely with CCO Ronald Ng, and global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google is a company with surprisingly humble origins (it began life back in 1996 as a simple research project) that has evolved in just under 20 years into a global behemoth worth more than $100 billion. Indeed, the word “Google” has...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
On Wednesday this week (August 26), the H&M Conscious Foundation and DDB Design Stockholm launched the first ever Global Change Award; one of the world’s biggest challenges for early stage innovation and the first such initiative in the fashion...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Uniting glass and emotion, Japanese born Hiromi Takizawa has changed the rules, creating a new paradigm of conduct for heated glass that succumbs to her conscious and her subconscious. Displaying a mastery of the medium, she uses shape, reflection...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
WPP China is set to move 26 of its media and ad companies along with 3000 staff currently spread across 10 locations into a gigantic new building in Shanghai, which we will (for now) affectionately call “WPP Towers.” The JWT and Ogilvy & Mather...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Facebook is finally GIF friendly A point of contention for many Facebook users is that the site has never really got on well with GIFs. This week, however, the social media giants confirmed the site will now support animated GIFs in its News Feed,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As an official partner of Digital Shoreditch 2015, Creativepool joined the Ogilvy Labs Live day on Thursday 14 May to celebrate the outstanding achievements in the creative, tech and entrepreneurial communities. Held in East London's Shoreditch Town...
Posted by: Creativepool
Last Friday (May 8) The One Club announced the winners for the 42nd Annual One Show Awards, one of the most prestigious advertising, design and marketing communications competitions in the world. Gold Pencils, Best of Discipline, Best of Show and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, jelly London welcome award-winning animator, Effie Pappa, to their exclusive team of directors. Effie specialises in all ranges of Stop Motion as well as 2D animation. She is best known for her short film “My Stuffed Granny”,...
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Digitas Lbi/Samsung Europe Samsung Europe has appointed global marketing and technology agency DigitasLBi as its European digital content partner agency. The appointment follows a competitive pitch against a shortlist of PR, content and digital...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced recently that Zooppa and Ogilvy took home a Gold award at the 2015 Internationalist Awards for Innovation in Media, which were held on March 26th at the legendary Times Square in New York. The award was for their combined work with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TBWA\Worldwide president and CEO Troy Ruhanen, announced several key executive appointments among the global leadership team this week, in an effort to restructure around the strengths of the existing group. The move to a more focused versus...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a self-professed creature of the online age, a solid 90% of my shopping is done from the comfort of my own home, most often at my office desk, occasionally whilst on the toilet (don't tell me I'm the only one). As such the idea of a brand such as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns