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Sky returns ET to Earth after 37 years

Steven Spielberg’s loveable alien ET has been brought back to Earth for Christmas by Sky – which is the first time in 37 years. The two-minute, festive season short story made its online debut at www.sky.ie/ET and on Twitter, Facebook and is showing on YouTube and on Sky channels – a reunion with Elliott’s 2019 […]

Emma Kiernan, marketing manager, Dublin Zoo, was named as the Marketer of the Year (MotY)at an industry lunch for her work in helping develop Ireland’s top family attraction and not-for-profit organisation which welcomes over 1.2 million visitors a year. As the person responsible for driving revenue, she rolled out The Zoo TV series now in […]

For its latest TV commercial, Vodafone taps into one of Ireland’s most popular Christmas Day traditions – an exhilarating dip in the sea. Grey London was hired to create a concept and came up with the idea of granddad Frank and his grand-daughter Hannah and the joy around the annual Christmas Day swim at the […]

Irish novelist, journalist and comedy writer Paul Howard will be the guest entertainment act at the Marketing Society Christmas lunch. Howard is undoubtedly best known for creating the cult character, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby jock whose exploits have been the subject of 19 novels and two other books that sold over 1.5 million copies. […]

Carolyn Odgers is to join Carat following the recent move of the Vodafone Ireland media account to the Dentsu Aegis Network agency from GroupM’s Wavemaker. A proven planner, strategist and project manager, Odgers worked at OMD Ireland for almost nine years. Prior to that, she was in charge of strategy at Chemistry for five years. […]

The Federation of Irish Sport (FIS) has appointed Munster Rugby’s head of enterprise Enda Lynch as an independent director. FIS is the representative organisation for the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) and Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs) in Ireland. The federation’s membership comprises over 100 NGBs and LSPs from throughout the country. The announcement was […]

Musgrave-owned Frank and Honest Gourmet Coffee is to plant 3,000 native trees by Christmas. The company have teamed up with hometree to plant the native trees in Moy Hill Farm in Co Clare. The trees being planted will not be cut down or sold for the duration of the tree’s lifetime. For every reusable cup […]

Christmas FM returns to the airwaves this week with Cadbury, Coca-Cola and An Post as main sponsors. As the running of the radio station is funded by sponsorship, all donations raised by Christmas FM this year will go to Barretstown, the charity that helps seriously ill children with services which are provided to the public […]

Ireland’s international PR agency Hume Brophy has appointed former special advisor and political director to Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD, Caitríona Fitzpatrick, as senior account director in public affairs. She will provide advice to clients in Ireland and overseas and will contribute to the agency’s strategies on Brexit and other trade issues. Fitzpatrick spent 11 years […]

GroupM have announced the appointment of Jonathan Conlon as chief operating officer. With over 17 years’ industry experience, Conlon will move to the newly-created position with effect from November 25 from his current role of joint managing director at Wavemaker. Prior to this, he ran GroupM agency Maxus from its launch in Ireland in 2010. […]

In the age of influencers, social pressure and ‘group think’, In the Company of Huskies has rolled out a launch campaign for the new-style Nissan Juke urging young people to be true to themselves. The ad says trusting your instincts and not being the same as everyone else reflects both the Juke’s individuality and those […]

Business Post Media Group (BPMG) will roll out the new look Business Post print and digital versions this weekend as the newspaper goes on sale every Sunday and Monday. First published in November 1989, BPMG, owned by Enda O’Coineen’s Kilcullen Kapital Partners, includes the flagship newspaper, website, events and new data and research services. […]

Irish event agency Verve has been listed in 34th place in the The Drum’s top 100 independent agencies league. A first-time entrant, Verve competed with 10,000 other UK agencies. The agency’s founder, Ronan Traynor, said the listings is powered by The Drum’s independent agencies census, an in-depth study of UK communications companies. The census measures […]