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When Vicki Maguire became the first ever female President of advertising awards and education body The Creative Circle last year, her mission was straightforward: to disrupt this ‘pale, male, stale’ industry and to bring in more...
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
Courtesy of The Beautiful Meme, the D&AD Festival 2017 creative was unveiled this week - with an explosion of colours, textures and shapes representing the ever shifting nature of our category, thinking and work. This year, the iconic D&AD Pencils...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dan Phillips, Head of Digital and Interactive at MPC Advertising Cutting to the core of who we are and evoking primitive human emotion forms the basis of experiences that are talked about, shared and remembered. In advertising, therefore, it is no...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“You can’t be what you can’t see” It feels like change is the only constant in today’s society. 2016 was full of truly shocking political events, that have shaken the collective consciousness, whatever side of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In the modern world, we’re bombarded by images: the average person is exposed to as many as 5,000 adverts every day. That’s one advert every 11.52 seconds. How do you make imagery stand out from an endless flood of data? This is the...
Posted by: Saddington Baynes
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Jason Yates is many things. He’s a former actor who has appeared on some of the biggest shows in the UK (including Eastenders), a visionary marketing mind and a bloody nice bloke. First and foremost, however, he is the Managing Director of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
#CEFutureLeaders - you're invited to a stellar one-day event. One of Creative Equals' aims is to double the number of creative directors in London. Currently, the number is just at 12%. That's why we're inviting 100 future creative leaders to come...
Posted by: Creative Equals
We are ushering in the new year with our first CS Presents of 2017 and it’s all about Creative Super Powers… Do you remember what it was like to be a child. Go find a LEGO set and start to build off plan. Remember what it was like to be...
Posted by: Creative Social
When it comes to the world of design in 2016, many will look back on it as a year where the digital and physical worlds finally began to blend in earnest thanks to the advent of affordable VR and the perpetual advancement of design technology. It's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When discussing the trends that will take hold in advertising next year, it's important to understand what a polarising year 2016 has been. As we approach year's end, we've all no doubt grown tired of the generic “I'll be glad when this year is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst 2016 has been something of a banner year for many horrible things, it's been business as usual in advertising, and business navigating new frontiers. One thing that appears to have come to the forefront this year is the coming together of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
At K7, our role is to help creatives find, create and sell the hottest content around the world. Historically, our focus within that has always been with in what we’d now define as ‘classical television’; that largish screen we...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
OK, that headline might come across as a little bit clickbaity, but it's a pretty shocking statement that is not only true, but indicative of the way celebrity culture has managed to integrate itself within the advertising industry. Matthew...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A roundup of the most important news of the week in the advertising awards world. Eurobest The Eurobest 2016 were held this week in Rome (Italy). Two new categories were introduced this year: Digital Craft and Creative Data. Also, the Branded...
Posted by: TheNextGag
Facebook announced this week that their Creative Hub will be available for the entire industry to use worldwide. Facebook is also introducing a new Inspiration Gallery that will showcase examples of outstanding mobile creative across Facebook and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's been 2 weeks now since D-Day (Donald Day) and our divided world has grown even more so in the ensuing noise, chaos and horror. The creative industries, however, prove ever resilient, and whilst my previous piece from last week regarding the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Creative Industries Federation has published its official Brexit Report, which features an in-depth analysis of red-line issues for the government as it negotiates leaving the EU. The report includes recommendations, agreed jointly by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Idea. It’s a word we hear a lot. Idea this, idea that. Big idea, core idea, great idea, creative idea. Whatever they call it, whatever they mean by the word, our industry's obsessed with 'ideas'. But what actually is an idea? And how the hell...
Posted by: Emily Jeffrey-Barrett
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Jones Knowles Ritchie, supported by Cogs Agency and with production support by 90...
Posted by: Christie H.Kristensen
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Jones Knowles Ritchie, supported by Cogs Agency and with production support by 90...
Posted by: Creativepool
September is a busy month, and we’re back covering the events at Spikes Asia in Singapore. We are continuing the Creative Debates series after its lauded success in Cannes. Also, we have scheduled more Black Cab Interviews so please stay tuned!...
Posted by: Creativepool
This week, the Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) hit Cologne and saw 50,700 visitors, over 1000 exhibitors and 570 descend on the Koelnmesse centre. The expo is one of the most unique of its kind in Europe, with its focus on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Following on from our discussion last week on why creative talks are so important for a sense of inspiration, we’re now looking another reason we believe creative talks are vital to the creative world - networking. This article will look at how...
Posted by: Fiasco Design
Part One: Finding Inspiration As part of a four part series in advance of the next thread Bristol, we are writing a collection of articles on why we think creative talks are so important for a sense of togetherness, community and inspiration. The...
Posted by: Fiasco Design
Andrew Reynolds is hot stuff. He’s Creative Director at Hong Kong’s Brand Union, winner of a people’s choice Webby Award and one of Creativepool’s Top 25. He’s also behind one of this year’s most fun campaigns;...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Academy Class, the UK’s finest new media training provider, is pleased to bring a plethora of experts to their annual event, specifically tailored to meet the needs of designers and developers. Taking place in one of London’s most...
Posted by: Academy Class
Until quite recently, Matthew McConaughey was seem as more of a punchline than a legitimate actor. A series of poor career decisions led to the formerly well-regarded actor being side-lined as a slack-jawed, indifferent rom-com schlub to act as the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
So as we continue to tell our clients that they need to be agile to thrive, what exactly are agencies doing to build in agility into their own businesses? Is the industry keeping up or is it at risk of falling behind and becoming irrelevant to...
Posted by: Daniele Fiandaca
Whilst you might all be more than a little sick at this point of hearing about how the Brexit has monumentally screwed us all over, one area we have yet to really touch on is the design industry, which has been thrown into genuine crisis in recent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
On Thursday 23rd June, Salford based company Bearded Fellows Creative Studio won Best Micro Enterprise at The Big Chip Awards. The accolade marks the company’s third award win in six months, following wins at The Prolific North Awards in May...
Posted by: Bearded Fellows
Creative Debates is a tonic to the endless one-way talks that are in abundance within our sector. The debates, which took place during the 2016 Cannes Lions festival, will tackle some of the most difficult questions and topics being faced by our...
Posted by: Creativepool
Creative Debates is a tonic to the endless one-way talks that are in abundance within our sector. The debates will tackle some of the most difficult questions and topics being faced by our industry, modelled on the old-school debate format with 2...
Posted by: Creativepool
“You can’t fast forward design” a quote from Matthew Parkes, Global Marketing Director at jones knowles ritchie. Cannes Lions is kicking off with a bang and the team at Creativepool is excited to announce the launch of the first...
Posted by: Creativepool
From the beginning, Common Industry's mission was to build an independent communications company. One that blurred the lines of traditional disciplines and agency structures. Now the proud owners of a D&AD award as well as a client base including...
Posted by: Kate Lewin