Marketing

Irish mobile phone marketing business Brandtone has raised almost €10m in backing from investors. Unilever Ventures is one of the backers of the company, which was set up less than two years ago to develop mobile phone marketing systems.

TV3 is launching a brand new commercial for its upcoming new soap Red Rock this weekend. Airing in the ad break of Coronation Street on Friday night, the 90-second ad, produced by Ian Power, is the first sign of what viewers can expect to see from the new soap in January. Red Rock will also be supported by a major outdoor campaign, as well as tactical activity across print, radio and social media. “We’re delighted to launch the second in a series of TV commercials for TV3. TV builds big brands, so what better medium than our own as the primary platform to launch Ireland’s newest soap,” said Deirdre Macklin,…

UPC welcomes new look Oireachtas TVPictured: Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett, presenter John Bowman and Magnus Ternsjö, CEO of UPC Ireland UPC has welcomed the first broadcast of Ireland’s first fully fledged, dedicated parliamentary channel Oireachtas TV, which is being carried on UPC channel 207. Oireachtas TV will now provide unfiltered access to the parliamentary process to over one million households nationwide, including debates, committees and other proceedings from both houses of the Oireachtas. Since its launch on UPC, Oireachtas TV has increasd its viewership by 20pc following its move to channel 207, having previously being broadcast on channel 801. Now available alongside mainstream news and current affairs channels, the Oireachtas TV channel…

The Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell will be rung onstage at the RDS during the Web Summit on 30 October, marking it the first time it has been opened from Ireland. Typically, bell ceremonies are hosted at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square in New York and remote Opening and Closing Bell ceremonies are extremely rare. 

The Nasdaq Opening Bell will take place in front of an audience of over 7,000 and will be carried live by dozens of TV stations to a potential audience of millions. This year, the Web Summit is evolving to become a three-day festival of ideas with over 300 speakers and 7,000 attendees. General tickets…

Advertising – the bellwether industry Advertising agencies have replaced construction sites as the bellwether for the domestic economy, writes Amárach Consulting’s, Gerard O’Neill. We used to count the cranes on the skyline to tell us how the economy was doing. Not anymore. Ireland’s domestic economy – especially consumer spending – has been hit hard by the recession, with only glimpses of improvement in a few sectors and regions. There aren’t any cranes, and so we need a better guide to our economic fortunes. The recent IAPI Industry Census 2013 is such a guide. Advertising agencies are now the bellwether for the domestic economy. Their fortunes reflect those of their clients – advertisers…

Liberty Global subsidiary UPC Ireland has agreed to acquire TV3 for €80m from private equity group Doughty Hanson. UPC Ireland will pay an additional contingent amount of €7m payable based on TV3 hitting certain targets. On completion of the acquisition, TV3 will become part of Liberty Global. TV3 is the number one channel in Ireland after public broadcaster RTÉ1 with an audience share of 12pc. In 2014, the TV3 Group achieved its best set of operating results since 2008. Magnus Ternsjö, CEO of UPC Ireland , said: “The investment we are making today secures the long-term future of TV3. With its wide range of home-grown programming, TV3 holds a unique place in the heart of Irish…

Dublin Airport and Shannon Airport were last night named among five winners of global marketing awards at the World Routes 2014 conference in Chicago. The awards, which are for excellence in marketing by airports, are voted exclusively by airlines worldwide and are divided into just four categories based on airport size. Dublin Airport won the World Routes Award for airports that handle between 20 million and 50 million passengers per year, defeating fellow finalists in the category, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Munich and Seattle Tacoma. Shannon Airport, meanwhile, won the category for under 4 million passengers, beating off competition from Bremen, Aksu, Cuneo Levaldigi and Kilimanjaro. Singapore’s Changi Airport Group was the…

Online classified ads site DoneDeal announced today that it’s sponsoring Setanta Sports’s coverage of this year’s FA Cup. The sponsorship will include DoneDeal stings throughout the broadcast of 30 live games. The official announcement was made this morning at Setanta Sports offices with the FA Cup on hand. “There is a natural fit between DoneDeal and Ireland’s leading premium sports broadcaster,” said Irene Parker, marketing manager at DoneDeal. “We see the sponsorship of the prestigious FA Cup as the perfect platform to drive new traffic to the 60,000 listings in our cars section. This sponsorship is a key part of DoneDeal’s 2015 marketing strategy to grow our motoring section.” “The FA Cup…