ArchiveNovember, 2021

Susie Horgan awarded PRII fellowship

Susie Horgan, founder and managing director of Cork agency Springboard Communications, has been made a fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII). The PRII award a member fellowship in recognition of the person’s professional skill and to someone who is seen to have supported the development of the PR industry and the work […]

Researcher Mark Nolan has been promoted to deputy managing partner at Genesis. He joined the marketing consultancy group in 2019 as a consulting director from Core. On his joining Core after seven years at Amárach Research, he launched Ignite which later became Core Research. He is also a former chairperson of the Marketing Society. Nolan […]

Vodafone Ireland hired creative agency Grey London to get the message across to Irish consumers that through the power of the brand’s mobile and broadband networks, local communities and families can believe in stronger connections this Christmas. The ad tells a love story that reflects a new rural Ireland and a journey of transformation for […]

Tourism Ireland is working with The Weather Network (TWN) television channel in Canada on a new campaign. Four new videos will be seen by around 10 million people across Canada when they air next month. The campaign also includes a podcast of This Day in Weather History focusing on the winter solstice at Newsgrange for […]

For the first time ever, Dentsu has gathered and published the insights and predictions of its global media agencies into the 2022 Media Trends guide for marketers worldwide. Futurist experts, industry specialists and leaders from Carat, Dentsu X and iProspect joined forces to identify and explore the biggest media trends to watch out for in […]

A survey of Irish creatives at home and abroad by the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) shows that 68 per cent of respondents described the quality of commercial creative work being produced in Ireland these days as good to excellent, 28 per cent see it as average, while a mere three per cent […]

Based in New York, the prestigious London International Awards (LIAs), has revealed its 2021 winners from across 25 media and 53 countries. Boys+Girls was the only Irish agency to be awarded and one of three agencies globally to win in radio. The Portobello agency took home one gold and one silver, both in radio and […]

As most of us are aware, the Earth is a finite resource. Through established behaviours, we are using up too much of its natural resources. Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The facts are clear, the natural world is in crisis and it is down to us. But it is not too late, there […]

Live television viewership patterns levelled off in the third quarter with a decrease of only 3.3 per cent year-on-year in July-September, compared to the seven per cent year-on-year drop recorded in the first half of 2021 when the 2020 comparison period included a spike in news and other TV consumption as the Covid-19 crisis unfolded, […]

Independent retail chain Gala enters the Christmas ad arena for the first time this year with a TV commercial called ‘The Recipe’. The ad was written and created by Verve/Showrunner, produced by Banjoman, which was voted production company of the year at the Kinsale Sharks festival and directed by Claire Byrne, with original music from […]

Newspaper and online news content provider Mediahuis has agreed a deal with Oracle for its contextual intelligence advertising and customer experience products. Oracle Contextual Intelligence (OCI) allows advanced targeting of audiences through the building of sentiment-led segments and contextual targeting and is seen as an advertising first in Ireland. The tech crawls and categorises desktop […]

Olympic gold medal winner Kellie Harrington was named the overall winner of the 21st Irish Tatler Women of the Year awards at a ceremony in the Shelbourne Hotel. Harrington’s victory over Brazil’s Beatriz Ferreira in the lightweight final in Tokyo earlier this year saw her join Katie Taylor as one of only two Irish female […]

Sky and NBC Universal is rolling out Peacock streaming content, starting with a soft launch in the UK and Ireland. As from November 16, Sky and Now customers in these islands can access the Peacock catalogue of TV shows and movies from across NBC Universal at no extra cost. Peacock will be soon be made […]