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I won't even pretend to understand American Football. To my eyes it's all a bit of a mess, like a collision between a game of Rugby and a game of Chess, without the passion of the former and the brains of the latter. The Super Bowl, however, is an...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tiny Flying Drizzy - Are you a fan of chart-topping hip-hop star Drake and a fan of Flappy Birds? If so, this is the game for you. Collect Grammy Awards as Drake's disembodied head in this vaguely creepy clone that looks as if it were cobbled...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Warner Brothers - 'American Sniper' All too often, ads for movies contain too much information and far too much of the movie itself. In short, they're a bit desperate. But this is much more like it. Lean, intriguing but giving little of the story...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
This week has been one big, fat customer relations fail in the life of Creativepool’s grumpiest blogger. That’s me, by the way, and it’s a title I’m rather proud of. Oh, and before you go all grammar guru on me, and tell me...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Much like text messages and instant noodles, there was a time when audio logos seemed terribly brave and inventive. Received wisdom tells us Intel were the first to deploy such a thing, when they decreed their name could not be shown or spoken...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Ah, advent! The gateway to Christmas! Today is the day when millions of children all over the country are opening the first window on their advent calendars and devouring that first overpriced and possibly over-wrapped square of chocolate - assuming...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
In a new study by Leo Burnett as part of their Humans Being series, the “Surprising and unspoken realities” of the sharing economy in America are revealed. The research, which has been collated in a report dubbed “The Sharing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The answer to the headline question is simple; they both appear in groundbreaking new campaigns, with one starring in a campaign for an international airline, and the other starring in a campaign for a 90-year-old fashion brand. Neil Patrick Harris,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's been quite a busy week for the world's most beloved pizza chain, in both some good ways and some bad. Firstly, a new Global CEO was named at the beginning of the week in the shape of David Gibbs, who will assume the role on the 1st of January...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If you're in the habit of staying in and watching ITV on a Saturday and Sunday night, you'll probably be familiar with Stevi Ritchie. If not, then I just need to tell you he's this year's comedy offering on the X-Factor. You know, the one who can't...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Ashley Morrison If, like me, you have moved or are thinking of moving to the country, you’re taking a perilous risk. It doesn’t matter if you’re pretty much bang on one of the main corridors into London or not (the Cambridge -...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
1. "I've changed the copy, so I'm sending it back for you to make it read properly." Ah! So you couldn't resist meddling with the perfectly good copy I sent to you - and now you want me to put it right. Right? 2. "I know it's not in the brief, but...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
A new campaign for Australian insurance firm NRMA Insurance, highlights its home and contents insurance policy with an amusing 30-second TV spot that shows a family of possums breaking into a family's home while they're away on holiday. The campaign...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week Twitter launched the Buy Button which is a new way for users to discover and buy products on Twitter. The new tool will make shopping from mobile devices convenient and easy and provides sellers with a new way to turn the direct...
Posted by: Creativepool
The subtle, but elegant “Pint-in-a-bottle” campaign created by BBDO Singapore for Guinness, has proven to be the most awarded Asian print campaign at this year's Clio Awards, the ceremony of which will take place on the 1st of October...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
You're probably familiar with the magazine Private Eye. If not, you just need to know it's the longest running satirical publication in the UK (maybe the world), is edited by Ian Hislop from 'Have I Got News For You', and is still remarkably fresh,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Today, in the late afternoon, it all kicked off on Twitter. Was it despair at further appalling news seeping from the Middle East? Or fury over another catastrophic governmental decision? Of course not. It was the revelation that Twitter itself is...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Publicis Groupe has been tipped to acquire Criteo, the online advertising company based in Paris, France. According to recent reports, the acquisition would help the Publicis Groupe expand its digital capabilities, as Criteo specialise in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Marketing Evolution CEO, Rex Briggs presented new findings and new analytic capabilities at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Innovation Day hosted by Disney. Briggs' presentation, entitled ACCELERATING THE TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION...
Posted by: Creativepool
AccuWeather, the internet's top global weather information company, recently announced that a new version of its “Weather for Life” app has been released for Windows Phone users. This iteration of the app, which is also available for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The news that the next 'Star Wars' film will be a sequel to episode six - 'Return Of The Jedi' - fills me with genuine excitement. That it will star Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Peter Mayhew is thrill upon thrill. However, if this...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Most freelancers think that 'customer retention' and 'brand loyalty' are just terms that get thrown around by marketers and don't apply to them. But no matter how small the business in question may be, customer retention is always relevant. In fact,...
Posted by: Copywriting Is Art
Regular readers of the Creativepool blog will know that, although I am no artist, I like nothing more than to spend several hours at an exhibition, having a good moan. True, I don't need to be in an exhibition to do that; Ed Reardon lives - he's 42...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Appliances Online, the family-run online appliance store based in Australia, recently launched its first TV advertising campaign in an attempt to expand its brand recognition. It has also partnered with Channel Nine's 'Big Brother' and Triple M's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Hurt, Sir Neville Marriner and I walked into a bar... No, that isn't the opening of a joke; it actually happened on Saturday. (Yes, it really did.) Luckily, there was no rerun of any alien-bursting-out-of-the-stomach scene. Always a bonus. So,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
I think I've only ever met two people who never swore. One for moral and religious reasons, the other had taught herself not to, because she thought she was doing it too much. I admired them both for their self-control and adhering to something they...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The other day, a friend asked me to proofread their covering letter for a job they were going for. And before you go all Stephen Fry on me and ask who the hell I am to proofread other people’s work when I end a sentence with a preposition,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
'Solve a problem.' That's what they teach you at advertising school - and it's not a bad lesson. If one can identify, spotlight and fix a problem a consumer is enduring, then you really have a selling point. Really it's the 'What's in it for me?'...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
We had the chance to speak to Italian Fotolia Contributor Danilo Sanino to ask him about his signature of illustration which is extremely popular, having found the target market for his work as well as his equation for success whilst still enjoying...
Posted by: Fotolia
I'm going to let you into a secret. Not a massive one, like I know that Pop Idol was fixed back in 2002 and Gareth Gates should have beaten Will Young into second place. No, I'm talking about something really, really insignificant. My minimum word...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Spaghetti hoops, luxury cars, whisky, compact discs, bleach - if you can think of it, somebody has advertised it. And that's fair enough. As long as it's legal, any producer of a service or product has the right to attempt to persuade us to buy it;...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
How about this for a pitch. A new social network - only you pay for this one. For your money, you are guaranteed the opportunity to interact with celebrities, leading business people, sport stars and top technology people. Essentially, you're buying...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
As well as losing out on their own 2014 World Cup (after a staggering 7-1 defeat to Germany on Tuesday evening) it would appear Brazil have lost something else to a European country. In this case we're referring to the iconic 'Christ the Redeemer'...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Something has gone terribly wrong with the strapline. Not just a particular strapline, but straplines in general. And I don't mean they're just not much cop these days (although as American 'Realise The Potential' Express will tell you, they're not)....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Recently it was announced that Radio 1 and Radio 1 Xtra would be shedding a cross section of their DJs. Controller Ben Cooper has handed Mike Davies, Jen Long, Ally McCrae, CJ Beatz, Crissy Criss and Robbo Ranx their cards, and his actions are blamed...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Soft drinks and shower gel. Heavy machinery and hats. A film franchise and manly cologne. At bluemarlin, we believe that all brands have the innate potential to stretch their identity into certain foreign categories. The right positioning and a...
Posted by: bluemarlin