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Whenever financial commentators comment on the fiscal possibilities of social media, the focus falls of Facebook. Understandable, I suppose. A fifth of the world's population has an account and the whole platform seems permanently balanced between...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In a new campaign for MORE TH>N, VCCP has focused on the unique personal project manager (PPM) service offered by the company, which is one of the leading insurers in the UK. The idea behind a personal project manager, is that each MORE TH>N customer...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
10. Travelators You know travelators, those flattened escalators that serve as moving pavements. Well, it’s not unusual to find static print ads along their route, but I’m suggesting the actual moving steps would be ideal ambient media....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The Matomy Media Group furthers its strategic digital advancement by announcement the acquisition of MobFox, Europe's leading mobile programmatic advertising platform. The acquisition follows the group's strategic partnership with the Publicis...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Here we go again. Yet another campaign for The National Lottery (TNL), and it stinks. This has been going on for years, of course. If you can stand to, cast your mind back to any TNL marketing, branding or advertising and tell me whether you can...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Braintree, a subsidiary of eBay (eBay acquired Braintree in an all-cash £800 million deal almost a year ago) that deals with the payment processing for a number of popular mobile apps, recently announced that it would be accepting Bitcoin...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Reports have been leaking in over the weekend that Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media, are looking at placing a takeover bid for ITV. The telecommunications and television company owned by billionaire John Malone has reportedly been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based content and social media company that operates brands like eHow, Cracked and Livestrong, announced yesterday that it had added Saatchi Art to its collection. They acquired the company for $17 million in cash and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Alan Lafley, Procter & Gamble's chairman and CEO announced last Friday after a fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call, that the consumer products giant are planning to shed up to 100 brands to help make P&G a more efficient and streamlined company....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a bid to encourage Londoners to utilise off-peak travel, Transport for London have worked with M&C Saatchi to celebrate the dynamic and exciting experiences available within the city, all of which can be accessed with ease via the capital's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Ad Council, North America's largest PSA producer, announced yesterday at its 61st Annual Public Service Award Dinner, which is to be hosted by comedian and satirist Stephen Colbert, will be honouring FedEx chairman and CEO, Frederick W. Smith....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
Today sees the start of my favourite time of year: Wimbledon fortnight. And with Andy Murray defending his title and the intrigue surrounding his appointment of 2006 Ladies Champion, Amélie Mauresmo, there's a lot to be excited about. What does...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
- RAPP wins combined media and creative brand account - Includes offline, online and PPC UK brand media and ATL creative London, 18th June 2014: Guide Dogs has appointed RAPP to handle the combined media and creative accounts for its new integrated...
Posted by: RAPP
‘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
I am writing this blog on a train on the way back to the Big Smoke following a few days mini-break in Cornwall, Mevagissey to be exact. As usual I have found the green hues, sea air and laid-back friendly locals a tonic to my tattered nerves and eye...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
Published 18/12/2013 by Campaign Magazine In a year when the importance of creativity and innovation in digital rose further, SapientNitro stood ahead of its peers. And SapientNitro’s creativity extends to trying to make the world a...
Posted by: Publicis Sapient
Santander recently launched their largest scale campaign to date. The 'Simple, Personal, Fair' campaign marks a notable change in the bank, as it positions itself as a more direct and less convoluted alternative to its closest rivals. The campaign...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
'Merry Christmas' - that's how it began. On 3 December 1992, Neil Papworth from Sema Group, used his PC to send this written seasonal greeting to the phone of a Vodaphone executive. By 2010, 6.1 trillion SMS text messages were sent annually. That is...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
You may not have noticed, but they held the Brit Awards last night. You may not have noticed because the TV coverage attracted fewer viewers than any Brits this century. Whether this is a failure of broadcasting, marketing or pop music will remain a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Whilst $19 billion (around £11.4 billion) might seem like an excessive price to pay for what is essentially a no-frills messaging app, WhatsApp has had a monumentally successful 12 months, completely eclipsing traditional SMS text messaging in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The post-Christmas advertising landscape is a rum old scene. The big retailers have withdrawn - some to lick their wounds, others to bathe in glory and ass's milk. This leaves the field pretty clear for other, less seasonal outfits, to pitch their...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Tell us a bit about you Wesley... I began working in the creative industry in 1998 after studying at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths. Early on I specialised in digital and was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to ride the...
Posted by: Reading Room
These days, we’re by no means strangers to the phenomenon that is reality TV. It permeates every channel, every genre and every demographic. We laugh at the modern Victorian freak show that is X Factor, with their hopelessly deluded, fragile...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Like most people in the creative industry, I know a fair few people who operate websites. Some of those sites are superbly designed and executed, others are a bit dull, and a minority are a right royal mess. It's also notable how few make real...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The World Wide Web, it's a wonderful thing to be sure. You've got your social media for endless moaning and pictures of your holidays. You've got your YouTube for Little Mix videos and footage of other people's pets. And you've got your online...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
At some point, perhaps four years ago, doorstep lending ('The Tallyman', as my grandmother would have termed it) suddenly became terribly old fashioned and parochial. Recession and financial misery inflated the market for non-bank lending at a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
TOMY launches Design Challenge initiative to UK students offering Internship at Britains’ Exeter HQ as prize Introduced into the Britain’s Farm portfolio in 2008, the Big Farm pre-school toy range has fast become a company success story....
Posted by: TOMY Europe
Defining an era is always a tricky, and possibly flawed, business. The eighties were only a festival of wealth, champagne and yuppiedom for a privileged few; while the sixties cultural revolution and endless cool applied only to a narrow...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Creativepoolers in the fortunate position of holding down a fulltime staff job will be familiar with the warm glow of the monthly payslip. Sure, you'd probably like the net total to be larger, but at least your earnings show up on a predictable...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
That’s right - the most life changing, communication changing, perhaps economy changing, and even world changing thing since email. I’ll be blunt. I’m going to say nothing online can come close to email in any of these stakes. Not...
Posted by: Creativepool
The end of the tax year is approaching, which means it’s time to think about making a few resolutions to make your business better over the next 12 months. So if you’re considering making a fresh start during the new tax year, are there...
Posted by: FreeAgent
by Ashley Morrison Last week was a big week for Creativepool: after months and months in the making, the new Creativepool website went live. So to crown its first full week of existence, we have the first ever interview with Michael Tomes,...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. Examine the figures and social media boggles the mind. Facebook boasts over one billion users - a seventh of the entire planet; Twitter has more than 100 million users. Even music-streaming app Spotify, carries 18 million...
Posted by: Creativepool