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Typical, you wait for one recipe to come along and five appear
Kraft has become the first company to run digital touch screen advertising on bus shelters. A bus shelter on Charlotte Way/Harcourt Street allows those who interact with it to select and view ingredients for five different Philadelphia ‘Philly Heroes’ recipes. There’s also an option to email on all the details. Another shelter on Leeson Street...
i-Believe appointed digital sales agency for UTV Radio
UTV Radio has chosen i-Believe as its digital sales agency. i-Believe will sell advertising across UTV Radio’s stable of websites and smartphone applications. The UTV Radio sites that i-Believe will represent include FM104 & Q102 in Dublin, Cork’s 96FM and C103, Beat 102-103 in Waterford, Limerick’s Live 95FM and LMFM. UTV Radio launched its ‘Urban...
125 more Cloud jobs for Dublin
Silicon Valley Cloud computing firm Marketo says it will create 125 jobs over the next three years in Dublin with the support of the IDA. The jobs for graduates and experienced staff will be in the areas of sales, marketing, support, consulting, development and back office positions. Marketo, which grew sales by over 300% last...
The APP-cademy with Nokia Ireland
The organisers of The Appys announce The APP-cademy with Nokia Ireland to be held in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin on June 15th at 5.30pm. The APP-cademy is a chance for students and young programmers who have a great idea for an app, to get the app developed. Entrants will also have the opportunity...
Young creative speed date with the wise and good
Last night, across the world in 30 cities, young, creative advertising hopefuls got to pitch their ideas [and portfolios] to advertising agency stalwarts. In Dublin, the event was hosted by Ogilvy where 60 students went three rounds of speed dating with 25 creative directors from all over adland. The night is in its ninth iteration and grows...
€25k worth of a Jump Start
Gavin Duffy and Claire MacNamee are pictured at the launch of the annual Jump Start competition from The LINC (Learning and Innovation Centre) at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB). Jump Start is now in its second year and is open to entrepreneurs who would like to base their business in a supportive environment. The...
McCartney in the Cloud with diamonds
HP has announced the launch of Paul McCartney’s private cloud-based digital library. McCartney’s collection currently includes more than one million items, including photographs; video footage from live concerts; rolls of film, videotapes and reels; music recordings; original works of art; as well as memorabilia. HP says McCartney’s personal assets are now digitised. “It’s really exciting...
An Indo app for Nokia users
Independent.ie and Nokia Ireland have created an app for Nokia smart phones (download from the Ovi store). “It is our aim that the www.independent.ie app will provide our readers with a useful, on-the-go method of receiving news updates. Our multi–platform strategy is to provide the best news service possible and this app is simply an...
And the #winner is…
We would like to say a big well done to Lorraine Griffin and James Cooper, the winners of our recent competition. These two lucky devils will shortly be crashing straight through the (small) waves around Dublin Bay on The Explorer Yacht. The prize is sponsored by our good friends in gosailing.ie and if you get...
Let’s talk about the weather
Irish agency Creative Inc won an international tender to rebrand EUMETSAT, a European agency involved in monitoring weather, and the environment from space. EUMETSAT was formed in 1986 with the primary task of monitoring weather, climate and the environment from space. Creative Inc won an international tender to design a new corporate style for all...
Groupon and foursquare deal makes sense
Location-based coupons are new, but in theory are as old as the hills. A prospective deal between Groupon’s ‘Now’ deals and social network foursquare makes perfect sense. The great irony of the Digital Age is that the more technologically ‘social’ we become, the traditional ways of doing business come to the fore. The more immersed...
Like Google, Facebook starts to build its own ‘foreign service’
Facebook, with a global user base of over 600 million people, has one of the largest populations on the planet. The company has, therefore, decided to act like a nation state and hire a team of global ‘ambassadors’ who will monitor the political and cultural landscape of the countries they work in and who will...
