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“Whether you’re a business looking for more success or tasked with developing brands, having a clear focus will save you time, money and tears.” The team at TEN Creative has designed a handy infographic and guide to share. 1....
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It would appear that Yahoo are looking to beat AOL at their own game (welcome back to the late 90's!) with the $640 million acquisition of programmatic video-advertising platform BrightRoll. The deal, which is expected to close early next year, seeks...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Country darling turned stratospheric pop star Taylor Swift caused a minor uproar last week when she (or more accurately her record label) decided to pull her back catalogue from Spotify, including the new album “1989,” which is set to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Dapper Laughs isn't funny. He isn't not funny because he plays fast and loose with accepted standards of decency and respect towards women (although he does); nor because he uses infantile language in his 'routines' and 'pranks' (although he does...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
China will soon be the proud owners of the world's most secure computer network, meaning all communications between Shanghai and Beijing will be (theoretically at least) completely impenetrable to hackers, giving the fledgling superpower a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Annual Travelcards are a great deal for people working in London, the problem is unless you work for a mega-big corporation, they are too expensive for most. That is until we found the CommuterClub. With many things in life, paying in a lump sum...
Posted by: CommuterClub
He’s a film director whose credits include Erin Brokovich, Traffic, and Contagion but now Steven Soderbergh is trying his hand at launching a new alcohol brand. It took the Oscar-winner six years to get the Bolivian brandy that he claims...
Posted by: bluemarlin
The iconic and terrifying hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's seminal adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel “The Shining” has been spoofed in a pretty spot-on new 90-second ad for Swedish home furniture giants Ikea, just in time for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A former Karmarama employee has teamed up with the agency's current planning director Matt Sadler, creative chief Dave Buonaguidi, account director Will Waldron, financial controller Dale Michael, and creatives Stephen Cross and Simon Connor, to set...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Karmarama dropped out of the statutory review yesterday for the BBC's creative account, which is looking more lucrative than ever before following the recent ambitious BBC Music ad (created by Karmarama) featuring a host of celebrated artists...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a new ad for DirecTV, the American satellite TV provider and broadcaster, Rob Lowe stars as a man who is painfully awkward as he continues to give his reputation as a handsome, Hollywood heartthrob a run for its money following the already...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Over the weekend, popular picture messaging service Snapchat (which has been in the news of late due to the recent server hacks dubbed “The Snappening” by opportunistic perverts everywhere) revealed its first ads for US users, a move that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett has won back the Oasis account it previously held between 2006 and 2009 after a competitive, multi-agency pitch. The announcement, which is effective immediately, follows a four-month, multi-phased pitch process, in which Leo Burnett were...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Remember what a pain using a website used to be? Leaving aside the time it took for a page to load, which was often sufficiently long to allow a quick city break, it wasn't unusual to find the navigation wrongly linked, or the image files so large...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
To celebrate the climax of their “My Burger” campaign, McDonald's and Leo Burnett have unveiled a new TV ad, which will showcase the five winning burgers from the fast-food restaurant chain's ambitious crowdsourcing campaign. Each of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey made headlines when he agreed to star in the Netflix original series House of Cards-and then made even more headlines when the critically acclaimed show began winning Emmys and Golden Globes. Spacey was the...
Posted by: Publicis Sapient
We can't really go on like this. The alarming evolution of 'trolling' from pestering people online to the loss of life, has been eye-watering in its speed. The last week has seen a situation develop whereby a family whose daughter is missing, was...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was an amazing night last week at the BIMA awards. I was following @Frederiko live Tweets and my heart skipped a beat everytime there was one more win for our award's shelf. We have swept the board with five wins in total, including taking away...
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Last week, I talked about what a moany lot we are, taking to Twitter to complain about U2's Song Of Innocence landing unrequested in our global iTunes accounts - because really, there's nothing we like more than having a good whinge. As if by magic,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Here we go again. Yet another campaign for The National Lottery (TNL), and it stinks. This has been going on for years, of course. If you can stand to, cast your mind back to any TNL marketing, branding or advertising and tell me whether you can...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Illustrator Jaka Vukotič spent much of his time doing different drawings, illustrations, and cartoons, whilst growing up in a land transforming from socialist Yugoslavia to capitalist Slovenia. The radical socio-political shift from egalitarianism...
Posted by: Fotolia
We recently spoke to Christope Huet, the digital artist behind the fourth PSD, in series 3, of the TEN Collection (a collaboration project with 5 photographers, and 5 designers, from 10 different countries). Fotolia: Christophe, we’ve been...
Posted by: Fotolia
UK radio is in surprisingly good shape. As the first electronic media mankind ever enjoyed, we might reasonably expect it to have been overtaken or eradicated by something more futuristic. In fact, listening figures are pretty robust and, although...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
You're probably familiar with the magazine Private Eye. If not, you just need to know it's the longest running satirical publication in the UK (maybe the world), is edited by Ian Hislop from 'Have I Got News For You', and is still remarkably fresh,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Embrace constant change, keep it new and tell dramatic stories. Freddie Baveystock, our Strategy Director, explains how brands can remain fresh as featured in The Guardian. The ever-changing competition between which brands are hot and which are not...
Posted by: Rufus Leonard
If you have a Facebook account, which most of you probably do, you can't have failed to notice your friends and family lobbing buckets of ice water over their heads for the past few weeks. Maybe you've taken part in the stunt yourself, much to the...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Last week the California-based direct response advertising agency announces expansion by their new office in Nashville, Tennessee. The Creative Direct Marketing Group (CDMG) is a full-service direct response and digital advertising agency with...
Posted by: Creativepool
The full-service, Floridian marketing agency BMI Elite, recently decided to arrange a company-wide Ice Bucket Challenge earlier this week, raising over $3000 for the ALS Association in the process. The Ice Bucket Challenge is the latest 'nomination'...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Most freelancers think that 'customer retention' and 'brand loyalty' are just terms that get thrown around by marketers and don't apply to them. But no matter how small the business in question may be, customer retention is always relevant. In fact,...
Posted by: Copywriting Is Art
Regular readers of the Creativepool blog will know that, although I am no artist, I like nothing more than to spend several hours at an exhibition, having a good moan. True, I don't need to be in an exhibition to do that; Ed Reardon lives - he's 42...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
The other day, a friend asked me to proofread their covering letter for a job they were going for. And before you go all Stephen Fry on me and ask who the hell I am to proofread other people’s work when I end a sentence with a preposition,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
We had the chance to speak to Italian Fotolia Contributor Danilo Sanino to ask him about his signature of illustration which is extremely popular, having found the target market for his work as well as his equation for success whilst still enjoying...
Posted by: Fotolia
McKinney announced recently that the SPENT game they produced back in 2011 for the Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD) can now be played on smartphone and tablet devices. The game has been played more than 4 million times by over 2 million people in 218...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hello, my name is Denis Voronin, I'm 27 years old , I have a beautiful wife and two cool children, a son and a daughter. I was born and live in Russia and I think in the future and I will stay in Russia.I started working with Fotolia at the beginning...
Posted by: Fotolia
Afiat Sukmaraga's positivity; in his personality and his illustrations is infectious. Not only will his interview, as part of our 'Unstock' series, make you smile from ear to ear but so will his witty, artistic creations. We spoke to him to find out...
Posted by: Fotolia
Spaghetti hoops, luxury cars, whisky, compact discs, bleach - if you can think of it, somebody has advertised it. And that's fair enough. As long as it's legal, any producer of a service or product has the right to attempt to persuade us to buy it;...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw