ArchiveMay, 2019

Thinkhouse and TCD to produce youth report

Youth marketing agency Thinkhouse is collaborating with the Centre for Digital Business at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to deliver ‘Future-Proofing Marketing – The Youth Perspective’ report on the future development of marketing. The report, which will be launched in the autumn, investigates youth attitudes and behaviours to marketing and advertising. Topics to be investigated by the study […]

News UK & Ireland is to end publication of its Times Ireland edition and most of its journalists are to made redundant as the company undergoes a major re-organisation. Only three of the current 20 staff positions will be retained, with current employees having to reapply for the jobs. In a statement, the company said […]

SuperValu has signed up as the new sponsor of the Dermot & Dave Show which airs mid-morning weekdays on Today FM. The deal, brokered between SuperValu owner Musgrave, Media Central and Core Sponsorship, sees the supermarket chain’s online shopping promoted through stings, promotions and cross station digital display for the next year. The show’s previous […]

Sinead Troy has launched three new companies in Ireland – IASCA, Yangaroo Music Ireland and, most recently, PlayIrish Radio, along with former Today FM CEO Peter McPartlin, Angela Dorgan and Martin Byrne. Her background is firmly in the music industry with over 25 years’ experience in both the UK and Ireland. 01 When are you […]

A new series of Love Island returns to Virgin Media Two in June with Tesco Mobile as sponsor of season five. The package includes broadcast sponsorship of the series, along with popular spin off show Aftersun. Tesco Mobile is also the sponsor across the Virgin Media Player and on demand to allow viewers catch up […]

The Shark awards presented in Kinsale in September each year have opened for entries. With a focus on craft, the festival has added wider categories for this year’s awards. Prominent design writer and consultant Lynda Relph-Knight will oversee the design category which has been extended to reward design craft. Also new to the programme is […]

Paddy Power is running a light-hearted out of home (OOH) campaign in the run-up to this weekend’s Eurovision in Israel. Working alongside OMD Ireland, Kinetic and Micromedia’s experiential division, Beyond, the Flash OOH campaign involves a pop up shop on Dublin’s Camden Street decorated with bespoke banners with music impresario Louis Walsh. The ad calls […]

Online insurance brand its4women.ie and its agency BConnected Media have teamed up with Adbarrier out of home to launch the first in-carpark display targeting female motorists. The €300,000 campaign will run in major car parks across Dublin, Limerick, Kildare, Wexford, Kilkenny, Sligo, Galway, Westmeath and Cork until the end of 2019. Its4Women provides car, travel and […]

Experiential agency Foe has appointed Shane Brennan and Cillian Motherway to its senior management team. Brennan becomes the agency’s creative director having been at Mediaworks. Motherway joins as production director after almost four years with LinkedIn. Foe’s clients include Liberty Insurance, Irish Life Health, Lidl, Focus Ireland, UCD, Aware and the HSE. Aaron Chalke, Foe’s […]

Cullen and Lawler made new CDs at JWT Folk

JWT Folk have appointed Jonny Cullen and Keith Lawler to the position of creative directors. Cullen joined the Ballsbridge agency from Rothco where he held the same position. He has 20 years of experience during which time he created award-winning work during previous stints at Boys and Girls as head of art and and McCann […]

The Aviva Stadium tour has undergone a revamp with UK design agency Mather & Co hired for the job. The Cheshire-based consultancy specialises in museum, leisure, retail and entertainment projects. Clients include the Olympic Museum, Coronation Street: The Tour, York Minster Revealed, Downton Abbey: The Exhibition and the Royal Mint Experience. Neither the project’s cost […]

A new report on consumer attitudes to digital services in Ireland shows that 43 per cent of Irish people do not believe their digital needs are being met. The study, ‘Digital Society Index 2019: Human Needs’, was conducted by Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) in tandem with Oxford Economics. It is the first time Ireland has […]

The 26th annual Bloomsday messenger bike rally and lunch in support of the Irish Youth Foundation (IYF) will see hundreds of people take to bikes of all shapes and sizes soon to celebrate Bloomsday and James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. The annual bike rally, sponsored by Brennans Bread, raised €50,000 last year and €1.1 million in […]