Channel 6 is hunting for a new managing director after Martin Drake, a former Discovery Channel executive who was headhunted from London, decided to return to Britain.
The big boom in technology PR may be over, but Irish PR firms are still competing to recruit specialists to handle this competitive sector.
Irish men are too lazy to date, according to a marketing expert who is organising dinner-party events to help young single professionals meet each other.
This year’s World Cup sponsors have reason to worry. A recent survey found that half the British population could not correctly identify a single official World Cup partner.
The Late Late Show may be without a sponsor but RTE’s commercial revenues are still set to rise by some 15 per cent to €160 million to €170 million this year, according to Geraldine O’Leary, its commercial director.
Here is a typical weather forecast on Spin 103: ‘‘Looks like rain."
Several bids have been made for WLR FM, the Waterford local radio station that is expected to sell for as much as €15 million.
Pelle Tornberg, the founder and chief executive of Metro International, says that his favourite newspaper is the Enkopings-Posten, his Swedish hometown’s local daily.
Kevin Myers’ well-rewarded defection from The Irish Times to the Irish Independent has highlighted the rising profile and commercial value of columnists in the newspaper world.
It would cost a maximum of €150,000 and take no more than six months to clean up the electoral register, according to an expert in commercial customer relationship management.
The busy market of publishing for parents is getting a new entrant in the shape of a glossy magazine called Infant.
Gala has just signed up as the first commercial sponsor of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, which will culminate with a final in Croke Park this September.
Nine years after its launch, changes are happening at INN. The company that supplies national and international news content to all 29 independent local radio stations across Ireland is evolving into a new kind of content provider.
Advertising’s ultimate job is to sell stuff, right? Wrong, according to Joanna Bamford, a British consultant and expert in evaluating advertising effectiveness.
Setanta has won the rights to show live British TV coverage of Premier League matches, but it can’t relax just yet, as it still needs the Irish rights.
