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We’ve all seen the cringey ads for millennial fashion brands like boohoo and Jameson Carter, but there's a hot new name in town. McDonald’s has ‘launched’ a fake fashion brand to promote its limited edition Spicy Chicken...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BETC Paris - FLAC Anticorrida BETC Paris has produced a bold awareness campaign for FLAC Anticorrida about the cruelty of bullfighting. The aim of the operation is to relaunch the public debate about this out-of-date practice. In the midst of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to adland, but one thing that has genuinely given me pause for thought in recent years is the (albeit still rather niche) trend of companies creating beauty products to flog their brand. First there was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last month we were ecstatic to release the 2015 Annual. It was amazing to see all of the fantastic work that our platform hosts celebrated in our unique publication. One of our core aims at Creativepool has always been to give those who do...
Posted by: Creativepool
April Fools' Day has always been a day when brands get to flex their creative muscles and conjure up innovative new ways to trick their customers and convert belly laughs into clicks. This year was no exception, with brands across the globe taking to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
GTB UK - Ford WPP agency GTB UK and Ford of Britain have launched “Elephant in the Transit,” a new campaign born out of the Channel 4 Diversity in Advertising competition, and then developed into a meaningful partnership with the mental...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Leo Burnett London - McDonald's Leo Burnett London has created a pretty beefy new campaign for McDonald’s, which turns the focus onto the actual meat for the first time in recent memory, a bold move considering McDonald's has never really...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In the last few years, 3D printing has evolved from a niche concern into a thriving industry, with many previous naysayers in the design community now happily jumping on board the bandwagon with both feet. Not only is it a surprisingly affordable and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McDonald's is set to be honoured at this year's Cannes Lions Lions International Festival of Creativity, as the 'Creative Marketer of the Year' for 2014. The festival (the world's largest annual awards celebrating creative excellence in brand...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
by Ashley Morrison So the Olympic opening ceremony is a week away and I, for one, am really rather excited. Yes, yes, I know it's all very trendy to want to flee the capital during the mayhem that will ensue (for that, read "I'm ticked off that I...
Posted by: Creativepool
Curious Films - The Wilderness Society Zoë Bell’s latest spot, “Save Ugly” for The Wilderness Society, boasts an A-list cast with the likes of Rosario Dawson, Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton. A three-minute musical comedy,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Easter is rarely held in the same regard as Christmas or even Halloween (unless you’re a confectioner, of course) but the iconography of the season is ripe for creativity. Easter ads campaigns of the past few years have seen everything from...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Valentine’s Day is a holiday beloved by few. For many of us, it’s little more than a cynical stopping gap between Christmas and Easter to claw at our pockets. There appears to be a disconnect, however, between how much we care about...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I would never pretend to be the most enthusiastic Halloween fan. I mean, I love a good horror movie and enjoy a good tooth-rotting bar of chocolate as much as the next person but the whole concept has always felt a little contrived to me. However,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
While brand partnerships and sponsored product placements have been a major part of the entertainment game for decades now, sometimes, it’s counter intuitive or simply too costly to use a ‘genuine’ brand in a film or TV show. But...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
BBH is putting the spotlight on the nation’s most famous chicken burger - Burger King’s Chicken Royale in a campaign that taps into a truth that for some, the Home of the Whopper, isn’t all about the beef. But instead of a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TGI Fridays, the American-inspired cocktail and restaurant chain, and brand building agency Boldspace, recently launched TGI’s branding revamp. The company is reinstating ‘TGI’ into its name, after the UK business rebranded to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’ve got in-house copywriters. Why would we need a journalist to write our PR stories? It’s a question numerous clients have asked us, often at the start of our relationship, and one we’re always happy to answer. When creating copy for owned...
Posted by: Red Setter
In 2018, Richard Stanton and Toby Strangewood had a working hypothesis for a new agency. They wanted to build a marketing communication agency purposely designed for the unique needs of businesses going through critical periods of change. 5 years...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I am not a robot. Just to be clear before we start- I can spot lampposts in any picture. It’s getting harder to tell though isn’t it and the march of the robots that AI has caused has sent creatives running into the streets in a Black Monday,...
Posted by: Tony Pipes
Hellmann’s believe fries and mayo belong together, but McDonald’s doesn’t offer mayo as a dip. To help Mayo fans everywhere, Hellmann’s are serving a simple hack. Customise your Mayo Chicken burger to remove the chicken,...
Posted by: Edelman
Marketing is an ever-changing field, with new strategies and tactics emerging all the time, particularly in the lightspeed years following the pandemic. In today's highly competitive business landscape, traditional marketing techniques are no longer...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By Lucie Pearce, Head of Marketing at fifty.io With the narrative of veganism changing over the last decade, plant-based diets are no longer solely the purview of vegans, as the ‘vegan-curious’ and ‘flexitarians’ continue to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? Anyone thinking of getting into the creative industry should abandon the concept of a “typical” day. It’s a huge part of why, after more than twenty-five years in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When people ask me what was my favourite film of 2022, I’d probably join almost everyone else that saw it in claiming Every Everywhere All At Once. But if you asked me what was the most inspiring film that I saw last year? That would be a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
While our lives might be online now, and that’s probably not going to change anytime soon, there is still something quite special about a physical book. When the initial wave of Kindle fever kicked off in the early years of the 21st century, I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In fashion, money talks. Indeed, there is literally millions to be made if you know the right people or are somebody’s son or daughter. But for the rest of us starting out in a fashion career from the very bottom with no real guidelines to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Our job as storytellers is to be a kind of digital alchemist. Clients come to us with rough ideas and briefs. Then after much studying, prodding and poking we finally craft a beautiful audiovisual experience. Within our motion department, we work...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
Earlier this year, Leeds Health and Care Partnership, on behalf of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board released a health campaign to raise awareness around the illegal practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The campaign aimed to encourage...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I love a good burger. Indeed, if I could choose one meal to repeat day-in and day-out until the end of my days it would probably be a Beefy Boys burger with a side of buffalo wings. So, given that today is National Burger Day (the latest in a long...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Occasionally, a piece of content will come along that completely floors me and compels me to sit down, compose myself and dissect what I’ve just seen. That happened for the first time this year about 3 hours ago when I first laid eyes on a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The world of marketing has graced us with countless unforgettable (albeit controversial) campaigns over the past decade spanning a range of industries, from fast food to male grooming and women’s health. Recently, women’s health brand...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The great fear behind artificial intelligence is that it will somehow end up replacing us entirely. Until recently, I would have said these fears are unfounded but then I stumbled upon the incredible horror that is NVIDIA GauGAN - an AI that can...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mobile advertising is fast becoming the rule rather the exception and one agency that knows this better than most is the Barcelona-based BcnMonetize. Founded in 2016, the leading mobile advertising agency helps businesses of all sizes generate ROI...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There’s a lot of buzz and excitement around the combination of digital marketing and web scraping. Data has always been the driving force behind marketing strategies, so the arrival of something that can gather external data was always going to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial