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When Vicki Maguire became the first ever female President of advertising awards and education body The Creative Circle last year, her mission was straightforward: to disrupt this ‘pale, male, stale’ industry and to bring in more...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With Donald J. Trump set to claim the mantle of “World's Most Powerful Man” this afternoon, I thought it was about time to start laughing through the tears. So, instead of pontificating on the dark days ahead when the real estate tycoon,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mass shootings are, unfortunately, becoming all too common in the United States (Mass Shooting Tracker: 371 recorded in 2015; 403 as of November 1st 2016). In fact, during his tenure, President Barack Obama has formally addressed the nation on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with jones knowles ritchie, supported by Cogs Agency and with production support by 90...
Posted by: Creativepool
Creativepool worked in collaboration with friends from Brightmove Media, production support by Ground Control and music by Tin Drum Music for the second series of The Black Cab Interviews in London. In the back of a signature London black cab,...
Posted by: Creativepool
D&AD, the London based global design & advertising awards and creative education charity, has announced the launch of an all new edition of their prestigious awards show in partnership with Stillwell Partners, producers of the global Advertising Week...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brian Collins, chief creative officer and co-founder of the Collins brand consultancy, has been named as the Design and Package Design Jury President for the 2015 London International Awards (LIA). He joins an esteemed panel, which will consist of a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced yesterday that Paul Roebuck will return to BBDO as executive vice president and worldwide senior business director with oversight of the agency’s Johnson & Johnson consumer business at the BBDO headquarters in New York. This is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann Worldgroup announced yesterday that Devika Bulchandani has been promoted to the role of president at McCann XBC, the shop formed in 2012 as an agency dedicated to MasterCard, one of McCann's biggest clients. Bulchandani will be succeeding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Qorvis MSLGROUP, the Publicis Groupe's strategic communications and engagement group, has named Colleen Wilber as its new vice president. Wilber is renowned as one of the best media professionals in the business, with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Will my work get seen by the "right" people is a key question when deciding on whether or not to enter any award. As a part of our commitment to making The Annual the "Most Award" we make sure that your entries are delivered to, and downloaded by,...
Posted by: Creativepool
As we all know, the creative industries thrive on the principles of diversity, open expression, and global collaboration. These are not principles even the most ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump would ever align him with and with the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Valentine’s Day is a holiday beloved by few. For many of us, it’s little more than a cynical stopping gap between Christmas and Easter to claw at our pockets. There appears to be a disconnect, however, between how much we care about...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With 20 years of experience leading innovative technology projects for companies like R/GA, Havas and Huge, teaching as adjunct professor at NYU and Parsons, and serving as jury president at the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity, Marc...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the year starts to wind down and we take stock of what we achieved (or didn’t achieve) over the last 12 months, it’s only natural to start asking what we’d have done differently if we could do it all over again. Well, thankfully...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For a very special company spotlight feature this week, we sat down with Bickerstaff CEO Veronika Selega, Creative Director Ilia Anufrienko and Senior Copywriter Andrii Bezliudnyi to discuss the challenges of working in war time and how creativity...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On average, an adult spends approximately 132 hours per year looking at menus online before deciding what to eat, resulting in indecision that often leads to making the wrong choice. According to a recent study, the conscious mind can only process...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s company spotlight, we spoke to Brendan McKenna, Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director at Hawkeye, a Publicis company. How was your company born and where are you based? Hawkeye is actually an amalgam of multiple...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AI has the potential to change our world beyond recognition. For example, the AI generated picture of the pope in the puffer jacket going viral looked pretty realistic - didn’t it? Or how about the images of Donald Trump being arrested in New...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
By Alex Jenkins, Editorial Director at Contagious. It feels like the last twelve months has seen the ad industry stuck in a creative recession. As someone who’s monitored the output of the global ad industry for over a decade, I can’t...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To launch the eagerly awaited fourth installment in Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series, B-Reel has revealed its new campaign daring gamers to taste something no one on earth has ever tried before: a Demon Meat Shake. After the open Beta...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Every year, as Q4 draws to a close, we scan the luxury futurescape for up-and-coming markets and macro trends that we believe expose the crucial spaces top brands need to innovate within over the coming year and well into the PCE (post-COVID era). A...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
In 2020, Vault49 Co-Founder John Glasgow was invited to speak at the Pentawards Festival and joined the international awards jury. At the beginning of 2023, John was appointed Co-President of the jury, and the Vault49 team was asked to be Pentawards'...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s behind the idea feature, we’re focusing on a playful little campaign from leading pet care brand Hartz and their creative and media agency of record, Cutwater for Delectables, the wet cat treats. The "Deliciously...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There is increasing pressure on the retail sector during the peak holiday season, commencing with Singles Day and Black Friday in November and ending with the January sales. With the busiest time of the year for planning holiday marketing campaigns...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Now that we’re almost a week into the new year, the trend pieces are coming thick and fast. To gather a more agency-wide perspective of what’s in store for us this year, however, we spoke to one agency specifically to gather their...
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
In 2004, a Guardian article highlighted a new, innovative medium that stood out through “the intimacy of voice” paired with “interactivity (…) convenience and portability”. The journalist Ben Hammersley was talking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Plant-based snack brand Harvest Snaps and digital creative agency of record Cutwater have teamed together to bring to life a music-driven TikTok branded effect designed for college students throughout the US. The branded effect, entitled “Snap...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The launch of Apple’s ATT framework has impacted mobile marketers’ access to user-level data. To navigate this change, they need new tactics and mentalities. Drawing inspiration from brand examples, Gal Ekstein, President and GM at AppsFlyer,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design guru. Master mediator. Highly skilled multitasker and delegator. A good Creative Director is all these things and more. They are the calm head on top of the creative shoulders that bring focus and identity to a company. They are, in essence,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When Queen Elizabeth II took the throne, even my parents had yet to be born. She was the longest serving monarch in history and it appears unlikely that will ever again be contested so when the news stuck yesterday evening, a definite shockwave was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Gillette Venus from P&G has launched its latest salvo from Grey New York to de-stigmatize pubic hair. This month it premiered the song “It’s Time to Care (For Your Pubic Hair)” featuring female rapper Princess Nokia. The brand...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been almost two months since the first ‘proper’ Cannes Lions in over two years and the dust has only just now begun to settle. The general consensus is that it wasn’t exactly a festival for the ages but it was at least a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Creative agency ico Design was recently tasked with bringing niche fragrance brand Commodity into the mainstream by amplifying a new core product philosophy to appeal to a global audience. It first started by addressing what the brand stood for,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The average brand spends millions of dollars on marketing every year. For the big global brands, it's billions. "Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half" - US retail magnate John Wanamaker (1838-1922). These...
Posted by: Matt Batten