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IAPI announce Young Lions shortlist

The Institute of Advertising Practitioners Ireland (IAPI) have announced the teams shortlisted for this Cannes Young Lions. The competition showcases up-and-coming talents in Ireland’s advertising and communications industry. The judging panel had to adjudicate on 105 entries this year. The shortlisted teams presented their entries to judges this week. From these presentations, seven teams will […]

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Keown to attend forum in Chicago

Roisin Keown, chief executive of The Brill Building advertising agency, has been invited by the Ireland Network Chicago, the largest Irish business network in the US, to join 11 other Irish female entrepreneurs in attending Doing Business in Chicago, a business forum focused on business women targeting expansion into the Illinois market. The forum runs […]

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Tenth Man opens London office

Irish advertising and film production agency The Tenth Man has expanded into the UK with the opening of an office in London. The move marks a step forward in the company’s global growth strategy, allowing them to better serve their international client base, and help achieve  the ambition of becoming a major independent agency by […]

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Brennans goes with ads ás gaeilge

Brennans Bread has launched a campaign aimed at promoting awareness for the Irish language during Seachtain na Gaeilge. The ads leverages cultural moments in time to give viewers phrases they can use in everyday life. A series of videos features viral moments such as RTÉ reporter Teresa Mannion’s “Don’t take unnecessary journeys”, Roy Keane’s “That’s […]

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Dentsu names McGrath in COO role

Ian McGrath has returned to work at Dentsu and has taken on the new role of chief operating officer (COO) for media. He will work alongside group COO, Joe Webb, the former Independent News & Media (INM) director. McGrath spent 13 years at Carat up until the time he left in 2014 to join MediaCom, […]

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Kasia Oźmin named ICAD president

Kasia Oźmin, founder and creative director of Together We Create, is the new president of the Institute of Creative Advertising & Design (ICAD) in place of Nathan Reilly. Her career started in New York at Red Antler, Mother and Anomaly working with clients like Apple, Star Wars and Vanity Fair. Since returning to Ireland, she […]

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IAPI launches this year’s Effies

The Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) has launched Effie Awards 2024. Speaking at the event in the RDS, jury chair Tom Kinsella of AIB Homes outlined the reasons why Irish marketers should get involved in the competition. “Effie Worldwide stands for effectiveness in marketing, spotlighting ideas that work and encouraging thoughtful dialogue about […]

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Droga5 creates new Denny campaign

Droga5 Dublin, part of Accenture Song, has launched a new campaign for Denny, the meat brand owned by Pilgrim Foods. The new campaign follows last year’s TV-led ‘Grand, Dad ‘. The new social-first work aims to capture special moments on people’s phones as two families are reunited. The creative team at the agency was headed […]

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AI used in adland once a week

People in advertising are now using artificial intelligence (AI) at least once a week, Abi Moran, chief executive of Folk VML and president of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI), told an AI conference held in Google’s HQ. Moran said that people in the industry are inherently curious. “Critical to our success is […]

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EssenceMediacom retains Lidl

EssenceMediacom has retained the Lidl Ireland account for another three years, starting this month. The GroupM agency has handled the contract since 2021. Lidl’s creative agency is WPP’s Folk Wunderman Thompson. Over the past few years, the two agencies have rolled out various campaigns, most recently ‘Go Full Lidl’, which aims to drive home the […]

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PTSB homes in on athletes’ human strengths

Retail and online bank PTSB has rolled out its latest campaign profiling its title sponsorship of Ireland’s Olympic and Irish Paralympic teams ahead of Paris 2024. Created by Publicis Dublin,  ‘The Human Behind the Athlete’, the campaign is based on the insight that most of us look upon athletes as if they were superhuman, with […]

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Diageo revisits classic ideas for Guinness 0.0

Diageo and the Irish Film Institute (IFI) have put a call out to Irish creatives, filmmakers and content creators to “reinterpret and reimagine” a campaign for Guinness 0.0 inspired by some of the brand’s most iconic ads from the 1950s to the 1990s in an archive curated by the IFI. Guinness ‘Island’ (above), created by […]

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MyVo voiceover agency launched

A new voiceover agency for the making of TV and radio commercials has been launched. MyVo is a partnership between the Brennan Acting Agency and Sound Entertaining! All the voice actors on MyVo’s books have been selected by veteran actor Morgan C Jones (pictured), who has been a well known voice in Ireland on campaigns […]

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