Setanta Sports has announced an advertising package for the forthcoming schools rugby tournament which runs from the start of February to the end of March. The €2,800 price gives advertisers 40 30-second spots. If advertisers request position fixing, a 33 per cent surcharge applies, sales director John Devlin said. A report in today’s Irish Times […]
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Meas calls for alcohol below cost sales ban to be restored
Addressing the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, the chief executive of Meas/drinkaware.ie, Fionnuala Sheehan, said the government should seriously consider the re-introduction of the ban on below cost selling of alcohol. Sheehan said the Groceries Order was effective in addressing below cost selling of alcohol and its re-introduction should also be strongly considered to […]
Irish Times launches ad competition
The Irish Times hopes to encourage fledgling Irish businesses and help kick start an economic recovery by using the power of well-crafted copy. Launched in the paper’s Innovation supplement as part of an article by UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business lecturer and Marketing.ie contributor John Fanning, Irish businesses, or their agencies, with a turnover […]
DIT to remember Michael Hayes
A celebration of Michael Hayes’s life and his contribution to the advertising industry will be held in DIT Aungier Street with a Mass at 1.30pm this Thursday. The former agency executive and college lecturer died in June this year. Hayes started his career with the Southern Star in Skibbereen, Co Cork, before joining Clery’s. He moved […]
Top chefs for RDS Christmas show
Several of Ireland’s top chefs will attend the Food & Wine Christmas show in the RDS this weekend. Among the line-up are Richard Corrigan, Ross Lewis, Derry Clarke (pictured above left), Kevin Dundon and Donal Skehan. Masterchef Ireland winner Mary Carney is also due to attend the three-day show which starts this evening. The chefs […]
SparkQual shortlisted for five gongs
SparkQual has been nominated for a total of five campaigns in this year’s Marketing Society Research Excellence Awards which will be presented next month. The agency has the two campaigns in the advertising and creative category for Unilever and Britvic Ireland, plus three out of the four contenders in the qualitative category for AIB, Birds Eye […]
Nolan replaces Walsh at Burnetts
Eoghan Nolan (right) has replaced Michael Walsh as creative director at Leo Burnett, following Walsh’s move to Bloom to assume a similar role. Nolan and former Irish International colleague Colman Bourke set up Brand Artillery last February. The idea behind the new creative ‘hot shop’ was to target clients looking for a more flexible approach […]
National Lottery decision pushed out
A decision on the National Lottery creative advertising review is now not expected to be made until the middle of December, a week before the Christmas-New Year seasonal break. Four creative agencies are in the running, namely Irish International, Publicis QMP, Rothco and the incumbent, DDFH&B-JWT. The lottery’s media, which is handled by Starcom, is […]
MediaVest handles Emirates take off
Emirates has launched a media campaign in Ireland using MediaVest to promote and support its new Dublin to Dubai service which gets off the ground in early January. The activity comprises national press, online and outdoor advertising. A heavy focus on outdoor covers bus T-sides, 96 and 48 sheets, Metropoles, building wraps and Dart and […]
Blaney to talk on power of rhetoric
Orlaith Blaney, managing director of McCann Erickson, will speak about the power of rhetoric and on how to be more persuasive at a Women’s Executive Network (WXN) breakfast in the Westin hotel in Dublin on December 13. Blaney will be joined by former government minister Liz O’Donnell and Brian Ruane of BNY Mellon. Dan Cobley, […]
Marketer of the Year for TV3 seminar
Loretta Dignam of Jacob’s Fruitfield, who was yesterday named Ireland’s Marketer of the Year, is one of three speakers who will address a TV3 seminar on the importance of brand and return on investment in the Aviva Stadium on Lansdowne Road next Wednesday. Dignam will be joined by branding expert John Fanning and Thinkbox research […]
Magazine for surveyors body
The recently-formed Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI), which came about from the merger of the Society of Chartered Surveyors (SCS) and the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI), has launched a new members’. Both professional bodies had previously published their own members’ titles. Following a tender, Think Media was appointed to publish a new […]
EBS and Mail back Christmas FM
The EBS and the Irish Daily Mail will sponsor Christmas FM for the third consecutive year. The station will broadcast its Christmas hits from the Alexander Hotel in Dublin for four weeks from November 29. The sponsorship allows all funds raised by the station to go directly to charity. Over the last three years, the […]
