Ciara St Lawrence has been promoted to the role of account director at Carat. She joined Carat’s digital department in 2007 working across both search and display. She has since progressed into a senior account manager role specialising in display and social media. She has led digital campaigns for Diageo, Bank of Ireland, Mondelez International […]
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Greene now Cox’s deputy at Core Media
MediaVest managing director for the past seven years Aidan Greene has been appointed deputy chief executive at Core Media and will work alongside the group’s CEO Alan Cox. Greene’s promotion at Core paves the way for Michael Clancy to take over as managing director at MediaVest. Clancy has been with the agency for the past […]
Volvo Trucks wins top award at Sharks
International delegates from the UK, France, Italy, the US, Qatar and of course Ireland attended the 52nd Sharks creative awards festival in Kinsale at the weekend. There was a 20 per cent increase in festival entries this year. An education day on Friday saw talks from award-winning radio writer Paul Burke, Alex Matthews from BBH […]
Carat raises €15k for Crumlin
Media agency Carat has raised €15,000 for Crumlin Children’s Hospital through its Carathon charity softball tournament which this year was held in Wanderers Rugby Club last Thursday. With over 200 people in attendance, made up of 17 media owner teams, from the Independent to Nova, TV3 to i-Believe, as well as four Carat teams, the […]
Mail gets fruity with agencies
Associated Newspapers Ireland (ANI), publisher of such titles as the Irish Daily Mail and the Evoke website, is running a fun competition for agencies based around the group’s combined two million female audience. Agencies are invited to show “the fruits” of their labour by nominating a client and say why they deserve to win an ad […]
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 […]
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 […]
O'Beirne joins OMG board
Garret O’Beirne has been promoted to the board of Omnicom Media Group (OMG) in Ireland. As OMG’s head of digital, O’Beirne is widely regarded as one of the most capable new media practitioners in the business and his talent has been rewarded with a series of industry honours. He joined Omnicom three years ago from […]
Core to hire sponsorship head
Core Media is seeking to appoint a senior marketing expert to set up and lead the group’s sponsorship division. The candidate should have ten years’ commercial sponsorship experience, have worked with creative and media agencies in developing relevant activities and be experienced in sponsorship activation for major brands across sectors. Applicants should also have a […]
