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It's been a busy day in the world of online advertising. The same morning that The Times released a shocking report insisting that many major brands had inadvertently funded extremist terror sties through unchecked programmatic advertising practices,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In 2016, the lines between many progressive and intolerant ideals are beginning to blur at an unprecedented rate. Consider the marches currently taking place up and down the (somewhat ironically-named at this point) United States right now. These are...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Circus Circus continues to grow and attract the best talent. This week, the micro-network led by Bruno Lambertini, Ignacio Liaudat and Luis Alonso announced the addition of Federico Durán to the Los Angeles office, with Durán joining the...
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Superdream Steve Price, a well-known name and highly respected personality on the Midlands creative scene for more than 30 years, has been appointed as creative director at Bromsgrove-based marketing and communications agency Superdream. Formerly...
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MeringCarson This week, MeringCarson, the advertising agency focused on brands, companies and organisations who are in the business of experiences - destinations, products, entertainment, and social movements, announced the promotion of two long...
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Peter Saville/Morph - Tate Modern British graphic design legend Peter Saville is the mastermind behind the new graphic identity for the Tate Modern art gallery; a colourful model of the complex itself that includes the new Herzog & de Meuron...
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Samsung Electronics, the Korean electronics giant responsible for the Galaxy smartphone range and seemingly every modern television that isn't either made by LG or Sony, was recognised this week as the most creative marketer of 2016 by the Cannes...
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Celebrity sells. It’s a marketing device that can be traced back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgewood used Royal endorsements to create an aura around his pottery and make the Wedgewood name famous. Later, author Mark Twain licensed his name to...
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Studio Egret West unveiled a revolutionary new design vision for the London Underground stations of the future this week, in a design manifesto developed by the London studio that includes more eye-catching tube station entrances, subdued lighting...
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Publicity stunts are far from an explicitly modern phenomenon, but have become more commonplace recently thanks to the immediacy of social media. With brands falling over one another to outdo each other at every step though, is it possible for them...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Allow me to let you into a little secret: I’m not very thick skinned. And yet people often assume I am, partly because some of my blogs range from being moderately tongue in cheek to bordering on acerbic. One thing they never are, however, is...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Since I reported on Banksy's Disneyland pastiche last week, the art installation-cum theme park in Weston Super Mare has become major international news (seeing American newspapers talking about an abandoned water park in Weston was genuinely surreal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There's something I don't like. 'Quelle surprise!' (that's your actual French) I hear you cry. It's when people start emails off like this: Ashley. Blah blah blah. Message message message. J. Now, for all I know they might not have been frowning...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Have you read the Forrester report? If not, do you know what the Forrester report is? Don't worry, neither did I until someone asked me what I made of it, prompting me to run away and look it up. In some quarters, however, this report is hot stuff....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The UK arm of Kia Motors has teamed up with VCCPme to create a unique interactive publicity stunt to promote the first, fully electric Kia car; the Kia Soul EV. The stunt works on the campaign tagline, “The Power To Surprise,” and took...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Arby's was in hot water recently, when the restaurant chain received a “Friendly reminder” from Pepsi that they had yet to release the second of their promised ads featuring the soft drink. The brand had already wrapped up its creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
10. Travelators You know travelators, those flattened escalators that serve as moving pavements. Well, it’s not unusual to find static print ads along their route, but I’m suggesting the actual moving steps would be ideal ambient media....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Sunday night saw Silicon Valley's elite rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood's biggest stars at the 2014 Breakthrough Prize award ceremony, which saw pioneering scientists share the £23 million prize pot. The lavish ceremony at California's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Shop Direct Takes The Cake Shop Direct, the owner of digital retail brands such as Very and Littlewood's, recently named the Cake group as its retained PR agency following a competitive pitch. Lee Publicity will contain to be kept on retainer as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
MoZeus Worldwide, the Atlanta, Georgia based mobile technology agency dedicated to helping brands and marketing agencies interact with consumers, recently announced a partnership with Toyota Motor Sales. The deal will see MoZeus, whose other...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In much the same way as cinemas now use the lure of movies to sell popcorn at vast profit, so the World Cup can be seen as deploying football games as a lure to sell enormous quantities of advertising. Which is absolutely fine by me as I find...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Getting an advertisement completely and utterly wrong is quite an art. For starters, it takes two parties who at least profess to know what they're doing: the client and the agency. Then the brief must wildly misunderstand the nature of the audience...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
You may not have noticed, but they held the Brit Awards last night. You may not have noticed because the TV coverage attracted fewer viewers than any Brits this century. Whether this is a failure of broadcasting, marketing or pop music will remain a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
When the Kevin Bacon EE 4G mobile network commercials first came out at the cinema, the auditoriums (or at least the ones I sat in) were awash with laughter. Tightly scripted, informative and amusing to boot, they were a breath of fresh air and just...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Today a court took just 70 seconds to grant Nigella and Charles a Decree Nisi which takes them one step closer to becoming divorced. This follows a month after pictures showing him with his hand around her neck during a row outside Scott's restaurant...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
The old adage asserts, 'Word of mouth is the best advertising'. And there's a lot of truth in that. When a satisfied customer recommends a product or service to a potential customer, a form of potent and cost-free advertising has taken place and it's...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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...
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by Magnus Shaw When I was a kid, homosexuality bemused and troubled us. I went to a public school and, despite the stereotypes, any boy even hinting at same sex attraction would be inviting ridicule or worse. That's how stupid we were. Now in...
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by Magnus Shaw Perhaps we shouldn't expect anything more from ITV2 - after all, this is the home of Celebrity Juice, Life On Murrs and The Only Way Is Essex. But while those shows may grate and irritate, they manage to avoid devaluing and...
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Two bits of excellent news. First, there's a conference for copywriters and wordsmiths happening in Bournemouth on 18th May this year. And second, readers of the Creativepool blog can enjoy a special discount. The event has been pulled together by...
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On 21st October 2008 a completely original advertising campaign was launched. Positioned on the sides of buses it carried the simple headline: 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. This was the first time a marketing...
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400 miles of track (only 150 of which are actually underground), 180 million passengers a year and one 300 foot moving walkway in engineering terms alone, the London Underground system is a staggering achievement. However, the role the network has...
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There is a grand tradition of animosity and grudge amongst any era's foremost artists. Just think of the squabbles between Picasso and Matisse or even Michelangelo and Leonardo. But these cultural showdowns rarely take place on the towpath of the...
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Carlsberg is launching a new global brand campaign - Do the best things begin with curiosity? Probably - championing that all progress in the world starts with a spark of curiosity. The new campaign from Fold7 follows consumer research that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Fashion has always been anathema to me. You could diplomatically refer to my wardrobe as “functional” and I’m unlikely to spend more than a few fleeting seconds deciding what to wear in the morning. I do, however, understand the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? My MA degree was the catalyst to fall in love with art and design. My project was about a fashion app and I had to do all the designs from branding to UX and UI. After my graduation I wanted to combine Marketing...
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