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by Magnus Shaw. If you've always been keen to see the very cornerstone of capitalism; a seething hub of avarice and a perfect mechanism for prising people's hard earned cash from their pockets, Las Vegas is for you. I've just returned from a...
Posted by: Creativepool
Here we go again. Yet another campaign for The National Lottery (TNL), and it stinks. This has been going on for years, of course. If you can stand to, cast your mind back to any TNL marketing, branding or advertising and tell me whether you can...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Magnus Shaw For the advertising sector The Olympic Games are less about running, jumping and cycling - and more about the infamous copyright clampdown on certain words and branding devices. Those tussles have been well-covered on Creativepool and...
Posted by: Creativepool
It was announced yesterday that the Sport & Entertainment division of M&C Saatchi had been selected as the agency to deal with the title sponsorship of the English Football League by Sky Bet, the online gaming subsidiary of BskyB, the UK's largest...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? A creative’s day is never “typical”, that is why we love doing what we do! No matter what the day brings, my goal is to guide our branding work to become iconic....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With the Super Bowl less than a week away, System1, the leading ad effectiveness agency, explores what we can expect from the big event this year in terms of the all-important (and increasingly expensive) ad slots. The Super Bowl is TV...
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
Marketing agencies make unlikely heroes. Let’s face it, they’re hardly renowned for being forces of good. They’ve been the tarter-upper of, and conduit for, some of society’s most harmful products: cigarettes, alcohol....
Posted by: Woven Agency
The best campaigns made during the COVID-19 outbreak No matter how crippling of a blow it receives, the creative industry will always be ready to stand back up and prove its resilience. Even earlier in the year, with the world preparing to shut...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Ford parks WPP, names BBDO Car manufacturer Ford has selected Omnicom’s BBDO Worldwide as its new lead creative agency after 75 years with WPP. Wieden+Kennedy was also involved in the pitch which launched in April and the agency has taken a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Mother - MoneySuperMarket MoneySuperMarket is back on our TV screens this week, as two Sindy dolls save money on their household bills and break out of “Sindyville,” in a humorous homage to “Thelma & Louise.” The 60-second...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
M&C Saatchi - GambleAware GambleAware has appointed creative agency M&C Saatchi to develop a new safer gambling advertising campaign. Broadcasters and gambling industry groups drew up proposals for a major responsible gambling advertising campaign...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
WPP - BP BP has selected WPP as its preferred partner to provide marketing communication services for its Corporate, Fuels and Castrol businesses globally. The decision is the culmination of a thorough competitive review process which began in mid...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BMB - Campaign To End Loneliness BMB has been appointed to lead the Campaign to End Loneliness account, raising awareness of the issue of loneliness among older people in the UK. The first piece of work from the agency premieres on September 20th at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As VR began its steady shift into the mainstream a few years back, the first thing that professional scaremongers (the ones who like to ruin everything for everyone) latched onto was the idea of the children of tomorrow shunning the real world in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Returning for the second year, the global innovation event co-organised by Publicis Group and Groupe Les Echoes, Viva Technology, turns Paris into a hub for the latest groundbreaking startups centred in Paris and beyond. With over 60,000+ attendees...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
We’re spending an extraordinary - and ever-increasing - amount of time playing mobile games. Our smartphones and tablets, packed with addictive apps, entice us to spend on average 3 hours a day playing games - a figure which rocketed 57% from...
Posted by: Pentasia UK
2016 was not, as many industry figures predicted, the year of VR. It was the year of political upheaval and celebrity death. 2017, on the other hand, already seems like a brighter prospect (forgetting politics of course) for the medium, with many of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Young & Laramore - Upland Brewing Company Upland Brewing Company have announced a refreshed packaging and ad campaign for their renowned Sour Ales, which are made with wild yeast and have recently emerged from the beer geek underground and become an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
PHD - Volkswagen PHD has won the £2 billion business through building trust and a planning-based approach. Major account wins rarely come out of the blue, but PHD’s victory in what will almost certainly turn out to be the biggest global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Karmarama - Confused In the first of four major wins this week, Karmarama has won the account for Confused.com, an ambitious brand in a competitive and highly creative sector. The pitch process began at the beginning of the year and was against...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
VML – Wendy's The Wendy's fast food has announced named VML as its creative agency of record. The Kansas City-headquartered firm will expand its role from Wendy's digital agency of record to full creative development. Kurt Kane, Wendy's Chief...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
M&C Saatchi M&C Saatchi has announced that Ben Welsh, formerly ECD at M&C Saatchi Sydney, is to be appointed as creative chairman of Asia. The appointment marks a change in emphasis for the Network, demonstrating its spotlight on Asia, a region...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The great debate that rages inside me like a vengeful demon every Sunday morning is a simple one, but one that I'm sure I'm not alone in suffering. Pigs or Bacon? The thing is. I love bacon, more so perhaps than any other meat product, but conversely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Capital FM - Biggest Hits I'm not overly fond of Capital Radio. Over the last decade they've set about eradicating truly local music radio, and ensuring its replacement is nothing more than banal yammering. But what of their advertising? Well, not...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
M&C Saatchi has recently appointed to handle all creative services for NRMA Insurance, the biggest insurance creative account in the Australian market, which also includes their SGIC and SGIO brands. The agency won the deal (which is rumoured to be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
So ridiculous, it would have been rejected as a plotline in 'The Thick Of It'. That's not (or not necessarily) my opinion, it comes from the creators of 'The Thick Of It' and it refers to the 'advertisement' placed on Twitter by Grant Shapps,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Defining an era is always a tricky, and possibly flawed, business. The eighties were only a festival of wealth, champagne and yuppiedom for a privileged few; while the sixties cultural revolution and endless cool applied only to a narrow...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Magnus Shaw. If you're going to be rumbled loading beefburgers with something other than beef, try to ensure it's not horse. Oats would be better. Or sweets. But, not cat or hamster - and definitely not horse. As Tesco has discovered, people...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. Examine the figures and social media boggles the mind. Facebook boasts over one billion users - a seventh of the entire planet; Twitter has more than 100 million users. Even music-streaming app Spotify, carries 18 million...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. Very little is certain in this life, but the mad rush of predictions for the year ahead is a rock on which we can depend in the awkward gap between Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, most of them will be wildly inaccurate - with...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw Kentucky Fried Chicken may well be an assault on the digestion and troubling to the waistband, but it seems its advertising is also offensive to a cross section of the viewing public. The Advertising Standards Authority has announced...
Posted by: Creativepool
I once worked with an Art Director who had just arrived in the UK from a stint at Leo Burnett in Venezuela. As well as alarming tales of armed guards outside his office, he told me this: when pitching, it was usual practice for the agencies involved...
Posted by: Creativepool
I felt sure if we waited long enough, someone would grasp the nettle and prove that the art of copywriting isn’t dead, just having a lie down. The fact that this little miracle has been achieved by one of the nation’s best known (and best...
Posted by: Creativepool