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Account Wins of the Week

Mother - Atom Atom, the digital App based bank that’s set to launch later this year, has asked Mother, the world’s largest independent marketing agency to be their strategic creative partner. The partnership is the result of a...

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Glastonbury 2015 in Design

As a self proclaimed 'festival veteran' I like to think I've seen it all. I've seen 50 Cent pelted to within an inch of his life with piss, I've seen grown men weep into their lukewarm lagers as Radiohead finally give in and play Creep after almost a...

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Cannes Lions Winners: Day 3

Leo Burnett Leo Burnett Worldwide won 10 Lions in total across the Cyber and Design categories yesterday, bringing its total award count to 54. Leo Burnett Buenos Aires won a Gold Lion in the Cyber category for the Samsung “Safety Truck”...

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The Week In Tech

With E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) launching tomorrow, we're taking a look at some news before the big announcements from the gaming giants come out. E3 is a conference dedicated to computer, video and mobile games (and their related products)....

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Gyro Gyro London has appointed David Harris as Executive Creative Director. Teamed with the strong leadership of Gyro London Managing Director Kate Howe, Harris will help to intensify gyro’s growing presence as a business-to-business...

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Apple Whilst not technically an Ad Land related news piece, this one is big enough news that we thought it was pertinent to at least include it somewhere. Sir Jonathan “Jony” Ive has been promoted to the newly created role of chief...

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Rankin's climactic new film for Coco De Mer is definitely NSFW

“Sex sells” is a cliché so run into the ground it's probably as old as advertising itself, but that doesn't make it any less true, and it doesn't mean that there are not still a few creative masterminds out there who are ready to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Publicis London Publicis London has hired Phil Dowgierd as managing director of digital as part of its ongoing commitment to champion creative leadership and excellence within Publicis UK. Dowgierd joins from Tribal Worldwide Sydney where he was...

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Watch Jean Claude Van Damme get 'Fripples'

When Jean Claude Van Damme took distressed denim to the dance-floor last year, a legend was born. This time round, it’s the audiences turn to bust a move. In the latest social activation campaign from Coors Light and VCCP, we see JCVD “Do...

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Dinosaurs and Coffee are a dangerous mix

When you think of coffee, what associations do you tend to make off the top of your head? Breakfast? Starbuck? Dinosaurs? That last one might have caught you off guard, but apparently it's what Publicis London had in mind when they were putting...

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Would you buy a magazine printed with HIV+ Blood?

The current edition of an Austrian magazine has been printed with the blood of HIV+ subjects in an effort to help raise awareness of the frequently misunderstood condition. All 3,000 copies of the Spring issue of Vangardist, a “Preogressive mens...

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The fourth is strong with this one

It might have been Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK yesterday (be honest, how many of you spent it either nursing the mother of all hangovers or doing the gardening?), and the royal birth might have been the news story with the most traction, but...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Hires of the Week

18 Feet & Rising 18 Feet & Rising bolsters its management line up by bringing in Brad Fairhead as partner, with a remit to further build 18 Feet & Rising’s work in the more progressive areas of communications. Fairhead has 20 years experience...

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Donate to charity in your sleep with Surfify

A new campaign for the SurfAid charity organisation from BWM Dentsu encourages people to literally make a donation in their sleep. The organisation, which works hand-in-hand with the communities of Western Sumatra, Sumbawa and Sumba in the Mentawai...

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Hires of the Week

Odysseus Arms Independent ad agency Odysseus Arms welcomed Eric Dunn to the newly created role of Managing Director this week. He will be responsible for expanding the operation, refining client services and steering digital architecture. Dunn is a...

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A Day in the Life of a jelly Illustrator

Jo Bird loves scribbling and scrawling. She is best known for her intriguing wall murals, and has worked with the likes of Visa, Hyundai, Oxfam, French Connection, Chanel, Rankin, Sipsmith and Harrod’s. Jo recently produced some gorgeous...

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King's Cross asks the public for a little help

The King's Cross area of central London is currently in the midst of an incredible redevelopment that is seeing the area known for heavy industrial use for over 150 years being transformed into a vibrant new city quarter with new homes, shopping,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

2015 Annual Launch Party

On 26th March, Creativepool will be hosting the Annual launch party at the cool offices of Mother London. We can’t wait for this exclusive gathering of the shortlisted companies and individuals, the panel of judges, and our sponsors where we'll...

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Preparing for Launch: Launches of the Week

KBS Shanghai KBS officially opened its doors in Shanghai this week, marking its formal entry into the Chinese market. The new office is led by Douglas Lin, partner and CEO, and Jonathan Ip, partner and chief creative officer. KBS has already begun...

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Nerdy humour reaches its logical conclusion

Now, I'm no coder. In fact I regularly struggle with the most basic lines of HTML, so CSS is so far beyond my wheelhouse it might as well be on another planet. I do appreciate clever humour though, especially when it's delivered with a knowing wink....

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Hires of the Week: Part 1

BMF Nicole Hetherington and Simon Fowler, the award-winning creative duo, joined the BMF creative department. The Kiwi team moved to Sydney five years ago after winning New Zealand Young Lions competition, and have since created unique and effective...

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There's nothing fast about super-fast broadband

“Superfast broadband is much faster and more reliable than standard broadband. It lets you make video calls, do homework online and stream music, all at much higher speeds - and all at the same time.” That’s what the Government...

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Business Roundup

TGI Fridays American restaurant chain TGI Fridays has chosen two agencies to manage all of its future digital marketing efforts. Made Movement will become the company’s new digital, creative & technology agency of record and will be...

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Saatchi & Saatchi earn themselves some Goodwill

Goodwill and the Ad Council have teamed up to launch a series of new public service advertisements (or PSAs) revealing how clothing and household items donated to Goodwill have helped, and will continue to help, people in the US struggling to find...

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Your Work Here: The Annual 2016 Submissions are now open!

2015 is slowly winding down as the weather appears to be doing likewise, which means it's time for the industry to cast its sights on the new year. It's also that busy time of year where we start to collate all the best work for the Creativepool...

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Behind the scenes with the latest celebrity cat Malcolm

In its first TV campaign for Young's Seafood since winning the account last Summer, Quiet Storm has hired Shakespeare in Love and Shrek star Rupert Everett to voice a fish-obsessed cat called Malcolm. The multi-million pound campaign hopes to...

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Grey takes home the bling

After a comprehensive, integrated review that also included Young & Rubicam and JWT, Grey New York, the global advertising network's flagship agency, announced yesterday that it has been selected as the advertising agency-of-record for Pandora, the...

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The Week In Advertising

Compare The Market: Meerkats On Safari Try as I might, I still can't bring myself to dislike the meerkats. The campaign has been running so long, it should have run out of steam, but when Alexander tells Oleg (you see, I even know their names) he's...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Stella Artois Give Beautifully this Christmas

Stella Artois is a brand that likes to go big at Christmas. This could very well be because the internationally beloved lager was first created for the holiday season as a gift to the people of Leuven in Belgium, or it could be because the origins of...

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FedEx and AMV/BBDO heat up China

FedEx, the American global courier delivery service, is looking to bolster interest in its UK division with a new film featuring the famed Nevisian hot sauce maker Llewellyn Clarke, whose “Hot Pepper Sauce,” is shown travelling from the...

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What do Lionel Messi and Neil Patrick Harris have in common?

The answer to the headline question is simple; they both appear in groundbreaking new campaigns, with one starring in a campaign for an international airline, and the other starring in a campaign for a 90-year-old fashion brand. Neil Patrick Harris,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Happy Halloween! Getting spooky in Shoreditch's Haunted House

Celebrities in London's Shoreditch (Jack The Ripper Territory) recently got scared out of their wits by O2 thanks to a unique haunted house, which VCCP Kin created as part of the brand's “Connected Devices” campaign. Reality TV stars...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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CP+B go to Infiniti and beyond

Following a lengthy pitch that also involved competitors such as BBH, GS&P and Anomaly, Crispin Porter + Bogusky won the global creative account for Infiniti, the luxury car division of the Nissan Motor Company. Media will continue to be handled by...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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VivaKi sponsor original AOL On Network shows

VivaKi has been announced as the exclusive advertising partner of four new AOL Originals shows that will be available exclusively through the AOL On network in the UK and across AOL owned publishers and sites such as The Huffington Post, Engadget and...

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Design your own “Monster Hunting” experience this Halloween

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...

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Hollywood stars lend their voices to Nature

TBWA Media Arts Lab recently launched a star-studded new campaign called “Nature Is Speaking” for Conservation International (CI), the nonprofit environmental organisation based in Arlington, Virginia. The bold and cinematic ads, which...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns

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