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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
Live from the Advertising Week Europe #AWEurope Underground Stage Monday 23rd March 09:00 AM LIVE WITH THE ROUNDHOUSE 10:00 AM PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF MEDIA 11:00 AM HOW TO WIN BRANDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE: WHY SOCIAL INFLUENCERS ARE...
Posted by: Advertising Week
CP+B Former TBWA\Chiat Day CD Gustavo Sarkis, was appointed this week as executive creative director of CP+B Miami, where he'll lead creative on all accounts. The native Brazilian began his career in advertising at Almap/BBDO São Paulo where he...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I don't know about you, but I for one have always thought that if there was one thing the London skyline needed, it was another building shaped like a foodstuff. Well, it would appear my prayers have been answered, as after a six-year hiatus, the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Publicis Groupe announced yesterday the acquisition of the real-time data-driven digital ad firm RUN, an acquisition very much in line with the group's plan to earn 50% of its revenue from digital by 2018 (at the time of writing, the figure...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
CBGB was founded on the Bowery in New York City by Hilly Kristal in 1973. The New York music venue became a forum for American punk and new wave bands such as the Ramones, Television and Patti Smith Group. In 2013, the former location of CBGB was...
Posted by: Creativepool
Last week Twitter launched the Buy Button which is a new way for users to discover and buy products on Twitter. The new tool will make shopping from mobile devices convenient and easy and provides sellers with a new way to turn the direct...
Posted by: Creativepool
The new campaign from AMV BBDO for the UK's largest electrical retailing and services company, Currys and PC World, takes a clever approach, examining the kind of subtle and not-so-subtle manipulations our partners occasionally make in order to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If you're the worlds largest online retailer, you take hoarding to a whole new level! Especially when you have over 137 million customers per week and a GDP larger than half of the countries in the world. If you need that last minute gift or a new...
Posted by: Creativepool
You have just under two weeks to get down to the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens to see this year’s Pavilion, designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. Over the years, the Serpentine Gallery has...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Whilst scouting about for juicy fodder for this week's blog I came across so many exciting new things happening in the world of art and design I have decided to dump ten of the best bits onto your screens. It must be the weather, a burst of...
Posted by: Creativepool
The old adage asserts, 'Word of mouth is the best advertising'. And there's a lot of truth in that. When a satisfied customer recommends a product or service to a potential customer, a form of potent and cost-free advertising has taken place and it's...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Ashley Morrison Last week, I was watching some film or other on TV with a few friends. Naturally, we engaged in some pseudo hoity-toity rah-rah intellectual badinage about such-and-such a character’s motivation during the ad breaks. That...
Posted by: Creativepool
By Jessica Hazel Despite the dodgy Savile parodies, Jim'll Paint It is the most exciting new thing on Tumblr. A couple of weeks ago, Jim came up with a novel way of filling up his lunch breaks, he asked friends for requests for things to draw and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Website: pillarboxpost.com When did you start out blogging? I started blogging just over 3 years ago in the summer of 2009...which happened to be about 3 years after I resolved to start a blog! How did you choose your blog name? One of the (many)...
Posted by: Creativepool
What is the work like? Writers produce works of fiction and non-fiction. They may work on: novels short stories poetry scripts for radio, TV, film or theatre non-fiction books newspaper and magazine articles, from news and features to opinion...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain After a two-year post-graduate course at The Royal College of Art, the young architect/designer named Heatherwick didn't think twice about his career path. Directly after graduating in 1994, he founded his studio and burst almost...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain Open on a young blond actress laughing and full of fun. She flicks a strand of falling hair away from her face and looks deep into the camera. With a knowing smile she says, "I'm good about washing my face" and then with a pause...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Ashley Morrison Good old Yellow Pages. There was something rather comforting about those adverts, about the fact that good old Yellow Pages is not just there for that leaky roof. Or for the warm and fluffy things in life: the boy who bought his...
Posted by: Creativepool
Tell us what you do for a living and who you work for? Head of Design, Future Media and Technology at Channel 4 Television. What does that involve? I'm responsible for designing the Interface user experience on Channel 4's New Media platforms. I...
Posted by: Creativepool
I've always been a huge admirer of The Big Issue. Not only is it a thumping good read, its purpose is both uplifting and completely unique. It strikes me that handouts, while obviously helpful in the very short term, rarely address the problems which...
Posted by: Creativepool
