McCann Erickson has added four new clients to the agency in the last six weeks. The new business wins include Hidden Hearing, the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland (ACOI) and government accounts, Safefood and the Health & Safety Authority (HSA). McCanns was already on the Safefood roster. McCanns’ chief executive officer Orlaith Blaney said Safefood […]
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Dixons moves to Starcom
The Dixons group of electrical stores has appointed Starcom to handle its media account after a competitive review. The €4 million-plus account was previously with Initiative. The UK group also includes Currys, PC World and the Pixmania online electrical store. Dixons’ creative work was not part of the review and stays at Rothco. Meas, the […]
INM rolls out jobs portal
Independent News & Media has launched a new online jobs portal. Findajob.ie is a joint venture between Independent Digital and Stepstone. The site offers positions with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to multinationals, with jobs in management, professional services, engineering, IT and executive roles. Stepstone claims to operate the biggest job board business in Europe […]
Whitaker joins McCann Erickson
Seán Whitaker, one of the top strategic planners in Irish advertising, has joined McCann Erickson as head of planning. Whitaker is credited as adopting and formalising the discipline of planning while working at Saatchi & Saatchi’s Dublin office in the Eighties and was central to a number of major accounts, not least Heineken. He went […]
An Post to launch advice service
As part of its efforts to see SMEs develop marketing expertise, An Post will host a briefing in Croke Park next Wednesday to launch growmybusiness.ie. Attending the event will be Jacob Fruitfield founder Michael Carey, your local.ie boss Emer Jameson, Gary Brown of Target: McConnells and Simon Murray of Universal Graphics. Economist and broadcaster Marc […]
RTE to replace publishing division
RTE Publishing is to be replaced by a new digital division and each of the TV, radio and news divisions will be responsible for their own online output, RTE director general Noel Curran (above) has said. The digital division will be phased in over time and will manage all merchandising and e-commerce activities on RTE.ie. […]
City Channel to be wound up
A liquidator is to be appointed to City Channel, the local channel for Dublin, Galway and Waterford, and a creditors meeting to wind up the company will be held soon. City Channel was founded by broadcaster David Harvey (pictured left, with British comedian Philip Jupitus), best known as presenter of Crimeline on RTE. Harvey, who […]
Pink Martini to debut at NCH
The 13-member Pink Martini orchestra from Portland Oregon will launch their UK and Ireland tour with two nights at the National Concert Hall in Dublin next month. Fast becoming well-known for their interpretations of old Hollywood and French cafe music, Pink Martini crosses genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop. The band have sold over […]
Late Late figures up again
The viewing figures for RTE’s Late Late Show last Friday were up again after a poor start to the new season. Nielsen reports that 744,000 viewers tuned in to watch Ryan Tubridy interview Senator David Norris discuss his renewed hopes to rejoin the presidential race, actor John Hurt and Celebrity Big Brother Paddy Doherty. The […]
Starcom grabs two golds at Sharks
For the first time ever, media campaigns were honoured at the Sharks festival in Kinsale and six gold awards were presented. Starcom won two golds, one for SuperValu and a second for National Lottery’s EuroMillions. Carat won gold for Kellogg’s Field of Dreams, OMD for Renault Scrappage, Mediacom for Audi A1 and Vizeum for Powers […]
Kelner for journalism awards
Former editor of the London Independent Simon Kelner will be the guest speaker at the National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) first journalism awards at the end of next month. Kelner, 53, became editor of the Independent in 1998 and served as editor, editor-in-chief and for a short time was the newspaper’s managing director. During his […]
BMW to make Irish debut
The first BMW TV commercial conceived, produced and filmed in Ireland breaks on RTE2 on Saturday morning at half time during Ireland’s Rugby World Cup clash with Australia. The ad was created by a team at Chemistry comprising Emmet Wright, Adrian Fitzsimon and Rachel Carey and features a soundtrack by Gareth Averill. Shot in Dublin and […]
Sponsorship diploma on course
The first professional sponsorship qualification has been launched by the European Sponsorship Association (ESA). Aimed mainly at sponsorship practitioners, the diploma will start next January. It will run for six months using a web distance learning platform. Onside Sponsorship’s John Trainor, the Irish delegate on the ESA board, said the web facility allows sponsorship executives […]
