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Marketer of the Year Emma Kiernan for AAI talk

Emma Kiernan, marketing manager, Dublin Zoo, who was named Marketer of the Year 2019 for her work in helping develop Ireland’s top family attraction and not-for-profit organisation welcoming over 1.2 million visitors a year, is the guest speaker at this month’s Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI) Toolkit breakfast talk. Kiernan will be joined at […]

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Verve’s Guinness Greenword in line for UK award

Events and experiential agency Verve has earned a spot among the finalists in the UK’s Campaign Experience Awards for best digital experience for work on the Guinness Greenwood Series. Working with Diageo and former England rugby player Will Greenwood, Verve produced live content during last year’s Guinness Six Nations games. The series saw Greenwood dissect […]

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Dublin hosts first shop run by cancer survivors

Research charity Breakthrough Cancer Research opened the world’s first shop stocked and staffed by cancer survivors in Dublin on World Cancer Day to raise funds and highlight the urgent need for greater support for cancer research. ‘The Shop that Nearly Wasn’t’ showcases creative contributions from those who have survived or are living with cancer. The […]

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MCCP again backs breakfast series

Strategic brand agency MCCP has renewed its sponsorship of the Marketing Institute breakfast talks series for the third year in a row. MCCP founder and chief executive Kay McCarthy says the 2020 series will be its biggest and best yet, bringing together speakers and thought leaders who can provide insight that will help make businesses […]

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Miriam Hughes joins Pluto board

Former DDFH&B chief executive and Nestle and Bank of Ireland marketing director Miriam Hughes has joined the board of Pluto. The event and experiential agency is run by co-founders Cathy O’Donohoe and Elaine O’Reilly. Current clients include Audi, Lidl, Dropbox, EY, Google, Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard, Unilever and United Biscuits owner, Pladis. Pluto is part […]

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Howard for Marketing Society Christmas lunch

Irish novelist, journalist and comedy writer Paul Howard will be the guest entertainment act at the Marketing Society Christmas lunch. Howard is undoubtedly best known for creating the cult character, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby jock whose exploits have been the subject of 19 novels and two other books that sold over 1.5 million copies. […]

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Why adland can take you anywhere

The Shark Awards and the Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI) have joined forces to host an event called ‘Après Advertising: Where can the skills you learn in advertising and marketing take you next?‘ The evening will see a screening of Donal Moloney’s short film, Ad Men in Sheds, with two of the featured ad […]

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Marketers called to action on climate crisis

Brand owners should jump on the bandwagon of tackling the climate change crisis because only by getting involved and making a concerted effort can we hope to solve the problem together, AIB’s managing director of homes Tom Kinsella told a World War Z breakfast event organised by youth marketing agency Thinkhouse’s Youth Lab. People can […]

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Horslips re-issue top albums for Vinyl Festival

Two of Horslips’ top albums, ‘The Táin’ and ‘Book of Invasions’, are being re-issued on vinyl as part of their gigs at the Dún Laoghaire Vinyl Festival this weekend. The release is limited to 1,000 copies of each album and will be sold at the two shows in the Pavilion Theatre, 43 years on from […]

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Sehdev for UCD talk about why shameless sells

UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business is to host New York Times bestselling author Jeetendr Sehdev as he discusses his new book, The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why Shameless Sells (and How to Do It Right). The event in Belfield at 6.15pm next Monday coincides with Kardashian’s 39th birthday and is open to students and the […]

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McCabe joins Cogs & Marvel to steer strategy

Events agency Cogs & Marvel has appointed Aisling McCabe as strategy director to the team at its Dublin-based office for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). McCabe has experience working with international clients and brands and the plan is for her to lend her strategic nous to strengthen the business and expand the agency’s […]

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Alan Sugar for Pendulum Summit

British businessman and presenter of BBC’s The Apprentice Alan Sugar will be among the headline speakers at the Pendulum Summit in January. Having left school in Hackney at the age of 16, Sugar started selling electric goods out of a van he bought for £50. In 1968, he founded Amstrad and he is now said […]

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United States boss McCorkindale to address PRII

The president and chief executive of the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) in the US, Dr Tina McCorkindale, will speak at the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) ’20:20 Vision’ annual conference next month. Her talk will be about the various issues around technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI) in PR, over the coming decade. McCorkindale […]

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