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DigitasLBi Chicago will be bringing in writers from Buzzfeed, the web's foremost social news and entertainment website, to help generate more effective social advertising campaigns. Writers will be brought in through the “Buzzfeed in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AOL announced at a technology conference in California on Wednesday that their advertising business was to get a major overhaul in the shape of 'One by AOL'; an ad platform which unites all ad campaigns (including video, desktop and mobile) under one...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Renowned media company Martini announced yesterday that they ended the 4th quarter of 2013 with almost 40% of their overall revenue driven by premium programmatic brand advertising. They expect this growth to continue throughout 2014 to over 50%, and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We’ve all had fantasies about various ways of quitting our jobs. In fact, some of you out there may even have turned freelance because you just couldn’t take the permanent life any more - either because of your boss or the work itself....
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
You know 'Mozilla', don't you? The people who make the Firefox web browser? Well, it turns out they also make a thing called 'AdBlock Plus'. And, if you're using it, you're getting right up the noses of some advertising big-wigs. For the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Disruption has always been key to the advertising model. Very few people opt to be exposed to marketing messages, therefore effective advertising has traditionally intruded into the content the audience has chosen to consume - a TV show, a magazine...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Welcome to the CP Soapbox! Speaker's Corner is an opportunity for industry boffins to take centre-stage and put the (creative) world to rights. But we don't want to stop there! We want comments from 'the floor' so if you've got something you want...
Posted by: Creativepool
Not to get lofty, but what is life without purpose? An existence without something that drives us forward, gives us a feeling of achievement and a reason for being. Sometimes, it feels like advertising has taken purpose and turned it into a content...
Posted by: Social Chain
There’s a certain logic to the idea that, in a truly sustainable world, out-of-home (OOH) advertising is always going to lag behind its virtual equivalent. However, with the right approach, there’s no reason why OOH can’t set a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Adland has not always been known as the bastion of diversity and inclusion it is today… mostly. Indeed, we only have to cast our minds back to the halcyon days of the Mad Men and the regrettable ads that now seem as outdated as blackface and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The broader societal call for diversity and inclusion is an echo that’s been resounding across adland for a while now and, given the way advertising has always acted as society’s mirror, it’s a call that can no longer be ignored if...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a world where our homes are filled with smart devices that listen to our every word and our phones have essentially become extensions of ourselves, sleep has been one of the last sanctuaries free from the clutches of advertisers. However, this...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our daily lives and it’s happened in a surprisingly slow and incestuous way. While many of us might have only become aware of its influence in recent months, the groundwork has been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The cost-of-living crisis isn’t just affecting families, it’s a trickle up nightmare that’s digging its teeth into businesses too and brands are businesses. One of the first places many brands unfortunately choose to sever spending...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Regardless of your opinions on the British Monarchy, it’s undeniable that the coronation of King Charles III was something of a historic event and something that deserved chronicling and (of course) parodying. With that in mind, I’ve...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week saw the launch of Channel 4’s Diversity in Advertising Award-Winning campaign, with an emotive and powerful ad about a young girl with autism premiering during Gogglebox. Created for Vanish by Havas London, the campaign was crowned...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Marketing and advertising are two essential components of any successful business. However, while they are often used interchangeably, there are significant differences between the two terms in terms of application and intent. Here, I’ll be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There is a lot of competition in the advertising industry. If you want to make a living as a marketing professional, whether as a graphic designer, copywriter, creative director, or something else entirely, you'll need a lot of practice, natural...
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
Thierry Albert is a French Director and Creative Director based in Amsterdam who writes and directs music promos, advertising campaigns and documentaries for the likes of The Pet Shop Boys, Dazed, Instagram, Duke Dumont, Format B and Uber. A fan of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On Sunday, Super Bowl LVII glued 200 million eyeballs to screens all around the world as the Chiefs clipped the wings of the Eagles in Phoenix. It was one of those rare moments in time where people from every corner of the world tune in to a sports...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Only a fool would state that they know with absolute certainty what the landscape in adland will look like in six months’ time. We are living through a time of almost unparalleled unpredictability but one overarching and undeniable trend that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For this week’s member spotlight, we turn our focus to Alan Parry, a “a post-production nerd turned video production swiss army knife.” He freelances under the name Velvet Pig and specialises as an editor and motion graphics...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The video call has, in recent, post-pandemic times, become a pretty consistent part of the day for millions of us. It’s a strange phenomenon that bridges the gap between the physical meeting and the phone call and, for me at least, figuring out...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Josh Green is the Boston-born, London-based Executive Creative Director at sports + culture agency Octagon and sister agency FRUKT. He leads the agency’s creative output across six European offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This year at Cannes Lions, we saw a lot of key trends emerge, from the importance of sustainable advertising and steps towards more eco-conscious practices, to our place in the metaverse. But, as expected, audio advertising and the innovation the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While new forms of advertising are continuously emerging to cater for the technologically advanced consumer, one form of out-of-home (OOH) marketing never goes out of fashion - advertising hoardings. Advertising hoardings are bold, grandiose, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last history month, we highlighted Sir Martin Sorrell as our 2021 “legend of advertising.” A divisive figure still operating from the sidelines after stepping down from WPP in 2018, Sorrell is very much the kind of person most people...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Third-party cookies have been at the heart of digital advertising for years. But their days of tracking online customer behaviour for retargeting and personalised user experiences are numbered. Declaring the party over, major web players have started...
Posted by: We Are Amnet
Everyone wants to feel like the belong somewhere. It’s one of the fundamental things that makes us human. The world of advertising, however, as been seen by many as a pretty elitist environment, a sentiment that the industry has been trying...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There’s an adage in online media that you’ve probably all heard a thousand times before - “content is king.” But the thing is, content without context is just words and pictures. If content is king then context is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Just a few short years ago, QR codes were still seen as a novelty. We now live, however, in a society where over 90% of us own and use a smartphone and have access to the technology. With those sobering numbers, any advertiser would surely be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Does anybody remember actively looking forward to the adverts? I do. We’re talking about the halcyon days of the mid-90’s here, when TV advertisements were proper events that sent shockwaves across the playground. Today, it’s only...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Swhype is a UK-based company that declares itself an “end-to-end” video agency - a video production company, animation studio and creative agency rolled into one. That’s a lot of hats to manage and we want know how they balance...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There are over 6,500 different cryptocurrencies, all varying in size of market capitalisation, which have different followings and trading volumes. Some of these are meme coins that have a supporting business model flimsier than a house of cards....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Video has become an increasingly important aspect of the marketing pantheon when it comes to online content. As broadband speeds have increased and attention spans have waned, consumers have become more accustomed to more focused online video...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
High shopper demand has made for an especially competitive Christmas this year, with brands using video as the glitter gun in their festive campaigns to capture optimum audience attention. Despite the rising price of video ads, smart video creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial