Industry
Stuart Waplington, CEO of Happy Finish, had only been in Cannes for 12 hours but stopped by to see Michael Tomes, founder of Creativepool for a quick Poolside chat before heading off for his evening. Happy Finish is one of the new purveyors of...
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Michael Tomes sat poolside with Ian Wharton, Group Creative Director at AKQA, post announcement of the winners of Future Lions. Future Lions is in it’s 11th year at Cannes, the brief sets students from all around the world the challenge to...
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Bompas & Parr - Propercorn Institute of Flavour
Bompas & Parr has designed popcorn brand Propercorn’s new month long pop-up, “Institute of Flavour.” Based in Soho, London, the pop-up features a popping room and kitchen where...
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Wisp is the wearable sex toy alternative
Wan Tseng, a graduate of the Royal College of Art graduate, has designed a series of erotic devices that provide a subtle, sensation-focused alternative to traditional, more 'full-on' sex toys. The Wisp...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Daniel Bonner has been on our radar for awhile now since he was crowned our Influencer of the Year for 2016. A few years ago the Global Chief Creative Officer at Razorfish was walking down the Croisette with his team and wondered if there was any...
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50 years ago, David Ogilvy said: “Clients get the advertising they deserve.” Jeremy Caplin, CEO of Aprais, believes he was right and has been collecting data from over 15,000 client-agency relationships for over the past 15 years to prove...
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Creative Debates is a tonic to the endless one-way talks that are in abundance within our sector. The debates, which took place during the 2016 Cannes Lions festival, will tackle some of the most difficult questions and topics being faced by our...
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McCann HumanCare - Docusol
How could I not begin this week's run of creative excellence with a spot involving a singing nappy? The online film, by McCann HumanCare, is part of children's constipation brand Docusol's “Make a Nappy Happy”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Aboard one of the biggest yachts in Cannes we met Ambarish “Rish” Mitra, Co-Founder and Director of Blippar, one of the hottest global startups in the industry right now. Blippar is an augmented reality search engine that has recently...
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World's fastest flying women recruited for Dunkin' Donuts stunt
DigitasLBi and Dunkin’ Donuts recruited the world’s fastest flying woman; 28-year-old wingsuit base jumper Ellen Brennan, to do the world’s fastest Dunkin’ run...
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Creative Debates is a tonic to the endless one-way talks that are in abundance within our sector. The debates will tackle some of the most difficult questions and topics being faced by our industry, modelled on the old-school debate format with 2...
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Industry
Seasoned Cannes Lions veterans James Kirkham, Chief Strategy Officer at Big Balls Media and Jonathan Fraser, Chief Strategy Officer at Exposure are here to bring out the massive elephant in the room at Cannes Lions. We sit down before they take the...
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Industry
When Cindy Gallop said she had time to sit down with us after her panel "Sex: The Final Frontier” we were thrilled. She may have left advertising for the time being but this Ex-Chairman of BBH has been busy!
"Change happens from the bottom up...
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