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The one of pitching is an interesting business. On one hand, we love the thrill that comes before winning a new account/client. Agencies thrive in that addictive spiral of pitch, win, repeat - and same goes for freelancers. From the perspective of a...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
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
A year of remote working has forced many to re-channel their resources to the online environment - including the pitching progress. As pitching moved out of meeting rooms and into a virtual screen, agencies have found ways to perfect their approach...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Recently I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed. The experience was not dissimilar to the free pitches I've taken part in; horribly painful but unavoidable. And afterwards you feel you've left a little piece of yourself behind... Free pitching,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Stephen Izatt, MD at brand consultancy Thinkfarm, looks at why the pitching process is a broken, expensive drain on the creative sector - and makes the call for change. Branding agencies and consultancies like ours constantly face a barrage of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Fake it until you make it” is a common adage in the creative industries but never before has it rang so true as with the spoof ad agency created to satirise the notoriously amoral oil and gas company Saudi Aramco. Climate collective...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Based in North East England, Wonderstuff is a wonderfully ambitious branding agency with a great heart, committed to making each client's journey unique. Wonderstuff does not pitch. The team has been expanding solely through referrals and word of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Live & Breathe is an independent and progressive agency of 75 people based in the UK with global reach that believe collaboration is everything. It’s where they get their name from - by living & breathing their clients’ business needs for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Times have changed since the halcyon days of Mad Men. Many agencies are established enough that they rarely (if ever) need to go through the traditional pitching process. For smaller agencies, however, or for situations where a brand is the belle of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Lime Creative is a boutique communication agency offering large agency experience, specialising in the luxury lifestyle, with offices in London and Beijing and partners around the world. With a team made up of designers, writers, developers and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? As the head of a brand experience agency, it's a blend of jumping into new business meetings, hashing out creative strategies for ongoing projects, and throwing in some...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Yard Creative is an award-winning evidential design studio based in London Bridge that offers research, strategy and design (branding, digital environments and physical spaces). They are a self-described “team of creative catalysts”...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was about 10 years ago when Tom Readdy founded Yes Please Productions with his partner, Lucy. Since then, much has changed - but their joint ambition has remained exactly the same. Both music obsessives and absolutely in love with consuming...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a concept, experiential marketing is all about taking risks and doing whatever it takes to create a bond between the consumer and the brand. An experience, after all, can be a thousand different things to a million different people but it’s...
Posted by: Creativepool
The world of advertising does not work the way it does in Mad Men. Or at least, it doesn’t anymore. Indeed, it is often argued in some corners that a lot of the ‘old-school’ romance of the industry has been eradicated by decades of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It is always Pitch Season for a busy and established agency. It is an excellent occasion to gain some prospective clients, or even some leads to develop the future of the business. Whoever’s been in the game for long enough knows that brands...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
After a long-standing relationship with GPY&R, Cricket Australia has handed the reigns of its creative account over to M&C Saatchi Melbourne, who won the account following a four-way pitch, by leveraging the specific expertise of its sister agency,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I once worked with an Art Director who had just arrived in the UK from a stint at Leo Burnett in Venezuela. As well as alarming tales of armed guards outside his office, he told me this: when pitching, it was usual practice for the agencies involved...
Posted by: Creativepool
In the heart of West London, where the vibrant streets of Portobello Road buzz with energy, a creative force was born amidst the challenges of a global pandemic. Myth Studio, founded by seasoned animator James Finlay, quickly became a beacon of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Wonderworks Communications, co-founded by Sarah Wildman-King and Miranda Hart, is a creative powerhouse dedicated exclusively to the drinks industry. From their humble beginnings in 2014, born out of a shared passion for premium drinks, to becoming a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Ashley Kohler, the visionary Founder and Executive Producer of Awesome Inc, a dynamic production company based in Atlanta. Since its inception in 2006, Awesome Inc has evolved from a short-form commercial...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In today’s fast-paced, media-driven world, maintaining a positive public image is more crucial than ever for any business. This is where a Public Relations (PR) manager comes in. Whether you're a startup aiming to make a mark or an established...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In an era marked by rapid change and unprecedented challenges, LONDON Advertising stands as a beacon of resilience and creativity. Founded in Soho, London, in November 2008, just two weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the company faced the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A creative, concept driven animation studio specialising in multimedia motion for all digital mediums, from interactive web to full commercial campaigns. Ticktockrobot is a completely remote operation with bags of potential. We caught up with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we sat down with Martin MacConnol, Founder and CEO at the Covent Garden-based creative agency Wardour. How was your company born and where are you based? We began life as a content marketing agency on Wardour Street, Soho, in 1996 - the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gueriilla Communications is a creative integrated agency that enjoys what they do and like to have fun with the people they work with. The clue is very much in the name. To learn more about the defiantly northern agency, we spoke to James Allen,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
England and Chelsea footballer, Raheem Sterling, and industry icon and music video director, Carly Cussen, recently launched their own creative production agency - Playmaker Films. Sterling and Cussen have a track record of working together to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Marco Vitali, Managing Partner at Sonic Lens Agency, is something of a renaissance man. A musical prodigy and marketing specialist that has mastered both sides of his brain and cultivated a career as one of the foremost voices in sonic...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we’re heading across the pond to speak to David Bernstein, Chief Creative Officer at The Gate NY. How was your company born and where are you based? Our company was born 151 years ago. And while its name and ownership has changed a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Here’s a question: how did you decide whether to run things as a freelancer or a design studio? This is something I’ve often pondered, and the subject was raised again recently by a friend of mine, where we discussed the pros and cons of...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson
This week, we’re talking to Milton Lebron, Co-founder & Executive Creative Director at Might & Matter, a relatively young agency based in Miami, Florida that are looking to establish meaningful connections that go beyond mere...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How was your company born and where are you based? We began our journey 11 years ago as a typical photography post-production company. However, we soon realized that the world of CGI offered incredible opportunities for creativity and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Stormy Studio is an award-winning business-focused animation studio in the UK that produces high-quality 2D and 3D business explainers and marketing animation for global brands and businesses. To learn more, we spoke to company founder and creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on the London-based Documentary Production company, Candour. We spoke with Co-founder and producer Zachary Crawley on the studio’s humble beginnings and its current status as a defiantly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
