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Marketer award returns with new sponsor

The premier competition honouring Ireland’s top marketers, Marketer of the Year (MotY), returns after a two-year break due to the pandemic with brand communications agency Dynamo as sponsor. Launched by Marketing.ie in 1993, MotY salutes Ireland’s top marketers, who through their passion and commitment create winning strategies for their brands. In all, 27 leading Irish […]

Bord Bia, the State agency responsible for the promotion of the food, drink, and horticulture, has announced that Michael Murphy is to assume the role of chief executive on an interim basis from June. He is currently Bord Bia’s organisation and industry talent development director. He replaces Tara McCarthy who is joining Alltech to head […]

Marketing Institute Ireland (MII) has advertised for the position of chief executive officer to replace David Field (pictured), who returned to work in the retail sector. The press ad said that the MII board now wants to hire a new CEO, “a visionary leader, to drive its strategy and sustain the success of the organisation […]

Apache Pizza is set to celebrate being Irish like never before after creating the world’s first ever mobile augmented reality (AR) St Patrick’s Day parade game for playing on top of its pizza boxes. The interactive mobile AR game delivers Irish dancers, parade floats, snakes, trumpet players, the famous Artane Boys Band and the saint […]

Tourism Ireland in the US unveiled its marketing plans for 2022 at an event in New York attended by tour operators, travel agents and journalists from the tri-State area. Guests also attended the premiere of a new documentary called Ireland at the AMC Lincoln Square, home to the largest Imax screen in North America. The film […]

Dromoland Castle in Co Clare is to stage the Women’s Irish Open on the 450-acre estate’s 18-hole championship course in September. The return of the Ladies European Tour event is also supported by the Irish Government and Clare County Council. It will be the first time women’s professional golf will have been played in the […]

Media science researcher and expert on human attention to advertising Professor Karen Nelson-Field of Amplified Intelligence is one of the headline speakers for DMX Dublin which Marketing Institute Ireland (MII) will again host as a virtual conference on Thursday, March 24. Nelson-Field is a professor of media innovation with the University of Adelaide. She was […]

Verve and Coca-Cola marked a milestone by celebrating over 20 years doing business. Ronan Traynor’s event and creative services agency started working with the soft drinks brand back in 1999, but due to Covid-19 restrictions celebrations were put on hold. Verve presented the Coke team with a commemorative-themed print by Irish artist Orla Walsh. Over […]

A new group called the 3D Forum has been launched by longtime members of the Irish Direct Marketing Association (IDMA) as a way for marketers to share ideas and views about opportunities in direct, digital and data marketing. Co-founder Peter Whelehan of DMCM told Marketing.ie that the forum sets out to provide a new voice […]

Bord Bia has announced that Ireland’s gardening festival Bloom is back in the Phoenix Park in Dublin over the June bank holiday weekend. Now in its 16th year, the festival returns to a physical event after two virtual #BloomAtHome events. With consumer spend on gardening reaching a record €1.2 billion in 2020, Bloom is a […]

In a move that has caught Irish marketers by surprise, David Field has announced that he has resigned as chief executive of Marketing Institute Ireland (MII) to return to retail as managing director of Fresh – The Good Food Market grocery and deli supermarkets, where he was previously director of operations for two and a […]

The Marketing Society of Ireland’s Future Council (MSFC) has plans to recruit six young marketing and communications professionals. Set up in 2016 and made up of several volunteer members at pivotal stages of their careers in marketing and communications, the MSFC provides thought leadership and networking opportunities through events and talks. The MFSC was created […]

The average Irish adult in a TV home watches for two hours 47 mins every day or almost 20 hours a week, the latest TAM Ireland/Nielsen figures show. The report indicates that 84 per cent of daily viewing is consumed live and the remainder as catch up. Housekeepers continue to be among the heaviest viewers […]