🎉 Season 8 is here. Happy 2026. Brace yourselves.
🏆 The Creative Floor Awards are officially open.
⏰ Early Bird Deadline: 06 February
📅 Full entry dates and details:
👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

🍀 Best of luck to everyone entering, and thank you for supporting work that changes careers and lives through our Talent & Diversity Fund.

💡 Got a life-changing idea?
🚨 Fund pitches close 30 January
👉 https://thecreativefloor.com/awards

🗳️ New for 2026: Public Vote categories.
Anyone can judge. Yes, that includes you.

🔍 Looking for work?
📣 Share your LinkedIn or portfolio and we’ll shout about you in future podcast episodes.
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📩 awards@thecreativefloor.com

📢 Hiring or promoting something useful?
Open roles, services, or opportunities welcome.
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📘 Agency Tales, our new book, is out now on Amazon.
🌍 Find your local link here:
👉 https://awards.thecreativefloor.com/agency-tales

🎙️ This episode
We break down what actually happened in 2025 and what’s really coming in 2026 with Tim Jones (Klick Health) and John McPartland (Ogilvy Health), co-founders of Creative Rounds.

🔥 If LinkedIn feels like a bin fire of gloom, this is the unfiltered version.
🤖 AI in real agency life
💼 What clients are actually buying
📈 Where growth is coming from
🎨 What creative departments might look like next

⚠️ Light swearing. Parental advisory. You’ve been warned.

#NotAllAwardsAreCreatedEqual

This week our industry was shaken by nearly 4,000 layoffs, and in response we have released a special emergency episode of The Creative Floor Awards Podcast.

From the emotional shock of losing a job to the anxiety, fear, anger and confusion that follow, this episode breaks the silence around what layoffs really feel like. It offers practical coping techniques, ways to regain structure, advice on protecting your energy and a reminder that even though it may not feel like it today, this moment can eventually become a turning point.

If you have been affected, or you are supporting someone who has, this episode is for you.
You are not alone.

#NotAllAwardsAreCreatedEqual

This week we’re joined by none other than Ben Kay - podcaster, blogger, novelist, Creative Review contributor, ex-Creative Director at Apple, Droga5, AMV, Luna BBDO etc… basically, a walking awards cabinet. 🏆

Ben’s dipped his toes into the world of pharma advertising and shares his observations. In this episode, Ben breaks down what healthcare marketing can borrow from the fruit-shaped tech giants in Cupertino (spoiler: it’s not just clean design and turtle-necked presentations).

💡 What to expect:
🍎 Apple-level creative thinking
💊 Pharma truths with a twist
🙃 Advice you’ll actually use
🎤 One or two mic drops. Maybe more...

#NotAllAwardsAreCreatedEqual