Thinkhouse’s head of creative Dave Byrne has been appointed to the youth agency’s board. Byrne is responsible for the agency’s recruitment, leadership and for developing a team of creative and communications specialists. He joined the agency in 2011 from Bodytonic, the music, culture and food company where he was an event producer and promoter. Byrne […]
ArchiveNovember, 2019
Huskies creates SVP Christmas ads
In the Company of Huskies has launched a new Christmas campaign for St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) charity highlighting the harsh reality of poverty at this time of year. For most, Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but for those struggling it can be the most worrying. But for some families their Christmas tradition will […]
Conlon and Moran join IAPI board
Jonathan Conlon, the newly-appointed chief operating officer at GroupM and Abi Moran (above), chief executive at JWT Folk, have been elected to the board of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) at its AGM, which looked back on the achievements over the past year and presented the upcoming training and events for 2020. […]
Sky returns ET to Earth after 37 years
Steven Spielberg’s loveable alien ET has been brought back to Earth for Christmas by Sky – which is the first time in 37 years. The two-minute, festive season short story made its online debut at www.sky.ie/ET and on Twitter, Facebook and is showing on YouTube and on Sky channels – a reunion with Elliott’s 2019 […]
20 Questions with Catherine Casserly, IDPR
Catherine Casserly has been marketing director for Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard in Ireland since 2013. Most of her work at IDPR has been spent on global business where she was head of sponsorship, PR and events, global brand director, delivery for Jameson and global market activation director. She spent six years as sponsorship manager with […]
Dublin Zoo’s Emma Kiernan top marketer
Emma Kiernan, marketing manager, Dublin Zoo, was named as the Marketer of the Year (MotY)at an industry lunch for her work in helping develop Ireland’s top family attraction and not-for-profit organisation which welcomes over 1.2 million visitors a year. As the person responsible for driving revenue, she rolled out The Zoo TV series now in […]
Vodafone plunges into Christmas swim
For its latest TV commercial, Vodafone taps into one of Ireland’s most popular Christmas Day traditions – an exhilarating dip in the sea. Grey London was hired to create a concept and came up with the idea of granddad Frank and his grand-daughter Hannah and the joy around the annual Christmas Day swim at the […]
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. […]
Odgers to work on Vodafone at Carat
Carolyn Odgers is to join Carat following the recent move of the Vodafone Ireland media account to the Dentsu Aegis Network agency from GroupM’s Wavemaker. A proven planner, strategist and project manager, Odgers worked at OMD Ireland for almost nine years. Prior to that, she was in charge of strategy at Chemistry for five years. […]
Munster Rugby’s Lynch made FIS director
The Federation of Irish Sport (FIS) has appointed Munster Rugby’s head of enterprise Enda Lynch as an independent director. FIS is the representative organisation for the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) and Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs) in Ireland. The federation’s membership comprises over 100 NGBs and LSPs from throughout the country. The announcement was […]
Frank & Honest to plant 3,000 trees
Musgrave-owned Frank and Honest Gourmet Coffee is to plant 3,000 native trees by Christmas. The company have teamed up with hometree to plant the native trees in Moy Hill Farm in Co Clare. The trees being planted will not be cut down or sold for the duration of the tree’s lifetime. For every reusable cup […]
Cadbury, Coke and an Post sponsor Christmas FM
Christmas FM returns to the airwaves this week with Cadbury, Coca-Cola and An Post as main sponsors. As the running of the radio station is funded by sponsorship, all donations raised by Christmas FM this year will go to Barretstown, the charity that helps seriously ill children with services which are provided to the public […]
Hume Brophy hires Fitzpatrick for public affairs
Ireland’s international PR agency Hume Brophy has appointed former special advisor and political director to Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD, Caitríona Fitzpatrick, as senior account director in public affairs. She will provide advice to clients in Ireland and overseas and will contribute to the agency’s strategies on Brexit and other trade issues. Fitzpatrick spent 11 years […]
