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This week, we sat down with two talented service designers from global innovation company Designit, Mimi Fuentes and Linn Cowie-Sailer, to delve into their pivotal role in the impactful ‘Silence Hurts’ campaign. This initiative, a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sometimes I have to ask my myself if Apple has become a company more about marketing than tech. Yes, they’ve always been a style over substance brand, but in years’ past, the messaging always reinforced the product rather than...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As creatives, we’re always treading a fine line between letting our creative souls run free and pleasing not only our clients but our audiences. Never is this more apparent than when a piece of creative stirs controversy and we’re forced...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The ban on “harmful gender stereotypes” that can into force in the UK thanks to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) back in 2019 is a move that, at the start at least, had its heart in the right place. In the ensuring five years,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sarah Evans, Head of Digital at PR agency, Energy PR, offers her advice on using AI to assist with your marketing work, freeing your team up to focus on the areas where you can add the most value. AI is not new. However, the launch of platforms like...
Posted by: Energy PR
Sky Media recently revealed WUKA’s advertising campaign as one of the five winners of the Sky Zero Footprint Fund initiative. The taboo-busting ad encourages women to ditch plastic-riddled disposable pads and tampons in favour of its...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TV is a huge part of everyday life, with iconic British soaps like Coronation Street and Eastenders still going strong today. Alongside these shows, certain British adverts have made a lasting impression on viewers. We all have memories of particular...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Matt Hay, CEO at Bulbshare, on why gender-based marketing is fast becoming obsolete amid a new non-binary consumer landscape In the heyday of advertising, brands were clear about who they should market to. Things like cars, whiskey, cardigans,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of credible and reliable information. However, the reliance on user-generated content online as a source of truth for news has increased the risk of exposure to bias, misinformation and potentially harmful...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nearly two thirds (64%) of women aged 18-35 years old are not checking their chests regularly every month but 1 in 7 women are affected by breast cancer in their lifetime. Superdrug has taken matters into its own hands and launched a new unique...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In the UK, mental health problems affect approximately 25% of the population every year. That is nearly 17 million people every single year. If it is true that advertising can be a driver for positive change, like all things creativity, it is our...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Few people in advertising can hope to compete with the fame and legacy of Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell. At the age of 76 and counting, the historic founder of WPP is still very much in the game, a proof of character with no equals in advertising and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Did you think you knew everything about advertising? These top 25 historical facts about the ad industry will surprise you. It is History Month here at Creativepool, which is the perfect opportunity for us to be reminded that there is always...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
After a quick chat and after reviewing the conversation below, we can see why Tony Hitchin was asked to take on the role as General Manager of Pro Carton. Tony believes that no marketing plan should be small, for there is no small plan able to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Valentine’s Day aside, the 14th February 2020 marked a very special occasion in the calendar. YouTube turned fifteen years old. That’s right, the original video-sharing platform is no longer a tweenager and has moved into the complex...
Posted by: Mary Keane Dawson
See what #EachForEqual means to these photographers as they prepare for International Women’s Day 2020, and learn ways you can add gender diversity to your own portfolio. The theme for International Women’s Day 2020 on Sunday, March 8th...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When your brand trades across multiple countries, reproducing a successful marketing campaign from one region in the rest of your markets can appear easy. It seems all you need to do is pay some translators and watch the savings roll in. However, a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Politics and marketing have never been so closely entwined in an age of 24-hour news and false facts. But after three years of Brexit burnout, the marketing teams behind the parties fighting in today’s historic general election have never had a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This month in advertising has been dominated by a cream cheese bagel-scoffing dad abandoning his baby to a conveyor belt, a pram-pushing mum and moon-walking men. The first bans the ASA has handed down since its gender stereotyping legislation came...
Posted by: Southpaw
VCCP - Transport for London In 2018, London reached its annual air quality limit in less than a month. Because of that, Transport for London and the Mayor have plans in place to tackle the problem and improve air quality for Londoners. One of those...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative Duo Cabeza Patata (that's Potato Head in Spanish) have recently joined the Jelly Futures family just in time for Craft Month - that was handy wasn't it?! Formed by illustrator and craftswoman Katie Menzies and 3d artist and animator Abel...
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isobel - The White House It was announced on April 1 this year that The White House has hired independent creative agency, isobel, to “make Trump more popular amongst Brits” prior to his forthcoming visit later in the year. The campaign...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Full Service/Jelly London - The Climate Coalition Actress Anna Friel has lent her voice to a new animated film, produced by renowned photographer Rankin, that tells a story of how climate change is impacting on our everyday lives - and how...
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SomeOne - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple SomeOne has rebranded lawyers’ organisation, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, with a redrawn Pegasus logo that aims to break away from flat graphic symbols. The Honourable Society...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Robert Gorby, VP of SMB Business at SDL, examines 5 simple ways in which marketers and advertisers can boost their localisation efforts without spending a fortune. You would have to have been living on a desert island or under a rock to have missed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You should never trust the general public, at least not when presented with a potential trolling opportunity. Such is the case with the latest mismanaged move by Walkers, which, as part of its ongoing Champions League campaign, allowed users to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After receiving a barrage of bad press from medias both social and mainstream, McDonald's has bowed to public pressure and pulled their latest TV ad. The spot in question has been accused of “exploiting childhood bereavement” by not only...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Advertising makes people angry sometimes. I get it. Those Go Compare spots and that notoriously broad moneysupermarket dance-off campaign could surely send even the most mild-mannered viewer into a fit of unbridled rage given the right circumstances....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Times dropped one hell of a bombshell on the advertising industry this morning when it released an article claiming that many of the world's largest brands and companies have accidentally used a portion of their advertising budgets to fund...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Authenticity as we know it is dead. No longer the bastion of trust it once was, consumers are now seeking new and different expressions for quality, craft and individuality in brands. The authenticity ‘movement’ came to prominence on the...
Posted by: Bulletproof
I've never had a problem with profanity. I believe it was Stephen Fry who said “... “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Of course, these days, being a smoker is only slightly less offensive than kitten killing. But it wasn't always that way. Indeed, there was a time when everyone from doctors to movie stars - even prospective presidents - were more than happy to...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The story of Protein World doesn’t start with the fact an advert like that was made, as they helpfully pointed out themselves on Twitter, there are loads of companies who are invested in body shaming and who participate in the culture of...
Posted by: Jade French
Hatred exists in many shapes and forms, but no form of hatred grinds my gears quite like bigotry. In such a supposedly enlightened age, despising another person simply because their beliefs or lifestyle don't align with yours should be completely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The golden age of the pop video brought us a buffet of treats, didn’t it? Who could forget Simon Le Bon lashed to a windmill sail in ‘Wild Boys’? Or Paula Abdul flirty dancing with a cartoon cat in ‘Opposites Attract’....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It's Monday morning. Email hell beckons. I've got my Creativepool blog to write but I do also need to try and whittle down the daily glut of Groupons, StumbleUpons, Voucherclouds, More Groupons, and LinkedIn's “congratulate Billy-Bob on his new...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison