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by Magnus Shaw Last week I wrote a piece for Creativepool (which you can read here) explaining how the rubbish customer service offered by Orange ensured I would never purchase from them again, and simultaneously wasted their advertising budget. So...
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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,...
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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,...
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Indebted to the lovely Radio4 people again, for bringing me to a form of the debtWord I’d never had come across (unearthed, perhaps. It is the preserve {lol} after all, of Archeologists.) Words this useful don’t come along too often, as debitage...
Posted by: Richard
In the ever-evolving world of business, the concept of outsourcing has become synonymous with adaptability and efficiency. As companies navigate the intricacies of a fast-paced global marketplace, they continually seek innovative ways to optimize...
Posted by: We Are Amnet
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I am the ECD and co-founder at SHARE Creative, and I am responsible our strategic and creative teams and their output, as well as overall agency growth and success. A typical day...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s company spotlight, we’re looking to the Midlands for a change and getting to know a little more about one of Creativepool’s top 20 marketing agencies. The Birmingham-based Big Cat is an agency of strategists,...
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A design agency with almost 30 years of progress behind them, Storm Brands, in their own words "build brands that mean business" We caught up with Managing Director Caroline Dilloway this week to discuss how Storm weathered the chaos of COVID and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Am I being paid enough?” This is a question I ask myself daily. Of course, as a freelancer, I technically control my own salary but it’s still a nagging itch that tends to kick in at the most inopportune moments. Generally, just...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We are in November. That much is clear. A bit more obscure is where the last few years have been, and how we reached the end of 2021 so quickly. We all deserve some time to wind down while we savour some delightful Christmas meals. November and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Crazy as it sounds, 2022 is around the corner and with it, a new age for the future of work. As Covid restrictions get lifted and people get their full round of vaccines, workers will be expected to return to the office at least a few days per week....
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The crest of the Covid redundancies wave may well be a thing of the past, but there is no denying that the impact of a pandemic on such a vast scale will be felt in the job market for years to come. With furloughs and lay-offs spreading across the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
When the results for the Q1/FY 2021 were released a few months ago, tales of recovery and hope started spreading across the industry, as optimistic figures of growth and recouped losses started popping up from the industry giants and beyond....
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
It is now yesterday's news that the consumer experience has almost entirely shifted online as a result of a global pandemic. With such sudden change in behaviour, consumers have honed their taste in regards to interactive experiences, and they are...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the coronavirus crisis continues to hit cash flows, force redundancies and cause disruption to normal business operations, thousands of companies across the UK are currently operating on reduced marketing budgets. Though putting marketing...
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Being a creative in this day and age demands the ability to wear a variety of hats and ensure they fit snugly. Michael Scantlebury has worn more hats than most in his extensive history in the sector both at home in New Zealand and in his adopted home...
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Talented graphic designer Ralph Solly was one of the many redundancies caused by Covid-19 and its global impact on the creative industry. Like many graphic designers, Ralph did not give up on his passion, and instead decided to start his own...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Clearly the last year has been an unprecedented one for many sectors of the industry. We can only imagine what Covid-19 did to Marketing spend, but to leaders such as Mark Evans, Marketing Director at Direct Line Group, even a global pandemic is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Amidst all the heavily unexpected things that happened when 2020 hit, a sudden push for smart and remote working was certainly one of the most prominent. Overnight, hordes of workers were forced to move from the office to the comfort of their own...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Freelancers had an interesting year. Alongside events and production, the freelance industry was the most hit and the one that took some of the hardest blows - especially when certain governments started to ignore their needs. With the wave of...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
2021 has just begun and we can already see that it’s not going to be as shimmering as most of us were hoping. Amidst new lockdowns and old restrictions, there is but one thing we know for sure: after 2020, employee experience will be changed...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
In the middle of what some analysts have defined the worst recession since Second World War, this year we have sadly grown accustomed to all the bad news of layoffs, pay cuts, redundancies, furloughed workers and such. It comes to no surprise that,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
If there is one key takeout that you could gain by Nigel Harniman, it is the delightfully provocatory advice (which we love) to not become a prostitute to the business. It's quite easy to get lost in a race to the bottom and only reason in terms of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If we want more tech wizards, more creativity, more diversity, we need to be exciting and fun again. The creative industry used to be the 'best place to work.' Over time, that fun got diluted and the purpose of the whole industry arguably got...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being one of the world’s largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand to what extent the creative industry is recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak. We had the power to make a difference by asking about the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being one of the world’s largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand to what extent the creative industry is recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak. We had the power to make a difference by asking about the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
September 2020 marks two important dates in the mustard calendar - my 25th birthday and, slightly less importantly, the end of our financial year. Naturally, that makes this a good time for us to reflect on the year that has passed. From September...
Posted by: mustard xp
It's no secret that the industry has seen several mass redundancies being made in the past six months. Add that to a delicate balance made of fresh graduates looking for a job, which reach the order of tens of thousands every year, and you have the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was announced this week that Group M will merge both the global operations and teams of its MEC and Maxus agencies into a brand new agency, which has yet to be named. This currently nameless agency will be led by MEC's Global CEO, Tim Castree,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Razorfish, the world leader in helping global brands drive customer obsessed business transformation and part of the Publicis.Sapient platform, unveiled a ground-breaking business-to-business (B2B) commerce experience at the Adobe Summit in Las...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For some time, it hasn't been a question of 'if' but 'when' and 'who'. Well, now we know the answer. The Independent (and its Sunday title) is the first national UK newspaper to surrender its print edition and become a digital-only...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In the latest is a series of significant culls for the supermarket chain since Dave Lewis took over as CEO last September, it was announced yesterday that Tesco's Blinkbox Books e-book service would be closing, following a failed sale to Waterstones....
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One of the advertising industry's most respected figures passed away suddenly on Saturday at the age of 75. David Abbott was a founding member of the London-based Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, an agency which has created countless award-winning campaigns...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
by Magnus Shaw. First a clarification. One would think from the chatter across news outlets and social media that the HMV retail chain is in the process of locking the doors and boarding up its stores. It's isn't, but the news is not good. The...
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It would be easy in an economic environment like this to lay the blame for all redundancies on the 'credit crunch' but I believe that there are other reasons why some of these redundancies are taking place. In prosperous times creative businesses are...
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Redundancies, renegotiations, restructuring and rotten revenues. Tough times in the creative industry. Tough times everywhere. Sorry folks, but there's no longer any room for passengers in this business. So here's a thought: why don't we take a very...
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