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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
For most of 2023 politicians and economists have been engaged in an ongoing debate about whether or not the Western world is in a recession. While I am not here to comment on the financial state of play going into 2024, I can tell you this: We are in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Panellists and presenters at the B2B Marketing Expo shared a wealth of insight to light the way for fellow marketers through the economic gloom. LEAP Marketing Manager Jen Reznick attended the event and shares her key takeaways. Marketing priorities...
Posted by: LEAP
“The marriage of imaginative flair for business creativity and the diligent application of process is a match made in heaven to drive growth.” It’s no secret that the UK economy is in deep trouble. A botched mini-budget, consequent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Everyone likes a freebie and with the news this morning that we are potentially heading into one of the worst recessions in history, the concept of getting something genuinely useful for nothing has never seemed more enticing. With that in mind, I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the United Kingdom enters a recession, SMEs need to look into putting systems into place that get them through the recession. Damian Hanson, Co-Founder & Director of CircleLoop, a business focused on communication systems, explores why cloud-based...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Asking people to part with their money has never been an easy thing. It’s why sales skills are still seen as incredibly desirable traits by employers and it’s why advertising exists in the first place. I mean, what is good advertising...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There's no doubting that the COVID-19 crisis is affecting several corners of the industry in more or less similar ways. A lot of professionals, even beyond the actual creative industry, are talking about one of the worst recessions of the past 100...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Source This month’s CP Career comes from Source - a specialist recruitment business, dedicated to the digital, integrated and traditional creative communications industry. They work to support the needs of advertising, marketing and design...
Posted by: Creativepool
There are many signs that something is going wrong. The scarcity of invitations to join the staff of a particular agency; the lack of requests to pencil out dates in your diary and the distant memory of those top-dollar, overnight emergency...
Posted by: Creativepool
This week, we spoke to Dave Allen, Founder of “independent purpose-driven transformation consultancy, Brandpie. How was your company born and where are you based? Brandpie was conceived in the summer of 2008 and launched in December 2008....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
2023 will hardly be remembered as a banner year for may of us as the cost-of-living crisis started digging deeper and the political spectrum on both sides of the atlantic started to devolve into a cynical and hateful mess. For creatives from all...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In the 1940s, some flour mills started to use patterned fabric for their flour sacks after they realised that the fabric could be re-used to make children's clothes. This direct response to world events helped to foster goodwill with...
Posted by: Novagram
By Alex Jenkins, Editorial Director at Contagious. It feels like the last twelve months has seen the ad industry stuck in a creative recession. As someone who’s monitored the output of the global ad industry for over a decade, I can’t...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Amid economic uncertainty, the advertising ecosystem is maintaining its resilience. With budgets continuing to grow, there is a sense of optimism that seems at odds with the economy at large. This positivity is not ill-founded. Many companies were...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
By CEO and Co-Founder of leading digital marketing agency Go Up, Edward Coram-James It’s fair to say that the world has been a pretty tumultuous place recently. The pandemic and resulting recession, Brexit and the shockwaves caused by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The new year paints an uncertain picture for retailers. With predictions of more acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcy administration, the fight to stay afloat shows no sign of slowing down. And, now we must throw the threat of recession into the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Be sure to personalise your emails! Data: Collect, analyse, optimise, repeat! Video content and podcasts are IN! Feel like you’ve heard this all before? You’re not alone. Over the past few years, the usual suspects in marketing trends...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Worldwide, global content marketing revenue is expected to hit $137 billion by 2026. That’s no doubt down to its proven effectiveness: targeted content, relevant to the reader’s position in the purchase process, yields 72% higher...
Posted by: We Are Amnet
With budget season upon us, a looming recession, and squeezed budgets, how can marketers plan to improve the effectiveness of digital campaigns on a budget to retail customers? ROI Hunter’s CEO, Karel Schindler, believes he has the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For many agencies, January is a time of maximising budget spend for the first quarter, but it’s also when planning for the year ahead’s growth takes place in earnest. Smaller agencies often struggle with planning for growth, and a key...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Victoria's Secret unveiled its brand refresh earlier this year in a desperate bid to keep administrators at bay...but as we delve deeper into a global downturn - which big retailer will be next to rebrand - and more importantly, will it survive the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While the world falls apart around us there are still so many creatives fighting the good fight and keeping the furnaces of artistry and design stoked with fresh ideas. But while design might be born from the creative mind, trends are shaped by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas as the nights draw in and snow is on its way. Yet this year, the chill in the air isn’t a nostalgic reminder of Christmas past but a stark realisation that this winter is going to be tough. With...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Yext describes itself as “the Answers company that’s on a mission to empower every company in the world to provide authoritative answers to every question about their organisation.” It achieves this by using AI to collect and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Consumers are looking to get more with less with the same high expectations of brands as the cost-of-living crisis and looming recession rolls into 2023. Karel Schindler, CEO of ROI Hunter, outlines four trends that retailers cannot afford to ignore...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Armadillo is an independent CRM agency that combines data, insight, and strategy with talent, personality, and craft to deliver fantastic work and unrivalled ROI for global brands such as McDonald’s, Carnival UK and Disney. This week, we spoke...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As companies rapidly evolve, it is to be expected that the priorities and expectations of roles within a brand evolve as well. But no position has changed quite as rapidly as the CMO. Once considered the nexus of all things creative, the CMO is now...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The media industry has undergone massive changes throughout 2022. The current global recession has seen streaming giants struggle to maintain customer revenue and interest, especially with new streamers such as Paramount Plus, entering the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been the most competitive Christmas ad season ever. People want a reason to smile, and brands have pulled out all the stops to provide it with a series of feelgood festive ads. Advertising effectiveness company System1 have unveiled their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Andy Wilson, Media Director at Dropbox, gives us his thoughts on what Black Friday and Cyber Monday mean for online creators and entrepreneurs and outlines how to market a small business online and get the most out of the event and its immediate...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Rowdy Studios is a full-service branding agency based in London and Dublin with over a decade of experience in building bespoke brands. A tight-knit team with an enviable client list, Rowdy is an agency that “blends sound strategy with loud...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A small but passionate team born from the ashes of some of the biggest agencies in the world, the spectacularly named Orange Panther Collective was founded on the cusp of the pandemic in March 2020. From social gurus to brand strategists, big...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Despite the optimism of a return to ‘normality’ at the beginning of 2022, we now find ourselves mid-way through the year with another emerging crisis affecting consumers and brands alike. According to Bridget Arik, Chief Operations...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ask most marketing experts and they’ll tell you we are currently living through “the age of data” and given the facts and figures, it’s tough to argue. The global big data and business analytics market was valued at 169...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns