Category Archives: International News

Arthur’s Day 2010

Back in June I posted about the return of Arthur’s Day this September. With ticket sales well under way (and sold out in many cases! – but check www.ticketmaster.ie for full details) it looks like the 23rd September is going … Continue reading

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New York Festival’s International Advertising Awards

For over fifty years The New York Festival’s International Advertising Awards has represented the pinnacle achievement that any advertiser or creative could receive. The awards honour the World’s best advertising from over 70 different countries, across all media and platforms: … Continue reading

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Foursquare, in Your Newspaper?

The Metro News, Canada’s free daily newspaper, has unveiled a huge partnership with everyone’s favourite geolocation-based, mobile, Social Media toy, Foursquare. Following in the footsteps of Harvard University and San Francisco’s BART, the partnership with the Canadian newspaper will see … Continue reading

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Ads of the World Ad Campaign

Everyone’s favourite advertising archive and community, Ads of the World has just launched its own advertising campaign. Consisting of 4 stunningly detail, yet simple and elegant print ads, this is an adman’s ad campaign. Ads of the World is owned … Continue reading

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Guinness Storehouse: Weather Cam

This week saw the launch of Guinness Storehouse‘s brand new 360 degree, online, live streaming weather cam. The newest addition to Ireland’s number one visitor attraction, offer a stunning view from the highest viewpoint in Dublin City – The Gravity … Continue reading

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Applications Open For The Arthur Guinness Fund

As I said back in August when I first wrote about the Guinness 250 Years Celebrations, “Unless you’ve been hiding under a stone lately, you’ll be well aware that this September 24th marks the first Arthur’s Day.” So back in … Continue reading

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Tweet Inspires New Air New Zealand Campaign

Following on from Air New Zealand‘s recent success with their ‘Bare Essentialls‘ campaign, the airline has launched a new ad campaign inspired by a Tweet from one of their passenger. Back in June Tim Benjamin was on a flight with … Continue reading

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‘Rage’ Premier

Thursday will definitely be remembered as Arthur’s Day but there was another pretty special event taking place across Europe on the 24th. Last Thursday saw the world’s first multi-venue interactive premier take place for Sally Potter’s new movie ‘Rage’. The … Continue reading

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Changes In The Media Landscape

I have a huge list of things that I want to write about but the simple truth is that there are not enough hours in the day to do all of them. So in going through this extremely long list … Continue reading

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David LaChapelle

If there’s one thing you do in the next 6 weeks, this should be it! David LaChapelle, one of if not my favourite photographers of all time, is here in Dublin with his “American Jesus” collection. The exhibition is at … Continue reading

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