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You’ve forgotten what your family looks like. It’s been months of overtime. Leaving the house before they’ve woken up, coming home after they’ve gone to bed. You tell them that ‘it’s expected, and everyone else is doing it’, well aware...
Posted by: Magnopus
So - how are your business finances? Do you know how you’re going to make an even greater success of them? Could you be paying less in tax? And what about those bits you just wish someone else could take care of, so you could get back to doing what...
Posted by: Crunch
No-one really enjoys filing their Self Assessment. It’s that unwanted chore that you put off until the last minute, before flying into a mad January panic when you realise time’s almost up. It might not surprise you to know that, historically,...
Posted by: Crunch
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
Influencer culture is a divisive one: you can love it, or you can hate it, but you can’t ignore it and you can’t deny that it’s inescapable in the current marketing climate. But is this a good thing? Pete Sayburn, marketing expert...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the world grapples with high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, it isn’t exactly surprising to see a major shift in the marketing strategies of the world’s biggest brands. A new Marketers Most Wanted report, which analyses the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? My day is anything but typical. When we founded the business, my time was spent on client-facing activity and project management. Fast forward 7 years, and now that we have scaled...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s behind the idea feature, we’re focusing on a playful little campaign from leading pet care brand Hartz and their creative and media agency of record, Cutwater for Delectables, the wet cat treats. The "Deliciously...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last year, BUCK worked with Transportation Alternatives to bring attention to Spatial Equity NYC, a new tool created with MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism to map the (in)equity of space and how it impacts our health,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Plant-based snack brand Harvest Snaps and digital creative agency of record Cutwater have teamed together to bring to life a music-driven TikTok branded effect designed for college students throughout the US. The branded effect, entitled “Snap...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While 2021 is almost history, I hope you are ready, willing, and able to celebrate the best days yet to come. Are you focused on sharpening your skills for the new year ahead? If so, some of the world's most elite organizers are preparing to unleash...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Some time ago, I took a few days to read an interesting little book by Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, named Blood, Sweat & Pixels. In it, Jason interviewed a number of game studios behind some of the most famous games, learning the crazy and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Miguel Nogueira loves research. He lives for research when he works on his beautiful artworks, and in another life, he would probably have been a traveller around the world - seeking knowledge and wisdom far and wide. For those who are less adept at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In one way or another, freelance designer and creative Hiten Thaker has been in the creative industry for the best part of 20 years. A highly focused and entrepreneurial professional, Hiten has worked for a plethora of high-profile clients and you...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While 2020 is almost history, I hope you are ready, willing and able to celebrate the best days yet to come. Are you focused on sharpening your skills for the new year ahead? If so, some of the world's most elite organizers are preparing to unleash...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Working as a freelancer in the creative industry is highly rewarding, but it can also be a daunting process to keep on top of your finances being out on your own. There’s lots to think about including whether the rules of operating as a sole...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Now that the dust has settled after the New England Patriots won a record sixth Super Bowl in Atlanta on Sunday, it’s time to judge who won brand bowl in 2019. While it wasn’t a vintage year for football on the field, the ads typically...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Everyone knows that preparing and filing your annual Self Assessment return is stressful. Between grappling with HMRC’s rules, putting together your evidence of income and allowances and racing against the 31st January deadline, it can feel like an...
Posted by: Crunch
Creativepool held its annual Connect: London festival at Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery last week with two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking events for the creative industry. The packed programme saw the action take place across...
Posted by: Creativepool
Grey London - Locozade Energy Lucozade Energy is taking its “Energy Beats Everything” campaign back to biblical times with the first ever telling of the David and Goliath prequel story. The campaign, by Grey London, puts the rift between...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cookies & Partners - Greenpeace Cookies & Partners has won the pitch for Greenpeace - the most important independent environmental organisation - to create their Christmas communication campaign to recruit new regular donors. The central message is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH - KFC With the new series of Game Of Thrones just a couple of weeks away, MindsEye director Ben Taylor steps forward to help you relive one of the most heartbreaking scenes from the show. Working through BBH London, the spot sees Hodor (played...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
12 months, 79 spreadsheets, 85.6GB worth of page designs, 90 design templates, 682.75 hours of coding, 137 Google Hangouts and four flights across 34,000 kilometers later and Amys.com was born. Find out how we did it here. This post reflects on our...
Posted by: Superrb
In 2014, Air Max Day was introduced by Nike to celebrate the Air Max and its vast history. It falls on March 26th every year, but this year was a particularly special one, as the Air Max officially turned 30, and to mark this auspicious occasion,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dan Koren, Head of ADI at Wix.com, on how AI is creating a new market standard for web design. Currently, artificial intelligence is mainly associated with robotics and self-driving cars. Nonetheless, major advances in AI technology have opened the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Backed by a £4.5 million marketing campaign, this new work from BMB marks a bold new strategy for Hula Hoops, in a push that aims to appeal to more households across the UK than ever before. The campaign, which launched online first, kicks off...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Karmarama Karmarama is further bolstering its creative department with the appointment of six new creatives and the promotion of Creative Director Dickie Connell to the new role of Deputy Executive Creative Director. Connell joined the agency five...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
United Biscuits has launched two brand new initiatives this week as part of its adorable “Sweeet” campaign, which uses cute and cuddly critters in imaginative ways. The first is the latest ad in the iconic sweeet series, but the second...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Blast - The Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust has turned to Blast to communicate “The Crunch,” a new public engagement initiative that promotes good food, health and environmental education in young people. Blast has worked on naming The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH London - KFC Nothing says Christmas quite like fried chicken. OK, maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but if there's one time of year where it's socially acceptable to stuff our faces with fast food, then it's surely the November/December Christmas...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Kellogg's were recently announced as the new official sponsors of the popular Chanel 4 game show “Deal or No Deal.” The popular cereal brand have chosen to use the opportunity to promote their All-Bran range of cereals, which has recently been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Huw Thomas addressed a capacity crowd at the inaugural RunwaysUK Conference, 'Airport Infrastructure for a Future Britain'. The event was attended by Sir Howard Davies, head of the Government's Airports Commission, and moderated by Newsnight...
Posted by: Foster + Partners
Picture it: the first day of our two-week holiday in Italy. My wife pulls out a map from the depths of her bag and inadvertently pulls out her iPhone, which is caught in one of its folds, at the same time. In one of those slo-mo “noooo!”...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
It would be easy in an economic environment like this to lay the blame for all redundancies on the 'credit crunch' but I believe that there are other reasons why some of these redundancies are taking place. In prosperous times creative businesses are...
Posted by: Creativepool
Written by Toby Thwaites, Director, Purple Consultancy - Specialists in creative recruitment Toby Thwaites and Paul Wood founded Purple in June 2000. Purple provides recruitment consultancy to advertising, design, integrated marketing, publishing,...
Posted by: Creativepool
April Fool’s Day has rarely been seen as the bastion of creative excellence. It’s not about pushing the envelope or creating something with emotional resonance though, it’s about giving people a quick belly laughs and reminding them...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns