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Carr now in driving seat at Accenture Interactive

Richard Carr has been promoted to managing director of Accenture Interactive in Ireland and chief executive officer of Rothco, where he was managing director, as part of a management reshuffle. Patrick Hickey, the agency’s CEO, has been made executive chairman, while head of strategy Paul Hughes is retiring from adland to focus on his work […]

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Thinkhouse part of effort to lower emissions

Dublin youth specialist agency Thinkhouse is among the companies from across Ireland and the UK’s creative industries to come together to launch The Great Reset, an initiative that hopes to maintain and promote the positive behaviours and environmental shifts created during lockdown. Global emissions are down by seven per cent since lockdown began. The UN […]

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Champion Green rallies support for communities

All rise is the thrust behind the new Champion Green movement aimed at helping the renewal of communities and promote local enterprise and economic recovery nationwide. Launched by radio host Aoibhín Garrihy, a green butterfly symbol lies at the heart of the Champion Green campaign and features on social media feeds, new products and on […]

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Love Irish Food launches Double Up awards

As Ireland faces a major economic challenge in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and ahead of what may prove a damaging Brexit, Love Irish Food (LIF) has partnered with Core and Media Central to try and help Irish food and drink brand owners command more consumer attention by launching a new awards competition offering free […]

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Shark Awards 2020 open for entries

The organisers of the Shark Awards in Kinsale have launched this year’s awards season and are calling for entries in advertising, digital, design, short film and music video. Not surprisingly, there are some changes to this year’s festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic and there will be no programme of talks and panels over three […]

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Indie List launched by McPartlin & Herlihy

A new venture designed to help the freelance community is launching in Ireland. The Indie List has been developed by Úna Herlihy and Peter McPartlin to highlight the wide array of independent talent in Irish marketing, media and creative services. The 100+ freelance list covers commercial creativity, strategy, project management and digital services. Herlihy is […]

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AAI shares Fanning’s ‘Be Wise, Advertise’ talk

For a limited time only, the Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI) had made some of its exclusive, members-only content available for all to access. First up is John Fanning’s ‘Be Wise, Advertise’ talk from one of the AAI Toolkit breakfast sessions. As AAI chief executive Barry Dooley remarked, perhaps a more pertinent and topical […]

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JWT Folk becomes Folk Wunderman Thompson

Dublin creative agency JWT Folk has announced a name change to Folk Wunderman Thompson following the merger of the two WPP agencies, J Walter Thompson (JWT) and Wunderman, last year. The JWT name has now been retired from the network of 20,000 people across 200 offices globally. The agency will continue to be led by […]

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Rothco scores D&AD hat-trick for AIB grass book

Rothco Accenture Interactive has scooped up a coveted Graphite Pencil at D&AD Awards 2020 in the typography category for AIB’s ‘The Book That Grew’. A D&AD Graphite Pencil is awarded to “stand-out work, beautifully executed with an original and inspiring idea at its core”. It is the third year running that the agency has picked […]

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Huskies reaches new heights for Movember

Men’s health charity Movember  and creative agency In the Company of Huskies have collaborated to light up Dublin’s iconic Poolbeg Chimneys with a message of solidarity, ‘Together We Stand’,  to launch Movember’s ‘Conversation Piece’ campaign. During these difficult Covid-19 pandemic times, people’s  mental health is as important as ever. Movember recently conducted research reveals that one […]

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Most top Irish advertisers to cut spend by 22%

As many as 12 of Ireland’s top 20 advertisers among the 40 leading brands that account for €160 million of media spend plan to reduce their budgets for the rest of the year, a report for Ebiquity Marsh, in line with the group’s recent global survey. Local budgets are due to drop by 22 per […]

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Ervia appoints Publicis and OMD

State utilities group Ervia has appointed two new agencies to handle its advertising, Publicis Dublin for creative services and OMD to handle its media buying and planning, after a lengthy review. Eight agencies had pitched for the business, which comprises Irish Water and Gas Networks Ireland. The creative incumbent, Rothco Accenture Interactive, did not re-pitch. […]

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Publicis makes Schillaci miss

As we know in Ireland, we hate to carry a grudge. Saying that, one Italian did something to our country in 1990 ago that we can never forgive. Salvatore Schillaci scored the goal that ended Ireland’s impossible World Cup dream. So when TG4 decided to broadcast the game 30 years later, during lockdown, Publicis felt […]

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