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Nicola Kemp

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About

Nicola Kemp is Editorial Director for Creativebrief, where she oversees consumer trends, innovation, and interviews with industry thought-leaders from across the creative industries for all areas of the business. She is a member of the Associate Board and focused on growing the reach, relevance and reputation of Creativebrief and BITE. She started her career as a financial journalist before specialising in technology, social trends and marketing. Her work has appeared across titles including Campaign, WGSN, M&M Global, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian and The Observer. A passionate advocate for diversity in all its forms she won The Women in Marketing Journalist of the year award for her work championing diversity in the creative industries, and was featured in Timewise’s Power 50 for her work on flexible working. She was named as one of the 200 women redefining the creative industry by The Dots an #EverydayAction award winner by Bloom, a Pitch 100 Superwoman and a Campaign Trailblazer of the future. With a 5-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son, Nicola is always on the look-out for new feminist fairy-tales to add to their ever-increasing book collection.


More from Nicola Kemp

Fuel Your Imagination

TBWA\London and Ovarian Cancer Action show the enduring marketing power of a stunt

By Nicola Kemp

Ovarian Cancer Action has turned to influencers to urge women to learn more about the danger of Ovarian Cancer.

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Voices

“The creative industries need to understand how under threat we are.”

By Nicola Kemp

Elle McCarthy, Vice President of Brand at Electronic Arts on redefining creativity, getting comfortable with imposter syndrome and building diverse teams.

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Trend

How VMLY&R and Snapchat are connecting with Gen Z voters

By Nicola Kemp

The Speech to Street campaign turns to AR to create a platform for Gen Z creators to amplify their voices.

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Interviews

“If you’re ignoring diversity, you really aren’t doing your job”

By Nicola Kemp

Jerry Daykin, Senior Media Director, EMEA at GSK Consumer Healthcare Marketing, on why now is the time for the industry to make diversity a business imperative.

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Hot Pick

Now You Can shows the power of simplicity for haircare brand Batiste

By Nicola Kemp

As hairdressers re-open and we emerge from lockdown, the haircare market may well develop its own bounce-back myth; a new campaign from The Corner for Batiste.

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BITE Focus

#SeeingRed: How Hey Girls harnessed the power of anger to combat period poverty

By Nicola Kemp

One in ten women and girls in the UK cannot afford or access sanitary towels or tampons. This barbaric statistic has lit a creative fire for social enterprise Hey Girls, which is turning to the power of anger to tackle period poverty in the UK.

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Trend

How creative collaboration provided the firepower for the Give Her Space campaign

By Nicola Kemp

Sophia Johnson and Sophie Szilady, a creative team at The Brooklyn Brothers, share how they turned to creativity to create the space and the words to confront violence against women.

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Trend

Why now is the time for brands to harness power of the Thoughtful Marketing movement

By Nicola Kemp

A panel hosted by Bloom & Wild in partnership with Creativebrief underlined why now is the time for brands to prioritise empathy and humanity in their use of data.

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Interviews

Brands recognise the need to rethink, to re-advance and to repair

By Nicola Kemp

Karen Fraser, co-founder of Weiser Works, on the once in a generation opportunity to place sustainability at the heart of marketing.

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Interviews

“What is expected of a CMO nowadays is verging on unfair”

By Nicola Kemp

Rob Pierre, CEO of Jellyfish on why the future of marketing transformation requires marketers to recognise they don’t have all the answers.

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Hot Pick

Virgil Abloh and Braun partnership underlines the enduring power of artistic collaboration

By Nicola Kemp

The collaborative approach is a powerful reminder of the ability of a well-executed partnership to elevate a brand above the everyday and connect with consumers through sheer design brilliance.

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Voices

The Overcome: How the industry can banish burnout for good

By Nicola Kemp

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we asked a selection of industry leaders to share their advice and tools for overcoming overwhelm and banishing burnout for good.

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Fuel Your Imagination

Why Subway created a plant-based grime track for World Earth Day

By Nicola Kemp

With one third of consumers actively choosing to reduce their meat consumption, this plant-based innovation is not just about headlines.

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BITE Focus

UK advertising market poised for a strong rebound in 2021

By Nicola Kemp

The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report forecasts a 15.2% rise in UK adspend, which will reach £27.0bn.

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Voices

Saatchi & Saatchi sets out to revolutionise the industry for working parents

By Nicola Kemp

Saatchi Family aims to support working parents and power the industry to build back better following the coronavirus crisis.

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