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Havas Media Group Havas Media Group has announced the appointment of Damien Marchi as global head of content. This news follows the Group’s recent launch of the Global Music Data Alliance with Universal Music Group and its partnership with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a world overloaded by cold vectors and Helvetica copy cats, clients are now looking for that much-needed personal touch for their branding. Hand lettering is being embraced by the design world to create logos, packaging, and global ad campaigns...
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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...
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The Pirate bay rises from the ashes After almost two months of downtime following a raid on its servers in December last year, The Pirate Bay is officially back online. This is hardly surprising of course, given that there has been a timer counting...
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I won't even pretend to understand American Football. To my eyes it's all a bit of a mess, like a collision between a game of Rugby and a game of Chess, without the passion of the former and the brains of the latter. The Super Bowl, however, is an...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Saatchi Art recently unveiled the latest edition of their annual Invest in Art series, which features the best work from emerging artists, handpicked by the site's chief curator, Rebecca Wilson. This year, Wilson has selected seven young artists from...
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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...
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Arnold Worldwide Global creative agency Arnold Worldwide announced recently the appointment of Jim Elliott to the new role of global chief creative officer, a role under which he will drive Arnold's creative product across the network from the...
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It was announced recently that The Havas Group has acquired the award-winning German agency, Bird & Schulte Advertising, a leading health and wellness communications agency which offers a full spectrum of services including advertising, digital...
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Last week saw the great, the good and anyone else even remotely involved in the world of electronics descending upon the Convention Centre in Las Vegas for the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show. I already covered a few of the more...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The brand spanking new year gives us a chance to look back at our Brave Brands of 2014. Exclusive and prestigious, Brave Brand status is given to the brands that successfully break through the white noise to make a statement. It’s about stepping...
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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
Let’s keep things simple. I’ve seen an ad campaign I really like. It’s funny, witty, smart, highly noticeable and very memorable. I know, I know - if you’ve read my articles for Creativepool, you’ll be aware I rarely...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
Jeff Hong is something of a fringe celebrity in certain corners of the internet thanks to the Brooklyn, New York-based storyboard artist's recent “Disney Unhappily Ever After” illustrations, which took Disney princesses and transplanted...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Activision, publishers of the perennially popular Call of Duty franchise, have teamed up with AKQA to create a choose-your-own-adventure campaign for Instagram, celebrating the release of “Advanced Warfare,” the latest instalment in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A leading name in Augmented Reality enabled products and entertainment has recently partnered with the UK supermarket chain Asda to bring the “Asda Spook Squad” to life in an “Monster Hunting” experience developed by Momentum...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe recently announced they had acquired another digital agency, following hot on the heels of their acquisitions in Germany (Zweimaleins), South Africa (Synergize), Poland (Interactive Solutions) and the UK (Outside Line). As with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Category blurring is a phrase you may have heard thrown about the office, but might not fully understand what it is exactly or how it works. Given that it's become a top tactic for leading brands across multiple FMCG categories, it would seem now is...
Posted by: bluemarlin
After eight years, the world’s leading drinks manufacturer Coca-Cola launched the first new cola drink, Coke Life, with a multimillion-pound ad campaign. The campaign, which comprises outdoor, print, digital and experiential, launched in the...
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TBWA beat out Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett and WPP's Royal Order in the pitch for becomming Miller Lite's agency. Miller Lite is the fourth-largest beer brand in America and TBWA are taking over the control of the major creative accounts. WPP had...
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A Cinemagraph is a looped gif in which only a small part of the image is animated whilst the rest is motionless. They are a great way to add subtle details to what appear to be static images. In fact, they are not images at all but videos manipulated...
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Perhaps it's hard-wired into the very nature of the internet (after all, almost anyone can publish one) but it's increasingly difficult to find a really good website. As so much focus rests on social interaction and 'sharing', it seems as though the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Publicis Worldwide has named a new business director to manage global accounts across the APAC region. Floriane Tripolino joins Publicis from JWT, where she served as regional business director, overseeing blue chip accounts such as Kellogg's and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Papa John's, the internationally renowned pizza chain and official “Pizza Sponsor” of the NFL, has launched a new integrated advertising and social media campaign to coincide with the start of the 2014/2015 NFL season, which kicks off...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Coca-Cola bought its first 18% stake in Innocent in 2009. Four years later, in 2013, the soft drinks giant upped its ownership of the smoothie brand to 90%. Why was Coke so keen to spend hundreds of millions buying Innocent? We have a pretty good...
Posted by: bluemarlin
DigitasLBi Chicago will be bringing in writers from Buzzfeed, the web's foremost social news and entertainment website, to help generate more effective social advertising campaigns. Writers will be brought in through the “Buzzfeed in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In this article certified Photoshop expert Eric Renno, aka TipSquirrel takes us through some of the functions of a free mobile app, Snapseed. Over to you Eric: Snapseed has been around for a while and many readers may remember it as a desktop...
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Christopher Graves, the CEO of Ogilvy PR Global, has bagged the WPP Atticus Award for Public Relations and Public Affairs, his third Atticus Award, including the Atticus Grand Prix he won in 2012 for original published thinking in branding and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday by Hironobu 'Chief' Kitajima, JWT Japan's managing director, that the award-winning creative Go Sohara would be joining JWT Japan as executive creative director from TBWA/Media Arts Lab in Los Angeles, where he currently...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann Worldgroup announced yesterday that Devika Bulchandani has been promoted to the role of president at McCann XBC, the shop formed in 2012 as an agency dedicated to MasterCard, one of McCann's biggest clients. Bulchandani will be succeeding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, it was announced that Annette King had been promoted to the role of CEO at Ogilvy & Mather UK, replacing Paul O'Donnell, who himself has also been moved up the ladder, with a promotion to CEO of Ogilvy & Mather EAME. Effective immediately,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A new role has just been cast at the Publicis Groupe owned advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, in the form of Michael Densmore, who joins the agency as chief global growth officer from an executive spot at McKinney. Densmore will start at BBH...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How much would you pay for a copy of Nik Kershaw’s album ‘The Riddle’? Should you wish to add it to your iTunes collection via Apple’s store, it would cost you about £5.50. On Amazon’s marketplace, you could pick up...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Birmingham-based advertising agency Chapter, has recently announced that Ricky Neault has been appointed as a director of the young, award winning company. Neault will continue to head up one of Chapter’s multi-discipline teams, but will...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
From the most intricate folding cardboard and metal cards to contact details printed on balloons, the humble business card has developed into an art form in itself. With different cards out there trying to stand out and grab your attention more so...
Posted by: Creativepool