Ad of the Week: Nissan Micra – In The Company Of Huskies

The Lowdown: The concept behind this ad was inspired by people’s preconceptions of the older Nissan Micra, and how these preconceptions resulted in it being prematurely judged as a car that should be cast aside. The all-new Nissan Micra, however, is not a car you should mess with; it’s a leader in style, technology and innovation — however we knew people’s perspectives...

The Public House Launches New Campaign to Support Rebrand of Irish Independent

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The Public House have launched a new campaign to accompany the full rebrand undertaken by the Mediahuis-owned Irish Independent. The campaign, called “Written all over Ireland,” is running across TV, Cinema, VOD, radio, press, out of home, social and digital media. The new campaign is the result of a strategic repositioning project, which identified a unique strength of the Irish Independent...

eir Rolls Out New Campaign to Promote Faster Broadband Offering

Telecommunications company eir has launched a new nationwide multi-platform campaign called “The End of Ordinary” to promote its Gigabit Fibre Broadband offering. Created by The Tenth Man, the innovative campaign has bold ambition, with all elements filmed in camera and sped up in post to run ten times faster, “mirroring the speed of the product and the eir proposition Let’s...

Boys + Girls Rolls Out New Family Plans Campaign for Three

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Boys + Girls has rolled out a new campaign for Three that showcases the mobile phone operator’s flexible family plans which offer families increased savings on their mobile phone bills. The heart-warming brand ad, which  was directed by Dermot Malone of Banjoman, follows a variety of family members using connectivity in their own ways. The ad places a typical family...

Publicis Dublin Urges Smokers to Take Back Control in New HSE Quit Campaign

With many smokers trying to kick the habit at this time of the year, Publicis Dublin has created a new campaign for the HSE to highlight its QUIT service which has met with considerable success in helping people quit smoking since it was first established. In the new campaign Nicotine has been personified to show smokers, via the human traits...

Rothco/Electric Ireland & Pieta House

With this year’s annual Darkness Into Light fundraising event for Pieta House cancelled due to ongoing restrictions, Rothco | Accenture Interactive created a film for Electric Ireland – the charity’s partner and Pieta which tells the inspiring story of John and Gertie Fox who tragically lost their son Fergal to suicide in 2008. Even in the depths of despair following...

Ad of the Week: Heineken Launches New Appleman’s Cider Campaign

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Heineken Ireland has launched a new campaign called “The Joy of Simple” for its new premium cider Applemans which now joins its stablemate Orchard Thieves. The agency partners working on the campaign include Rothco, Starcom, MCCP and Thinkhouse. According to Emma-Jane McKeown, senior brand manager of Appleman’s: “Irish people expect, and deserve, choice – they have it in wine and in...

Ad of the Week: Tech Life Ireland – Atomic

The Lowdown: Tech/Life Ireland is a new national initiative to brand Ireland as a top destination to pursue a career in technology, funded by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation it is being delivered in partnership with Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the tech industry to help attract up to 3,000 top tech professionals to Ireland each year. Atomic, the...

Droga5 Dublin Rolls Out New Communications Platform & Campaign for Aer Lingus

Droga5 Dublin has created a new communications platform and campaign for Aer Lingus. Called “You’re Very Welcome,” the new positioning aims to highlight Aer Lingus as a “human-centric, modern airline that embodies Irish values”. Its creation follows an extensive brand review and strategy development exercise completed by Dublin based advisory firm Genesis. The new creative platform will feature a TV ad which will...

Ad of the Week: SuperValu’s Where You’re From

With the business end of the GAA’s All Ireland Football Championship firmly underway TBWADublin has launched a new campaign for SuperValu is support of its sponsorship of the tournament. Firmly rooted in SuperValu’s brand position ‘Real Food, Real People’, this new campaign was created as a way to encapsulate “the shared values of SuperValu and the GAA.” Called ‘Where You’re...

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