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Yesterday, Chime Communications posted pre-tax profits of £25 million for 2013. Operating income at the marketing services company, meanwhile, rose 8% year on year to £169.5 million. Annual operating profits, however, were flat, and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
by Magnus Shaw. I'm well aware of my tendency to be a grouch. Blame it on old age, blame it on a personality flaw, blame it on the boogie - whatever the reason, I absolute concede the point. When I find something unsatisfactory, foolish or flawed,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Christopher Graves, the CEO of Ogilvy PR Global, has bagged the WPP Atticus Award for Public Relations and Public Affairs, his third Atticus Award, including the Atticus Grand Prix he won in 2012 for original published thinking in branding and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
CHI&Partners Yan Elliott is joining CHI&Partners as Joint Executive Creative Director, alongside Micky Tudor. Elliott leaves Lucky Generals, where he was Creative Partner, and responsible for notable recent campaigns including the Radiocentre work...
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
Digitas LBi DigitasLBi, has announced Alvaro Cabrera as chief strategy officer for North America. In his new role, Alvaro will report to Tony Weisman, CEO of DigitasLBi North America. As CSO, Alvaro will work closely with CCO Ronald Ng, and global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Spinal Tap is one of my favourite movies of all time. Me and my brother hold viewings at least twice a year where we spend practically the entire duration of the film matching the characters quote for quote, and even after more than 15 years it's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When you look at the history of product design and the greatest innovations of all time, it’s hard to ignore how a large amount of incredibly amazing inventions have all started popping up rather recently. The golden age of innovation and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Officer & Gentleman - Pornhub Adult entertainment site Pornhub, in partnership with adult toy retailer Ann Summers, recently announced the launch of an exclusive sex toy line and in order to promote the launch of the new line, Pornhub (as is their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
My inspiration from this year’s Festival of Creativity in Cannes came from experiencing people who were the Real Deal. ‘Real Deal’ness was heard in every word of Condé Nast Artistic Director Anna Wintour’s elegant...
Posted by: Ann Wixley
There's lots to enjoy and soak up at the Cannes Lions festival, so much so that it can all be a little overwhelming. This is especially true when it comes to the various talks happening throughout the week. Here, we've collected a few of the more...
Posted by: Creativepool
The rivalry between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal is one almost as old as the game of football itself, so when The Gunners moved from their home ground of Highbury to the high-tech Emirates Stadium back in 2006, Spurs fans were left feeling more than...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, Monday 21st September 2014, Ogilvy & Mather CEO Miles Young promoted Christopher Graves, currently Global CEO Ogilvy Public Relations, to the role of Chairman at Ogilvy PR and Stuart Smith, currently Regional CEO EMEA, to Global CEO Ogilvy...
Posted by: Creativepool
Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi's Lancaster-born global chief executive, is to be one of the hosts at this years 'Be Inspired Business Awards', Lancashire's leading business awards ceremony. Roberts will be one of the featured hosts at the event,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
British fashion designer Peter Pilotto has just been announced as being the next big thing in fashion by the prestigious BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund. Already adored by celebrities such as Cara Delevingne, Miranda Kerr and Beyonce and well-known...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
You may have noticed an increase in the number of sharply-dressed gentlemen wandering the gloomy streets of London this week, the reason for this is not a showcase of an expertly chosen Christmas gifts but the 4th season of London Collections: Men...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
Monday night saw the glitterati of the fashion world descend on the London Coliseum for the annual British Fashion Awards in a lavish ceremony peppered with humour from dashing host Jack Whitehall. The ceremony has become infamous for the highly...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
The Saatchi Gallery has just opened a new film and screening room, just around the corner from the Saatchi Gallery on the King's Road. The first artist to take up residence in this room is Christopher Baker, a scientist-turned-multimedia artist who...
Posted by: Creativepool
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question we’re asked before we’re old enough to understand it. By the time we hit our teenage years, it's one of the main things our lives revolve around. We end up...
Posted by: Word Tonic Recruitment
There was a time, not too long ago, when crowdfunding was seen as a bit of a gimmick. Today, however, it’s a legitimate source of revenue for thousands of successful brands and for startups with a little wind already in their sails, it’s...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Not every brand can be an icon and even those that achieve iconic status are not guaranteed immortality. Of course, changing consumer and economic trends are always going to play an important part in whether a brand sticks around for months, years or...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we sat down with Martin MacConnol, Founder and CEO at the Covent Garden-based creative agency Wardour. How was your company born and where are you based? We began life as a content marketing agency on Wardour Street, Soho, in 1996 - the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Following the highly successful ‘I Spy Maynards’ campaign which grabbed the public’s attention last summer, Maynards Bassetts and agency of record, VCCP London have launched another bold and playful OOH campaign to remind the nation...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When we think of the 90s, we often picture neon lights, garish colours, skateboards, “attitude” and POGS. But above all else, what the 90s represented to me was the dawn of the mascot. Of course, many entertainment franchises lived or...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I was living the dream of being an indie filmmaker in New York-in other words, struggling to pay the rent and eating a lot of iffy cheeseburgers-when a friend hooked me up with a gig at a SoHo ad agency....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On a cool November evening, in collaboration with KPMG UK, something pretty darn special took place. We helped bring to life into their recently published customer experience research, which highlights how organisations adopting AI into their...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
This summer, San Francisco-based creative agency Partners in Crime worked with Freepik (previously Freepik Company) to evolve the name, logo, tone of voice, colour palette, typography, iconography for the image bank website. To learn more, we spoke...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When we think of Hollywood directors, we often envision them immersed in the world of film from the get-go. Directors like Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan appear to have been born to entertain us with epic movies that push the boundaries of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 2023, a meme could quite literally make or break a campaign. Whether or not that’s exciting or profoundly depressing will depend on many things (including, of course, your age) but it can’t be denied the memes generated in the wake of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Research conducted by Kantar has revealed that a new global sonic identity designed and created for TikTok by MassiveMusic is already performing far beyond industry benchmarks. After launching the sonic identity in late 2022, international creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To launch the eagerly awaited fourth installment in Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo series, B-Reel has revealed its new campaign daring gamers to taste something no one on earth has ever tried before: a Demon Meat Shake. After the open Beta...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Now that we’re almost a week into the new year, the trend pieces are coming thick and fast. To gather a more agency-wide perspective of what’s in store for us this year, however, we spoke to one agency specifically to gather their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This year Pringle launched a campaign which combined two things that are set to be on many people’s minds this December - Christmas and football. Created by Grey London, the TVC is set to a Pringles take of ‘Carol of the Bells’ and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Natasha Kinaru is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Editor who got her start in oil paintings and drawings before finding her true calling as a director. Today, we discuss how and why she transitioned from the slow and meditative world of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“From my earliest days in the crib, I longed for nothing more than to look at pictures and draw them.” These are the words of this week’s Member Spotlight honouree, Izabel Ciesinska, an illustrator who might very well have been born...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We hear from a lot of photographers, artists and designers here at Creativepool but rarely do we get the chance to sit down with a cinematographer. So we jumped at the chance when the Barcelona-based freelancer Alex Pérez came knocking. Alex...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial