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In today's inaugural episode of Call-A-Creative, our questions come to us from Junior Art Director, Cooper Epps, as we discuss feeling like imposters, when you should make your hobby the focus of your career, and striving to improve creatively. This...
Posted by: Kevin Forister
In today's Creative Q&A, we jump into questions over self doubting your ideation abilities, what portfolio schools look for in new applicants, and how to prepare to break into niche markets. If you have questions of your own for an upcoming video,...
Posted by: Kevin Forister
It's time for my second Q&A over some questions around becoming and working as an Art Director. If you have a question you would like answered on an upcoming video, comment on the video! Thanks
Posted by: Kevin Forister
Even the coolest of candidates get nervous before a job interview. While we don’t advise having ready-made responses for every question. We do recommend spending some time preparing for what you may be asked. If you’re applying for a role in...
Posted by: Gabriele
As companies rapidly evolve, it is to be expected that the priorities and expectations of roles within a brand evolve as well. But no position has changed quite as rapidly as the CMO. Once considered the nexus of all things creative, the CMO is now...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Music licensing for ads is notoriously complicated. This is partially due to multiple layers of rights in any song. You have to consider where the music has come from, who wrote it and performed it , where it will end up, and if your license covers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If we are to change the 'broken' agency model, hybrid partnerships may be a great place to start. A hybrid partnership brings down any and every wall between client and agency, by fostering a collaboration between the brand and the agency's team....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As we awoke this new year, rubbing the dry grit of 2017 out of our eyes – in search of the last bastion of moisture, on the loofa we used to call "tongue" – we might just have been able to whisper the words "never again" with a little more...
Posted by: Sophie Summers
As technology continues to be a growing part of our lives, we are so quick to register so much information into our smartphones and tablet without reading the small print or even reviews for that matter. We are constantly wary of identity theft. Is...
Posted by: Digital Recruitment Company
Sometimes my day just feels precisely like this ‘50’s(?) game of ‘Domino - Circus’. Which is basically ‘match the pairs you idiot’. Or rather more romantically ‘ce jeu amusera les tout petits et les plus grandes.’ As the languid...
Posted by: Richard
The next Annual deadline is just a few days away! To help you with your submissions we have collected answers to the 10 Most Asked Questions about The Annual. 1. How do I submit my work? It all starts on your Creativepool profile. Choose the work...
Posted by: Creativepool
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? You know, before I jumped ship to the corporate side, a former colleague of mine who'd moved between the studio and corporate worlds gave me a heads-up: it'd be quite a shock. And...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What’s the obvious answer when putting together a campaign for an online education company? Create a four-part comedy series, of course! To learn more about this bonkers but brilliant idea, we spoke to the team behind it. What was the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hallmark Luxury Care Homes, the family-owned group of 22 care homes in England and Wales, relaunches with an all-new brand positioning and identity created by The Corner London. The work sees a complete overhaul of Hallmark’s brand strategy,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? From watching too many cartoons as a kid, honestly! As a teenager, I saved up for a Wacom tablet and started experimenting with making my own animation in Flash and Photoshop. Later, when I studied animation at the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dave Anderson is an animator, illustrator and storyboard artist born in Wales, and currently based in Barcelona, who has for over a decade has been helping even the most uptight organisation find their funny. In recent years he’s directed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
FutureBrand - the brand-led business transformation company that has helped transform household names such as American Airlines, Sanofi, McDonald’s, NatWest and Barilla - has appointed Lauren Maynard as its new Global Chief Growth Officer. In...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It should go without saying that the creative industries have the potential and the responsibility to reflect and celebrate the diversity of society, and to challenge and transform the status quo. However, according to a report by the Creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Valentine’s Day is a holiday beloved by few. For many of us, it’s little more than a cynical stopping gap between Christmas and Easter to claw at our pockets. There appears to be a disconnect, however, between how much we care about...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Lucent building at Piccadilly Circus has been recently renovated, and now boasts a giant steel sculpture on one of its walls that’s been turning heads and claiming hearts for almost a month now. It’s a truly unique sculpture that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The advertising industry is still operating as it has done for the past 40 years. You only have to look at the share prices of the networks in the space to know this is the case. While we have started to see data and creative companies combining for...
Posted by: Rodney Perry
In case you’ve missed it: the Stanley water bottle is having a cultural moment. It’s almost impossible to get online without seeing the Quencher H2.0 on your feed: pastel-coloured and possibly nestled in a matching carry case. The hashtag...
Posted by: Novagram
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
How did you get into the industry? I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Industrial Design from BIAD when it seemed that every graduate job was as an unpaid internship in either a remote setting or central London. It was demoralising to have put so...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What value do digital marketing agencies bring to the table? For many years, this has been an easy question to answer. Performance-focused agencies were technical experts who understood digital channels through and through. They knew which buttons to...
Posted by: Precis Digital
There are so many benefits to the freelance lifestyle; the freedom, the flexibility, and the fact you don’t really have any one to answer to (besides your clients, of course) are all right up there. Ask anybody that’s been freelancing for...
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
This week, for our first company spotlight of 2024, we spoke to Simon Kringel, Co-founder of Scandinavian sonic branding agency, Unmute. How was your company born and where are you based? Me and my partner Daniel Schougaard was working in a company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Like half the nation, it would appear, I chose to spend the first waking hours of 2024 washed out on the sofa in a booze and cheese-induced haze binge watching what I assumed was going to be a quaint, easy-going ITV drama. How wrong I turned out to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? As the head of a brand experience agency, it's a blend of jumping into new business meetings, hashing out creative strategies for ongoing projects, and throwing in some...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Iris London has worked with Samsung Electronics UK to launch an impactful campaign supporting the brand’s announcement that they are joining forces with Skateboard GB, the governing body for skateboarding in the UK. The partnership will form a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Over the last few years, the advertising industry has jumped from trend to trend, looking for ways to ride out the rollercoaster of economic instability. Some of them were driven by shifts in consumer habits introduced by the Covid-19 pandemic, such...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2023 has been a lot of things. It’s been a year that saw great divisions widen and a year that seemed to almost revel in chaos, but it was also a year in which creativity continued to shine, even as it stood on the precipice of potential...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whether you love her, love to hate her, or are somewhere in the middle, there's no denying that Kim Kardashian is one of the most influential and successful women of our time. With an estimated net worth of over $1 billion, she's built an empire that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What’s holding the world back from mass AR adoption? Is it the still admittedly rather cumbersome technology itself? The lack of readily available content? According to one company, the answer’s a little simpler - it’s...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? After graduating from University in 2015, I faced several challenges in finding employment. Like many of my peers, naively I was under the impression that I would be able to secure a job immediately. However, I...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial