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At the New York Festivals ceremony held last Thursday night at the New York Public Library's Beaux-Arts building, BBDO Worldwide was named Network of the Year, marking the 5th time in 7 years the advertising network has received this honour, and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was revealed yesterday that DigitasLBi will be partnering with Buzzfeed and Epic Digital in developing digital branded content. The first step will involve DigitasLBi and Buzzfeed working together to create “Buzzfeed in Residence,” a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Late last year, a picture of Cheryl Cole appeared on the internet and in various newspapers. Nothing particularly odd about that; Ms. Cole is a constant media fixture. Only this picture, which she had released herself, was of her backside, newly...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The battle for talent between WPP and their rivals Publicis and Omnicom (who will soon be merging) continues apace as the Publicis Group's 'Razorfish' (a full service digital agency based in New York) announced they had poached WPP MediaCom's head of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Finally, after many years of procrastination, I'm writing a novel. A lot of people apparently feel that they “have a novel in them”, but I've taken the plunge and I'm actually doing it. Yay, me. Mind you, as I say, it took me a long...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
It was announced yesterday that DLKW Lowe has hired Lovisa Silburn and Amber Casey to be the new creative directors of the agency. Silburn and Casey have worked together before at DDB, where they first met back in 2002 and became long-term friends,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Easter, eh? Not as big as Christmas, and yet more substantial than Pancake Day. Still, a very good time to slow down and kick back. Here's what you'll need: some high-quality family members or friends, and small amounts of chocolate crafted to look...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Yesterday, Ogilvy & Mather New Zealand released a new video, which officially announced the launch of Neo@Ogilvy, the agencies brand new digital division in Auckland. The cutting-edge agency (which is part of a global network that consists of over 40...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When it comes to the minutiae of modern life, I'm prone to getting things wrong. Go to the shop, come back with the wrong size batteries; turn up for an event on the wrong day; forget to put the clocks back - all that sort of thing, hopeless. But on...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Leo Burnett announced yesterday that Nigel Tribe had been appointed as head of strategy for Leo Burnett Singapore and global planning director for SKII. This appointment comes hot on the heels of not only some major recent wins for the agency...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yet another reality show came to an end last week, with Jermain Jackman being crowned king on The Voice. But these public competitions - from singing to cooking to interior designing to baking to skating - are nothing new. Did you know, for instance,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
It's been announced that Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, the full service integrated creative agency of choice for the Great Britain tourism board campaign, has won the account of yet another esteemed British institution. The agency won the brief...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week saw Sir John Heggarty proclaiming most modern advertising to be sh*t. Perhaps there's something in the bracing Spring air, because this week ITV's commercial boss Simon Daglish has warned brands that '90% of content is crap'. Some livewires...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
AOL announced at a technology conference in California on Wednesday that their advertising business was to get a major overhaul in the shape of 'One by AOL'; an ad platform which unites all ad campaigns (including video, desktop and mobile) under one...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As part of its ongoing 'Unbelievable' campaign for Pepsi Max, AMV BBDO, OMD UK and Talon Outdoor recently took to the streets of London to surprise the locals with aliens, robots, tigers and more besides. PepsiCo rigged a London bus stop with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DDB Group Sydney announced today that Phil Dowgierd has been appointed as managing director for Tribal Worldwide Sydney. Dowgierd moves to the DDB Group from AKQA, where he led a group of 60 individuals focusing on the global platform development,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After hundreds of thousands of pitches, to hundreds of thousands of clients, you'd the think the creative industry would have the process off pat. Sheer statistics would suggest pitching has now reached critical mass, a point whereby every...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The 'Radio Advertising Bureau' has recently announced the results of their 'RadioGauge' from the latter half of 2013. The RAB's bespoke tool tests campaigns throughout the year against 11 statements which match the 5 'creative Ls' which are...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Back in the eighties, I worked for a radio station which ran a campaign for a double glazing firm. This campaign never actually ended. Like those sofa sales, it just continued year in, year out. The ads were very straightforward, consisting of little...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Right now, the SXSW music festival is in full flow in Austin Texas. What's more, I believe Creativepool's glorious leader Mike Tomes is there, doing his funky thing. Anyway, following the event on Twitter, I noticed someone reporting a bearded fellow...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Global advertising agency JWT will this year be celebrating a landmark anniversary. 150 years ago on the 5th of December 1864, William James Carlton opened 'Carlton & Smith' as a newspaper space brokerage. 14 years later, James Walter Thompson (the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Recently, I spotted something of interest on the site of a firm of creative recruitment consultants. Clicking through to their 'contact us' page, I was pleased to notice a statement declaring their belief in common courtesy, backed with a promise to...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
With our growing decency on smart phones to check everything from our emails and breaking news to the progress we're making with our exercise routines, it seems almost natural that we should also be using our smart phones to check in on our loved...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What's the story behind you joining WCRS? Ross Neil and I got our break at HHCL in the last days of a truly great and innovative agency. A collection of original people who didn't quite fit in elsewhere in the industry. We’ve always been...
Posted by: House 337
Do you remember Cait Reilly? She was the graduate who brought a legal case against the government after she was forced to abandon her voluntary work with a museum, and replace it with unpaid 'work experience' at Poundland. Both situations allowed her...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I remember when all this were fields. And young people had respect for their elders. And dash it all, people spoke English PROPERLY in my day! Yes, I’m sure we’ve all heard the same old rant - if not from grandparents then from the old...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Yesterday was 'Internet Safety Day'. Which pretty much proves the pointlessness of things having days dedicated to them. Unless the internet was substantially and provably safer for the entirety of 11th February 2014, or yesterday marked the point...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Bray Leino’s new anti-smoking campaign “Be There Tomorrow”, for the public funded body Smokefree South West, airs this week (Monday 10 Feb) across TV, Radio and Outdoor, striking a much darker tone than previous campaigns. The New...
Posted by: Bray Leino
Last night during the broadcast of ITV's 'Dancing On Ice', viewers might have been more than a little surprised to see a brace of their favourite adverts reimagined as stop-motion Lego animations. This marks the first time in history that an entire...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 1999 a website called Napster appeared on the internet. With little in the way of its own content, and certainly no means nor intention of producing or releasing music, it set a ball rolling that in 2013 tumbled most of HMV’s high street...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
If I started a blog by telling you that I was thinking about buying a treadmill, you may well click away in anticipated boredom. But the fact remains, I’m seriously considering buying a treadmill. There, I said it. So what? Well, quite. Of...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
I've always loved advertising headlines. Long before I embarked on a copywriting career, I'd amuse myself by creating new versions of lines I saw in magazines or tube trains. Even as a kid, my mum (an English teacher) would point out headlines she...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Growing up in the '80s, there were only four TV channels. Consequently, when we got to school, it was a pretty safe bet that we had all watched the same telly as everyone else the night before. So in the playground of a morning, we would all run...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Inspired by Yale School of Management’s reinvention of business school education and pioneering integrated curriculum, the new Edward P. Evans Hall combines world-class teaching facilities with inspirational social spaces. The design unites...
Posted by: Foster + Partners
So it’s 2014 and you’re on a quest to land a new job at a brilliant agency. But how do you make sure you stand out from the hundreds of people doing exactly the same? Our Creative Director, Martin Homent, shares his tips and insight into...
Posted by: Tribe Marketing
Tell us a bit about you Wesley... I began working in the creative industry in 1998 after studying at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths. Early on I specialised in digital and was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to ride the...
Posted by: Reading Room