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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

Voices

“Stop waiting, start creating”

By Nicola Kemp

Scott Morrison, Founder and bringer of The Boom on why the coronavirus crisis is the creative industry’s “Netflix moment”.

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Voices

Building an anti-racist industry together

By Nicola Kemp

The FUTURES Network unveils its community manifesto to better identify the barriers and drivers of positive change in their companies.

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Voices

Why your payment policy needs to be part of your mental health policy

By Nicola Kemp

The Leapers Research Study 2020 underlines the gap between rhetoric and reality when it comes to addressing mental health in the creative industries.

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Thought Leadership

How can companies better support employees through another lockdown?

By Nicola Kemp

A third lockdown, combined with the seasonal gloom of January is placing employees at risk of burnout, making safeguarding the mental health of staff business critical.

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Fuel Your Imagination

SheSays and Gather take aim at Blue Monday with free event

By Nicola Kemp

The creative community are invited to come together to connect and share in a virtual, non-judgemental space.

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Trend

Will every month be Dry January in 2021...probably

By Nicola Kemp

Carlsberg’s global campaign for its alcohol-free beer brand underlines the category's transition to the marketing mainstream.

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Voices

Marketing and PR jobs still failing to capitalise on flexibility

By Nicola Kemp

We may well have spent 2020 waxing lyrical about the revolution afoot in the workplace, yet nearly four in five marketing, media and PR jobs advertised in the UK make no reference to flexible working.

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Voices

timeTo research underlines advertising industry’s complacency on #MeToo

By Nicola Kemp

Industry research underlines the need to push for education and action to ensure the eradication of sexual harassment in advertising.

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Interviews

Breaking the coronavirus communications conundrum

By Nicola Kemp

Tom Knox, Chairman of MullenLowe London, on the greatest marketing challenge of his career.

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Fuel Your Imagination

GENIE Talent dials up the creative inspiration with an advent calendar like no other

By Nicola Kemp

From the first of December, GENIE will be delivering a daily dose of creative inspiration via its virtual calendar, a welcome reminder of the ability of creativity to flourish, even in the midst of constraint.

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Fuel Your Imagination

D&AD goes digital to launch the most accessible annual ever

By Nicola Kemp

The concept of giving everyone a seat at the digital table is central to the launch of the 58th D&AD Annual.

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Voices

“If you feel like you are being held back, get out”

By Nicola Kemp

Fura JĂłhannesdĂłttir, Chief Design Officer at Huge on taking risks, breaking down the barriers between physical and digital and the power of challenging the status quo.

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Hot Pick

NHS England and MullenLowe deliver a creative call to arms

By Nicola Kemp

‘We Are The NHS’ has become more than a marketing platform in the latest beautifully shot spot which provides a moment of reflection on 72 years of the nation’s health service.

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Hot Pick

Childline and The Gate stop kids in their tracks with stop motion storytelling

By Nicola Kemp

‘Nobody is Normal’ is a beautiful piece of creative work, a stop motion animation, that conveys the vital message to children; that you are not alone.

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Voices

Surviving the second lockdown

By Nicola Kemp

It's the sequel that no one wanted; as the industry faces up to a second lockdown NABS provides some much needed support and advice.

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