Cadbury’s Dairy Milk owner Mondelez Ireland is to sponsor season four of Caroline Foran’s ‘Owning It – The Anxiety Podcast’ to promote the chocolate bar in a 15-week ad run brokered by media agency Carat and podcast buyer Acast. Acast’s portfolio includes podcasts with the likes of Blind Boy, The 2 Johnnies and economist and […]
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Guinness Storehouse reopens this weekend
It takes 119.5 seconds to pour a pint of Guinness and this Saturday will mark 119.5 days since Ireland’s leading visitor attraction last poured a pint and the gates were closed. To mark the reopening of the Guinness Storehouse, Diageo will host a series of consumer experiences this summer around Irish creativity, food and brewing. […]
Ashford Castle top resort hotel in these islands
Ashford Castle has been voted the top resort hotel in the UK and Ireland in the US travel magazine Travel + Leisure annual reader survey. In all, as many as eight luxury Irish hotels made the top 10, with Ballyfin Demesne, Powerscourt Hotel Resort & Spa, Sheen Falls Lodge, the K Club, Ballynahinch Castle Hotel, […]
Liddy elected as new AAI president
Aer Lingus’s head of digital marketing Derek Liddy has been appointed as the new president of the Association of Advertisers in Ireland (AAI), the body which lobbies on behalf of advertisers and promotes their interests nationally. Liddy has over 20 years’ experience in developing digital strategies and marketing, as well as TV and video communications. […]
Carr now in driving seat at Accenture Interactive
Richard Carr has been promoted to managing director of Accenture Interactive in Ireland and chief executive officer of Rothco, where he was managing director, as part of a management reshuffle. Patrick Hickey, the agency’s CEO, has been made executive chairman, while head of strategy Paul Hughes is retiring from adland to focus on his work […]
Government asked to reform RTÉ over ad ban
Communicorp Media, the parent company of Newstalk which is owned by businessman Denis O’Brien, has called on the new Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport & the Gaeltacht Catherine Martin TD, to take action to reform RTÉ. The call comes following RTÉ’s decision to refuse to broadcast an ad for Newstalk on its TV […]
Sky Q adds new box features
Sky has added new features to Sky Q in the biggest change to the award-winning box since launch. A new expanded view UI, new show and sports centres, intuitive smart buttons and improved voice discovery will make it subscribers easier to browse, find and watch content in one place. Disney+ will also be available in […]
Verve’s owl time reminders on shopping local
Rare Owl Times is a mini-series centred around some Dublin Owl Ones and Owl Fellas, based on characters synonymous with the streets of the capital. They tell tales and use Dublinisms, as viewers find them frequenting a new local business in each episode. Each one ends with a reminder to shop local just like ‘Dubs’ […]
Virgin boss Hanway points out media anomalies
In a submission to an Oireachtas committee on the impact of Covid-19 on the Ireland’s arts and entertainment sector, Virgin Media chief executive Tony Hanway said that while his company endorses the role of radio in Ireland, an anomaly has arisen in that the medium is getting Government support at a faster rate than TV […]
Kiely to launch TV venture in September
Former Virgin Media Television CEO Pat Kiely plans to launch his new TV content business working with media investors and brand owners in the autumn. In an interview on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Business show with Richard Curran, Kiely said he was moving into an area of the business which will afford new opportunities beyond […]
BGE seeks support for Focus’s Shine a Light
Focus Ireland and Bord Gáis Energy (BGE) are calling on people throughout Ireland to give one night and sleep out to Shine a Light on homelessness and raise funds to help the charity’s vital services. As a result of the Covid-19 impact on communities across Ireland, the 8,876 people currently without a home are more […]
Webb takes legal action against Buckley
Former Independent News & Media (INM) executive Joe Webb has filed a lawsuit against the group’s former chairman Leslie Buckley. The action being taken by Webb, a former managing director of the news group’s Ireland division, who is now the COO at agency group Dentsu Aegis, relates to an alleged data breach six years ago, […]
Thinkhouse part of effort to lower emissions
Dublin youth specialist agency Thinkhouse is among the companies from across Ireland and the UK’s creative industries to come together to launch The Great Reset, an initiative that hopes to maintain and promote the positive behaviours and environmental shifts created during lockdown. Global emissions are down by seven per cent since lockdown began. The UN […]
