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The world of digital marketing got disrupted like never before last year when AI truly made its presence felt in a big way. You’ll probably read a hundred think pieces this month on a fundamental shift AI has had, and is continuing to have on,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sarah Evans, Head of Digital at PR agency, Energy PR, offers her advice on using AI to assist with your marketing work, freeing your team up to focus on the areas where you can add the most value. AI is not new. However, the launch of platforms like...
Posted by: Energy PR
There are few retail brands in the UK as beloved as WH Smith and now that the Post Office has officially shat the bed as far as public perception is concerned, it remains perhaps the last bastion of wholesome, stationery-based high street...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I started making films when I was quite young, maybe 10 or 11 years old. A neighbour worked at an adult education centre in Peckham and could borrow a VHS camera they had there for me and a few other kids on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What better way to celebrate the “most depressing day of the year” than by pontificating over the collective demise of the creative industries? I jest, of course, but there is a surprising amount of doom mongers out there who would have...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For today’s Company Spotlight, we’re talking to Dave Dunlop, Partner and Chief Design Officer at Else, an award-winning strategic design consultancy that helps businesses create innovative and effective products and services. How was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There’s something quietly Dickensian about the term “cost-of-living crisis” that’s given the news over the last few months a surreal air of uncanniness, at least in the UK. The concept that so many of us, even those such as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Can you believe it, we’re almost already two weeks into 2024? The passage of time is a strange and cruel thing and I feel almost nervous that it’s taken me this long to break out a true predictive trends piece. Trend forecasting, you...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, for our first company spotlight of 2024, we spoke to Simon Kringel, Co-founder of Scandinavian sonic branding agency, Unmute. How was your company born and where are you based? Me and my partner Daniel Schougaard was working in a company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Like half the nation, it would appear, I chose to spend the first waking hours of 2024 washed out on the sofa in a booze and cheese-induced haze binge watching what I assumed was going to be a quaint, easy-going ITV drama. How wrong I turned out to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new year often brings with it a chance to sweep the slate clean and make healthier choices when it comes to the work we accept and the work we don’t. Indeed, it could be argued that the perpetual curse of the freelancer isn’t so much...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? Design has always held a strong allure for me. Early on, I recognized its magical potential as a craft that profoundly influences people's perceptions of products and services. I found this to be very powerful, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? As the head of a brand experience agency, it's a blend of jumping into new business meetings, hashing out creative strategies for ongoing projects, and throwing in some...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In the months ahead, this Global Creative Calendar will once again open exciting new doors of possibility. Entering any of them can impact your life in epic ways you could never anticipate. Spend a few moments now, investigating and imagining...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
As the year starts to wind down and we take stock of what we achieved (or didn’t achieve) over the last 12 months, it’s only natural to start asking what we’d have done differently if we could do it all over again. Well, thankfully...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we speak to David O’Hearns, Managing Director at Dawn Creative, about how a nightmare at an old agency turned into a beautiful dream of a fresh start. A new dawn, if you will… How was your company born and where are you...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’ve already looked back at the year that was 2023 and what a year it was. But what kind of magazine would we be if we didn’t also cast our sights on the next 12 months? Of course, there are a few trends you can expect to see pop up...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For many in marketing, the constant strides forward in tech have slowly, inexorably, been moving us toward the world portrayed in Spielberg’s Minority Report. Enough ink has been spilled on how the director convened with experts to create a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2023 will hardly be remembered as a banner year for may of us as the cost-of-living crisis started digging deeper and the political spectrum on both sides of the atlantic started to devolve into a cynical and hateful mess. For creatives from all...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? Honestly, each day is different and that’s what I love about the role and ustwo as a company. Two thirds of my role is about “tomorrow” - balancing creating a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? Ever since I can remember art has always been my passion. Initially I studied a foundation course in Eastbourne which covered a broad range of subjects and then progressed onto a higher level course in Barnet....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The festive season has always been a pretty important time for ad land. Given the capitalist nightmare it all became around the middle of the 20th century, it’s only natural that advertisers would take advantage of the rampant commercialism at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
2023 has been a lot of things. It’s been a year that saw great divisions widen and a year that seemed to almost revel in chaos, but it was also a year in which creativity continued to shine, even as it stood on the precipice of potential...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
While much of the online discourse this year has surrounded the rise of AI and its increasing relevance, social media remains the engine that keeps the fires of the internet burning. Of course, AI will shape the future of social media but how and why...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? It was a bumpy road. My education (since I was 7) has always been in Arts and Design, but I worked in Hospitality for a long time (and that gave me the opportunity to travel and live in different countries and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“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
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? Given we are working in a hybrid model, and with the constant changes and surprises in talent work, there really is no typical day but rather a typical week as we’re always...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In an increasingly digital world where companies are always competing to build their online presence, hiring an experienced digital designer is of paramount importance and the hiring process should reflect this. The guide below will take into account...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s probably safe to say that VR hasn’t really “taken off” in quite the way we all thought it would a few years ago. Back in the halcyon days of 2014, when the Oculus Rift gained enough cultural traction to be parodied by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sonic branding. It’s something all creatives are familiar with, and something we can certainly appreciate the importance of. We’re all aware of how great sound can make or break a product, but something rarely talked about is how much of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I haven’t been at Monotype long enough yet to form an exact idea of what a ‘typical’ day is. So far, I’ve been undertaking a very well-structured and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Can you really smell your way to success? Of course not, the very notion is frankly ridiculous. But that doesn’t mean we should overlook the importance of the humble human olfactory system. Smell, after all, plays a critical role in our daily...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a world full of uncertainty with a rapid pace of constant change, businesses must do all they can to keep up. With constant technological, social, and economic shifts, change has become the only constant. Often businesses fall into the trap of...
Posted by: Born Ugly
How did you get into the industry? My background is in fashion, I used to have my own clothing label; that’s where I started getting interested in what builds a brand - realising that the brand can be stronger than the products alone. So, when...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There was a time when the televisual Christmas beacon was lit whenever we first heard the “holidays are coming” Coca-Cola jingle, but for the past decade (at least) that torch has been passed to John Lewis and their annual festive weepy....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Post-truth is, when taken on its own terms, is a pretty terrifying concept. Without the truth, the objective becomes subjective, and facts can be acknowledged or ignored based on personal bias. What you’re left with is the cultural and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns