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Last year, M&C Saatchi bought the digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine for an estimated £10 million as part of an ongoing effort to help establish itself in London. It would appear, however, that the move was actually part of a larger...
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Last week, M&C Saatchi bought a stake in the multi-award winning Brazilian agency, Santa Clara, on of the top five creative advertising agencies in the LATAM region. The agency is led by partner and CEO Ulisses Zamboni and partner and CCO Fernando...
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M&C Saatchi announced yesterday that it has drafted in Tom Bazeley, founder of the digital agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine (LMFM), as its new CEO. Bazeley, who replaces Camilla Harrisson, who quit last week to lead Anomaly London, co-founded LMFM...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
London, AI-powered social media marketplace, Lobster, announced on Monday that they have launched a crowdfunding campaign via Crowdcube to fuel their disruptive adtech platform and further their battle in fair and legal visual licensing. Enabling...
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How did you get into the industry? I got into the industry through university where I had my first photography classes. Before that, taking pictures was just my hobby. In 2020 I left my hometown and I moved into London, where the whole story...
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McKinsey Health Institute’s ‘Adding years to life and life to years’ report estimates that over the next decade humanity could add as many as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life - roughly six years per person on average -...
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From art to adverts, we’re seeing increasing (and incredibly impressive) examples of creativity sourced entirely from AI. And if you look at the dictionary definition of creativity, it’s easy to see how this can be plausible. It says,...
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This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on the London-based Documentary Production company, Candour. We spoke with Co-founder and producer Zachary Crawley on the studio’s humble beginnings and its current status as a defiantly...
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Jason Lane-Sellers, Director of Market Planning at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, explores how Gen Z’s overly trusting nature towards streaming sites could be a grand folly. Gen Z (16-24-year-olds) trust TV streaming companies more than they trust...
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One fifth of the global population lives with a disability, but the world is not designed for disabled people. Even a task which may sound to us as simple as applying some deodorant can be a challenge that needs to be addressed. Which is exactly what...
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Malaria is one of the world's deadliest and oldest preventable diseases. Global efforts since 2000 have saved thousands of lives, but Malaria No More feels that there is a risk that worldwide stakeholders will start resting on their laurels....
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There are many hidden powers in the beauty of music, but if we had to name our favourite, it would definitely be the power to connect. To fight prejudice and champion union through creativity and music, Lipton partnered with RedwoodBBDO and...
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Wunderman Thompson has an impressive track record in helping charities in the fight against domestic abuse, and the campaign below is an excellent proof of that. Born out of a partnership between the agency and domestic abuse charity Hestia, Team...
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It would be hard to define the AstraZeneca rollout anything other than a small disaster. The pharmaceutical company that was deemed the saviour from the all-mighty Covid blight is now going through a substantial PR crisis, with fake news popping up...
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Not all the consequences of COVID-19 make the headlines. A simple sentence, enough to have us focus in on one of the unspoken issues of the pandemic. LGBTQ abuse has risen tremendously during lockdown, and social distancing has pulled off the plug...
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“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.” ― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants If CES 2020 was anything to go by, humans across the globe have been hard at it, before giving birth to some extraordinary tech (as featured) in...
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Remember playing with Matchbox toys as a toddler? Well, Auto Trader has made the car-in-a-box dream come true for adults by parking the world’s first automotive vending machine in East London. The interesting installation offers motorists a...
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The tree that reads minds The leaves of an artificial tree at this year's Burning Man Festival in Nevada illuminated with “light flocks” in response to visitors' movements, heartbeats and brain activity. A team from New York, San...
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Creativepool is very pleased to announce the winning submissions for one of the inaugural briefs on our creative crowdsourcing platform, studiocrowd - a brief searching for artworks inspired by the eclectic Machine Gun Kelly and his third album,...
Posted by: Heather Deacon
Matt Kennedy and Georgia Horrocks are a creative team at Grey London with a mission to change the industry from the inside. The two young inventors are expecting to take adland by storm with their new innovative piece of wearable tech: The...
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The chair built by robots A continuous line of plastic makes up an intricate robot-built chair, designed using a new 3D-printing software by a team from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Whereas most current 3D printing involves...
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A Tel Aviv student has designed a series of food bags that can be added to the laundry cycle to cook dinner at the same time as you wash your clothes. The Sous La Vie bags, which were designed by Iftach Gazit as part of his Industrial Design course...
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Up until now, recycling paint has always been a laborious and costly process, but thanks to a new collaboration between Dulux-owner AkzoNobel, design and innovation company Seymourpowell, and award-winning eco paint brand Newlife Paints, paint...
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Getty Images and Lean In, the women’s nonprofit founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, have announced the expansion of the Getty Images “Lean In Collection,” which is now available on iStock. An expert curation of images devoted to the...
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ITV2 is not a channel I frequent. Chiefly because I’m the kind of person who’d probably prefer to watch footage of his own conception than an episode of Geordie Shore, but also because the channel’s identity has (up to this point at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), has launched an app teaching students about code breaking and encryption. The app, which was launched by the digital security organisation and was designed by students on an industrial year...
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SES, the global satellite company that reaches between 4 and 5 million households in English-speaking Africa, recently launched a bespoke TV channel focused on educating West Africans about Ebola. The “Fight Ebola” channel will be...
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Getting an advertisement completely and utterly wrong is quite an art. For starters, it takes two parties who at least profess to know what they're doing: the client and the agency. Then the brief must wildly misunderstand the nature of the audience...
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By Nick Bennett more from him on twitter @NickoBennett Disclaimer: No real Clients or Agencies where harmed in the making of this speech. Creative direction: The following speech is to be performed by a single individual with a split personality...
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Asked for his thoughts on the current state of the advertising industry, Michael Scantlebury, founder and director at independent agency Impero, says he feels we’re on the cusp of a recession. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, as the...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
Pentagram - Mills & Boon Publishing house Mills & Boon has revealed a new visual identity, which has been designed by Pentagram partner Angus Hyland. The UK-based publisher was founded in 1908 and specialises in romance fiction, typically releasing...
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CHI&Partners CHI&Partners has hired Dave Bedwood, creative founder of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, as a Creative Partner – bringing him on board to help build on the agency’s reputation as a leader in integrated, innovative creativity. Starting...
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Hoot Comedy Tom Bazeley, (second from left) former CEO of M&C Saatchi, is rejoining the world of production and IP to become chief executive of Hoot Comedy, a comedy production company he helped set up five years ago. He will rejoin Hoot Comedy this...
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Taylor James Taylor James has announced the addition of Jason Guerrero as Creative Director, Marie De Leon as Head of Production, and Jacques Tege as Senior Technical Director. All will be based in New York and will report to Taylor James New York...
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Publicis London Publicis London has hired Grey’s multi-award winning deputy executive creative director Dave Monk as its new ECD. He will bring a creative force and internationally recognised talent to the agency that will play a key role in...
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M&C Saatchi has announced it will be launching a brand new agency specialising in driving purchase conversion, with Michelle Whelan as managing director. The agency, which has yet to be named, will be opened in September, and will help brands better...
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