Ad of the Week: Success Happens Here – McCannBlue
Credits: Agency: McCann Blue Client: DBS Creative Director: Tim Britnell Copywriter: Laurence Keogh Account Manager: Fiona Cooley Account Executive: Karen Fallon Motion Designer: Jason Fitzgerald Photographer: Eoin Holland VO: Sam McGovern The Lowdown: This January saw the launch of the second phase of the ‘Success Happens Here’ campaign for DBS, created by McCannBlue. Having initially launched the campaign back in August 2015 in outdoor, print, digital, social and radio, this...
Dublin Bus – The Mad Dash Home – Rothco
The Lowdown: Creative Agency Rothco and Dublin Bus have teamed up with mother–son duo, Baz and Nancy from hit Sky TV show ‘50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy’, in a new campaign to give customers a behind-the-scenes look at the people in Dublin Bus’s Central Control Centre. In the online film, ‘The Mad Dash’, which launches today, mischievously likeable son Baz...
Shining a Light on Literacy
In The Company of Huskies has created an intriguing print campaign for the Irish literacy charity, SUAS. Since it was set up in 2002, Suas has supported over 12,000 children in India, Zambia and Kenya and trained over 1,200 Suas volunteers to work as teaching assistants in some of the worlds most marginalised, under-resourced communities. Here in Ireland, it has helped over 3,300 children from...
ISPCC Childline Launches New Digital Animation Campaign
The ISPCC has launched its new digital animation and print advertisement for Childline. The campaign, which was created by Ogilvy & Mather, which has developed numerous award-winning creative campaigns for the charity, aims to reminding young people that “they are not on their own.” The ad highlights the availability of Childline’s text service which has grown in popularity. Last year...
Ad of the Week: Success Happens Here – McCannBlue
The Lowdown: Our task is to attract students to DBS, where they will thrive in a personal teaching and learning environment as well as a buzzing city centre location. “Success Happens Here” encapsulates this thought for school leavers and part-time students alike. This integrated campaign is being rolled out across TV, VOD, OOH, press, display and social. Credits: Agency: McCannBlue Advertiser: DBS Campaign: Success Happens...
Ad of the Week: Meteor Christmas Unlimited – Rothco
Christmas 2015 sees the return of Meteor's festive CEO to Irish TV Screens. Nicholas St Wenceslas, misanthropist, holiday magnate and CEO of Christmas LTD - the company responsible for commercialising the holidays - is back. The 2015 campaign, created by Rothco, has launched this weekend with a 30" and two 20" TVCs. Wolf-of-Wall-Street-come-Miracle-on-34th-Street's Nicholas is now living in the tax-neutral...
Ad of the Week: Make It Yours – Havas Worldwide Dublin
Credits: Advertiser: Valeo Foods Brand: Jacobs Biscuits Activity: Broadcast Commercial Agency: Havas Worldwide Dublin Client Team: Michelle Rynne, Lisa Fitzpatrick Agency Executives: Tony Caravousanos, Aoife Surgeon Agency Planning: Viv Chambers Creative Team: Gary Boylan, Katy Egan Havas Broadcast: Suzanne Heneghan Production Company: Antidote Producer: Tess Bunworth Director: Lee Cronin Music: Assembly Post Production: Windmill Lane Havas Digital lead: Mary Reynolds The Lowdown: Whether you're a nibbler, a muncher or a cruncher, a dipper or a dunker,...
Ad of the Week: Home Movers and Mortgage Switchers
Ulster Bank has kicked off the New Year by launching its ‘Home Movers and Mortgage Switchers’ ad campaign, aimed at families that are looking for more space or more financial breathing room. The creative, which was developed by Boys and Girls, builds upon the bank’s successful ‘First Five’ campaign for first-time buyers and highlights how space can become a premium...
Paralympics Ireland – More Than Sport
The Lowdown: In the build up to Rio 2016, Paralympics Ireland tasked us with raising their awareness as an organisation with a secondary task of raising much needed funds for their touring squad. When it’s said that the Paralympics is More Than Sport, it’s the truth. It’s more than training, more than a disability, and more than winning. Everything a Paralympian...
Big Can Be Good – Rothco
The Lowdown: Tesco Ireland and Rothco launch the humble ‘Big Can Be Good' campaign to address negative perceptions of the large supermarket chain. Led by a 60" TVC, the ‘Big Can Be Good' campaign sees Tesco open its heart to Ireland with an honest brand manifesto. ‘Big Can Be Good' takes the very thing that is often seen as a negative about...
