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OK, so you won't get to experience the giddy thrills of being chased out of a packed venue by a horde of screaming teenage girls, and you won't suddenly inherit John Lennon's knack for penning bizarrely poetic rhyming couplets, but thanks to Google,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last Wednesday, when Google announced their new “Inbox” app, which heralded a supposedly radical new approach to email management, very few people were 100% sold on it. Early reports from beta-testers, however, has been incredibly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google is everywhere, and it would be incredibly easy to wax cynical about the tech giant and its apparent goal to monopolise the tech industry, social media and the internet, but honestly, Google's rampant domination has never, personally at leat,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Jenny Sabin creates robotically knitted canopy for MoMA PS1 Young Architects The New York-based architectural design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has won the MoMA PS1's Young Architecture Program competition with its plans for a shelter made entirely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google struck digital gold with their Chrome Experiments, which showed off the cool things you can pull off with little more than a simple Web browser these days. A new collection launched yesterday, however, adds a new edge to the JavaScript hacks...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google Play Music has announced a rather unique partnership with the subscription dinner service Munchery, which will allow users to order their meals with an accompanying, specifically tailored soundtrack designed to reflect their order. Between...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google’s dominance as the world’s largest media owner has increased even further according to a new report by ZenithOptimedia, with the gap between the internet tycoon and its nearest competitor widening significantly over the past year. Google...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Toyota has launched a campaign which allows users to customize their 2014 Toyota Corolla car while chatting with their friends in a Google+ Hangout. They are looking to drive engagement and appeal to young first-time buyers by letting the users take...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Ashley Morrison OK, let's pretend that you haven't read the title of this blog (or looked at the first picture) and see if you can guess what sort of building this describes: "It's all about human beings and that's it! Think sunken snugs,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Since their arrival many blue moons ago, the customised Google logos (or 'Google Doodles' to give them their correct adopted name) have become a staple part of using the search engine. From retro arcade games to famous figureheads in science and...
Posted by: Creativepool
As a young buck, I was all about Roald Dahl, and of all the great author's beloved children's books, The BFG was my favourite. Dahl perfectly managed to capture that impossible middle-ground between sheer terror and war fuzziness, and this same...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Publicis Worldwide announced yesterday that they will be partnering with Google and magazine publisher Conde Nast to launch a new end-to-end premium marketing service called 'La Maison' (“The house” in English). The service is aimed at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google France has unveiled the first episode of Curio-Cité, a series of films, immersive 360° VR video masterclasses and live events allowing people to jump head first into the world of urban exploration (colloquially known as “Urbex”) in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
By Owen Bailey Google have given us a glimpse of what we can expect to see in the future. It's life through Google's very own lenses. I'm sure that you've by now heard that Google has been developing specs that will enable us to access all of the...
Posted by: Creativepool
Google makes commuting easier Google has added a commute tab to its Google Maps app with the aim of saving time and simplifying work trips. The new addition helps people to prepare for potential disruption on their journeys and maybe even avoid...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The London-based Nexus Studios, in collaboration with Google Spotlight Stories, the VR storytelling specialists, has created an immersive and interactive experience with story at its heart. Directed by Nexus director Felix Massie, “Rain or...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google have reportedly spent five years developing the “One typeface to rule them all,” which will work not only across all devices, but across all languages. This holy grail typeface has been created as part of a collaboration with the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
adam&eveDDB has launched the next stage of its “Hidden Cities” campaign for the Financial Times and Google. Combining Google technology with the global knowledge of FT Weekend journalists, the Hidden Cities series helps readers discover...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google’s recent proposal, put forward to Silicon Valley's Unicode Consortium (the body that controls and approves universal software standards for letters and other characters), wants to increase the representation of women in emoji and calls...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Earlier this year I was approached by Sarah Hill to write a piece on creativity in our agency, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, for a new book called #FuturePRoof and some of the things that we have learnt after launching our first *Global Center of...
Posted by: Simon Shaw
For those of us who are not quite ready to shell out hundreds on an Oculus Rift unit let, DODOcase, the San Francisco-based company who specialise in crafting bespoke (and very stylish) smartphone and tablet cases, has just released a low-cost...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google is 25 years old, meaning that Search data is able to reflect 2.5 decades of human history. This time period includes, of course, the rapid popularisation of the internet, the genesis of social networks sites and YouTube - as well as much more....
Posted by: Novagram
Mondelez’s Oreo cookie brand has rolled out a rather ambitious (at least in terms of concept) mobile game that allows fans of the chocolate snack to launch Oreos into space and watch them fall into glasses of milk all over the world. The idea...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Google - Waymo Google is finally establishing its self-driving car project as its own separate entity called Waymo, which unveiled its new logo this week. The company’s name apparently stands for “a new way forward in mobility,”...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Okay, we know their tax-paying record is a bit wobbly. And they caved in to the Chinese censors way too easily. And they're keeping a troubling amount of data on us all. But don't you fancy working for Google - even if it's just for a week or two....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
You may remember, in the early days of the internet, some very smart cookies enriched themselves considerably by buying up the domain names they figured would be in demand, just as soon as major corporations woke up to the new technology. Smart...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
There is quite literally only one certainty about predictions, and that is how “the future is not Google-able.” (William Gibson). Yes, we can give rigorous evidence-based forecasts of the rational - DOOH is growing, and saw growth of...
Posted by: Posterscope
Anyone who has spent any time online in the last decade has probably found themselves at the business end of a Captcha code. Perhaps the most obtrusive and outdated aspect of the entire internet, these codes exist in order to tell humans apart from...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A new global brand survey has revealed that Aldi, Google and Ikea are among the companies which are best understood by consumers. Design consultancy Siegel+Gale asked over 14,000 respondents across nine countries to rate 857 different brands, to form...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Peace building charity International Alert is bringing together technologists, designers, developers, and experts for its next #Peacehack; an international competition, which examines ways that technology can be used to resolve conflicts and build...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Internet kingpins Google recently unveiled a new prototype for their modular smartphone, which will allow users to swap out components and essentially design their own phones. The phone will work in a similar manner to a desktop gaming PC, only it...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial What do you actually do? Try to make cool stuff that matters. What would you be doing if you weren't doing that? Hanging out on Brighton beach with my kids. Is it true that the Google offices are furnished with awesome things like giant sweets...
Posted by: Creativepool
The British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) has just announced the shortlist for the BIMA Awards 2017 - celebrating the best work in the UK’s digital industry. Nominated agencies include Google, Karmarama, B-Reel and Cancer Research...
Posted by: BIMA
Fresh off the stage at Dubai Lynx, Google's Ali J. Hashmi, Jumeirah's Ross McAuley and MediaMonks' Victor Knaap assemble for a jolly podcast with Creativepool's Michael Tomes. Right after their talk "Jumeirah Inside: Harnessing the Power of Consumer...
Posted by: Creativepool Magnus Shaw - writer, blogger and broadcaster www.magnusshaw.co.uk www.creativepool.co.uk/magnusshaw
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ADMA, the Association for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising, has announced a brand new three day festival in Australia. The Festival of Marketing, Media, Analytics and Advertising (FOMMA) from August 4-6 at the Sydney Hilton Hotel and The Seymour...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
