An Garda Síochána won three awards at the Excellence in Public Relations show which were presented live online from the Mansion House. The awards were for best use of digital PR, best in-house communication team and best internal communications. The Department of Justice won the best Civil Service campaign for combating domestic violence during Covid-19. […]
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Boys+Girls a roaring success at Cannes
Boys+Girls was awarded a gold and a bronze Lion at this week’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The Portobello agency was awarded gold in the consumer services/business to business category in creative strategy and a bronze in consumer services/business to business in the brand experience and activation for Three Ireland ‘Island’ TV work. The long-running […]
SuperValu named top marketing team at AIMs
Musgrave’s SuperValu was voted marketing team of the year at the Marketing Institute’s All Ireland Marketing Awards, aka the AIMs. The awards salute marketing achievements across 19 categories. The SuperValu team, which was led by Shane Lynch, were also honoured with a second prize, taking home the client agency collaboration award with TBWA. SSE Airtricity […]
Marketing Institute makes call for AIM entries
2020 was an extraordinary year. One of navigating that which could not be planned for, understanding the need to be quiet when normally we would roar and creating new pathways to drive better commercial and wider economic outcomes. The Marketing Institute is now calling for entries to its 2021 AIM marketing awards, with the launch […]
Five Irish jurists join Effies panel
The jury for the 2020 edition of the Effie Awards Europe has been announced by organiser the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) with five Irish jurists nominated by the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) for Effie Europe. The Effies aim to champion the role of effectiveness in marketing and advertising. The five […]
An Post announces book awards shortlist
The shortlist for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020 features a diverse mix of Irish writing from new and established writers across 16 categories, including among them novel of the year, children’s (junior and senior), cookery, crime fiction, popular fiction, non-fiction, sports, short story, poetry, teen and young adult and Irish language. Debbie Byrne […]
Davy voted top marketing team at AIMs
The Marketing Institute has announced the 18 category winners of the 2020 All Ireland Marketing (AIMs) awards at a virtual event in RTÉ Studio 5. Around 1,000 marketers watched the proceedings and the MC for the event was again RTÉ news presenter Bryan Dobson. Dee Forbes, director general, RTÉ, welcomed everyone to the event. An […]
Newstalk named station of the year
Communicorp Media’s Newstalk bagged a host of gongs at this year’s IMRO Awards, including Ireland’s top national station. The talk station also claimed a number of top presenter awards, including best speech broadcaster, top national sports broadcaster and top news broadcaster going to Ciara Kelly (above), Joe Molloy and Susan Keogh. Waterford-based WLR was voted […]
Marketer of the Year postponed until 2021
The premier award honouring Ireland’s top marketing practitioner, Marketer of the Year (MotY), has been postponed until next year due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Irish business. Launched by Marketing.ie in 1993, MotY salutes Ireland’s top marketers, who through their passion and commitment have created winning strategies for their brands. A wide […]
Griffith College wins two Smedia photo awards
Two Griffith College students have won top awards at the annual Student Media Awards, aka the Smedias. Dubliner Kate Swift was named news photographer of the year and Juliana Falange won photographer of the year. Over 1,500 media students from colleges throughout the country entered the virtual awards this year. Swift has finished her second […]
ICAD announces its advertising jury
The Institute of Creative Advertising & Design (ICAD) has announced the judging panel for its advertising awards. With the deadline for entries just three weeks away, ICAD has announced the next round of judges for its advertising jury 2020. The closing date for entries is Friday, July 24 and the entry fee this year has […]
PR Excellence awards shortlist announced
Every year, the Awards for Excellence in Public Relations, organised by the Public Relations Institute (PRII) and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA), celebrate the best in Irish PR and communications work over the previous 12 months. A panel of awards judges, headed up by Neasa Kane-Fine, have now finished their deliberations. The votes have […]
IAPI decides to postpone Effies until next year
Following talks with Effie Worldwide, IAPI has decided to postpone the inaugural awards for Ireland until 2021. The Effies are going ahead in countries where entries are already being processed but most of the regional awards scheduled for later this year are in doubt. No gala events are being held and the judging and awards […]
