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Steve Jobs once said, “Innovation is the only way to win.”. It was only a few weeks ago that one of London’s top agencies, Ogilvy & Mather closed the doors to it’s dedicated innovation department, Ogilvy Labs, headed up by...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
Superdream Steve Price, a well-known name and highly respected personality on the Midlands creative scene for more than 30 years, has been appointed as creative director at Bromsgrove-based marketing and communications agency Superdream. Formerly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
London Pokémon face deportation Pokémon citizens of the UK faced deportation this week in a flyer campaign by creatives to raise awareness for immigrants' rights in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. The flyers, which...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Karmarama Karmarama is further bolstering its creative department with the appointment of six new creatives and the promotion of Creative Director Dickie Connell to the new role of Deputy Executive Creative Director. Connell joined the agency five...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a genuinely quite pithy piece of work that was no doubt created in order to cash in on the excitement surrounding the latest season of Game of Thrones and its game-changing final episodes, Indian digital agency Chimp&z has figured out who each...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Cheil London Cheil London has boosted its creative department with two new hires. Nick Craske joins as Creative Director, working across all the agency's accounts, and Georgia Barretta takes up the new role of Creative Director Design. Craske joins...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
World's fastest flying women recruited for Dunkin' Donuts stunt DigitasLBi and Dunkin’ Donuts recruited the world’s fastest flying woman; 28-year-old wingsuit base jumper Ellen Brennan, to do the world’s fastest Dunkin’ run...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
MeringCarson This week, MeringCarson, the advertising agency focused on brands, companies and organisations who are in the business of experiences - destinations, products, entertainment, and social movements, announced the promotion of two long...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ogilvy & Mather Ogilvy & Mather has appointed Gerald Lewis to the role of Worldwide Executive Creative Director for the Dove account. He will join Ogilvy immediately and report to Ogilvy’s Worldwide ECD for Unilever, Andre Laurentino. Lewis...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
One of the most important things you’ll ever learn as a freelancer is that you’re never unemployed, you’re self-employed. You provide a service which means you’re a business and you work for that business. Like any business, you won’t get...
Posted by: Boox
Industry Garrett Reil has joined the global brand consultancy Industry as Creative Director, following a three year stint at FutureBrand. In his newly created role, Reil will have a remit to grow and develop the creative team, with creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Droga5 London Droga5 London has announced the promotions of two key creatives. Creative Directors Rick Dodds and Steve Howell will assume the roles of Executive Creative Directors, reporting to Chief Creative Officer David Kolbusz, effective...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBD Perfect Storm BBD Perfect Storm has strengthened its management line up with the appointment of David Shiel to the role of Client Services Director. Shiel, who was previously at The Engine Group where he was a Partner, will support BBD Perfect...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
J. Walter Thompson has announced the second year of its Helen Lansdowne Resor (HLR) Scholarship, an international opportunity designed to support and promote talented female advertising students, which is named for the first female copywriter at not...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Social media is a great leveller. Through shared images, links and a few key symbols, we all have the ability to speak the same language. Whether we understand Swahili, Spanish, or Swedish, social media can unite us in our passions as we share them...
Posted by: Daniele Fiandaca
When I first heard the term ‘storyteller’, I hated it. I thought it was way too pretentious and self-important - we’re not novelists; we’re copywriters and art directors. But the more I work on film scripts, copy and even...
Posted by: Southpaw
Havas London Havas has announced Xavier Rees as CEO of Havas London. Rees joins from his position as Group Managing Director at adam&eveDDB, a role he has held for the last two years and to which he was promoted after four years at the agency. At...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
My topic this week was going to be “how to write an ebook”, for no other good reason than I’ve been asked to write two in the space of a few weeks. Although I know what I’m doing, I thought it might be interesting to pop onto...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Richard McCormack - aka @Paperboyo on Instagram - is a man on a mission; a mission to interpret famous landmarks in an original and ingenious way. Like a non-permanent graffiti artist, he is the cardboard cut-out equivalent of Banksy. Certainly his...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Crispin Porter + Bogusky – Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines – Fly to Gotham City With the heavily anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice set to launch this Spring, many brands will undoubtedly be clambering to get in on the action....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Like him or loath him, Donald Trump is big news right now. With his extremist right wing views and terrifyingly persuasive rhetoric, the man has carved a path through the American presidential circus with a fire and fury that have even made us Brits...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In what has been a rather unsettling start to 2016 in terms of celebrity “news” – with David Bowie and Alan Rickman creating a torrent of outpouring across social media – we couldn’t let the week go by without a nod to Terry Wogan. Upheld...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Karmarama Karmarama has appointed Jamie Toward as Managing Partner for Content. Toward, who joins Karmarama from MEC, where he was Head of Content, will report to Jon Wilkins, Karmarama’s Executive Chairman, and will lead data-driven content,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Publicis Worldwide Publicis Worldwide New York promotes Carla Serrano to CEO, effective immediately, according to North America CEO Andrew Bruce. The move is significant, positioning clients versus operations, at the centre of all agency activities....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve often thought one of the hardest things to do is to come up with a genuinely engaging infomercial. To turn something rather dull that people “really should” watch and listen to into something interesting and/or entertaining...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
FCB West - Electronic Arts Electronic Arts and their agency FCB West have hired educational children's entertainer Bill Nye (the science guy) to front a brand new campaign to launch the next evolution of its gaming subscription service, Origin...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Avid readers of my Creativepool blog - of which there must be literally…some - will know that I upped sticks and moved from the Big Smoke (London) to the Big Nice And Airy (Saffron Walden) a couple of years ago. During this time, I’ve...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Boxer - McDonald's Boxer has designed a new packaging range for McDonald’s in order to help the fast food giant better reflect its vision as a more modern and progressive company. Beginning in the US, the new look will also roll out to the UK...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I don’t know about you but my inbox seems to be full to bursting with messages from every Tom, Dick and Hubert offering me advice about how to kick-start my super-productive 2016. It’s only 4th January and I’m bored of it all...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The Mars Agency The Mars Agency has begun its 2016 fiscal year with the promotion of Darren Keen from Managing Director, Europe to Chief Executive Officer, Europe. For 43 years the agency has operated under one Global CEO, and the addition of CEO,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Contrary to what you might think, based on my frequently acerbic blog posts, I am not a complete misery. Oh, things annoy me, sure. And truth be told, probably more so than the average person. As my dad used to say, “I don’t suffer fools...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Does anyone actually enjoy writing Christmas cards? I mean, really enjoy it? I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that most people feel it’s bit of a faff they can do without. By card number ten - assuming you’re trying to...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Taylor James Taylor James has announced the addition of Jason Guerrero as Creative Director, Marie De Leon as Head of Production, and Jacques Tege as Senior Technical Director. All will be based in New York and will report to Taylor James New York...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On Saturday night, I was at a party. (Yes, I do get out sometimes; it’s not all tracksuit bottoms in front of Grand Designs, you know.) Anyway, at said party, I was speaking to a guy about the Davis Cup finals - yay, Team GB! - and he said that...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Today one of my clients told me that they were winding down for Christmas. Lucky them, I thought. Five weeks to go and they’re already winding down. I mean, we haven’t even had Black Friday yet. (I for one can’t wait to watch the...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Last week, I blogged about the new John Lewis Christmas ad, #ManOnTheMoon. To say that it split opinion is certainly no understatement. Whereas I liked the rather sweet fairy tale where a small girl sends the man on the moon a telescope so that he...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison