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For a long time, SEO (search engine optimisation) was something of a dirty word in marketing circles but thanks to Google’s continual updates the keyword stuffed blogs that typified many SEO strategies of the early 2010’s are now relics...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Kraft Heinz is a brand synonymous with two cupboard staples: beans and ketchup. Yet, the 150-year-old company is keen not to rest on its laurels and sees innovation as a core part of its business. The strategic design firm, Designit, worked with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Two-thirds of businesses in the UK have no kind of plan for sustainable operations. This is hardly a surprising statistic - in the current economic climate, enterprises across all industries are looking to reduce their outgoings and avoid any kind of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this weeks behind the idea feature, we’re turning back the clock to Halloween last year when Fanta took over Piccadilly Circus with a unique and scarily silly Halloween experience that made the public the star of their own horror film on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If you ask anyone in my family to identify my mum, they’ll refer to the jingle jangle of the mass of gold bracelets on her wrists. That metallic cacophony to me, more than a look or smell, is the truly evocative sound of home, and of love. So...
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...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Described by namesakes and founders Catherine Clark and Paul McDowall as “a progressive team of brand architects with a passion for making brands future-ready,” clarkmcdowall has spent the last 20 years cultivating their ethos of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
The number of active internet users has increased every year for the last 20 years. The technological advancements of society have had a staggering effect on marketing. Marketing began as a simple job of posting an ad in your newspaper or buying a 30...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AI writers - which automate the writing of blog posts, articles and website copy - are one of the most cutting-edge, yet controversial, digital tools increasingly employed by SEO specialists, copywriters, advertisers, bloggers and marketeers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Artist, pattern designer, entrepreneur and cofounder of the Make It In Design online education platform, Rachael Taylor, discusses the importance of diversifying your income stream as a creative in these trying times. It’s important to not...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pitching for work, when/how/should you do it? I recently saw an interesting ad on Facebook asking spot of pitching to be made for a rebranding project. It was for a cultural organisation currently undergoing a refurb and seeking designers to help...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson
Christmas is coming earlier than ever and it’s easy to see why. The festive season has always been seen as a soothing balm for the winter blues and things have never been bluer. But with things so unremittingly bleak, do we really want to be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As freelancers, we sometimes have to deal with client data and the issue of cybersecurity often seeps into our consciousness. Because if that data is compromised while in our possession, it’s ultimately our fault, right? And who want to hire a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
Unless you find yourself in a particularly enviable position, if you work in the creative industries (particularly in advertising) then at some point you’re going to have to pitch for work. The pitching process, as it once was, doesn’t...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The cruelty of killing fox cubs for sport is highlighted in a TV sports show parody created by Engine Creative in one of their first campaigns under their new House 337 banner. The campaign was conceived for Keep The Ban - a non-profit organisation...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The job of a retoucher is far more complicated and exciting than just making exceptionally pretty people even prettier. Editing images and videos, or photographic retouching, helps the creative present his or her project in the best light...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
World mental health day has dawned on us once again and this year, things have never been bleaker for most of us. COVID might be in the rear-view mirror (for the most part) but with the war in Ukraine only getting more dangerous and catalysing even...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
One resource the world is not running short of right now is podcasts. Dip into Spotify and you can currently choose between 5.4 million of them. And yet we’re far from ‘Peak Podcast’, with big brands continuing to invest heavily in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Strange times provoke strange thoughts - not helped when the news is a constant barrage of mixed messages about how we’re all going to be doing economically in the next few years - and what’s bothering me is what kind of an economy are we...
Posted by: Richard
Pop culture and advertising have been walking hand-in-hand with varying degrees of success since ethe 1950s. In the latter half of the 20th century we saw brand and pop culture partnerships like Pepsi and Michael Jackson and Nestle and The Simpsons...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sparked by a post on a social media thread where you least likely find much that was meme-worthy*, @Rob Estreitinho had a nice graph illustrating the rise and fall of social sites ranked by the volume of the popular shortcut-to-the-heart-of-culture...
Posted by: Richard
Grant Paterson, Head of Gaming and eSports at Prism Wunderman Thompson, asks us to consider the implicit risks of the metaverse and whether or not regulation could be the answer. Imagine that you and your partner plan to buy a new car and travel to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
All entrepreneurs, more or less local business owners and young startup creators want to understand how to do corporate social media marketing. Because thanks to this combination of ideas, contents, strategies and interactions you can obtain concrete...
Posted by: Si3 Digital
As designers and developers increasingly build robust, app-like experiences into their websites, it’s no surprise that JavaScript use has proliferated across the web. It’s a client-side language that allows for many of the rich...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For many businesses, the purse strings have never been tighter. Not only did the pandemic squeeze budgets, but the subsequent cost-of-living crisis which many are now enduring - including rising energy prices, growing wages, and inflationary...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You are not the only one trying to keep your web host's IP address and domain name hidden from the public. No wonder, based on all the easy ways to find out who is hosting a website, including WHOIS (domain registration records), the payment methods...
Posted by: Anna Koretskaya
Car manufacturer Suzuki UK recently launched its new brand campaign, “Suzuki Good Different” to celebrate the perception that the brand and its cars are different from everything else on the market. The campaign was created by Iris and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Drew McMillan, Director of Internal Comms & Engagement for Deloitte UK, gives us his ‘top five’ ways to ensure copacetic success with your creative agencies. As a Comms professional of 25+ years, almost always working in-house and...
Posted by: Stocks Taylor Benson
We all like to feel like we belong. It’s a pretty fundamental human trait and it’s one that the world of advertising has known all too well for a very long time. But making someone feel like they belong to something isn’t the same...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Josh Green is the Boston-born, London-based Executive Creative Director at sports + culture agency Octagon and sister agency FRUKT. He leads the agency’s creative output across six European offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The world of marketing has graced us with countless unforgettable (albeit controversial) campaigns over the past decade spanning a range of industries, from fast food to male grooming and women’s health. Recently, women’s health brand...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hanging up on the wall in the office there are a whole bunch of stencils that interior designers and architects used to use daily when setting out plans on paper. There’s everything in these glorious little plastic worlds, from tables to...
Posted by: Richard
A little story: My son is at art school here in Shrewsbury, where they’ve recently had their end-of-year exhibition. During the event, he managed to get a commission and a sale. When asked for a price, he froze for a few seconds and then...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson