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It seems rarely a day goes by without the word 'ecommerce' coming up. The growing ubiquity of ecommerce in the UK (by 2023, it will have a predicted 97% penetration rate) - combined with the much-mooted “death of the high street” - means...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Valtech is a global transformation company, powered by digital innovation. They empower customers to build impactful experiences, improve human lives, and accelerate business growth. As managing director, Chris Daplyn talks to us about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s behind the idea feature, we’re focusing on a playful little campaign from leading pet care brand Hartz and their creative and media agency of record, Cutwater for Delectables, the wet cat treats. The "Deliciously...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There is increasing pressure on the retail sector during the peak holiday season, commencing with Singles Day and Black Friday in November and ending with the January sales. With the busiest time of the year for planning holiday marketing campaigns...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
People use a new year as a fresh start, evaluating the past year with introspection and making goals for a better year ahead. Work-related new year’s resolutions for freelancers and business owners are created in this process. While many...
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Consumers are looking to get more with less with the same high expectations of brands as the cost-of-living crisis and looming recession rolls into 2023. Karel Schindler, CEO of ROI Hunter, outlines four trends that retailers cannot afford to ignore...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With many big brands dipping their toe into the video games industry, we’ve seen a shift towards gamification - the application of typical elements of game playing to the customer experience. Augmented reality (AR) in particular, promises to...
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Black Friday, one of the year's undeniable major retailing occasions, returns on the 25th of November. This occasion encourages businesses to develop new marketing strategies and make better-informed business decisions to remain competitive and deal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Are you visually creative, and tempted to work remotely for yourself? And do you have a brain that’s equal parts creative and mathematic? Do you also consider yourself something of a natural touch when it comes to design work? Then you might be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With new, in-app shopping functionalities being unveiled by social media platforms regularly it’s easy to see how social commerce has become widespread practice so quickly. Gone are the days where consumers had to google a brand or product an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Each year, the Cannes Lions score the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health, Entertainment, and even more. The latest edition of our Global Creative Calendar...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
We are amazed to find so many extraordinary offerings to showcase in this edition of the Global Creative Calendar. Wherever you are, you will recognize many of the social engagements returning to pop culture’s center stage. While we have...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
For any business, there is only ONE reason to have a website. That reason is to make money - and even more critical... make profits. If your company has a website, and you cannot tangibly determine whether it is contributing to PROFITS, or COSTING...
Posted by: Tagmakers
For advertising and creative professionals, 2020 was the year that changed everything. The ecommerce boom, driven largely by Covid-19, forced an unprecedented growth in demand for online retail. And with physical shopping unlikely to ever return to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Just when you thought all of the year’s trends had been discussed, dissected and digested, here’s one final piece of insight from some of the leading female voices in advertising. Pulled from a report by Digital Leading Ladies (the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Between the continued acceleration of online deliveries, and the loud call of COP26, in 2021 had never been more aware of the role packaging plays in our world. But what have we learnt, and how will this influence packaging trends over the next...
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High shopper demand has made for an especially competitive Christmas this year, with brands using video as the glitter gun in their festive campaigns to capture optimum audience attention. Despite the rising price of video ads, smart video creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Online shopping is here to stay. A global healthcare and social crisis has changed drastically the habits of consumers worldwide, and particularly in the UK, it has become clear that nearly 1 in 2 people will shop mostly online this...
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How do you redesign an entire brand portfolio to drive forward a 120-year-old business? Rawnet may have a few tips to share in that regard. Hornby Hobbies is a reputable business with a good 12 brands and 28 domains in total. Just like most brands...
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Never have we found so many extraordinary offerings to showcase in a Global Creative Calendar edition. Wherever you are, you will recognize many of the social engagements returning to pop culture's center stage. Historically, we have hit the road to...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Time is ticking! With the standard submissions deadline now out of the way, we are little more than two weeks away from the Annual 2021 final submissions deadline, on Thursday 10th June. The Annual is the Most Distributed creative industry award....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The short term versus long term argument rumbles on. 2021 is the year where marketers should chase a smart balance of the two for the best outcomes. David Ogilvy famously said, “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.” But in...
Posted by: Southpaw
For every person who will take durable jars to refill, there’s thousands who won’t. In the race to reach sustainability and be regarded as the greenest brand in the biz, consumers are often overlooked. This is not to mean that their...
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Following the rise of social media during the pandemic, one may be left to wonder about the destiny of retail and how retail sales will be shaped by such surge in social media user bases. It is true that there is an opportunity for brands to take on...
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There couldn't have been a better time for Amazon to open its till-less store in London. Think about it: we're all stuck at home for at least a few more months, having to comply with social-distancing rules and probably quite bored during the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The amazingly talented Valerie Carlson joined Critical Mass early in December 2020 as their new Global Chief Creative Officer, tasked with leading a team driven by innovation, positive change and tons of creativity. But to get there, Valerie did...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Of course we are in the list. Any creative professional will need some daily inspiration to overcome the occasional roadblock at work. It’s just the way things are - we need to look at art to remain inspired. Whether you are a designer, an...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Websites power the world. With over 1.8 billion sites (or even much more now) on the web, you can find sites that do just about everything. Whether you’ve designed a new blog, an eCommerce platform that will someday rival Amazon, or anything...
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You may have never heard of Progressive Web Apps before, but we're one-hundred-percent sure you've used one without even noticing. Adopted around the Internet by websites such as AliExpress, Forbes, Amazon, Debenhams and retailer George, progressive...
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This piece is all about the "P" word. You have been warned. "Pivoting" is a palpable and prevalent protagonist in brand paradigms, purpose and communications, enough to possibly sound repetitive and preposterous to hear. But how do you pivot during...
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There is no overstating the impact of the pandemic on the retail industry. We've seen stores close down, other retail giants move to digital only for a bit, and some others (such as Cath Kidston) make a permanent shift to digital - which was a smart...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If there is one thing this pandemic has accelerated, it is the rate at which businesses have realised they are in deep pits of dung. Outdated systems, experiences and pipelines have come to the open following the outbreak and it looks like the...
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There is a crisis of creativity in advertising. You have probably heard these very words or a variation in the past few years. Campaigns striving to touch on the same key points, unoriginal tropes used over and over again - things are starting to...
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We are exactly one week away from the Annual 2020 final submissions deadline. As you are starting to put the finishing touches on your entries, you might be wondering who will actually see the work you submit. Aside from being scored by our esteemed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial