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Industry

The LPA Futures Photographers

LPA Futures is a division of the Lisa Pritchard Agency which supports and promotes the next generation of commercial photographers. We had a fantastic response to this year’s competition and the standard of entries was exceptionally high across...

Posted by: Lisa Pritchard
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Leaders

A Week In Tech: The Anti Smartphone

Introducing the “Anti” Smartphone Whilst many of us have become a little too attached to our smart devices in recent years (myself included), there are still those amongst us who long for a simpler time, when our phones were just that;...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

The Launchpad: New teams join the industry

Sibling The executive leadership team from GSD&M and the founders of multicultural ad agency LatinWorks announced this week the exciting launch of Sibling, an integrated creative and media agency with a decidedly multicultural DNA. The agency plans...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

TBWA\Chiat\Day LA TBWA\Chiat\Day LA has announced Renato Fernandez as Worldwide Creative Director at the agency, with responsibility for the Gatorade brand. Previously Creative Director for Gatorade in the U.S., Renato's promotion extends his role...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Jelly London launch Melvin Galapon to their roster

jelly London are immensely excited to welcome the effortlessly cool, and highly sought after, Melvin Galapon to our exclusive roster of talent. Melvin is a graphic artist hailing from a small town in the Northwest of England. A graduate from Central...

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Celebrate defining moments in family history

Creative agency, Leagas Delaney London today launches two new films for Glenfiddich, the world’s most awarded single malt Scotch whisky. ‘The Maverick Whisky Makers of Dufftown’ heralds the latest instalment of the ‘Family Run...

Posted by: The Media Foundry
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Leaders

Irish rugby fans epically pranked by Heineken

Rothco makes rugby fans face one of their worst nightmares in an epic stitch-up for Heineken, sponsors of the European Rugby Champions Cup. The film, which leads an in-depth online campaign for the brand, was directed by Finn Keenan of Motherland,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Google let us be the Beatles

OK, so you won't get to experience the giddy thrills of being chased out of a packed venue by a horde of screaming teenage girls, and you won't suddenly inherit John Lennon's knack for penning bizarrely poetic rhyming couplets, but thanks to Google,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

The Green Party say "Take That"

Regardless of your political affiliation, you'd be hard pressed to deny that this year's political race has been a bit of a farce thus far. With so many warring (and jarring) personalities vying for public attention in a staggeringly negative media...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

MasterChef winners look to Cardiff for Asian inspiration

Two former finalists from the enduringly popular (and jarringly loud) BBC reality TV series MasterChef have looked to the Cardiff-based consultancy Bluegg for help in launching their new Asian-inspired takeaway business. Larkin Cen and Dale Williams...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

10 Tips For Running A Cheaper Creative Business

As Mr. Osborne will never tire of telling us, between now and May 7th, things are looking up. The economy, which at one point was about as healthy as a pigeon in a bus lane, is really picking up. But make no mistake, this is no time to be frivolous...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Hires of the Week: Part 2

Jack Morton Worldwide Jack Morton Worldwide has appointed Keith Chamarette as the new director of digital at its London office. Chamarette has over 17 years of experience in digital, with time served at agencies such as Positive Digital, Publicis...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

BetVictor and VCCP diversify their mascot

BetVictor has really doubled (or tripled even) down on its loony mascot Maurice in a trio of new spots by VCCP, which feature the zany character played by Paul 'Denis Pennis' Kaye in a variety of guises, each one obsessed with getting the best odds...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Inspiration for Advertising Week Europe

Karmarama has used inspirational quotes from influential people such as director Richard Curtis and TV chef Jamie Oliver as a basis for a new print and poster campaign that aims to raise awareness of this year's Advertising Week Europe. The work...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

When reality TV meets recruitment

I don't know about you, but I'm getting a bit bored of reality TV shows. If we're not biting our fingernails during Masterchef just because the soufflé hasn't risen and Mr Big Food Critic is poking at it disapprovingly, then we're waiting for...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

Hires of the Week

GSD&M Texan agency GSD&M has announced the appointment of husband and wife team Kris and Alisa Wixom as group creative directors, effective immediately. The 7-time Cannes Lions winners who have worked together for 16 years in “A harmonious union...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Let's push the envelope to reach out and touch base

I rarely, if ever, blog about television programmes I happen to like - largely because it would be a bit off-brief if I did. This is, after all, a blog that is specifically supposed to appeal to Creativepoolers, with features, advice or opinions on...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

The gamers nightmare before (and after) Christmas

If you unwrapped and unboxed a brand spanking new Playstation 4 or Xbox One console on Christmas morning, only to be met with a barrage of error messages and broken dreams, you were certainly not the only one. Indeed, both Sony's Playstation Network...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Sainsbury's Christmas ad: the bad taste of festive chocolate?

Ah, advent! The gateway to Christmas! Today is the day when millions of children all over the country are opening the first window on their advent calendars and devouring that first overpriced and possibly over-wrapped square of chocolate - assuming...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

Sven-Göran Eriksson and Mark Lawrenson place their bets

Football legends Sven-Göran Eriksson (former England manager and current Shanghai SIPG manager) and Mark Lawrenson (BBC football presenter and former Liverpool defender) recently starred in a new campaign for the online betting site BetVictor. In...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

And the winner is...

Oystercatchers Club Awards Marketing consultancy, Oystercatchers, held its annual awards at the Mayfair Hotel in London on Tuesday night (November 25), with winners including Saatchi & Saatchi, W&K, SapientNitro and Iris. Saatchi & Saatchi claimed...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Silicon Valley & Hollywood merge at the Breakthrough Prize Awards

Sunday night saw Silicon Valley's elite rubbing shoulders with some of Hollywood's biggest stars at the 2014 Breakthrough Prize award ceremony, which saw pioneering scientists share the £23 million prize pot. The lavish ceremony at California's...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Who rocked the World Branding Awards 2014?

At the glittering 2014 World Branding Awards ceremony, which took place over the weekend at One Whitehall Place in London, and were hosted by Sky Sports presenter David “Crofty” Croft, 69 brands from 25 countries were honoured, with...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

VivaKi sponsor original AOL On Network shows

VivaKi has been announced as the exclusive advertising partner of four new AOL Originals shows that will be available exclusively through the AOL On network in the UK and across AOL owned publishers and sites such as The Huffington Post, Engadget and...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

Twitter help Sky 'Amplify' online content and sponsorship fusion

Sky has become the latest brand to sign up to Twitter's 'Amplify' video advertising platform in an effort to integrate its content and sponsorships online. The Amplify platform first launched in May 2013 and now has more than 70 partners (including...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Doctor Who theme – from then until now...

Apart from the Scottish yes/no question, there is one thing that sticks in my mind as being the biggest argument to be heard around the office water cooler over the past year or so. “Who will be the next Doctor Who?” (which could actually...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

Could Fubar Radio be the future of online broadcasting?

UK radio is in surprisingly good shape. As the first electronic media mankind ever enjoyed, we might reasonably expect it to have been overtaken or eradicated by something more futuristic. In fact, listening figures are pretty robust and, although...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Last week, Private Eye tried to satirise advertising - and failed.

You're probably familiar with the magazine Private Eye. If not, you just need to know it's the longest running satirical publication in the UK (maybe the world), is edited by Ian Hislop from 'Have I Got News For You', and is still remarkably fresh,...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

What does working with John Hurt have to do with copywriting?

John Hurt, Sir Neville Marriner and I walked into a bar... No, that isn't the opening of a joke; it actually happened on Saturday. (Yes, it really did.) Luckily, there was no rerun of any alien-bursting-out-of-the-stomach scene. Always a bonus. So,...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Leaders

Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO net Gareth Bale for BT Sports spot

Real Madrid's superstar Welsh left-winger Gareth Bale has been scooped up by BT Sports to star in the latest campaign to promote its European football rights. The campaign is centred around an ad, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, which features...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Enter The Lovie Awards by 13 June

Attention creators of excellent interactive work, you have until Friday 13th June to enter this years' Lovie Awards! The mission of the Lovie Awards is to honour the best of the EU Web across Websites, Online Advertising, Internet Video, Mobile &...

Posted by: Christie H.Kristensen
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Features

Game On. The toughest creative challenge in TV.

‘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
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Workshop

Where's the glamour? They said there'd be glamour!

As the footer of this column will tell you, I’m a copywriter. And a blogger. I also dabble in journalism and podcasting. These are all quite enjoyable and satisfying things - at least from time-to-time - and I’m pretty lucky to do them...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw

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