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The Irish Army is using Youtube, Twitter and Facebook to get its message out
27 November 09


Defence Forces Spokesman Commandant Gavin Young talks to Jack Murray from Mediacontact.ie about how the...

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Interview with Richard Morris of Player X
26 November 09


Richard Morris, Director of Video & TV at Playerx.com talks about the future of mobile communications...

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Content is King Photos and Video
24 November 09


A big thank you to everyone who came to Content is King in the Guinness Storehouse last Tuesday! The...

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Travel agents choose Dublin over London
24 November 09


Dublin Tourism has beaten major competitor London to win the 2010 Travel Agents Choice Award for the...

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Toshiba sitting pretty - in space!
24 November 09


To promote its new line of LCD TVs featuring LED backlighting and local dimming, Toshiba has used a helium...

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Pivotal reveals young web fans not so sweet on Tweets
24 November 09


Do blogs, Twitter and Facebook count? 80% of 20 - 35 year olds think not!   The directors of EMCGPR...

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Putting the laughter back in slaughter
24 November 09


Was it a handball? Were we robbed? Should Webster use a picture of Henry to define 'cheating scumbag'?...

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Rafter unveils report on political advertising
24 November 09


Political adverts should be allowed on tv and radio here to enable political parties, trade unions and...

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An Ode to The Wire
24 November 09


Since I finished watching The Wire earlier this year, I've been pining for another TV programme that...

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Digi-marketing merger creates new jobs
24 November 09


FuriousTribe.com, a new-age digital agency, has been launched following the merger of Digital Ambition,...

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Flahavan's man is Ireland's top marketer
24 November 09


John Noonan, sales and marketing director at Flahavans and the man behind the re-emergence of one of...

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Indo inserts revamped Foinse weekly
24 November 09


A revamped Foinse ('Source') newspaper is to be given away weekly with the Irish Independent. The paper...

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New Guinness ads to brighten up brand
24 November 09


Diageo hopes a €5.5m ad campaign for Guinness will breathe new life into the "pigeonholed" brand....

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Google's $750m deal for AdMob
24 November 09


Google is to buy AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising networks in America, for $750m. Privately-held...

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Win a free copy of the 2010 Irish Media Contacts Directory
24 November 09


To be in with a chance to win a free copy of the 2010 Irish Media Contacts Directory, read the MyMedia...

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MyMedia - Micheál Lovett, director of 'Growing Up is Optional'
24 November 09


This week we chatted to Micheál Lovett of Blind Alley Productions. A talented young Irish playwright,...

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In Praise of ... the Irish Film Institute
24 November 09


Nestled in Temple Bar, one of Ireland's most tourist-heavy areas, is a verifiable film treasure. The...

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Requiem: Jedward, gone but not forgotten
24 November 09


That fateful day we've all been dreading has come. Jedward have been booted off the X Factor. After...

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Flashmob takes over Cork
24 November 09


Since 2003, a strange phenomenon known as the flashmob has been breaking out at odd times, in odd places...

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Cirque du Soleil in training
24 November 09


This is a video of Oli Lemieux doing some wild ass trampolining as well as wall-walking and other ninja-style...

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Dubai's version of The Spire
24 November 09


Burj Dubai, a supertall skyscraper under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the tallest...

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Daft enters the Northern Ireland market
10 November 09


Property website operator Daft Media Group has announced that it is entering the northern market, with...

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A Band in the Hand is worth its own ap
10 November 09


DV4, the award-winning digital media and internet solutions company, has created a unique new iPhone...

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UTV celebrates 50 years
10 November 09


Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of UTV in Belfast. The station began broadcasting...

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Marketing finalists chosen
10 November 09


Four finalists have been selected for this year's Marketer of the Year award, which is organised by Marketing.ie...

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Ad ops in Playboy Mansion
10 November 09


Viacom is now selling ad space for E! entertainment TV channel.Aimed at women aged 15 to 47, the channel...

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Standard Life backs Russian ballet
10 November 09


Standard Life is to sponsor the Russian State Ballet's performance of Swan Lake in Dublin next March.The...

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Google Sidewiki is PR Game Changer
10 November 09


The gig is up.  Any client who thought they could escape social media is now in it, whether they...

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TV3's The Apprentice more popular than RTÉ's news
10 November 09


TV3 is trouncing RTÉ in the battle for young audiences, thanks to their hit reality show The Apprentice....

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Whelan is new RTÉ economics correspondent
10 November 09


RTÉ has announced that European editor Sean Whelan is to take up the post of economics correspondent.The...

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The eagerly-awaited shortlist for the second annual IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards is to b
10 November 09


The eagerly-awaited shortlist for the second annual IMRO Live Music Venue of the Year Awards is to be...

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The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has announced funding of €4.1m for 31 television project
10 November 09


The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has announced funding of €4.1m for 31 television projects...

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Boys and Girls like daring simplicity
10 November 09


Fiona Scott, former managing director of ad agency McConnells, has joined forces with five partners to...

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BBC to oversee its Global PR Division
10 November 09


The BBC has made the ground-breaking decision to oversee its global PR division, BBC Worldwide, for the...

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Simon Fuller: creative content is king
10 November 09


Music mogul, Simon Fuller, has commented that the new and emerging fields of social and digital media...

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Please be tweet
10 November 09


As Twitter and other forms of social media change and grow at an alarming rate, it can be a veritable...

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Stop the press! Stephen Fry is boring!
10 November 09


For those of you unfamiliar with the most recent Twitter-based outcry, Stephen Fry has been deemed boring....

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UN gets licked by KFC spoofer
10 November 09


A stunt masterminded by American fast-food company, KFC, has left UN security puzzled. A Colonel Sanders...

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This is it, or is it?
10 November 09


This Is It, the Michael Jackson documentary, opened in London on the 27th of October. Unusually, the...

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In Praise of......Movember
10 November 09


The temperature has dropped, the rain is on and we're all getting the cold. Yes the winter is firmly...

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Win €50,000 for your business with Ireland AM, The Star and Fit Business
10 November 09


Ireland am has teamed up with Fit Business and the Irish Daily Star to run a competition called Start...

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Free place on Content is King, free dinner, free night in the Radisson
10 November 09


Here are the details of our great prize Dinner with our Content is King speakers (and the Mediacontact...

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Mark Little speaks exclusively to Mediacontact.ie about his plan for a global online news service
9 November 09


RTÉ Prime Time presenter, Mark Little, has announced he is taking a year’s leave of absence...

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