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Nextbit launches the gorgeous, crowd-funded Robin phone Kicking off a rather phone-heavy week in tech news, Nextbit has launched a new crowd-funded Android phone, which uses integrated cloud storage. The Robin was designed by Scott Croyle, former...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ever dreamed of seeing your work up on the big screen in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes? Saatchi & Saatchi has established a reputation for unearthing the new directors of tomorrow with the annual New Directors’ Showcase (NDS) at Cannes Lions...
Posted by: Saatchi & Saatchi London
Goodstuff - Spotify Goodstuff Communications has won the media planning and buying account for Spotify in the UK as the music-streaming service opts for a number of local agencies instead of using a global shop. The agency is thought to have beaten...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBDO has had quite a week indeed. We've already reported on the global agency network's involvement in a charming new V&A Museum exhibition and its top placings in this year's Gunn Report, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. AMV BBDO unveil...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Super Bowl isn't just the biggest day of the year for the NFL, it's by and large the biggest day of the year for ad land too, as countless millions from across the globe tune in to watch armies of heavily armoured blokes bash seven shades out of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There's no doubt that the UK advertising industry has always enjoyed an unrivalled reputation for innovation, creativity and flair. Despite much work becoming rather prosaic and generic in recent years, that reputation sustains and remains. However,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In the latest episode of Agency Cribs, we offer a peek into the beating heart of Cheil London, the London-based agency that is part of an international network offering its clients “ideas that move” across channels, across devices, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve often thought one of the hardest things to do is to come up with a genuinely engaging infomercial. To turn something rather dull that people “really should” watch and listen to into something interesting and/or entertaining...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
When the news dropped yesterday morning that the man born David Robert Jones (he changed his stage name to avoid being mistaken for Davy Jones from The Monkees) had passed away at the age of 69, I was actually half way through my 7th or 8th run...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In the second sneak peek behind the curtains of adland’s biggest, best and brightest shops, we offer you an insightful look into the day-to-day operations of jones knowles ritchie, an award-winning global design agency based right in the heart...
Posted by: Creativepool
Of all the annual Christmas specials, the one that always made my heart sing as a youngster were the Crystal Maze specials, where a group of hapless adults were replaced by a group of equally hapless children. It gave me a giddy thrill to see kids...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett India - General Mills Leo Burnett India has won the integrated communication mandate for the entire product portfolio of General Mills in a multi-agency pitch, with most top agencies participating. After Bajaj this is yet another...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
FCB Inferno FCB Inferno has hired Elspeth Lynn to join its creative department. She will start in January, working directly with the agency’s clients, which include BMW, Beiersdorf and Sport England, and report to joint Chief Creative Officers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In advertising, it’s perfectly natural to have an inquisitive nature, and to harbour a desire to peek behind the curtain every once in a while. Now, we finally have that chance! We teased you last week, but here it is! The official launch of an...
Posted by: Creativepool
MEC MEC has promoted Marc Pearson to the newly created role of managing director of its Performance division, Jason Dormieux, the agency’s joint CEO announced today. His promotion reflects a doubling in size of MEC Performance across both its...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
DigitasLBi kicked off the IAB UK Digital Upfronts last Friday (October 16) with the DigitasLBi UK NewFront, which featured an eclectic array of speakers. The event also saw the unveiling of the “Periscope Periscope,” an interactive...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TBWA\Chiat\Day TBWA\Chiat\Day has appointed Andrew Dauska as managing director of the agency's Nissan account, reporting directly to TBWA\Chiat\Day LA president, Luis DeAnda. Andrew, who joins TBWA from Wunderman in Minneapolis, has a proven track...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Mill Alex Fitzgerald and Evelyn O’Reilly have joined The Mill’s London production department. Fitzgerald returns to The Mill as an Executive Producer. He most recently worked as a Senior Producer at Framestore, where he produced notable...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TV advertising might have been largely supplanted by online ads and social media in the last few years, but as long as television adheres to the same model (in others words, before Netflix-style streaming on-demand becomes the rule rather than the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I’m not going to pretend to be the world’s biggest Rihanna fan. Indeed, I personally find her brand of hedonistic pop to be of the “All style, no substance” variety. As a personality though, she’s a beacon of light in an...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
WPP, the world's largest communications services group, has announced a huge leap forward in the digital advertising stakes with the expansion of its strategic partnership with Adobe, the global leader in digital marketing software, to provide...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
JWT London - Debenhams The content division at JWT London has created eight 30 second films as part of its £1.5 million “A Match Made in Debenhams” Autumn campaign for the retailer, which launched last week and is currently running...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In partnership with our friends at Uber and SUITCASE Magazine, we are launching #BackseatArt across six UK cities to showcase local artists. This week, cars in London, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and Newcastle will contain limited...
Posted by: Creativepool
You saw it, right? How could you miss it? Even ITV's News At Ten ran the trailer for 'SPECTRE', the next episode in the most successful movie franchise ever - James Bond. Immediately the world took to social media (or at least the section of the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Ogilvy Public Relations has announced the launch of a speciality division that will provide communications strategy for retail, fashion and e-commerce clients, while helping brands forge strategic collaborations in the fashion space. The Boutique @...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Celebrated British punk poet John Cooper Clarke has teamed up with 18 Feet & Rising and Agile Film to launch a new campaign for the National Trust, in which he shares his love of the British coastlines to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Neptune...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
At the Palais des Festivals in Cannes yesterday (Thursday 25 June) as part of this year's Cannes Lions festival, Saatchi & Saatchi celebrated 25 years of the New Directors’ Showcase with a one-off screening of a brand new film. The idea was to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
So, today’s round up is all about celeb power, tech stars and some of the Cannes Lion’s winners who’ve made their mark. We’ve even thrown in some nice views too. If you're out an about in Cannes and want to get your photo...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TBWA\Chiat\Day – Kenwood Vineyards TBWA\Chiat\Day has been named agency of record for Kenwood Vineyards, a brand that was acquired by wine & spirits leader Pernod Ricard USA last year. The agency was appointed to help lead a re-launch of the brand...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Colonie editor Brian Sepanik crafted an open for The London Business School’s 2015 TEDx Conference that challenges the viewer to see the familiar in new and unexpected ways. Beauty, Shape, Examine, the translation of the Greek root words of...
Posted by: Robl + Sutta
Brothers & Sisters - Pearl & Dean Pearl & Dean, the UK’s best known cinema advertising contractor, has appointed Brothers & Sisters, without a pitch, to produce a new summer campaign. The campaign will celebrate the unique relationship Pearl &...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Classically beautiful curved TV from Samsung Samsung's CES 2015 Keynote Speech Samsung chose CES 2015 as the platform from which to unveil their new curved TV designed by the Fuseproject consultancy, which is headed up by famed Swiss designer Yves...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced yesterday that the global pizza chain Domino's will be sponsoring the popular Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks beginning Monday the 21st of January, taking over from the show's current sponsor VO5. The multimillion pound, two-year deal, will...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After a comprehensive, integrated review that also included Young & Rubicam and JWT, Grey New York, the global advertising network's flagship agency, announced yesterday that it has been selected as the advertising agency-of-record for Pandora, the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
It's been quite a busy week for the world's most beloved pizza chain, in both some good ways and some bad. Firstly, a new Global CEO was named at the beginning of the week in the shape of David Gibbs, who will assume the role on the 1st of January...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
