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TBWA\Chiat\Day New York TBWA\Chiat\Day New York has found its new CEO in the form of Rob Schwartz, who move into the (newly created) position from his previous role as global creative president for TBWA Worldwide. He will take charge of all...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced yesterday that the global pizza chain Domino's will be sponsoring the popular Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks beginning Monday the 21st of January, taking over from the show's current sponsor VO5. The multimillion pound, two-year deal, will...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Iceland, Peter Andre: When this low-market frozen food retailer had the strapline 'That's why Mums go to Iceland', they attracted enormous condemnation from those who pointed out, quite rightly, it was very sexist. They need worry no longer, for now...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Good Morning Britain 6:00am - 8:30am Suzanna Reid talks to Alan Yentob about his new beard. Meanwhile Simon Schama and Andi Peters drop into the International Symposium On Medieval Folk History in Bruges for more spins of the Wheel of...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Perhaps it's hard-wired into the very nature of the internet (after all, almost anyone can publish one) but it's increasingly difficult to find a really good website. As so much focus rests on social interaction and 'sharing', it seems as though the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Barangaroo, the redevelopment project on the western edge of Sydney's central business district, has appointed 15 agencies to cover categories of creative engagement, design services, digital media services, public relations services, writing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week saw Sir John Heggarty proclaiming most modern advertising to be sh*t. Perhaps there's something in the bracing Spring air, because this week ITV's commercial boss Simon Daglish has warned brands that '90% of content is crap'. Some livewires...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Global advertising agency JWT will this year be celebrating a landmark anniversary. 150 years ago on the 5th of December 1864, William James Carlton opened 'Carlton & Smith' as a newspaper space brokerage. 14 years later, James Walter Thompson (the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For all its trials, hardships, wars and woes, 2013 still managed to inject some wonderful stuff into our busy, pressured lives. So, with 2014 snapping at our heels, this would be an appropriate moment to celebrate the things which enhanced the human...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Do I moan a bit in my Creativepool columns? Don't answer that. As a fully paid-up, grumpy old copywriter, I know I probably do. But you can relax, because today I'm discussing something I really, really like. And handily, it's an...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Yesterday, the front cover of The Sun featured a montage of UK landmarks. Resembling a rather corny tourist poster, it was accompanied by the headline 'This Is Our Britain'. Now, I'm quite aware The Sun is rarely shy when it comes to jingoistic,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Have you been to a supermarket recently? If you have, did you ask the till operator whether you could take the contents of your trolley for nothing? Of course you didn’t. The very suggestion you might be entitled to free groceries would be...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Ashley Morrison. A few weeks ago, I was approached by a prospective client, who asked whether I'd be interested in doing some work for them. Specifically (or not, as it turned out) they needed me to write a brochure. I assumed they wanted a quote...
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by Magnus Shaw. Almost 2013 and the general appetite for celebrity displays no signs of abating. Not only do we have a voracious interest in those who are famous, but we're carrying an insatiable hunger to be well-known ourselves. Forget...
Posted by: Creativepool
With the amount of likes and comments we can all do now on the internet, the art of being able to get your point across in a face to face environment seems to be getting lost. So to counter this culture of 140 characters and faceless avatars we are...
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by Magnus Shaw Last year I wrote a column on a brilliant campaign for Mooncup - an alternative female sanitary device. The brand's wit and frankness were refreshing and the correspondence I received suggested the gadget has many fans. And now a...
Posted by: Creativepool
As you might have already heard repeatedly from every eager fashionista out there, there are just five weeks left until H&M reveals it's latest in a long line of designer collaborations Versace for H&M on November 19th for the forthcoming winter...
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Andy has over 18 years' agency experience, mostly in project management and co-leads one of the design teams at The Partners. Or rather, he did, because in a few days he'll be saying a tearful goodbye to everyone, including his wife and family, and...
Posted by: Creativepool
TV is a huge part of everyday life, with iconic British soaps like Coronation Street and Eastenders still going strong today. Alongside these shows, certain British adverts have made a lasting impression on viewers. We all have memories of particular...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Earlier this year, creative agency Engine launched a new campaign for MoneySuperMarket signalling a fresh direction for the brand. The work was unveiled alongside a new logo and visual identity and encouraged consumers to ‘get money...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Think about your favourite stories. Did you ever notice that the characters within them fall into broad categories? The hard-drinking detective fuelled by cheap liquor... The femme fatale who always has a perfect put down to hand... The naïve...
Posted by: Woven Agency
Around six months ago I had a serious brain injury, caused by a softball hitting me like a sledgehammer between the eyes. Dealing with the fractured skull, broken nose and 31 stitches was one thing, but the long-term result has been more subtle, yet...
Posted by: JSR Content
Mother - Greenpeace Dame Emma Thompson, backed by a host of other famous names, has taken aim at big brands including Unilever, Nestle and Mondelez, as Greenpeace releases a powerful new 90-second animation that highlights how orangutans are being...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ragged Edge - Assembly Most hotels want you to spend time in them. But for millennial travellers, the priority is to get out and experience the city. Assembly is a new hotel brand from Criterion Capital, designed to inspire people to make the most...
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As much as we'd all like to believe that we've all moved on from the dark ages of the 1960s and 1970s into an age of genuine enlightenment, the sad fact remains that, for the most part, adland is still a bit of a boys club. This is thanks in no small...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I spent the better part of my late teens and early twenties as part of an unsuccessful progressive rock band called Dead Letter Office, and the best part of my late twenties in an equally unsuccessful outfit called Rubicava. So, when it comes to the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The other day, a friend asked me to proofread their covering letter for a job they were going for. And before you go all Stephen Fry on me and ask who the hell I am to proofread other people’s work when I end a sentence with a preposition,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Entitled "Wet Dogs", this series of photographs by Sophie Gamand of Striking Paws shows dogs mid-bath soaking wet and soapy. Her series of dog photos tell stories and capture the personalities of canines interlaced with humor and fun. This one in...
Posted by: Creativepool
Here's a story so bizarre, so post-modern, that it's hard to believe Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci are not involved. They're not though, because this is something that has actually happened; it involves two major television stations attempting to...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Create Britain is a national initiative, spearheaded by Creativepool, to celebrate and champion the creative industries and the £100 billion+ value they help to generate for the UK economy each year. Create Britain has already received...
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Welcome to the CP Soapbox! Speaker's Corner is an opportunity for indutry boffins to take centre-stage and put the (creative) world to rights. But we don't want to stop there! We want comments from 'the floor' so if you've got something you want to...
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Welcome to the CP Soapbox! Speaker's Corner is an opportunity for industry boffins to take centre-stage and put the (creative) world to rights. But we don't want to stop there! We want comments from 'the floor' so if you've got something you want...
Posted by: Creativepool
"We genuinely love what we do - as long as we can inject some good creative thinking, we're happy." Creativepool meets Ben Stainlay and Brian Jefferson - better known as wonderful wordsmiths Ben&Brian - to talk cross-platform creativity,...
Posted by: Creativepool Back in 1984, TED was a conference that aimed to bring three worlds together: Technology, Entertainment and Design. Since then the scope has broadened and now it offers creative thinkers the ultimate 15 minute soapbox. So how about today we indulge...
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