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Southeast Asian online gaming brand Garena plan to capitalise on the football mania created by the 2014 World Cup, hyping the free EA Sports multiplayer football game, FIFA Online 3 with the help of Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand. Garena was launched in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How do you make the next iteration of your main sport game even more interesting for your players? How do you drive large scale awareness and engage with the local communities? Why, with a series of monumental murals, of course. As Electronic Arts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virgin Atlantic/Aviation American Gin - Announcement Virgin Atlantic founder Sir Richard Branson and Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds have teamed up to promote the fact that the former’s planes will soon serve the latter’s gin. However, the...
Posted by: Creativepool
The FIFA World Cup creates some pretty valuable opportunities for advertisers. TV coverage of its matches attracts gigantic audiences across the world (about 3.5 billion people viewing at home in more than 200 countries) during a season when TV...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With the 2018 FIFA World Cup kicking off this very afternoon, we've scoured the internet to bring you the best ads, campaigns, brand activations and more that have sprung up in the last few weeks in honour of the tournament known to those who...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Xbox are proudly shouting that Xbox Live is the UK’s fastest gaming network for playing FIFA 17 with an epic yet light-hearted new film featuring the Premier League stars Marcus Rashford and Willian. The film pastiches the serious tone of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? The truth is that I took a reverse path, as I started by doing traditional Editorial Design and Branding, to the point of becoming an Art Director and Creative in different Publishing companies and design studios....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With design critique, especially within the passionate world of sports, it’s easy to jump in two footed to disparage any new identity. However, the North American World Cup 2026 logo has the potential to become as memorable as Mexico 1968 or...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The video game industry is big. Really big. Global revenues for gaming are set to exceed $365 billion in 2023. That’s bigger than the music and movie industry combined. It’s also projected to soar to over three billion daily users by...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s the biggest event of the year. Five billion people are expected to tune in. Legends will be made. Yes, this… is the Advertisers World Cup, where sponsors and non-sponsors compete for attention on a global scale. Brands attempting...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Advertising Week Europe recently returned to London’s Picturehouse Central, the event’s first in person gathering for two years. LEAP’s Head of Group Marketing and Business Development Joanne Merecido attended the inspiring...
Posted by: LEAP
Never did I once think that in my lifetime we’d be seeing war in Europe and never did I think we’d see a historical figure in our midst that echoed the pure despotic evil of Adolf Hitler. But here we are, two weeks into a completely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Did you know that, whether your next client’s business is relevant to gamers or not, it doesn’t really matter anymore? Surely if you want to create a fully-fledged integrated campaign to target a gaming audience, you should probably...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Freelance Composer and Sound Designer Conor O'Brien has been playing music for most of his life. His passion for music composition and for striking the perfect soundtrack for any project is almost physically tangible in all the beautiful projects...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
All young Kiyan Prince wanted was to become a top footballer. His dream was shattered into pieces when a young person took his life with a knife in 2006, leaving unfulfilled ambitions and a family in grief. 15 years later, and thanks to the help of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Horrendous rainbow suits are on sale, brands have momentarily added some multicoloured pizzazz to their logos and, if you’re lucky, you might get a mumbled “Happy Pride” as the barista hands you your flat white. It can only mean one...
Posted by: House 337
"There is nothing new under the sun." This ancient expression from the Book of Ecclesiastes made it through to us to this day, and it is especially relevant to the world of creativity: there isn't really anything new and original, just remakes and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With Boris promising to ‘bung a few bob so that Big Ben can bong’, (which is surely the British entry to the Eurovision Tongue Twister contest), I thought it might be interesting to see how celebrating success can motivate or disrupt a...
Posted by: JSR Content
Throughout history, athletes have operated in the sphere of public good. From Mohammad Ali resisting the Vietnam War draft, Billie Jean King playing the now infamous 'Battle of the Sexes' match to promote women’s equality, or Colin Kaepernick...
Posted by: Brandpie
The team at in-game advertising platform Bidstack spent last week in Cologne for Europe’s biggest gaming event - Gamescom. Here, its CMO, Simon Gosling, offers a comprehensive look at some of the key things they took away from this year’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gaming’s got a strange reputation. It’s not got the respect that film, literature and even television has. However, as an industry its success is staggering. In the UK the gaming market is now worth a record £5.7bn, that’s more...
Posted by: Rob Pratt
Ragged Edge - Whirli New toy subscription brand Whirli has been created to show that life’s more fun when we share. From strategy and naming, through to identity and launch, branding agency Ragged Edge worked with entrepreneur Nigel Phan to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Summer’s most high-profile sporting event is the perfect opportunity for brands to get outdoors With the UK’s most anticipated sporting event of 2018, the FIFA World Cup Russia, now well underway, and England emphatically qualifying for...
Posted by: Posterscope
In the lead up to this year's FIFA World Cup, I was lucky enough to speak with John McKenna, CEO of Noah Media Group, the specialist sport production company who are delivering the creative campaign for the ITV coverage. Below, we discuss the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
VCCP - Britvic J2O J2O, the iconic adult soft drink made by Britvic, is on a mission to help people make the most of any social occasion in its latest, multi-million-pound campaign by VCCP, with the help of a colourful cockney alpaca named Mojo. As...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
isobel - Kelly's of Cornwall Top ice-cream brand, Kelly’s of Cornwall, returns to our screens with a new TV ad spoken entirely in Cornish. The quirky ad, by creative agency isobel, aims to show that there’s a Kelly’s flavour for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
gyro gyro APAC has announced the promotion of two leaders to important new roles: Paul Hutt is now Chief Growth Officer, gyro APAC and Laura Bell is Client Services Director, gyro APAC. As Dentsu Aegis Network continues to invest in the growth of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Walmart files a patent for autonomous robot bees US supermarket giant Walmart is seeking to patent technology that would see drones pollinate crops like bees. The patent application, filed with the United States earlier this month, reveals that the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hato - D&AD Festival London-based studio Hato has elected to involve the public in creating the “collaborative visual identity” for this year’s D&AD Festival, using the ‘Start with a Mark’ campaign to invite people to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Mindshare - Unilever Unilever has moved its global communications planning account to Mindshare from PHD without a review. An industry source estimated Omnicom’s PHD employed in the region of 30 people on Unilever’s global communications...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
agenda21 Digital - Addison Lee agenda21 Digital has been appointed by Addison Lee, the world’s largest managed car company, as its’ lead digital marketing agency to help drive the business’ expansion in the UK. Effective...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
CHI & Partners - Godiva Premium chocolate brand Godiva has partnered with esteemed photographer and director Rankin, to produce a new immersive global campaign, that showcases the sensorial artistry of its new range, Godiva Masterpieces. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nintendo have never been ones to let a good idea die just because it failed once. In the mid 90s, the legendary Japanese gaming giant, fresh from the success of their iconic Gameboy, decided to piggyback on the wave on enthusiasm surrounding virtual...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When news of the upgraded Xbox One (the rather grandly-named Project Scorpio) dropped at E3 this year, there was one question on the lips of every Sony fan; where the bobbins is the Playstation Neo? The Neo was the codename given to the potential...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Unless you happen to be switched on to the gaming sphere, you might not be aware of the little indie title that could, which is poised to become the biggest hit of the summer. Where your annual Call of Duty, FIFA and Assassins Creed games arguably...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“The word ‘purpose’ gets thrown around hugely these days,” started Jaimie Fuller, the founder of sports performance brand SKINS. To be purposeful, meaningful and authentic are watch-words for today’s marketer - and this...
Posted by: Creativepool