November 24th, 2011 Posted in Awards, Newspapers
The Cork News has scooped an award for the second year in a row at the European Newspaper Design Awards in Dusseldorf last week.
It follows on from their huge success in 2010, which saw them take home four awards in the categories of Front Pages, Sectional Front Pages, Local Pages and Visualisation.
That’s not all the paper has to celebrate, however. The most recent ABC figures from this year rate it at 37,775 letterbox deliveries, making it the largest title of its kind in Cork and also in the whole island of Ireland.
The team will receive their award at an official ceremony at the European Newspaper Congress 2012 in Vienna.
The Sunday Herald and the Irish Examiner were also recognised for front page design.
September 26th, 2011 Posted in Advertising, Awards, Campaign
Publicis QMP took a whopping eleven awards home at the
recent Kinsale Shark Awards. The Shark festival is an annual advertising festival that celebrates the best work in broadcast advertising from Ireland and around the world.
Established in 1962 at the birth of commercial television in Ireland, it culminates with the Shark Awards which are now thought of as one of the top creative advertising festivals in the world.
Publicis QMP took home 3 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze awards in such categories as Best Editing, Best Scriptwriting, Best Print Promo and Best Radio Promo. Their winning projects included TG4’s Seven Signatures campaign, the Hostel World Base Camp campaign and the Cadbury’s Baby Gorilla campaign.
May 31st, 2011 Posted in Awards, Client Wins, Digital comms, Technology
Neon SMS Solutions is the lea
ding provider of flexible and cost effective text messaging services for public and private enterprises.
They’ve just renewed their contract with Interleaf Technology Ltd., which facilitates libraries sending overdue notices as text messages to a borrower’s mobile phone.
24 libraries are now using the application and have saved a collective €100,000 in the last year when compared with the cost of sending out posted notices. 250,000 texts were sent out in 2010.
NeonSMS has gone from strength to strength with a new Brand identity and website which was shortlisted for a golden spider award. The company has been growing rapidly and has a broad range of clients from financial institutions and corporates, to government and non-profit organisations.
April 11th, 2011 Posted in Awards
XM Solutions has been named as one of Ireland’s ‘Best Managed’ companies in the Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme. In total, twenty companies which demonstrated superior business performance were recognised by the awards.
XM Solutions are Ireland’s largest indigenous Print Management company and are the first print related company to be selected as a Deloitte Best Managed Company. The Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme recognises indigenous Irish companies across the island of Ireland which are operating at the highest levels of business performance.
Commenting on the award, Emerson Palmer, CEO, XM Solutions said: “The partnerships that we have formed with our Clients as well as our suppliers has ensured that we have continued to grow the business even in these tough economic times. From humble beginnings a few years ago, we are now the largest indigenous Print Management company in Ireland. This award will allow us to build on our success to date and grow into the future.”
The Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme is open to companies from all 32 counties on the island of Ireland. It is the only awards programme that considers a business’ performance from every perspective.
March 16th, 2011 Posted in Apps, Awards, Conferences, Digital comms, Google, Latest Trends, Media, Mobile, Social Media
Google Circles will they, won’t they?
Is Google planning to launch a new social network this summer? That was the rumor du jour as the high-profile South by Southwest festival kicked off in Austin Texas, after ReadWriteWeb reported hearing that the search giant would launch a service offering photo, video and status message sharing. But the blog has now updated its story to say Google has denied Circles even exists.
Google’s Chris Messina, who was rumoured to be one of the leaders of Circles, said that he “didn’t know what [the story] was talking about.”
Canvas from the creator of 4chan
Meanwhile at South by Southwest, Christopher Poole, the 23-year-old founder of notoriously popular image board 4chan, has announced an new web site called Canvas. While 4chan’s dark appeal comes from being a source of racy pictures, comments and Internet memes, Canvas will be a “modernised, re-thought message board,” reports Chris Dannen at Fast Company, though he compares Poole’s introduction of the site after 4chan to “your daughter bringing home an ex-convict for dinner and saying he’s actually a ‘really good guy.”
GroupMe wins SXSW Breakout Award
Also mobile app GroupMe has picked up the SXSW Breakout Award. GroupMe, an app for Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, makes it possible to share text messages, photos and locations privately with selected groups of people. The service also works on any phone that can handle text messaging.
The South By Southwest (SXSW) conference is seen as a good indicator of trends in technology services – both Twitter and Foursquare received boosts from the event – so GroupMe will be hoping that this award brings a spike in usage.
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February 11th, 2011 Posted in Arts, Awards
Congratulations are due to Kenneth O’Halloran who has won a World Press Photo Award for his striking ‘Fair Trade’ portraits.
Kenneth took third place for his photo story of Irish country fairs, the second major accolade of the year for the photographer who was also recently shortlised for the Terry O’Neill award.
The portraits feature fair-goers in various locations, spanning generations as well as social class and occupation. You can view several portraits from the project on his website.
Well done, Ken.
January 11th, 2011 Posted in Arts, Awards, Media, Websites we like
Kenneth O’Halloran is an Irish photographer whos latest project, ‘Tales from the Promised Land’, was shortlisted for the 2010 Terry O’Neill Award last month. The award forms a showcase for new work by both established and upcoming photographers and celebrates the diversity of talent working in the photographic medium today.
Kenneth was born in the West of Ireland and is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology. His shortlisted project was exhibited for a week at the HotShoe Gallery in London.
Another portrait of his entitled ‘Twins: Puck Fair’ is currently being shown in the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing Porttait Prize 2010.
www. kennethohalloran.com
November 30th, 2010 Posted in Awards, Newspapers
The Cork News has won awards in four categories of the European Newspaper Design Awards. The winners were revealed on Monday, November 15th.
The Cork News is one of only five Irish newspapers to make the cut this year, scooping an unprecedented four awards in the following categories:
· Front Pages
· Sectional Front Pages
· Local Pages
· Visualisation
A total of 219 newspapers from 27 countries participated in the 12th European Newspaper Awards. This year, the 12 members of the international jury came from eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Germany. The jury met for two days at the Hotel Park Inn in Kaarst near Dusseldorf.
September 21st, 2010 Posted in Awards
Journalists and students have until October 15 to apply for the winter round of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund.
The fund was established by Irish Aid to increase public understanding of global development issues, in memory of Irish journalist Simon Cumbers who was killed in Saudi Arabia in 2004 while working with the BBC.
Proposals should cover a development issue, and involve travel to a developing country.
The fund is open to all media disciplines and encourages proposals that promote positive impressions of developing countries.
Previous winning projects have also won, or been shortlisted for, a number of prestigious awards, including at the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, the New York Festival, the Western Development Commission John Healy Award and the One World Media Awards.
More details are available at www.simoncumbersmediafund.ie
August 24th, 2010 Posted in Awards, Internet
The 2010 Realex Payments Web Awards are now open for nominations and sponsorship of categories. The awards, which are held annually, are open to anyone in Ireland.
Following close to two months of nominations and website evaluation, the awards process will culminate with an awards ceremony in the Mansion House in Dublin, on Sunday, October 10.
This year there have been a number of changes to the award categories. These include the addition of Best Mobile App, Best SME/Small Business website, Best Facebook Page, Best Web Only Publication and Best Guerilla Social Media Campaign (Zero Budget).
There is a varied list of categories, including best discussion forum, best independent podcaster, best videocaster and best social media campaign.
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