Creative Intern

Ready to explore the creative heart of advertising? The Ignite Creative Internship is your launchpad into the worlds of big ideas, bold storytelling, and world-class production. Whether you're obsessed with design, fascinated by filmmaking, or excited by how creativity shapes culture—this is your moment. You’ll rotate across Creative and Production teams, getting real exposure to how ideas are crafted, shaped, and brought to life. You will brainstorm and help shape fresh campaign ideas, support live briefs, experiment with creative tech, and assist various production teams to turn concepts into polished content.

Must Have

• A collaborative teammate who thrives in diverse creative environments
• Detail-driven and proud of delivering polished work
• Organised and able to juggle tasks and deadlines
• Naturally curious, imaginative, and eager to learn
• Open-minded, inclusive, and respectful of everyone’s ideas
• Responsible, proactive, and excited to build a creative career

Perks & Benefits

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• Reflection Days
• Shared Parental Leave
• Hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week

Job Description

Company description

!PublicisGroupeUK

Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals.. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

HELPING OUR CLIENTS UNLOCK GROWTH IN THE PLATFORM WORLD

Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world-class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we’ve invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000-strong network via Marcel, our AI-based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.

THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE

Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

Overview

🚀 Creative Internship – Ignite Summer Programme 2026 🚀

Publicis Groupe • £25,250 • 13 July – 25 September 2026

Ready to explore the creative heart of advertising? The Ignite Creative Internship is your launchpad into the worlds of big ideas, bold storytelling, and world-class production. Whether you're obsessed with design, fascinated by filmmaking, or excited by how creativity shapes culture—this is your moment.

Responsibilities

You’ll rotate across Creative and Production teams, getting real exposure to how ideas are crafted, shaped, and brought to life.

What You’ll Be Doing

Creative Rotation

• Brainstorm and help shape fresh campaign ideas across multiple creative teams
• Support live briefs, pitch decks, and concept development
• Experiment with creative tech, UX, digital design and innovation
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, strategists, and more

Production Rotation

• Assist Film, Art Buying, Creative, and Post Production teams
• Learn how to turn concepts into polished, professional content
• Help coordinate shoots, edits, asset delivery, and production timelines
• Discover sustainable production methods and modern workflow tools

Group Project

• Team up with your intern cohort to crack a real brief and pitch your work

Qualifications

Why This Internship Is For You

• Hands-On Creative Experience working with brands like McDonald’s, Honda, Samsung, and EE
• Learn From Industry Pros with mentoring, workshops, and portfolio-building feedback
• Be Part of a Creative Community that celebrates individuality and fresh thinking
• Explore Beyond Creative with exposure to wider disciplines like Influence, Health, Media & more

Who You Are

• A collaborative teammate who thrives in diverse creative environments
• Detail-driven and proud of delivering polished work
• Organised and able to juggle tasks and deadlines
• Naturally curious, imaginative, and eager to learn
• Open-minded, inclusive, and respectful of everyone’s ideas
• Responsible, proactive, and excited to build a creative career

(No creative experience needed—just passion, curiosity, and a willingness to dive in!)

Additional information

Recruitment Process

• Apply by: 7th January 2026
• Step 1: Complete the Arctic Shores online gamified assessment
• Step 2: Take part in a screening call with a recruiter
• Step 3: Join an assessment centre (week commencing 19 January)
• Programme dates: 13 July – 25 September 2026
• Salary: £25,250

At Publicis Groupe we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We have fantastic benefits on offer to all our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. Please check out the Publicis Career Page Careers | Publicis Groupe which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).