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by John Fountain Like it or not, the industry we work in is youth biased. They don't tell you this when you first start out on your career, but the fact is, when you reach about 40 years of age the trajectory of your career will change. Unless you...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain Not so long ago creative folk were employed to work across all areas of business communications. It was said that if you were any good you'd be able to turn your hand to almost anything. And if you had any weak spots or showed any...
Posted by: Creativepool
Whether you’re opening your creative business in a unique industry, or a saturated market, it’s important to recognise what makes you different from your competition. But in a world where anything seems possible, how do you focus on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative agency ico Design was recently tasked with bringing niche fragrance brand Commodity into the mainstream by amplifying a new core product philosophy to appeal to a global audience. It first started by addressing what the brand stood for,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Within the Creative Recruitment Sector, we notice the importance and advantage of having specific industry or market knowledge more and more. Carving out your own niche, becoming an expert within a specific area or sector (beyond Creative, think...
Posted by: ADLIB
Purpose-driven brands are proving that businesses can be a force for good, while changing consumer behaviour and unsettling the incumbents. Our Brand Strategist, James, tells us more. In a world that’s rapidly changing and constantly...
Posted by: Better
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
Creativebloq recently published an article written by Dmytro Spilka that highlights the importance of branding within any organisation’s marketing strategy. Spilka writes: 'In an era dominated by the likes of social media, consumers are...
Posted by: Novagram
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? You know, before I jumped ship to the corporate side, a former colleague of mine who'd moved between the studio and corporate worlds gave me a heads-up: it'd be quite a shock. And...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sticky, sweet, and golden in colour, Lyle’s Golden Syrup has been used in home-baking since 1883, and the green and gold tin is a common sight in British kitchens. However, anybody who has taken a close look at the tin will likely have been...
Posted by: Novagram
Content marketing has become an indispensable aspect of digital marketing strategies, offering businesses a powerful means to connect with their audience and drive engagement. However, amidst the complexities of content creation and distribution,...
Posted by: Taker | Maker
How did you get into the industry? Hmm, so long ago now… I got into ‘editing stuff on a timeline to manipulate emotions’ from doing music production on an Amiga in my bedroom as a teenager and transferred that idea to video when...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I got into the industry through university where I had my first photography classes. Before that, taking pictures was just my hobby. In 2020 I left my hometown and I moved into London, where the whole story...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Leap year 2024 is a rare (literally twice a decade) opportunity for brands to engage their audience, boost sales, and create memorable experiences. With an extra day on the calendar, marketers can leverage the novelty and urgency of this occasion to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Adland has not always been known as the bastion of diversity and inclusion it is today… mostly. Indeed, we only have to cast our minds back to the halcyon days of the Mad Men and the regrettable ads that now seem as outdated as blackface and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
FutureBrand - the brand-led business transformation company that has helped transform household names such as American Airlines, Sanofi, McDonald’s, NatWest and Barilla - has appointed Lauren Maynard as its new Global Chief Growth Officer. In...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I was living the dream of being an indie filmmaker in New York-in other words, struggling to pay the rent and eating a lot of iffy cheeseburgers-when a friend hooked me up with a gig at a SoHo ad agency....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Amy Still is Founder & CEO at Whisk. With over 15 years of experience in digital and social-first advertising, she’s witnessed the shift from mass broadcast platforms to niche community-driven spaces, where people seek more authentic and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TikTok, the short-form video platform, has taken the world by storm, with users seeking fame and fortune through the power of viral content. Whether you're an individual looking to build a personal brand or a business aiming to reach new customers...
Posted by: outbloom
How did you get into the industry? I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Industrial Design from BIAD when it seemed that every graduate job was as an unpaid internship in either a remote setting or central London. It was demoralising to have put so...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As someone who has been freelancing for the best part of two decades now, I noticed a definite sea change in the weeks and months following the dawn of the pandemic back in 2020. Little by little, friends that had been “company men”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The world of advertising has always stood on unstable ground, such is always evolving nature of the creative landscape. However, this year promises to be a particularly lively one, as the dynamics of technology, culture, and economics start to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The exponential rise of AI is well and truly underway and there isn’t a tide big enough to stop it at this point. Rather than wax lyrical on the inevitability of my own career being forfeit, however, I’m choosing to live with the machine,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Depending on who you ask, influencers are either a blight on the media landscape or the “most organic and transparent way to bring new audiences to your brand”. I, as ever, fall somewhere in the middle. I appreciate the appeal of somebody...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Back in the lockdown summer of 2020 we launched Earthtopia, a channel to help people ease eco-anxiety and highlight solutions to the climate crisis. As an specialist communications agency, we work with many sustainability-focused clients but we also...
Posted by: 33Seconds
For today’s Company Spotlight, we’re talking to Dave Dunlop, Partner and Chief Design Officer at Else, an award-winning strategic design consultancy that helps businesses create innovative and effective products and services. How was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For most of 2023 politicians and economists have been engaged in an ongoing debate about whether or not the Western world is in a recession. While I am not here to comment on the financial state of play going into 2024, I can tell you this: We are in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’ve already looked back at the year that was 2023 and what a year it was. But what kind of magazine would we be if we didn’t also cast our sights on the next 12 months? Of course, there are a few trends you can expect to see pop up...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
2023 will hardly be remembered as a banner year for may of us as the cost-of-living crisis started digging deeper and the political spectrum on both sides of the atlantic started to devolve into a cynical and hateful mess. For creatives from all...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Keith Foggan, Founder of social agency System, on what 2024 has in store for us across social media and digital marketing. Although many people think that influencer marketing is a relatively new phenomenon, borne out of the social media boom,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Over the past year, it’s been hard not to notice some pretty spectacular and bizarre advertising-stunts - from Maybelline’s mascara brush on the front of tube trains to Jacquemus bags cruising the streets of Paris. The surge in AI...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Deliveroo’s 2023 Christmas campaign, ‘Anything Goes' celebrates how our behaviour around food changes this time of year as we enjoy our own unique festival rituals. The campaign is built off the insight that in the run up to Christmas, we...
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When needing to see a healthcare professional, we generally feel like we are in safer hands with a ‘specialist’ than our general practitioner. The term denotes expertise in a particular subject, and a high degree of skill. Simon Case,...
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Since the Barbie movie was officially announced last year, there has been a tirade of comments calling it "man-hating" and how it "pushes an agenda", but the film leant into this and used it to its advantage. Of course, it's now the 14th...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Christmas. Love it or hate it, it’s impossible to ignore and it seems to arrive a little earlier every year. I noticed myself Christmas lights being erected in my hometown a full week before even Halloween. Just a decade ago, this would have...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A key influence on the discussions at DMEXCO 2023 was how the emergence of free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels is shaping the future of TV and premium video advertising. More than half of European CTV viewers in AudienceXpress’ CTV...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial