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Ever since Sadiq Khan was elected as the Mayor of London last year, he's appeared, to me at least, to be the one progressive spark in an otherwise almost oppressively right-wing and regressive current regime. He's not perfect, but he's certainly a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
You really have to hand it to Elon Musk. In an era where our charismatic billionaires are either running the world or running it into the ground, he stands almost alone as a man with a genuine drive and ambition when it comes to the matter of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As perhaps the only instance of a cheesy pun becoming an international (though admitedly unofficial) holiday, Star Wars Day is certainly unique, but then, Star Wars is a pretty unique franchise. By blending the worlds of science fiction and fantasy,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Cannes Lions is quite comfortably the brightest spot in the creative calendar. With a heritage stretching back more than half a century and a reputation as the place to be in June if you're anyone or anything in advertising, the festival is a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The upcycling trend continues to evolve and grow in new, fascinating and unexpected ways with this latest bonkers, but brilliant activation from Sweden. Outdoor apparel brand Houdini Sportswear wanted to prove just how natural their clothes are. So...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It will come as a surprise to nobody who has ever met me that fashion is not exactly my raison d'être. Indeed, my wardrobe is primarily built up of affordable (cheap) jeans and 'quirky' t-shirts, with the occasional plaid dress shirt thrown in for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 2017, we appear to be bombarded on a daily basis by tech stories that, only a few short years ago, would have appeared completely preposterous. Many of these innovations are also being spearheaded by the 'big three' consumer monoliths of Google,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Jessica Stahl is an upcoming and undeniably enterprising Art Director who left her agency job in New York, moved across the pond to Amsterdam and is now turning heads in the European ad industry thanks to her dynamic new portfolio campaign. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Swedish furniture giants at IKEA are developing workshops in Jordan employing Syrian refugees and local people, with the eventual aim of helping to integrate refugees into the economy and create jobs in the country. The initiative is part of a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Strange as it might be, given the relentlessly 'progressive' nature of our entertainment, vinyl records have never been more popular in 2017. Whether it's a natural push back against the comparatively soulless, ephemeral nature of digital music...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To the delight of anyone who enjoys spending hours digging through supermarket fridges, Coca-Cola’s monumentally successful Share a Coke campaign is heading back to the UK, with this year’s campaign swapping out the logos on Coca-Cola,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Iconic fashion brand Vogue announced this week that Edward Enninful would serve as the editor of their British magazine. This is notable not only because Enninful will become the magazine's first male editor, but also the first black editor of a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AKQA Italy Umberto Basso has been appointed as Managing Director of AKQA in Italy. Prior to this role, Umberto was Head of Emerging Technology at AKQA, and will now report into Matthew Bain, International Managing Director. Umberto will oversee AKQA...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
UPDATE: Since this article was first posted, Pepsi have decided (wisely in my opinion) to pull the ad from YouTube. A Pepsi spokesperson said in a press release: "Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Equal Pay Day (April 4) is a movement dedicated to showing how much further into the year a woman, on average, must work to earn what her male counterpart earned the previous year. The day, originated by the National Committee on Pay Equality (NCPE)...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
April Fools Day is an event that's perfect for modern media, given the potential for wide reaching mayhem and confusion. With the world currently a place where the unbelievable and the borderline satirical appears to hit the headlines on a daily...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst Teresa May attempts to frantically backpedal expectation and one half of the UK prepares to devour the other half in a divisive move of unprecedented (at least in terms of sheer scale) madness, the video game industry in the UK is quietly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Just a few short months after it was named the “most complained about advertising campaign of 2016” by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), Moneysupermarket is looking set to rise from the ashes of infamy by replacing gyrating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst Comic Relief might be built around the BBC marathon, which takes place tonight (Friday, March 24) on BBC One (and features the much-discussed Love Actually sequel), there is so much more behind the charity event that often gets overlooked,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Alongside my recent pieces, Tech Trends: AI in 2017 and Creative Opinions on AI, I also conducted a series of interviews with some varied and insightful industry figures about their own experiences, hopes, thoughts, feelings and fears regarding the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Officially stepping off the ropes to join the fight (after no small amount of persuasion and 'egging-on' from all and sundry), Google has announced an aggressive, three-pronged approach to addressing the problem of ad misplacement and brand safety...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Artificial intelligence was a pretty universally feared and mistrusted concept until very recently, one that was largely ignored by the mainstream media, and relegated instead to the fringes of science fiction. In 2017, however, AI is everywhere....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Apple building AR technology that could “make it's way onto our bodies” A new report released yesterday claims that the mighty trend-setters at Apple are currently working on an augmented reality product, which would put it in direct...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There was a great deal on internet chatter over the weekend regarding brands (both major and minor) pulling their ads from YouTube following the revelations from the ongoing investigation from The Times, which found that ads from brands including...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
St Patrick's Day activations are actually a little thin on the ground this year, but one that caught my eye (perhaps due in no small part to my personal fondness of the brand) was Jameson Whiskey, who are celebrating the launch of their very...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
By it's very nature, virtual reality can be an emotionally draining thing to experience if you're not prepared for it and the creative industries are starting to realise that, if they utilise this more immediate connection effectively, they can...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Banksy stands alone in the domain of popular culture as an artist who even your nan has probably heard of, but even his most devout fan couldn't name if they fell over him (or her or them). Banksy is less a person than it is an idea; a defiantly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The new boss at Google for the UK and Ireland, Ronan Harris, has openly defended his company's ad viewability and transparency record, days after WPP boss, Sir Martin Sorrell, urged Google (and Facebook) to take responsibility regarding setting the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Vbat - Foster's Ubiquitous lager brand Foster’s has been given a new packaging design and tweaked visual identity, which aims to give more precedence to its Australian history. The rebrand has been completed by Amsterdam-based branding...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I'm known amongst my friends as something of a 'beer snob' that won't settle for a sub par lager on a night out. Indeed, I genuinely struggle at large events (concerts, trade shows, festivals etc) to swallow my pride and chug the generic swill on tap...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This year, there has been decidedly more attention cast on International Women's Day, which is important, as, even in these enlightened times, many women across the world are still being made to feel as if they are somehow 'less than' their male...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Google is everywhere, and it would be incredibly easy to wax cynical about the tech giant and its apparent goal to monopolise the tech industry, social media and the internet, but honestly, Google's rampant domination has never, personally at leat,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Nintendo Switch touches down in stores and homes worldwide today (March 3). I have mine on preorder and will be popping to pick it up as soon as I'm done with work for the day (no I didn't pull a sickie, but I was tempted), but until then, I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The mobile tech community have descended in their compact droves on Barcelona this week for the 2017 Mobile World Congress, which appears to be expanded every year as the mobile market does likewise. This year, with smartphones reaching their peak of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns