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Here’s an odd thing about rock music: the more frightening it tries to be, the more hilariously ludicrous it becomes. Ozzy can bark at the moon till the end of time, but he’ll still be more golden retriever than werewolf. Ronnie James Dio...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
If there is one key thread running through the first ‘real’ Cannes Lions event in three years it’s a greater focus on sustainability. Is it any wonder, given the collective trauma of the last two years that ad land would be all...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
'Keep safe, mate.' I think I’ve heard this more in the past few months than in all the years I spent in London. It feels like a new salute, something you are compelled to say in our email sign-offs or opening lines. I’ve even seen a topic...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
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
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I became CEO last week, so you are probably best asking me again in a few months. I plan to spend most of my time truly understanding the needs of marketers at entrepreneurial...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Keith Foggan, founder of creative social agency System, shares his thoughts on the rise of surrealist marketing. What drives these campaigns? Is it simply fitting for this era of escapism, or does it speak to a larger issue that brands are struggling...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sex toy and lingerie retailer Ann Summers is looking to destigmatise cervical smear tests and communicate their vital importance to women with its latest integrated campaign. The social-first campaign was launched at the beginning of National...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tangerine’s social strategist, Ciaran Howley, takes on Threads and its impact (or lack thereof) on the industry, now it’s been live for a couple of weeks. Weeks on from the roaring success of Meta’s X/Twitter killer Threads’...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We Are Futures is a brand and social impact agency, which specialises in the youth markets of tomorrow. They analyse how young people think, react, talk and behave, and help businesses connect with young people and their families. This week, we...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Born Ugly is a brand transformation consultancy and a creative partnership. They are a team of strategists, creatives and change activists on a mission to create work that improves the experiences and lives of everyone who feel its impact....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? Movies played a big part in my childhood. I would have Disney marathons with my sister and watch the classics on TCM with my dad. As a kid it was a big deal to go to the cinema, so I never took the experience for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this weeks behind the idea feature, we’re turning back the clock to Halloween last year when Fanta took over Piccadilly Circus with a unique and scarily silly Halloween experience that made the public the star of their own horror film on...
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
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
Emily Lofts joined us in August as a paid design intern, after she wowed us in one of our portfolio review programmes. Halfway through her internship, we asked Emily to reflect on what she’s learnt so far, what students might find useful to...
Posted by: StormBrands
Saatchi & Saatchi recently launched Churchill Insurance’s “Bring Chill to the Nation” campaign with Churchill’s iconic mascot ‘Churchie’ leading the creative, introducing his very own blissed-out world, the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Bryony Beynon is a senior trainer at timeTo, an initiative set up by NABS, The AA and WACL to tackle sexual harassment in advertising that offers ground breaking interactive training for companies and individuals on how to recognise and tackle sexual...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“We have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Bang. Politically liberal users on Twitter surged by 24% as news broke of Trump’s permanent ban from the platform in January...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Stumbled on the great meme of this thread’s hero image when I was having a particularly difficult time getting my shit together a while back. Somehow things just kept circling the drain and left me with empty spaces which were proving a bit of a...
Posted by: Richard
The Brazilian Pop Art illustrator Butcher Billy has created a series of posters for the Netflix production Stranger Things 4 which have captivated audiences and become a worldwide phenomenon on social media, and beyond. The nine artworks - one for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on Ewan Burns, a one-man Swiss army knife when it comes to photography, videography and filmmaking. How was your company born and where are you based? It was born under a bright star, born out of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Quite some time ago, I decided to move away from my old business name (Severn Agency) and am now working under my new studio name &Something. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the process, the reasons why, and how I went about...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson
WARNING: CONTAINS OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE* *Unless you don’t get offended by words like ‘fuck’. In which case, the warning should read: contains language. “Daddy, when are you going to teach me how to cut with a sharp knife and...
Posted by: Matt Batten
Google Chrome has announced that it will drop support for third-party cookies entirely by 2023. That may sound like a long time, but it's truly behind the corner - and other tech giants are mostly moving in the same direction. Apple has been taking...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In her previous role, Julia Rast helped brands advance in the digital space by harnessing new technological solutions and innovations in the programmatic scene. Her open-mindedness and expertise as a leader in the scene is unquestionable. Julia...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Annual 2021 winners have been revealed, with some of the most exciting and diverse winners in the history of Creativepool. With the first ever Grand Prix awarded to #Wombstories by Chelsea, this year was also a chance to celebrate equality and...
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“The freelance revolution”, they’re calling it. People all over the western world (especially in Europe and US) are quitting their longstanding, once granted jobs to pursue new opportunities in the freelance scene. It certainly has...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Crazy as it sounds, 2022 is around the corner and with it, a new age for the future of work. As Covid restrictions get lifted and people get their full round of vaccines, workers will be expected to return to the office at least a few days per week....
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The future of work is hybrid - if you’ve been around the Creativepool Magazine for long enough, you’ve read this many times from me now. While remote work is definitely here to stay, there is still a significant percentage of the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
In 2015, nearly 40% of the UK’s self-employed workforce did not file their taxes by the HMRC deadline. That accounts for over 890,000 freelancers in the UK, who all faced a £100 late fee. The mere thought of taxes is often nightmare fuel...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Born and "raised" in Toronto, Zulu Alpha Kilo has a pretty beautiful history here on Creativepool. Multi-award winners since 2018, pluri-featured in the community and our #3 Ranked Advertising Agency on the platform, the team at ZAK is relentlessly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
No business is invincible. When Covid hit the industry, Ryan Hall from Territory Studio saw businesses big and small crumble under the weight of a scary societal crisis - but it was also a chance to reconnect with the industry's inner self, to find...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Richard Hill defines himself as a down-to-earth Creative Director, and we can definitely see where that sentiment comes from. As an extremely passionate creative professional, Richard can find inspiration wherever he goes, but makes it his own...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Spoiler: if you’re reading this, you probably are Like most other sectors, the creative industry is one of deadlines. There’s that deadline to deliver the pitch, that other one to complete a project, that copy to write, that award to...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
There’s a common understanding in the fiction writing scene, according to which conflict drives story. Even outside of fiction, it is a common storytelling technique to highlight the struggles of your characters to make them more relatable. We...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
As our top ranked Experiential Agency, the team at Imagination certainly has some fire in them and they want to make sure the entire creative industry knows about it. As you will read further below, Imagination knows how wonderful it is to be able...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo