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For this week’s company spotlight, we’re talking to Kelly Mackenzie, Founder and CD of White Bear. She founded White Bear seven years ago after working on global Cornetto rebrand at Carter Wong. White Bear was founded based on her passion...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The creative industry can help brands contribute to the greater good, in ways that feel genuine and authentic. It’s clear that consumers are becoming more attuned to brands acting in socially and environmentally beneficial ways and they show...
Posted by: Clarity
By Dan Gladden, associate creative director at Pearlfisher New York Great design - it will set your brand on the path to success, right? Challenger brands look to the icons they want to be and often come to our table with the understanding that...
Posted by: Pearlfisher
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our new U.S partners, San Francisco-based creative agency MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER. We have been looking to expand and develop a U.S presence for several years and the timing of the deal couldn’t be...
Posted by: VCCP
The news that John Lewis Partnership (including Waitrose) has created an in-house content agency was surprising - you mean they didn’t already have one? The best FMCG and retail brands think on their feet and make content that reacts to...
Posted by: Insiders
We are approaching a whole new world for brands and consumers alike, one in which humanity will matter more than anything else. Yet, it would be foolish to overlook what has happened in the past 16 months - and how the financial struggles of many...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Authenticity as we know it is dead. No longer the bastion of trust it once was, consumers are now seeking new and different expressions for quality, craft and individuality in brands. The authenticity ‘movement’ came to prominence on the...
Posted by: Bulletproof
You’re not likely to find me on TikTok anytime soon. I’m the kind of person who still refuses to listen to an album any other way than from start to finish, so short-form video is never going to appeal to me. However, it would appear...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Fashion has always been anathema to me. You could diplomatically refer to my wardrobe as “functional” and I’m unlikely to spend more than a few fleeting seconds deciding what to wear in the morning. I do, however, understand the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Veganism is officially cool. That seems to be the general consensus among Gen Z right now, who see adopting vegan diet not only as a means of promoting animal welfare but the wellbeing of our planet. This is a good thing. However, there remains a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The fusion of sustainability and brand identity has been a subtle but crucial pivot point for a while now, but it doesn’t come naturally for everyone. How, for example, is a company that relies on fossil fuels meant to promote itself as a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Not every brand can be an icon and even those that achieve iconic status are not guaranteed immortality. Of course, changing consumer and economic trends are always going to play an important part in whether a brand sticks around for months, years or...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whether you like it or not (and that will probably depend very much on which side of 30 you find yourself) TikTok has been moulding consumer behaviour in its own impatient image for years now but for a lot of brands who saw the way the tide was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a world where thousands of companies are being born every day, the power of a strong brand has never meant more. There are, of course, always those legacy brands whose popularity will ebb and flow with changing cultural whims but for some brands,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
There are few words as cutting and divisive in 2024 as “cancelled.” It’s a term you’d once only have heard in relation to your favourite TV series or perhaps an unwise Amazon order but today, it’s something that happens...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Valentine’s Day is a holiday beloved by few. For many of us, it’s little more than a cynical stopping gap between Christmas and Easter to claw at our pockets. There appears to be a disconnect, however, between how much we care about...
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
In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital marketing, a new study by Picnic, in collaboration with YouGov, has brought to light a critical aspect often overlooked in advertising strategies: the user experience. This research, encompassing a broad...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This year’s “All In” Census Data revealed that 36% of people (out of almost 19000 people that took part) are hesitant to report sexual harassment due to perceived impact it may have on their careers. This alarming statistic reflects...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A new report has been released on the back of exclusive research that shows a large majority (69%) of women aged 45-60 feel invisible to brands and advertisers. The insight-packed report by The Behaviours Agency also shows that only 7% think...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nate Camponi, a Director at Chief TV, made a series of beautiful short films for M&S with celebrity chef Tom Kerridge earlier this year. In this piece, Nate explores how to tell big corporate stories in a more digestible way and what you can do from...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Politics is a dirty business, particularly when bloodshed is involved. The atrocities currently raging in Israel and Gaza are beyond comprehension for many of us in the western world and, while our first instinct might be to send aid and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Susannah Morgan, Deputy Managing Director at PR agency, Energy PR, discusses how Lizzo’s recent lawsuit and surrounding controversy is a sobering reminder to brands not to undermine the reason their audience loves them. Lizzo’s recent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While brand partnerships and sponsored product placements have been a major part of the entertainment game for decades now, sometimes, it’s counter intuitive or simply too costly to use a ‘genuine’ brand in a film or TV show. But...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With Generation Z (Gen Z) emerging as a powerful consumer force, brands are continuously seeking innovative ways to engage this tech-savvy and socially conscious audience. One highly effective and immersive avenue is gaming, which has become an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The approach to collaborating with one of the biggest brands in the world by Ben Langsfeld, Executive Creative Director at BUCK. Not long ago, we were making a homemade sock puppet music video for asthma awareness. Fast forward 10 years, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the world grapples with high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, it isn’t exactly surprising to see a major shift in the marketing strategies of the world’s biggest brands. A new Marketers Most Wanted report, which analyses the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By Artiom Enkov VP, Insights & Analytics at Nano interactive We are facing yet another seismic shift in how we reach consumers with ads online. Google has made it clear that there will be no further extensions to its cookie shutdown on Chrome, which...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Interbrand, the world's leading brand consultancy, has launched its 2023 Breakthrough Brands report which names the top 30 innovative brands that are emerging to disrupt the global landscape. The report includes OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As creatives, we’re forever being told to lean into our wilder impulses and “think different”. But if standing apart is so vital, why are we seeing so many brands following the same trends and looking so interchangeable? Brands...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The cost-of-living crisis isn’t just affecting families, it’s a trickle up nightmare that’s digging its teeth into businesses too and brands are businesses. One of the first places many brands unfortunately choose to sever spending...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ben Ducker, Executive Creative Director at Journey Further, offers valuable insights for brands seeking to captivate audiences effectively and deliver powerful creative whilst managing tighter budgets and highlights the importance of data-driven...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
McKinsey Health Institute’s ‘Adding years to life and life to years’ report estimates that over the next decade humanity could add as many as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life - roughly six years per person on average -...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Legendary characters and stories are having a moment in film. Iconic pop culture video game Super Mario Bros. had a box office hit with its animated film amassing $1 billion globally earlier this year, meanwhile, Greta Gerwig’s highly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was a fact not lost on George Clooney when he and Rande Gerber started Casamigos Tequila: strong brands are worth more. Casamigos, launched in 2013, sold four years later for a cool $1B netting Clooney an easy $233M. Not bad. The financial value...
Posted by: Lysle Wickersham