Behaviour & Attitudes managing director Ian McShane and head of marketing at Liberty Insurance will help judge this year’s Marketer of the Year. McShane has been in charge of B&A for eight years, having spent a similar time as managing director of rival agency TNS mrbi. Before that, he was operations and research director at […]
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Simply Zesty gets wild project
UTV-owned digital agency Simply Zesty has secured a contract to re-design and develop a website for the Wild Atlantic Way for Fáilte Ireland. The site will be planned in Dublin and designed and developed in Belfast. The agency was also recently appointed by Ireland’s staycation tourism body to design and develop the new Visit Dublin site for the […]
Pat Kenny signs for UTV Ireland
Veteran broadcaster Pat Kenny is to be part of the UTV Ireland schedule. The former RTE presenter who joined Newstalk last summer will present a current affairs show on the new channel which launches in January. Kenny’s hiring is seen as a pragmatic move by the Belfast media group in a bid to appeal to […]
IAPI to represent Cannes Lions
The Institute of Advertising Practitioners (IAPI) has been appointed the Irish representative to the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The world’s largest advertising awards festival takes place in June every year with more than 10,000 delegates. Each country involved has one national sponsor. IAPI used to be the lead organiser of the annual Sharks festival […]
Walsh and O’Sullivan join Marketer of the Year judging
Heineken marketing director Sharon Walsh and Paul O’Sullivan, head of marketing at Volkswagen Passenger Cars, will help judge this year’s Marketer of the Year. Walsh has extensive consumer marketing experience, having held various roles at Coca-Cola Ireland for 13 years and two years at Diageo. She joined Heineken three years ago, initially as interim marketing […]
INM merges Sunday World and Herald
Independent News & Media (INM) is to integrate the editorial staff of the Sunday World and The Herald into one new ‘digital first’ seven-day content centre with the loss of 13 jobs through voluntary redundancies. The move is designed to optimise the news offering of both titles and to ensure that INM’s digital offerings will […]
Land Rover rolls out Horse Show fanpic
Land Rover will capture a 360° image of the crowd cheering on the riders trying to clear the big red wall at the Puissance at the Discover Ireland Dublin Show in the RDS this weekend. When published on Sunday, fans that were at the Puissance will be able to tag themselves in the picture and to […]
Phipps leads Google sales
Google has appointed Eoghan Phipps as head of Irish agency sales. Phipps will lead Google’s partnerships with media and creative agencies as digital advertising grows. Most recently, he has worked for Google in the US managing the group’s partnership with Resolution Media, Omnicom’s search and social agency. He joined Google in 2009 as an account […]
Irish Life selects DDFH&B
Canadian owned insurance company Irish Life has appointed DDFH&B to handle its creative advertising account after a protracted pitch process which saw four agencies make presentations. The other three agencies which pitched were Boys and Girls, Javelin and the incumbent, Chemistry. The appointment of DDFH&B follows research on the final two pitches in contention. Mediaworks […]
Britnell joins McCannBlue
Tim Britnell is to join McCannBlue as executive creative director from Rothco Social+. He previously worked in London at Sapient Nitro and ran his own agency business, Creative Coalition. He was creative director at In the Company of Huskies. McCannBlue clients include Dairygold, Safefood (part), L’Oreal, Zurich Insurance, Health & Safety Authority (HSA), Seat, Nestle […]
Cawley and Hayes exit adland
Chris Cawley has sold his five per cent stake in Cawley NeaTBWA and will soon step down as chairman. The move gives Omnicom’s TBWA full ownership of the Rathmines agency, which Cawley and David Nea set up 22 years ago. Cawley’s career in adland included working in despatch at Peter Owens and then in client […]
Agencies expect revenue and staff numbers to improve
Nearly four-fifths of advertising agencies in Ireland expect industry turnover to increase this year and over half of them predict employee numbers to rise, the latest industry census by the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) indicates. The survey was conducted online by Amárach Research in April and May and comprises interviews with 45 […]
OMD announces new team
Omnicom-owned media agency OMD Ireland has announced the formation of a new management team. Headed by managing director Tim Griffiths and deputy managing director Andrew Sinclair, it also comprises of business directors Alan Daly, Claire Butterly, Greg McConkey and Martina Stenson, along with head of digital Garret O’Beirne. Griffiths said the agency’s growth in recent […]
