Following its involvement in Longitude and Punchestown Music Festivals this summer, Three’s 3Live will travel to Electric Picnic this September where it will connect festival goers to music and experiences. Three will provide onsite charging services ensuring music fans are connected throughout the festival. For those who don’t fancy parting with their handset, portable power-banks will be […]
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Just Eat offers waiter service at EP
Takeaway app Just Eat is bringing its porters concierge service to Electric Picnic music and arts festival and for the third year is offering festival goers a relax and eat retreat. The porters will be on hand at the festival carpark. For those without a ticket to the sold out weekend, Just Eat is placing […]
Davy sponsors Schmidt charity breakfast
A talk by Ireland rugby coach Joe Schmidt in aid of the Carmichael Centre for voluntary groups will be held in Davy House on Dawson Street in Dublin at 8am next Wednesday. The session will include a discussion with ‘guru of global philanthropy’ Kingsley Aikins as the two men look back at the Six Nations, […]
Dublin hosts ESOMAR world congress
Dublin will play host to the 68th ESOMAR world marketing research congress in the Convention Centre from this Sunday. Over 1,000 delegates from 70 countries are expected to show up for the event which runs until next Wednesday. The programme includes presentations by global research agencies, including Nielsen, GfK, Ipsos and TNS. Major research buyers […]
Sutherland to address IMI conference
OgilvyOne’s executive creative director Rory Sutherland returns to Ireland next month to address the Irish Management Institute (IMI) annual conference. A regular visitor to Dublin in recent years, he has spoken at IAPI Adfx events and the Dalkey Book Festival. An inspiring and charismatic speaker, he has some memorable insights for marketers in his repertoire. […]
Taste of Dublin boss settles €120k bill
Events organiser Avril Bannerton, who is managing director of Taste of Dublin, which runs at the Iveagh Gardens this week, settled a bill of €120,000 for underdeclaration of vat, the latest list of tax defaulters released by the Revenue shows. A former Image businesswoman of the year winner and Aer Lingus hostess, she also organises […]
Ad execs face scrutiny from students
A panel of six young people from the industry will form a panel to be ‘grilled’ by an audience of marketing and advertising students from various colleges in Dublin and a number of juniors working in the business as part of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland’s (IAPI) Big Grill. The event takes place […]
Bord Bia shortlisted for four research awards
Ireland’s food and drinks promotions body Bord Bia has been shortlisted for four of its campaigns in the annual Marketing Society research excellence awards. Bord Bia’s Irish IMF Exporters Billion Dollar Baby campaign is in the running in the two categories of brand development and strategy and qualitative research. Glanbia’s ‘Local Tuning’ Avonmore in China […]
AAI double bill to conclude Toolkit ROMI series
The Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI) has lined up two executives from Nielsen and Millward Brown in the UK to discuss media mix modelling, long term brand equity and the right roles for each media as part of the final instalment in its Tuesdays Nuts & Bolts of Advertising Toolkit series on measuring return […]
Marketing Society to host election talk
The Marketing Society is to host an evening debate on the role played by marketing in this month’s local and European elections in Doheny & Nesbitt’s pub on Dublin’s Baggot Street, around the corner from Government Buildings. A panel of three election experts will provide analysis, insight and discussion on the mood of the voter, […]
AAI hosts Dutch creatives
The Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI) will host a morning seminar talk by KesselsKramer creative director Richard Walker and managing director and partner Engin Celikbas explaining their vision on what it takes to create great work and getting the best from an agency. Since its launch in Amsterdam in 1996, KesselsKramer (KK) has built […]
Creative thinking theme for talk
Understanding the basics of creative thinking and how marketers can harness it is the theme of the Marketing Society’s Working with Creativity morning seminar. Consultant and author of ‘Everyone is Creative’ Michael Atavar and the IMI’s executive learning director Fabio Grassi will present talks in the Morrison Hotel on Thursday, April 10. Following the event, […]
China’s Great Wall joins Paddy’s Day party
The iconic Great Wall of China will become the Green Wall of China this weekend when it goes green for the first time ever to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, joining Tourism Ireland’s Global Greening 2014. The installation of green lights on the famous wall will be made possible by the combined efforts of the Irish […]
