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I like cake. This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has ever met, or even just caught sight of my perpetually expanding stomach in recent years, but I certainly do not like social inequality, so my head doesn't know quite what to make of this...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Global branding agency Bulletproof has joined forces with Amsterdam’s top universities to launch ‘Amsterdame’, a campaign that highlights the increasing gender gap in the Netherlands and demands legislative action towards closing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s no secret that female creatives have been overlooked, under employed and under utilised in the film, music, and media industries for decades. Even with the onslaught of rising female creators and content being driven towards the female...
Posted by: Bopper
If the latest stats from the IPA Agency Census are to be taken at face value, then it would appear to suggest that progress on the ethnicity pay gap has stalled but the gender pay gap is closing. This isn’t mere conjecture either as the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Thousands of employers will publish their gender pay gap figures for the first time from today (April 6), helping break the glass ceiling and create a more modern workforce. The UK is one of the first countries in the world to require gender pay gap...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If a report by the World Economic Forum is to be believed, it will take over 100 years to close the gender pay gap. Quite simply, that will not do. Of course, this is a global study cast across all industries and takes into account countries where...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Genie - the intelligent matchmaking service for creative industries - launched a campaign last year to encourage employers to be more transparent with their budgets. Led by Genie’s female founders Nicky Badneoch and Bonnie Harold and endorsed...
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
Traditionally, the Army has been mostly regarded as an environment where only men could find their place. Yet, there's an argument that the very nature of the Army makes everything equal; based on that, there's no reason why women shouldn't feel like...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Heineken has launched a new global campaign, “Cheers to All”, with a light-hearted view on the stereotypes that are associated with ordering certain drinks. Through the light-hearted film, which shows men and women being served the wrong...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
The founder and director of independent creative agency Impero has urged the industry to fix its gender pay gap problem by saying there are no excuses for inequality. Michael Scantlebury said it’s all well and good for agencies to publish...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
J Walter Thompson London has teamed up with Creative Equals to place a spotlight on the low levels of women at the top table of creativity at this year's Cannes Lion. Together, they are launching #TheFemaleFilter; a campaign which will analyse the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors’ Showcase (NDS) celebrates its 27th year at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity by shining a light on the current gender imbalance within directing. Partnering with MPC, the show will celebrate...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Global children’s charity Theirworld has launched an ambitious campaign, created by The Partners in collaboration with other WPP agencies Kantar Added Value, Kantar Futures, MEC and VML, to expose the hidden values and behavioural codes of gender...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Channel 4’s award-winning in-house creative agency 4Creative has produced a new four-part short-form series starting Grayson Perry, in partnership with production company Swan Films. “Born Risky: Grayson Perry” launched yesterday (November 2)...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gender bias has, until now, been one of those issues a lot of us like to sweep under the rug, even though we all understand it's a major problem. For many, it's a lingering reminder of a bygone age of rampant misogyny and prejudice that we'd rather...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As much as we'd all like to believe that we've all moved on from the dark ages of the 1960s and 1970s into an age of genuine enlightenment, the sad fact remains that, for the most part, adland is still a bit of a boys club. This is thanks in no small...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google’s recent proposal, put forward to Silicon Valley's Unicode Consortium (the body that controls and approves universal software standards for letters and other characters), wants to increase the representation of women in emoji and calls...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Creativepool’s Annual Creative Industry Report, in partnership with creative digital recruitment specialists, IC Creative & Talentedge Creative & Media, surveyed over 2,500 industry professionals. The most suprising and encouraging finding...
Posted by: Creativepool
Karen See, the former Chief Communications Officer for DDB Group Asia Pacific, and Sharn Bedi, the former Managing Director for DDB Remedy Asia Pacific, have teamed up to launch an executive leadership consultancy set champion gender diversity and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With traditional (and some might argue antiquated) gender roles in a state of rapid flux, it's more important than ever to understand clearly what society as a whole feels about the notion of gender equality. JWT London and media intelligence...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Since winning a People's Choice award in the Creativepool Annual in 2017 for her Ballerina Loft - which imagines where a ballerina might live - Romanian 3D artist and visualiser Elena V Miller's work has received several Spotlight's on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The closing event in the celebration of 100 years of Advertising - joint Government Communication Services and IPA (England and Scotland) Jan 2018. Chair - James Pais, IPA Scotland Chair & Creative Services Director, Frame Speakers & Panel...
Posted by: Becky
Last week, there was a great deal of smoke being blown surrounding the memo released by Google employee James Damore, which inferred that women were biologically inferior to their male counterparts when it came to computer science and coding. These...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
TMW Unlimited - Lynx TMW Unlimited has created a candid digital campaign for Lynx about what it means to be a man in 2017. The “Men In Progress” campaign comprises nine videos featuring a cross-section of British men talking honestly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The next phase of the This Girl Can campaign, commissioned by Sport England and funded by The National Lottery, began last week with new creative across social media, digital media and out of home (48 sheets and 6 sheets) from FCB Inferno. Over the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The finalists for the seventh annual FDM everywoman in Technology Awards, which celebrates women that are changing the face of technology in the UK, have been announced this week. From entrepreneurs and engineers driving the business agenda to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst we might like to occasionally hide our heads in the sand and pretend it's not the case, the sad fact remains that in advertising, as in most walks of life, the gender gap is still an issue. Hoping to turn the tides during this year's Cannes...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tech Will Save Us design new wearable How does the Move Kit work? The smart cookies at Technology Will Save Us, a company that specialises in designing easy-to-use tech for children, have designed a wearable device that children can make and code...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Say what you want about adland, but it's always been an incredibly progressive industry, so it's only natural that many of the industry's biggest and best agencies and brands would want to piggyback on the social media frenzy surrounding...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) will be increasing its presence at the annual Semi Permanent festival of creativity and design from May 2016, in a collaboration that will introduce an annual AWARD showcase to the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cannes Lions has announced the first list of speakers for Lions Innovation; the new “Festival within a festival” that will run during the Cannes Lions Festival this year, and focuses on innovative data, technology and ideas in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There are few things in life less sexy than numbers. Even the number 69 only approximates a sexual position, and is more a cause for mild amusement than genuine arousal. This project by the creative agency Nice and Serious for the Wellcome...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When discussing female designers’ contribution to the heavily male-dominated creative industries, there’s a specific focus on the heralded historical figures and individuals known to have paved the way, think Margaret Calvert, who...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns