Škoda Ireland is investing €120,000 in a new Dublin Airport advertising campaign to promote its ‘Made for Ireland’ brand proposition, which includes a six panel takeover at the sky bridge in Terminal 1. For the past 18 months, Škoda has used the campaign to show car buyers that despite not being built in Ireland, the brand […]
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Good4U shows how being small pays off big time
Last Thursday night saw the showcasing of national and international brands at the Marketing Institute’s All Ireland Marketing (AIM) awards. Good4U was chosen as the winner of the small business marketing award. The Sligo company showcased the campaign around new healthy snacks which were recently rolled out across eight European markets. Good4U launched new pack […]
Filming starts for Huberman’s new RTÉ comedy
RTÉ’s new comedy Finding Joy, written by and starring Amy Huberman, is now in production. The six-part series, produced by Treasure Entertainment, is being shot in Dublin. It follows a 34-year-old single woman, Joy, after a painful breakup who looks for happiness in all the wrong places. Aisling Bea, Laura Whitmore and Lochlann O’Mearain co-star. The series is […]
Burke joins health jury at Cannes Lions
FleishmanHillard (FH) head of healthcare and EMEA healthcare lead Orla Burke has been appointed to the health and wellness Lions Jury for the 2018 Cannes Lions. The international creative festival is recognised as one of the world’s most prestigious communications awards. FH Dublin is the only PR agency in Ireland to have been awarded a Cannes […]
Wolfgang wins European search agency award
Wolfgang Digital scooped the best large integrated search agency title at the European Search Awards in Prague. The show is an international competition honouring the best in SEO, PPC, digital and content marketing throughout Europe. Now in their seventh year, the awards attract hundreds of entries from leading international search and digital agencies. In 2016, Wolfgang […]
AIB again voted top AIM marketing team
AIB has again being chosen as the top marketing team at the Marketing Institute’e All Ireland Marketing (AIMs) awards presented at a gala dinner attended by Ireland’s top marketers in the Clayton Hotel event. The event saw the AIB team, headed by Mark Doyle (above), take the spot ahead of Just Eat, Littlewoods, One4All and […]
Cinema visits in Ireland highest per head in EU
Irish people’s love affair with the cinema shows no signs of abating. Ireland has the highest per capita visits to the cinema in the EU at 3.4 compared to the union average of 1.7. Most cinema goers travel 9.2 kilometres to see a movie on the big screen and spend €16.81 while there, cinema sales house […]
Hidden Hearing backs new Daniel O’Donnell show
Hidden Hearing is sponsoring the new series of Daniel and Majella O’Donnell’s B&B Roadtrip TV series on RTE 1. Viewers can follow the duo as they negotiate the winding roads of Ireland and experience some treasures that only locals know best. The O’Donnells have no idea where they are headed, as the B&B owners take control of […]
Nils Leonard headlines Sharks speakers
With entries now open for this year’s Sharks in Kinsale, this year’s festival will be headlined by Uncommon founder Nils Leonard (above) and agency veteran Neil Dawson, with more announcements to come. Entries for the ad awards, short film and music video can be entered up until this year’s deadline of September 7, festival director […]
Bank of Ireland hosts event to help fight cancer
By 2020, one in two Irish people will get a cancer diagnosis in life. Sometimes stats like this don’t mean much to us until someone we know gets cancer. Last month, Conor O’Riordan, creative director at Bank of Ireland for the Oliver agency, died from bone cancer. He was 41. He left a wife, Jane, and […]
NewBrands adds campaign category to awards
NewsBrands Ireland has added a campaign of the year category to its annual journalism awards presented in November and sponsored by the National Lottery. The new category has been added to the awards which will showcase the valuable role newspapers play in affecting positive change in society through the use of powerful words and reporting. The […]
Slattery honoured as a PRII life fellow member
Padraig Slattery, founder of Slattery PR and chairman of Teneo PSG, has been awarded the honour of life fellow membership of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII). Life fellowship is the highest accolade the institute can bestow on a member. Slattery has grown successful businesses in PR and corporate hospitality for over three decades. […]
DMG announces three new commercial recruits
DMG Media Ireland, whose titles include the Irish Daily Mail, Irish Mail on Sunday and EVOKE.ie and Extra.ie, has announced three new appointments in its sales department. Conor Quinn joins the team from i-Believe where he was sales director, working on in-app and digital. He was also with Mirror Media Ireland as sales director, Carzone […]
