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Amidst all the heavily unexpected things that happened when 2020 hit, a sudden push for smart and remote working was certainly one of the most prominent. Overnight, hordes of workers were forced to move from the office to the comfort of their own...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Global music streamer Spotify has become the new sponsor of London-based brand and ad agency Mellor&Smith’s bi-weekly podcast series. TFR: The Podcast features interviews with a host of professionals who have pushed boundaries by taking risks...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Danone Light & Free is joining forces with Spotify for a year-long partnership to build connections between the Greek-style yoghurt brand and music fans. Spotify has partnered with the brand to offer unique music prizes throughout 2017 where an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The ubiquitous music streaming service Spotify is abandoning its trademark black and green for a bold redesign, which will see the brand injected with colour. The look was designed by the New York-based consultancy, Collins, and adds a number of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Uber is the revolutionary taxi service that's taken the US by storm and is set to make a similar impression over here as it moves into its third English City; Leeds, following successful debuts in London and Manchester. The Uber technology platform...
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
I've written before on the clumsiness and general lack of bite of the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) and this week sees them back in action, in hot pursuit of Spotify. It seems the music streaming site recently threw out an email to selected...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I used to live at the Elephant & Castle in south London. Surprisingly, given its rather 'gritty' character, this made people somewhat envious. Not because of the bright pink shopping centre, but because my flat was just a street away from the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
I'll be the first to admit it: from time to time, my blog posts can border on the vitriolic. But I flatter myself that, when I do let loose and turn the air puce, I'm only saying what quite a lot of people are already thinking. Such was the case a...
Posted by: Creativepool
In today's hypercompetitive digital landscape, brands are constantly seeking innovative ways to stand out and connect with their target audiences on social media platforms. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), a game-changing technology that is...
Posted by: The PHA Group
Dave Anderson is an animator, illustrator and storyboard artist born in Wales, and currently based in Barcelona, who has for over a decade has been helping even the most uptight organisation find their funny. In recent years he’s directed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If the recent Willy Wonka spectacle taught us anything it’s that relying too heavily on AI for anything at this point is a fool’s errand. However, while there are significant drawbacks to using too much AI in a creative capacity, when it...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? An opportunity came up when we were hired by an agency to tackle a challenge deemed impossible by a competitor. The task was to execute an Augmented Reality for Web campaign (without the need to download an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week we spoke to Luke Brown, Composer & Sound Designer at The Soundery, a music and sound design studio that specialises in cooking up "tasty noises for visual media." How was your company born and where are you based? The Soundery is a duo,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Official Charts Company - the producers of the UK’s Official Singles Chart as heard on BBC Radio 1 - is unveiling a new brand identity and consumer digital platform, where brands will be able to connect safely with an engaged and loyal...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Interbrand, the world's leading brand consultancy, has launched its 2023 Breakthrough Brands report which names the top 30 innovative brands that are emerging to disrupt the global landscape. The report includes OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
New Stance is a creative-first social and influencer marketing agency, specialising in the lifestyle, entertainment, and sports sectors that uses a strategic and data-led approach. This approach has resulted in highly successful campaigns for global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The drive for consumer privacy has shaken up the ad industry, forcing brands to look at how they target their audiences. And it’s not a bad thing. Google’s imminent removal of third-party cookies means consumers will no longer be followed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Through its technology, Bynder is a company that helps all types of brands - including Spotify, Puma, Five Guys, and Icelandair - create timely and culturally-relevant marketing content for its advertising campaigns and branding efforts. Working at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Why is academia so competitive? Because the stakes are so low. If you fail. You’re not really losing anything. What about brands acting in a kinder way? Is there anything to lose by not being nice? Or indeed anything to gain by wearing hearts...
Posted by: Simon Manchipp
A short article I wrote. Provides guidance and support for individuals who have been affected by recent layoffs. It covers the difficulties of job searching, tips for successful communication with hiring managers, and the importance of finding a...
Posted by: Peter Stylianou
For most people, fonts are not something to spend a lot of time considering. Yes, most of us have a perfectly rational hatred for comic sans but aside from that, a font is surely little more than an afterthought for a designer, right? Not at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Some of the biggest, most recognisable brands across the world owe their success to the fact that they’ve nailed their global marketing strategy. Brands like Airbnb and Coca-Cola are known for their almost universal messages, whether...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the holiday season creeps up on us once more, the country braces itself for another round of Christmas adverts, from the humorous to the heart-wrenching. But which brands have got the festive formula down and have helped cement themselves as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hannah Gillingham is a UK based freelance digital illustrator and artist. Working with a conceptual approach to illustration, she creates painterly illustrations of her favourite characters from pop culture and design illustrated posters, exploring...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
One resource the world is not running short of right now is podcasts. Dip into Spotify and you can currently choose between 5.4 million of them. And yet we’re far from ‘Peak Podcast’, with big brands continuing to invest heavily in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last week, I was out and about in the countryside- and as a city boy, I was using my phone as a sat nav, as I think we all do. I had a destination, we got there, we enjoyed it. Whilst there, my phone ran out of power, (as it seems to do ever more...
Posted by: Tony Pipes
Nutshell Creative is an integrated marketing agency in Milton Keynes that “delivers the full spectrum of creative, digital and print services.” While many would have you believe that print is dead, brands that underestimate the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Humanity makes headway by going in circles” You know that feeling, where you’ve been stuck in a project that just seems endless? The one with the file names that spiral into _final_FINAL_v23_081022_update.pdf Exhausting isn’t it? And more...
Posted by: Richard
For this week’s company spotlight feature, we head across the channel to Barcelona, where BCN Visuals have been collaborating with agencies to produce exciting 3D advertising campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brands. These are not...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Speaking as someone that didn’t even realise they were a millennial until it was already too late (I’d already got heavily into the craft beer scene of my own volition), I honestly can’t say that I spared much thought for the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For almost 70 years now, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has represented the high point on the creative calendar for agencies, studios and artists of all persuasions. The pandemic, however, might have been something of a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We speak to a lot of designers and creative directors here at the Creativepool member spotlight but, for whatever reason, we rarely speak to writers. Luc Benyon, however, is more than just a writer. The Zurich-based Luc is a branding expert, writer...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Have we entered metaverse-mania in the world of marketing? Brands are unveiling immersive experiences, ranging from gaming to pure advertising. Meanwhile, a range of platforms - Meta, Roblox, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Matterport among others - present...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Niamh Murphy, Head of Planning and Behavioural Science at In the Company of Huskies, on letting go of logic, rationalising in uncertain times, and the brands that are shaking things up with their pulling power. The difference between changing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial