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The Colonie editor Brian Sepanik crafted an open for The London Business School’s 2015 TEDx Conference that challenges the viewer to see the familiar in new and unexpected ways. Beauty, Shape, Examine, the translation of the Greek root words of...
Posted by: Robl + Sutta
Introducing the “Anti” Smartphone Whilst many of us have become a little too attached to our smart devices in recent years (myself included), there are still those amongst us who long for a simpler time, when our phones were just that;...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sunshine Nadya Powell is joining the creative agency Sunshine, in the newly created role of Managing Director. She is expected to join from DigitasLBi agency Lost Boys in August. Sunshine has grown significantly since it was conceived of two and a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Internet memes are rarely seen as high culture. Indeed, they're rarely seen as even legitimate forms of entertainment, instead being little more than placeholders used by Facebook trolls with no original thoughts and little inclination to develop...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Recently the Adam Leibsohn, COO of Giphy, gave a talk about the importance of communication through GIFs (well, he would, wouldn’t he). But a partisan opinion aside, the tendency to rely on GIFs to communicate our thoughts and feelings online...
Posted by: Jade French
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
Publicis London Publicis London has hired Phil Dowgierd as managing director of digital as part of its ongoing commitment to champion creative leadership and excellence within Publicis UK. Dowgierd joins from Tribal Worldwide Sydney where he was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Anyone who came of age in the 1990's will probably remember AOL rather fondly as the leading internet service provider of a bygone age. When internet connections required us to ask our parents permission and actually successfully logging on was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann New York McCann New York announced this week that Caprice Yu and Grant Smith have joined the agency as Executive Creative Directors. “We are truly excited to welcome Grant and Caprice,” said Eric Silver, CCO of McCann North...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
18 Feet & Rising 18 Feet & Rising bolsters its management line up by bringing in Brad Fairhead as partner, with a remit to further build 18 Feet & Rising’s work in the more progressive areas of communications. Fairhead has 20 years experience...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Apple sell out. Again. A big week for Apple saw the company's mega-hyped Apple Watch sell out of its pre-order stock in a matter of hours. US pre-orders for the device kicked off on Friday morning, and by the afternoon, Apple released a statement...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
ADCOLOR, the nonprofit organisation whose mission is to celebrate and champion diversity in the advertising, marketing, media, PR and entertainment industries, has announced that this year's 9th Annual ADCOLOR Industry Conference and Awards will take...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Live from the ADARA Stage in the Newsroom Advertising Week Europe has 200+ events including more than 180 seminars and workshops. World-class industry thought leaders take the Advertising Week stage to tackle the industry's issues and opportunities...
Posted by: Advertising Week
Havas Worldwide Havas Worldwide has announced Coral Garvey as head of art for the New York office. In her new role, Coral will collaborate with senior leadership across the agency's portfolio to ensure Havas' creative offering is best in class....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cannes Lions has announced the first list of speakers for Lions Innovation; the new “Festival within a festival” that will run during the Cannes Lions Festival this year, and focuses on innovative data, technology and ideas in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst in the western world we appear to shy away from anything small and cute (tries not to make an obvious dirty joke), in the East, smaller is always better. From technology and architecture, to food and even living space, the lack of space...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mussel meat A leading discount frozen food company is selling bags of 'mussel meat'. I may be wrong, but I suspect these are the unfortunate shellfish deemed too manky to be sold whole, and are therefore mushed up and flogged in a heaving mass. Good...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Here at Ubiquitous we like to talk about icons; we truly believe that the black cab is an icon and we go so far as to say so in our strapline, iconsonicons. But what is it we mean by this? What is it that makes something iconic and therefore worthy...
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Nintendo Whilst last week saw the launch of the New Nintendo 3DS in Europe, many North Americans have been complaining that the device has yet to be released across the pond, with only the New 3DS XL hitting western Atlantic shores. Nintendo's...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Barclays - Code Playground There can be few things more important to a kid's education right now, than teaching them code. Whilst nothing is guaranteed, it's surely their best bet for a productive career in later life. So Barclays have launched an...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
A few years ago, the politician and journalist Matthew Parris made a film for Channel 4’s ‘Without Walls’ strand, in which he declared public relations to be an utterly pointless industry, without merit or use. He was forced to eat...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Yesterday Amazon unveiled WorkMail, a brand new product which offers email and calendaring services for corporate customers. The aim is for WorkMail to overtake Gmail and Outlook as the platform from which the company's corporate customers organise...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Firefox joins the virtual reality bandwagon Last week, Mozilla made good on their promise to bring virtual reality to the popular Firefox web browser by implementing support for WebVR (an experimental API that makes it easier to connect the browser...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Why do they bother? Politicians, I mean - and specifically their ideas concerning technology. Because each and every time they open their mouths on the subject, they make utter fools of themselves. A shining example of this idiocy appeared last...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Tiny Flying Drizzy - Are you a fan of chart-topping hip-hop star Drake and a fan of Flappy Birds? If so, this is the game for you. Collect Grammy Awards as Drake's disembodied head in this vaguely creepy clone that looks as if it were cobbled...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas only opened to the public today, but it held a special day for the press yesterday (January 6) where many exciting products and developments were announced. Here I'll be examining some of the most...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was only a matter of time before Twitter decided to throw it's hat in the ring alongside YouTube, Vine and the like, but it would appear that the social networking behemoth's plans are a little more ambitious than would have perhaps been presumed....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mediacom Confectionary giant Mars awarded its global media planning account to WPP's Mediacom earlier this week after a consolidation review. The company, which has a global annual spending estimated at $1.5 billion, has, until now, been handled by...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
DLKW Lowe DLKW Lowe has been given the creative account for the UK Post Office following a review where it pitched against high-profile competitors such as Ogilvy, WCRS and Engine. DLKW take the reins from Dare, who won the account back in 2009, but...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
British artist, Mark Farid, plans to give up a month of his life to virtual reality with a crowd-funded campaign. The plan is for Farid to remain in one room for 28 days and experience every moment through the eyes of another person (a living...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Karen Blackett OBE, chief executive of WPP's MediaCom, has recently been named “The Most Influential Black Person in Britain” by Powerlist magazine, but the 43-year old leader of the UK's largest media agency still thinks it's odd that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Though Facebook has already monopolised the social media market when it comes to our personal lives, it appears Mark Zuckerberg isn't content on stopping there. Sources familiar with the matter have hinted liberally at Facebook's plans to build a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Uber is the revolutionary taxi service that's taken the US by storm and is set to make a similar impression over here as it moves into its third English City; Leeds, following successful debuts in London and Manchester. The Uber technology platform...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sunday night saw Silicon Valley's elite rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood's biggest stars at the 2014 Breakthrough Prize award ceremony, which saw pioneering scientists share the £23 million prize pot. The lavish ceremony at California's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new national US campaign from Airbnb, the website that allows users to rent out their own homes to tourists and vice versa, uses the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to tell an emotionally engaging story about two men from opposite...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mindshare, WPP's global media agency network, recently held a media summit with a “Planning for Agility” theme, which brought together the brightest mind's in the industry to discuss integrating paid, owned and earned channels. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
