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As you may have noticed by now, Creativepool's founder Michael Tomes has been rapidly interviewing industry leaders at Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity on their way to and from judging, speaking, and all sorts of other events, as part...
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Our coverage of Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity continues. As the festival celebrates its 10th birthday, we're continuing to bring you interviews with some of the top creative minds at the festival. This morning, Creativepool Founder...
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It's February, it's cold and summer seems a long way away. But Gabriella and the wonderful RISOTTO Studio are injecting sunshine into otherwise grey days with bold and playful prints. Grab your sunglasses and let's soak up the colour. Tell us a bit...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
The creative industry's only People's Choice award is now over for another year. The Creativepool community were given the opportunity to vote on who gets into the Creativepool Annual - in 21 categories covering every creative discipline from 3D to...
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Encouraging travellers to swap their weekends with The Everyday Man It’s never been easier to cast convention aside and jet off for an unusual weekend away somewhere in Europe. So, in the sprit of spontaneity, easyJet is encouraging people to...
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Arla unveiled a colourful new TV this week ad as part of a new £7 million campaign to launch Arla Best of Both (BOB); the UK’s first fat-free skimmed milk that aims to match the taste of semi-skimmed. BOB is packaged with a distinctive...
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A taxi service that has changed the way we think about taxi services, Uber has been a genuine phenomenon, but it's still finding its feet outside of the US, so it seems like an odd choice to instigate a complete company rebrand at this time. What's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Super Bowl isn't just the biggest day of the year for the NFL, it's by and large the biggest day of the year for ad land too, as countless millions from across the globe tune in to watch armies of heavily armoured blokes bash seven shades out of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With the US seeing states legalising weed (Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Colorado) there’s something of a scrabble to rebrand cannabis to a mass audience. Should health benefits be the calling card, targeting yoga bunnies looking for that extra...
Posted by: Jade French
Whilst some might have accused Carlsberg of flogging a dead horse with their now iconic “If Carlsberg Did” and “Probably The Best” campaigns, every time the brand has veered away from the format, the public starts to miss them...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The temperature may have dropped to a Baltic minus 9, but that didn’t chill the atmosphere in Berlin last week. Since Berlin Fashion Week first opened it’s doors in 2007, the fashionable elite have been flocking to Europe’s creative...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Wieden+Kennedy - Bud Light The Bud Light Party is Coming American football confuses me. Quite honestly I just find the whole garish spectacle to be a little too much for my fragile British constitution to handle, so when it comes to The Super Bowl,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Camp + King - Energizer Energizer Holdings has announced its selection of Camp + King as its advertising agency of record. The selection of the San Francisco-based agency sets a new marketing course for Energizer as it looks to engage in broader...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve often thought one of the hardest things to do is to come up with a genuinely engaging infomercial. To turn something rather dull that people “really should” watch and listen to into something interesting and/or entertaining...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
At an event in Paris earlier this week, Coca-Cola's Chief Marketing Officer, Marcos de Quinto, revealed a new “One Brand” global marketing strategy that, for the first time in its history, unites all of the Coca-Cola brands under one...
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Mother Design, the design, branding and experience arm of independent creative company Mother, has gone into partnership with British juice brand Plenish to help propel its cold-pressed, organic juices into the mainstream. Plenish Founder Kara Rosen...
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With the fuzzy head that lingers after a little too much mulled wine, I found myself facing the first week of January 2016 from an existential hollow, just off the coast of the Sea of Despair. You see, I quit my full time job of 7 years back in...
Posted by: Michelle Collier
I don’t know about you but my inbox seems to be full to bursting with messages from every Tom, Dick and Hubert offering me advice about how to kick-start my super-productive 2016. It’s only 4th January and I’m bored of it all...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Last week, the tech world relocated en masse to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Technology Association expo (or CES), which this year (as one would expect given recent trends) was heavily focused on VR and everything VR related. However, what with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
KITE is a UK-based optometry brand making waves with its innovative ‘eyewear’ and ‘eyecare’ products. Founder Asad Hamir was frustrated at optometry’s sterile marketplace and sensing that it lacked innovation or...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
TBWA\Paris create a gender-free Christmas What worldview are we giving to our children? That's the question that food retailer Système U has tasked itself with answering over the 2015 Christmas period with an ambitious, and actually rather...
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Gothic architecture might be all the rage in the fictional world (just look at Gotham city in the DC Comics universe), but in reality, there's something of a stigma attached to it. It's the antithesis of the clean, plain, cold exteriors favoured by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A couple of weeks ago, The Foundry, purveyors of creative software (who've worked with folk like Disney and Pixar and are the brains behind the tools that make more or less all modern CG movies possible) hosted an evening on 'creative automation'....
Posted by: Joe Bracken
Sometimes, ads lie. This is a fact, but as an affiliate and propagator of the industry, it's a fact I often attempt to mask with frilly words and subtle humour. It's (more often than not) a comforting and well-intentioned lie, but it's a lie...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Grey London - KOOVS Now this is something truly impressive. Many people balk at the idea of using a music video as advertisement, as they see it as some kind of infringement on artistry. That's largely bollocks though, as I'd argue that any music...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ageing is an inevitable aspect of life that's very rarely covered in advertising unless it's going for an easy laugh (otherwise known as the “Let's just put a granny on a trampoline and call it a day” syndrome). It could be because...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
B29 and the Royal James Bond garage Ever wanted to be James Bond, only without the espionage, fist fights and gun play? Well then you better either be a very handsome, established british actor (or actress?) in their late 30's, or be a member of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A shocking video exposing the brutal realities of child sexual exploitation has been launched by one of the UK’s leading children’s charities this week. The Children’s Society teamed up with communications agency VCCPme to draw...
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Just when you thought video game inspired out of home advertising activations couldn't get more inventive (see my earlier post on Fallout 4's OOH activity HERE), McCann London only go and strap 8 maniacs to a billboard to promote a Tomb Raider game....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Jarlsberg, the world-renowned Norwegian cheese makers, are calling on foodies across Europe, North America and Australasia to imagine and share their most “Impossible” sandwich requests. The cleverly titled (because we LOVE a good pun)...
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Until recently, it would have been difficult to imagine butter gracing the front cover of British Vogue. But in June, the new superfood to watch made its fashion debut as part of a new breed of cultured products being championed by both chefs and the...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
McCann London - Picturehouse Cinemas Following a successful partnership in developing the McCann London “Up on the Roof” film festival, Picturehouse Cinemas (a boutique UK cinema chain offering everything from blockbusters to art house...
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky - Turkish Airlines CP+B London has launched a new campaign for Turkish Airlines, starring football star Didier Drogba. “How Do You Make A Didier” condenses the busy life story of the former Chelsea striker into...
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A new study conducted by McCann Truth Central, McCann Worldgroup’s global intelligence unit, took an in-depth look at the changing dynamics of global brand marketing today, concluding that building global brands today requires a more nuanced...
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Coca-Cola has introduced an inventive new campaign in the US aimed at their Hispanic and Latino customers. The campaign aims to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month (NHSM), which runs from mid-September to mid-October, by placing transferable...
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Ruohan Wang makes beautifully simple illustrations that say more than at first meets the eye. She sometimes turns them into tongue in cheek GIFs, letting her style free from the static page to bring her thoughtful creations to life. Hailing from...
Posted by: Jade French