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Two big appointments were announced yesterday. The first concerns Lindsay Pattison of the WPP media agency Maxus, the smallest of the media agencies within GroupM, the division of WPP that oversees media, also overseeing MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
WPP Lindsay Pattison has been named Chief Transformation Officer of WPP with responsibility for getting its agencies to work more closely together for its top 50 clients. Her appointment to the newly-created role comes at a pivotal time for WPP,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced this week that Group M will merge both the global operations and teams of its MEC and Maxus agencies into a brand new agency, which has yet to be named. This currently nameless agency will be led by MEC's Global CEO, Tim Castree,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Great Guns Great Guns has welcomed directing team Kronck to its roster, where they will be represented throughout the US. Jessica Benzing and Maximilian Gerlach, the German duo behind Kronck, began their careers while both studying production and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Facebook confirms testing of downvote button Facebook will now allow users to downvote comments to eventually hide them. The social media giant is testing the ‘down-vote’ button, making it first available for a small set of users and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
WPP media agency Maxus UK has announced the launch of its first ever Diversity Week, to celebrate diversity within the agency. The Diversity Week will run from 19 -23 September 2016 and will feature guest speakers including Jan Gooding, chairwoman of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The fourth edition of Advertising Week Europe is bringing more industry heavy hitters and unique programmes to the stages of the brand new Picturehouse Central venue. The thought leadership agenda and corporate partner roster for the 2016 event has...
Posted by: Advertising Week
The last week has seen quite a few notable moves in ad world, with a few significant appointments that I've already touched on (including Lindsay Pattison's appointment to global CEO of Maxus), as well as those listed below. Nils Leonard has been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
On the 24th of June, just around one week ago, the UK advertising industry suffered a rather hard blow by the hands of the government. It has been confirmed that, starting by the end of 2022, further restrictions will be applied to HFSS...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Reporting for the BBC, Kate Lindsay says that ‘Gen Alpha are ready to spend - and they want to be treated like adults’. In fact, this demographic’s economic footprint is ‘expected to reach $5.46tn (£4.32tn) by 2029’...
Posted by: Novagram
Budding entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and that includes famous actors, with many movie stars moving beyond their ‘day jobs’ and investing in their own side hustles. Just like anybody else, some brands and businesses thrive,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After three days on intense deliberation, the 54th D&AD Judging Week has come to a close. 749 Pencils have been in awarded in total, decided by juries made up of over 200 of the world’s top creatives. Entrants can visit the official Pencil...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Things are really starting to heat up over at the Old Truman Brewery, with the second set of D&AD Pencil winners for 2016 having been announced to coincide with the first day of the inaugural D&AD Festival. Please note that victorious entrants will...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Entries for the 54th D&AD Professional Awards have opened, so if you’ve created a piece of work, a campaign, a product, or a movement that has had people exclaiming “I wish I’d done that,” then this might be your year. This...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
D&AD, the London based global design & advertising awards and creative education charity, has announced the launch of an all new edition of their prestigious awards show in partnership with Stillwell Partners, producers of the global Advertising Week...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The results of the 2015 D&AD Awards were announced in London last night with Leo Burnett, 4creative, Made Thought, Marcel Worldwide and Colenso BBDO all scooping up coveted Black Pencil awards. This year's awards saw the most amount of Pencils won in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst I have already spoken at great length about the Super Bowl and its subsequent ad war, I really was not expecting the board to be swept almost completely clean by a surprise ad featuring Bryan Cranston as Walter White from the iconic AMC drama...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Creatives are already finding the strength to make amazing work from home. It doesn't happen every day to see a global pandemic take people off the streets. Readers and gamers have long awaited this moment to unsheathe their anti-apocalypse barbed...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
In a bid to restructure the Australian agency Executive Channel, executive chairman Bruce Fink has announced the company's new board of directors, which includes Kim Wiliams, the former boss of News Corp, who has joined the company, which specialises...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Over Christmas last year, Irish independent creative agency The Public House launched their ampaign for EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum featuring a choir of NYPD veterans, correcting a musical myth at the heart of The Pogues’ classic Fairytale...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Robot Food has refreshed the branding for Danish beer brand Tuborg. The Leeds-based strategic branding gave the iconic beer a refreshed design look to emphasise Tuborg as a “proud parent brand,” harmonising the primary packaging around...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Until recently alcohol-free beer was seen as something of a joke and there was a definite and unnecessary stigma attached to it. But over the last few years there’s been a genuine concerted effort towards creating decent alcohol-free beers that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Even the smallest of gates is more powerful than the tallest of walls” This is how The Gate introduces themselves and it’s quite the introduction. While they’re technically only 5 years young, they fancy themselves as an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In their primary role, digital designers combine their creativity and technical skills to produce digital graphics for computer and electronic games, websites, movie special effects, and more. Some digital designers might create graphics for...
Posted by: Creativepool
As one of the global economic hubs and one of the key cities in America, New York City was hit rather hard by the Covid pandemic. Yet the resilience of New Yorkers is legendary and the city folks have always been ready to rebuild on the ashes of a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How would you live knowing that one phone call from you could have saved someone else's life? Doing phone calls to report a knife crime can be hard, but as AMV BBDO's latest campaign for Crimestoppers recites, Hard Calls Save Lives. Following a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Exam results season is in full swing and while students up and down the UK come to terms with how they did in their all-important papers, they'll soon need to decide what's next on the horizon. A recent report revealed that the number of students...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week marks a year since General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect across all 28 member states of the European Union (EU). The privacy laws were enforced to increase and protect the rights people have over their personal data...
Posted by: Creativepool
This week, on May 25, data protection rules across Europe will undergo the biggest change in the last two decades. It's a change two years in the making. In April 2016, after years of negotiations and legal tussling, officials agreed upon the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Impero - The Gin Hub The Gin Hub has appointed Impero to launch its newest product - Beefeater Pink. The campaign first launched in Spain (the world’s 2nd largest market for gin) and will roll out to 12 additional markets over the summer....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Kenyon Weston - The Coca-Cola Company (Diet Coke) Diet Coke has been rebranded and given a bold new can design, which follows the drink suffering a drop in sales in the last year. The new look comes alongside a host of new flavours, which The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Publicis - Diesel Diesel, the legendary fashion brand part of the OTB group, has appointed Publicis Italia, the agency led by Bruno Bertelli, Global Chief Creative Officer of Publicis WW, to handle its global creative and strategy account. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Channel 4 today announced that Volvo UK and Valenstein & Fatt (Grey London) have won the £1million airtime prize for the Diversity in Advertising Award, with an ad campaign focussed on non-visible disability. The brand/agency paring was one of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The 55th D&AD Professional Awards Ceremony took place last night (27th April) in London, where 5 Black Pencils were awarded - the highest accolade in the creative industry. We’re the Superhumans claimed two Black Pencils on the night, one each...
Posted by: D&AD
The 55th D&AD Judging Week has come to a close; 733 Pencils have been in awarded in total, decided by juries made up of over 200 of the world’s top creatives. Entrants can visit www.dandad.org to see if they've won a Pencil, but they will have...
Posted by: D&AD
