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Apart from the Scottish yes/no question, there is one thing that sticks in my mind as being the biggest argument to be heard around the office water cooler over the past year or so. “Who will be the next Doctor Who?” (which could actually...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Saatchi & Saatchi London announced yesterday that former Nike UK brand communications director Adam Collins, and Mother's Will Nicholls have been hired as managing partners at the agency. Both Collins and Nicholls will report to chief operating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's been announced today that the United Overseas Bank, one of the largest financial services groups in Southeast Asia, has severed its ties with the Publicis Groupe agency Leo Burnett Singapore, who were formerly the banking organisations agency of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We recently spoke to Christope Huet, the digital artist behind the fourth PSD, in series 3, of the TEN Collection (a collaboration project with 5 photographers, and 5 designers, from 10 different countries). Fotolia: Christophe, we’ve been...
Posted by: Fotolia
The teenage actress, recording artist and author Zendaya (known to her friends and family as Zendaya Coleman) has signed up to be the official spokesperson for this years Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF; an iconic, annual campaign, which asks kids in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It was announced yesterday that Paul Roebuck will return to BBDO as executive vice president and worldwide senior business director with oversight of the agency’s Johnson & Johnson consumer business at the BBDO headquarters in New York. This is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tata Sons Limited, the principal investment holding company of the Tata Group, recently appointed JWT as the creative agency for its global brand campaign. The three core messages that the agency, which is the world’s best-known marketing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As part of the PR surrounding the launch of Uncle Ben's new “Ben's Beginners” campaign, which is encouraging kids to get involved in the kitchen, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has launched a new two-minute online film called “Where's the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The leading marketing consulting, analytics and research firm, Optimal Strategix Group (OSG), announced last week that they have been included on the Inc. 500|5000 list for the fifth consecutive year. The annual Inc. 500|5000 list is an exclusive...
Posted by: Creativepool
It all started innocently enough. Somebody I follow on Twitter, re-tweeted a post from somebody I don’t. The post suggested there had been severe wrongdoing in the Thatcher government of the 1980s, including the deeds of Mrs. Thatcher herself,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Do you remember when Tony Blair said he couldn't use a computer? I do, because it infuriated me. At the time, he was leader of one the world's largest economies and democracies, and there he was, smirking gleefully about the fact that he couldn't...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Resource is the first major event dedicated to the circular economy, and is set to uncover the next generation of UK entrepreneurs, experts and innovators, who can help UK businesses of the future adopt a circular economic approach. The term...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A startup led by former Marker Studios vice president of branded entertainment, and industry veteran, Fran Solomita; Mozaic Branding is an innovative firm, which will provide unprecedented service capabilities for brands seeking collaboration with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hello, my name is Denis Voronin, I'm 27 years old , I have a beautiful wife and two cool children, a son and a daughter. I was born and live in Russia and I think in the future and I will stay in Russia.I started working with Fotolia at the beginning...
Posted by: Fotolia
Skin-care giants, Nivea, recently hired Jack Morton Worldwide, The Interpublic Group's global experience brand agency, to create a live brand experience, which will reach through social media as part of the brand's #smoothmornings campaign. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The health behaviour experts at Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide announced yesterday that its New Jersey office had made five promotions and made two new hires. Promotions Former account executive Libber Werner has been promoted to the role of senior...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Advertising Club of New York, a professional organisation that represents the vision and mission of the global advertising industry, honoured 12 members for Outstanding Support and named 6 new board directors at the 118th Annual Meeting of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Top Fotolia contributor Siarhei Piatrosau, and his colleague Dmitri Serov, have a unique Fotolia portfolio, so we spoke to them as part of our ‘Unstock’ series. Siarhei and DmitriDmitri and I are both from Belarus. We started working...
Posted by: Fotolia
How about this for a pitch. A new social network - only you pay for this one. For your money, you are guaranteed the opportunity to interact with celebrities, leading business people, sport stars and top technology people. Essentially, you're buying...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Businesses and Government cannot rest on their laurels if the UK shall maintain the position as a world leader for the creative industries. Launched at the Create UK event last wednesday, hosted by Facebook, attended by Vince Cable Secretary of State...
Posted by: Creativepool
Saatchi & Saatchi Latin America and Conill Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi's multicultural unit, announced yesterday that Javier Campopiano has been appointed to the newly created role of chief creative officer for Latin America and Multicultural USA....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nobody likes being patronised. Even small infants boil with fury when some dough-faced adult leers into their pushchair and makes 'woo-woo' noises at them. Probably. I think being patronised takes us back to school, when we were bound by the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The multichannel marketing agency RAPP, itself a part of The DAS Group of Companies, a division of the Omnicom Group, announced yesterday its acquisition of UK-based brand and retail agency, Haygarth for a sum that has yet to be disclosed. The deal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The 'Crash Test Drive' campaign for NRMA Insurance by Whybin\TBWA is officially the only Australian campaign to be nominated for an award in the 'Innovation' category at the 2014 Cannes Lions. The campaign, which is one of 30 pieces shortlisted for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Nobody knows anything’. So goes the famous quote from screenwriter William Goldman, suggesting that it’s impossible to predict public taste. It’s a theory that would certainly be supported by the haphazard history of the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced yesterday that legendary creative ad man Roy Wisnu will be joining Lowe Indonesia as the agency's new group CCO, leading Lowe's creative across all its Indonesian divisions, including digital division Lowe Profero, and activation arm...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the footer of this column will tell you, I’m a copywriter. And a blogger. I also dabble in journalism and podcasting. These are all quite enjoyable and satisfying things - at least from time-to-time - and I’m pretty lucky to do them...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Between May the 21st and the 24th, Destination Imagination will be celebrating Global Finals 2014, the world's largest creative thinking and problem solving competition for students. This year (which promises to be the biggest yet), a record setting...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In my own naïve way, when wandering around art galleries, I've often stood with hands clasped behind my back, looking up at some impressive bronze statue or other and thought... “What if the sculptor made a mistake?” That's more or...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Yesterday, Ogilvy & Mather New Zealand released a new video, which officially announced the launch of Neo@Ogilvy, the agencies brand new digital division in Auckland. The cutting-edge agency (which is part of a global network that consists of over 40...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
JWT, arguably the world's best-known marketing communications brand, has recently appointed a new CEO for their Latin American operations and has, in the same breath, added Brazil back into the mix after keeping it separate from the rest of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Do you remember Cait Reilly? She was the graduate who brought a legal case against the government after she was forced to abandon her voluntary work with a museum, and replace it with unpaid 'work experience' at Poundland. Both situations allowed her...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In a bold move earlier today that they feel will lead to significant increases in digital marketing solutions space in India, the 'DDB Mundra' group announced today that it had acquired the digital marketing firm '22feet'. The firm is renowned in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Generally speaking, the classic front and back label pack design system doesn’t change much from one bottle of wine to another. Wine connoisseurs have the knowledge to select a good bottle of wine - the understand the difference between grapes...
Posted by: bluemarlin
“That’s the power of social media” - that’s what they keep telling us. Yep, social media can indeed be harnessed and used to great effect by an enormous range of businesses - from sole traders to multinationals. For some of...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
I've written before on the clumsiness and general lack of bite of the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) and this week sees them back in action, in hot pursuit of Spotify. It seems the music streaming site recently threw out an email to selected...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw