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The mobile tech community have descended in their compact droves on Barcelona this week for the 2017 Mobile World Congress, which appears to be expanded every year as the mobile market does likewise. This year, with smartphones reaching their peak of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann London kicks off its latest creative for Mastercard (the headline sponsor of The BRIT Awards 2017) ahead of tonight’s event at The O2 in London. The campaign uses the new “Priceless Side of Music” tagline and is based around...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A weekly roundup of the most important news from the advertising awards world Interaction Awards This week, the Interaction Awards announced the winners of its 2017 edition. The Best of Show winner went to “Kinetic” for One Million...
Posted by: TheNextGag
Anyone over the age of 30 will remember the original 'mobile' phones. It's ridiculous to think of it now, but back in the 80's, when the concept of mobile phones was first hitting the marketplace, the idea of carrying a lunchbox sized charger and a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst most of us know deep down that Valentine's Day is little more than a reason for couples to buy more cards and chocolate for one another and for singletons to buy more beer, ad land continues to pull out the punches every year. 2017 is no...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creativepool has officially announced the shortlist nominees; this brings the start of the People’s Choice voting for the 2017 Annual and Awards, with support from jones knowles ritchie, Saddington Baynes, and Made in Global. The excitement...
Posted by: Creativepool
Consumer goods brands are increasingly looking at direct-to-consumer (DTC) opportunities, according to Warc, the global marketing intelligence service. Research suggests that cutting out or minimising the retailer 'middleman' allows brands that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The concepts of building something out of nothing and finding gold in somebody else's garbage are very much at the heart of a trend that could very well be seen as a euphemism for 2017 as a whole, given the widespread disappointment with the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Entry submissions for the Kancil Awards 2017 is now open, including for the first time in 20 years, social media-based entries. The Kancil Awards, which was traditionally held in the last quarter of the year, will from this year be a permanent...
Posted by: Kancil Awards 2017
1. You will get your work on the desks of the industry’s leading directors from around the world. The Annual physically gets your work in front of those people who have achieved ‘epicness’ throughout their career. As well as 165...
Posted by: Creativepool
In a move that will delight anyone who has ever seen Back to the Future 2 or The Fifth Element, Airbus is reportedly planning to test self-piloted personal aircraft by the end of the year, primarily as a means of reducing traffic on inner-city roads....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are ushering in the new year with our first CS Presents of 2017 and it’s all about Creative Super Powers… Do you remember what it was like to be a child. Go find a LEGO set and start to build off plan. Remember what it was like to be...
Posted by: Creative Social
2016 was not, as many industry figures predicted, the year of VR. It was the year of political upheaval and celebrity death. 2017, on the other hand, already seems like a brighter prospect (forgetting politics of course) for the medium, with many of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The finalists for the seventh annual FDM everywoman in Technology Awards, which celebrates women that are changing the face of technology in the UK, have been announced this week. From entrepreneurs and engineers driving the business agenda to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
According to Warc, the global marketing intelligence service, developments in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) will offer viable ways for brands to engage emotionally with consumers in 2017. VR, which immerses consumers in a 360-degree...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Automated and Electric Cars takeover the show floor The trend I noticed from this year's CES above all others was the prevalence of automobiles on the show floor. Whilst we are probably a good few years away from the technology becoming commonplace,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For almost 50 years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been seen as the tech industry's ground zero. This is the show, held annually in Las Vegas, though initially held in New York, that sets the trends for the year to follow. One of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How will VR in 2017 play out and what existing and new trends will contribute towards its growth? There’s no denying it, 2016 was a major year for VR. The VR industry has moved so rapidly that VR in 2017 and beyond will only be limited by our...
Posted by: Visualise
When it comes to the world of design in 2016, many will look back on it as a year where the digital and physical worlds finally began to blend in earnest thanks to the advent of affordable VR and the perpetual advancement of design technology. It's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AI, VR, AR. 2016 was very much the year of the double letter acronym, and, if our panel of industry experts is to be believed, then 2017 looks set to take the developments of 2016 and push them into overdrive. We asked a number of industry experts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s no secret that virtual and augmented reality technologies are going to conquer the market in the coming years and change our media usage in increasingly 'Black Mirror'-esque ways. Just like social media and the widespread use of mobile...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
We’re in a unique moment in time which offers us the opportunity to blend traditional methods of filmmaking developed during the past 100 years with a new set of creative tools and displays in immersive content that allows filmmakers to engage and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
At K7, our role is to help creatives find, create and sell the hottest content around the world. Historically, our focus within that has always been with in what we’d now define as ‘classical television’; that largish screen we...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Towards the tail end of 2015, everyone was declaring 2016 as the dawning “Year of VR,” and whilst there have been a number of major developments in the field this year, including the commercial launches of all three major platforms, it's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Speaking at The Future of Food conference in Stockholm last week, Johan Rockström, professor of environmental science at Stockholm University, urged attendees to think about the implications of society’s next 10,000 years by focusing on...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Piccadilly Lights, the world’s number one advertising location in London’s West End, is looking set to undergo a significant transformation. Ocean Outdoor has won the contract to operate the central London landmark as part of a milestone upgrade...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, today unveiled its highly anticipated visual trend forecast. The ground-breaking forecast sets out the macro and micro trends that will influence design, advertising and brand communications...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With the year winding down, it's time for us to look back on what has been a particularly strong year for creative work with the announcement of a global judging panel, new categories, and the opening of early bird submissions for the 2017...
Posted by: Creativepool
It's our favourite time of year again, with the winter closing in and the clock winding down, as we set our sights set on the New Year and the opening of our early bird Annual submissions. The overwhelming volume of unique and exciting work...
Posted by: Creativepool
The 2016 US general election has been an almighty farce, let's not pull any punches here. Farce makes for great fuel when it comes to creative work though. Running the range from the daft to the strikingly satirical and the just downright bemusing,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Today (7 May 2015) marks the commencement of the first UK general election in five years, and by necessity, it looks to be perhaps the most closely fought election battle in recent history. With 7 leaders fighting for your vote this time around, it's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For young people in 2015, it would appear that there is nothing quite as unsexy as politics. To be completely honest, I can't blame them, as the whole political system has nosedived into a complete farce over the last decade or so. What was once a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Advertising might be only one aspect of the great social media boom, but it's a pretty large one and it's only going to get larger. In fact, by 2017, Mintel, the leading global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, has predicted that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We live in a dangerously divided world where politics, branding, and capitalism continue to collide. Fueled by social media’s immediacy, vast reach, and influence, and a society stoked by activism, we’ve never been more socially...
Posted by: Lysle Wickersham
Fitbit for your face Dubbed “Level,” these smart glasses from VSP contain a magnetometer, an accelerometer and a gyroscope. Compactly located inside the left temple, these technological features track your steps, calories burned,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial