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Irish National Lottery: Make Someone Happy Irish National Lottery have launched their latest 'Great Causes' advertising campaign. Set to Jimmy Durante's classic track 'Make Someone Happy', the spot emphasises how, every year, lottery players support thousands of #GreatCauses in communities all over Ireland. Agency: Core.VIEW THE SPOT Centra Ireland: Missing Breakfast Following months of lockdown restrictions, Ireland's builders were finally permitted to return to work on May 18th. So to welcome them back Centra, the country's largest convenience store, wanted to reacquaint them with the foundations for a hard day's graft. Because if there's one thing Irish builders love... it's their much-missed breakfast roll and their briefly-gone-but-not-forgotten chicken fillet roll. The spot was briefed, concieved, written, crafted and recorded all in less than 24 hours. Agency: TBWADublin PLAY THE SPOT The Irish Emigration Museum (EPIC): Share Your Covid 19 Story Distance may divide us, but it's always brought us together. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is collecting stories for a new exhibition to celebrate the difference Irish people are making in response to COVID-19. As an emigrating nation, the Irish have always been separated by lands, seas and oceans. To many, we're a nation defined by distance. Despite this, we've done alright. We've become politicians and scientists, built cities, developed schools and hospitals and invented colour photography and submarines. Thereâs always been a collective movement, whether in Bandon or Boston, to contribute wherever we may find ourselves. Agency: The Public House VIEW THE SPOT Land Rover: Explore The Great IndoorsVodafone X: Level Up Vodafone X, Vodafone's youth tariff, has announced that online courses with Level Up, the network's upskilling platform that provides physical and online experiences, is now free for everyone aged 18-25 on all mobile networks for the duration of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The initiative comes as Vodafone X want to ensure that young people in Ireland have an opportunity to learn new skills and to keep themselves busy for the duration of the pandemic. Agency: JWT Folk VIEW THE FIRST CONCEPT VIEW THE SECOND CONCEPT Domestic Violence : Hide & SeekOne of the most tragic aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the surge in domestic abuse across the globe. To counter this, Irelandâs department of Justice and Equality and TBWADublin have created âStillHereâ, a campaign that reflects the new reality and pressures of life in lockdown whilst offering support to those experiencing domestic abuse.PLAY THE FIRST SPOT PLAY THE SECOND SPOT Fighting Blindness: Now They've Lost That Too In the Company of Huskies has launched a new campaign for the charity Fighting Blindness that highlights the challenges visually impaired people face during the lockdown.VIEW THE AD Department of Justice & Equality: StillHere One of the most tragic aspects of the Covid-19 virus has been the surge in domestic abuse across the globe. For many victims this time in lockdown has exacerbated their feelings of isolation and helplessness. In Ireland, this has affected every quarter of their society. To counter this, Ireland's Department of Justice and Equality and creative agency TBWADublin have created a campaign to remind us that "If your home isn't safe, support is still here." To reflect an incident of domestic abuse in lockdown, Art Director Mikey Ryan and Copywriter Blaise Hoban had the idea of shooting the campaign's TV spot using FaceTime. Directed by Rupert Morris of MAKE, the spot sees a woman on a video call with a friend who is then interrupted by her abuser. This spot is complemented by two dramatic radio spots written by Niall McDonnell, in which male and female victims desperately evade their abusers to reach out for support from the Gardai, and other frontline services.VIEW THE SPOT Commercial Producers Ireland: Closer Together We've never been further apart and we've never been "Closer Together." Agency: Commercials Producers Ireland.VIEW THE SPOT Verve Dublin : 20 Second Soap Verve, Dublin has invented the first soap that acts as a timer to help people wash their hands properly. #20SecondSoap.VIEW THE CONCEPT Bus Connects: Rubiks Cube BusConnects, a division of the National Transport Authority, launched their second round of public consultation for the Core Bus Corridor Project with an expansive through the line campaign created by TBWADublin.The campaign visuals, by Watermark Studios, feature an intricate representation of Dublin city as a Rubik's cube being solved thanks to the collaborative efforts of the public and BusConnects. Online the Rubik's cube visual really comes into its own with beautifully constructed animations that explain elements of the Bus Corridor Project such as Signal Controlled Priority and Bus Gates. VIEW THE FIRST SPOT VIEW THE SECOND SPOT VIEW THE THIRD SPOT VIEW OUTDOOR  Paddy Power has released the first and second episodes in a four-part series that follows Frank, a dinosaur and disgraced former mascot. The first episode follows Frank as he searches for a new job. After being suspended by the club the second episode shows Frank getting a gig at a retirement home.VIEW THE FIRST SPOT VIEW THE SECOND SPOT  As Irelandâs first ever helpline, Dublin Samaritans has been providing free emotional support for 50 years now. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, volunteers make themselves available to help those feeling suicidal, depressed, or experiencing grief. Running such a service involves huge amounts of effort and dedication, and with the current health crisis placing so many in isolation â the service has never been more vital.VIEW THE MAN 1 AD VIEW THE MAN 2 AD VIEW THE WOMAN AD Circle K: New Currency For Ireland As part of Circle K's 'Here for Irelandâ sponsorship of Team Ireland, JWT Folk has developed a unique local currency to support Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The Local Currency is a technologically innovative programme that gives communities around Ireland a role to play in supporting Team Ireland, leveraging data, technology and community spirit in a way never seen before. In Ireland, athletes who dream of competing at the Olympics or Paralympics have more than athleticism and qualification to contend with. The Local Currency is generated by the community to help fuel their local Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Utilising Circle Kâs existing Play or Park loyalty functionality, it enables customers to collect points for themselves with the added functionality of generating unique âcoinsâ for their local Olympic and Paralympic athletes to spend on fuel, food and drink in-store. VIEW THE SPOT AXA Insurance Ireland / Renault Group: COVID Car Cover AXA Insurance Ireland and Renault Group, along with its dealer network, have joined forces to provide complimentary Renault cars complete with complimentary AXA motor insurance for the next few months for doctors and nurses returning from overseas to support the HSE during the Covid-19 crisis. The initiative is to acknowledge the exceptional contribution being made by returning medics to support the national response to the pandemic. The only requirement from the medics is that they are Irish citizens, and have proof of the fact that they have returned home to support the national response to the pandemic, and that they have a full driver's licence. Agency: Publicis, Dublin. VIEW THE CONCEPT Epilepsy Ireland: Myths & Misconceptions On International Epilepsy Day, Epilepsy Ireland highlighted that there are as many myths about epilepsy as there are types of seizures.A very common myth is that a spoon (or other nearby objects) should be placed in a person's mouth during a seizure to stop the person from swallowing their tongue.When many people think of epilepsy, they think of one particular type of seizure, known as a tonic-clonic seizure, where the person falls to the ground, stiffens and convulses. Misinterpreted often as being drunk. VIEW THE NOT DRUNK AD VIEW THE FLASHING LIGHTS AD Vodafone Ireland Foundation: Escape As part of Vodafone Ireland Foundation's campaign, in partnership with Women's Aid, creative agency JWT Folk created a series of seemingly normal print adverts to highlight the signs of domestic abuse that can be hidden in plain sight in our society. In order to alert the general public to the worrying statistic that one in five women in Ireland are victims of domestic abuse, JWT Folk strategically placed a series of adverts with hidden coercive control messages in the Sunday Independent and The Sunday Times newspapers. The adverts put the readers in the shoes of a domestic abuse victim so they could feel the impact that coercive control abusers inflict day to day.VIEW THE ESCAPE AD VIEW THE BEAUTY AD VIEW THE FREEDOM AD  FBD sponsor Team Ireland for the Olympics. Our campaign is about drawing attention to the scale of the commitment and effort our athletes have gone to.VIEW THE SPOT Paddy Power: Cheltenham's Coming Home Hollywood heavyweight Colm Meaney will front a new Paddy Power advert, which stokes the sporting rivalry between Ireland and England ahead of the Cheltenham Festival. In the ad - which will be broadcast for the first time tonight (Friday 21st) - the Star Trek actor aims various tongue-in-cheek digs at England's supposed 'slights' against his nation. Agency: The Public House VIEW THE SPOT Irish Emigration Museum (EPIC): Women Statues Out of over 200 statues in Dublin, only 7 of them are female. We created a range of empty statues to promote the new exhibition at the Irish Emigration Museum called 'Herstory' which tells the incredible stories of the great Irish Women that history forgot.Agency: The Public House VIEW OUTDOOR Allianz Ireland: Leagues 2020 Allianz Ireland has launched the latest TV advertisement from its 'We Cover Courage' campaign, developed by creative agency In the Company of Huskies. Building on the 'We Cover Courage' campaign which ran throughout 2019, Allianz Irelandâs latest commercial celebrates its 28 year-long sponsorship of the Allianz Leagues and explores how sport at all levels can inspire people to be courageous in their day-to-day lives. VIEW THE SPOT VIEW THE FIRST PRINT AD VIEW THE SECOND AD EBS Ireland: Start Here; with EBS Mortgage Masters This is the first in the series of two TV spots for this campaign. EBS' new campaign 'Start Here' brings relatable and real-world reasons as to why people want to move out of their current living situation to a dramatic, colourful dreamworld, filled with moments of anxiety, all connected through that one moment you realised it was time to get out of there. These empathetic scenarios all end with one, all-encompassing message - Ready to move but don't know where to start? Start Here with EBS, the Mortgage Masters.Agency: BBDO, Dublin VIEW THE SPOT  Rothco, part of Accenture Interactive, worked with machine learning and AI experts at Identv to help solve a 57-year-old mystery involving a famous prison break. Recognising that digital and physical imagery are converging in fascinating new ways, the two organisations set out to tell the story of how applied artificial intelligence (AI) helped confirm the identities of two Alcatraz prison escapees depicted in a 1975 photo. Thirty-six people are known to have attempted escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility located on an island in San Francisco Bay. VIEW THE SPOT Electric Ireland: We're Brighter Together The climate emergency has fast become the biggest crisis facing this generation. As environmental concerns grow, Irish people are beginning to feel increasingly disempowered. Everyone is making small changes, but many are left wondering if this is enough. But, whilst one household can make small changes, over one million households doing the same can have a profound impact on the future of energy - and Ireland recognises the power of the collective more than most. Electric Ireland wanted to highlight such a truth. Working with ROTHCO, part of Accenture Interactive, Ireland's largest energy supplier is leading the country to a brighter energy future, demonstrating how we can come together to make a positive change.VIEW THE SPOT  The Health Service Executive has today launched the latest Quit Campaign, a quit smoking campaign created by JWT Folk, that seeks to make a positive impact on the health of the nation by encouraging the smoking population to quit for good. The campaign features real smokers and uses their explanations on smoking as impactful voiceover commentary in the powerful TV advert. VIEW THE SPOT  Whatever you're made of, there's a SKODA made for you. This is what's at the heart of SKODA's successful and long-running 'Made for Ireland' campaign, the latest from Boys+Girls, the branded entertainment agency. Reflecting the pride and confidence that SKODA drivers have in their cars, the campaign consists of a 30 second and 60 second spot, directed by Butter's Zak Emerson. VIEW THE SPOT Three Network / Samsung: The Connected Restaurant Powered by the Three network, in partnership with Samsung, this unique restaurant gave Irish families the opportunity to come together to share a Christmas meal like no other. This year's Connected Restaurant connected Dublin with the most famous city in the world with a long-standing Irish connection, New York. Open for three days from Friday 6th - Sunday 8th December, The Connected Restaurant, helmed by American-Irish chef, Flynn McGarry, gave families the chance to experience Christmas dinner as if they were sitting at the same table while being over 5,000 kilometres apart.Agency: Boys+Girls, Dublin VIEW OUTDOOR St. Vincent de Paul: Hungry Christmas For most, Christmas is a wonderful time of year, but for those struggling it can be the most worrying. Everyone has festive traditions, but for some families their Christmas tradition will be going to sleep hungry in a freezing house. 'Some things shouldn't be a family tradition' campaign drives home these differences by distorting well known Christmas sayings and idioms such as 'It's the most wonderful time of the year' and 'Dreaming of a white Christmas' to remind people that there is another side to Christmas.Agency: In the Company of Huskies VIEW THE FIRST AD VIEW THE SECOND AD Simon Communities: Tom Dunne's Most Vulnerable Night What's it like not being able to close your front door for 24 hours? To experience the lack of security and protection that a front door provides for you and your family? Broadcaster Tom Dunne recently accepted an invitation from the Simon Communities and BBDO Dublin to take part in a social experiment and leave the front door of his family home open for a 24hour period. The experiment was designed to help understand what it's like to not have the security of being able to close the front door and keep the outside world away and is part of the charity's Closing Doors campaign, marking 50 years of the Simon Communities. Over the course of 24 hours, video content was captured of the experience of Tom and his family. VIEW OUTDOOR An Post: Christmas Away From Home This Christmas, JWT Folk has created a campaign for An Post dedicated to the real stories of Irish families. These stories explore connecting with loved ones and Sending Love with An Post, whether it is to the other side of the country, the world or directly to those who they care for the most. The TV commercial tells the real story of a family living in temporary accommodation in Ireland. VIEW THE ALISON SPOT VIEW THE CONOR SPOT VIEW THE MOTHER SPOT  BBDO Dublin has launched a new advertising campaign for the Gaelic Athletic Association celebrating the AIB (Allied Irish Banks) GAA Club Championship. The fully integrated advertising campaign, 'When It's Club It Lives Forever,' will run across TV, radio, social, out of home, digital and press. VIEW THE SPOT Road Safety Authority Ireland: Cyclists Always Come Off Worse. Irish law addressing cycling has changed, specifying it as an offence to dangerously overtake cyclists. This campaign demonstrates just how dangerous it is for a motorist to overtake a cyclist by showing what the consequences for both parties are. A motorist will walk away with a scratch. A cyclist: much much worse. Agency: BBDO, Dublin VIEW THE AD Smithwicks Ale: Keep It Interesting Smithwick's, Ireland's No.1 ale, has launched a new integrated campaign prompting the Irish public to 'Keep It Interesting'. Amidst the sea of sameness of yellow lagers and beers, the iconic red ale stands out as the more interesting choice. This campaign is the first work for Smithwick's by Boys+Girls, Ireland's largest Independent agency. The Diageo-owned Smithwick's brand is full of character with a sheer abundance of interesting things to say, so the idea was to make stand out designs bursting with character. VIEW OUTDOOR Dublin Bus: Freedom of The City One in seven people in Ireland have some form of disability, whether this is visual impairment, the use of a wheelchair, or those with Down's Syndrome or Autism. Those with disabilities have needs that are varied and often completely individual - needs that can be a barrier when not accounted for, making everyday activities difficult for some. These activities all require access; something that people without disabilities often don't think twice about. Agency: Rothco, part of Accenture Interactive VIEW OUTDOOR  "This is Rockshore" celebrates long weekends, refreshing times and catching up with the gang in the great outdoors. Created by BBDO Dublin, the campaign was shot on location across the Kerry coastline. Backdropped against the rugged Atlantic coast, 'This is Rockshore' champions the invigorating freedom and refreshment we enjoy from a trip away with real mates. The story is served up by a cast of real friends, who headed off on a camping expedition to enjoy a fun-filled weekend of surf, exploration, and craic before settling down around the campsite to enjoy the refreshing taste of Rockshore lager and cider. VIEW THE SPOT  The Mortgage Masters at EBS have launched a new outdoor campaign that just happens to coincide with a certain tournament taking place at the moment in Japan. This campaign, created by BBDO Dublin, shines a light on some of the star players on the EBS Mortgage Master team. A happy coincidence but the EBS Mortgage Masters just happen to share names with some of the players who are busy 6000 miles away giving their all to secure an Irish place in the final. Like we said, a happy coincidence! VIEW OUTDOOR Choose Radio: And They Say Radio Isn't Visual.To showcase the merits of radio ads to the Irish advertising industry, the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland released a series of spots by Boys+Girls and Mutiny Recording Studios. Each spot was designed to highlight a particular benefit of a radio ad, whether it was a reminder of what could happen in 30 seconds or the power of visualisations in the 'theatre of the mind'. The campaign proved its point perfectly, with the spot 'And They Say Radio Isn't Visual' becoming a hot-button topic of national news, discussed on social and debated on one of Irelandâs best-known radio shows once it aired.PLAY THE VISUAL SPOT PLAY THE AMAZING SPOT PLAY THE UNDERESTIMATED SPOT An Post Insurance: Human About Insurance Following its recent rebrand to An Post Insurance, the 100% Irish, wholly owned subsidiary of An Post unveils its new identity and messaging, today, Tuesday, October 1 with an eye-catching national advertising campaign via JWT Folk. Over the next five weeks, one new 30 second and two new 20 second TV commercials will air on all leading channels including RTE, TV3, Sky and select video on demand channels.VIEW THE SPOT Nissan LEAF: Perfectly Placed Created for Nissan Ireland, this press ad highlights Nissan's self-parking technology by using rugby goals as parking lines to show that even the best in the world do better with support. This ad was run on the day Ireland were playing in the Rugby World Cup 2019. Ireland had also been recently ranked the best in the world in rugby. Agency: In the Company of Huskies VIEW THE AD Eason: Switch Off and Read BBDO Dublin's new campaign "Switch Off and Read" for Eason, Ireland's number one bookseller is all about reconnecting people with the simple joy of reading. It's about encouraging parents to read with their children in a time when our lives are fuelled and constantly interrupted by technology. With excessive screen time a source of ongoing worry for parents, "Switch Off and Read" celebrates the joy of the magical written word. And to quote the deity Ru Paul, reading is fundamental. And reading with your kids is even more powerful as it instils a lifelong love of books.VIEW FIRST OUTDOOR VIEW SECOND OUTDOOR VIEW THIRD OUTDOOR VIEW FOURTH OUTDOOR « First « Previous Next » Last » 7 of 22 |
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'Explore The Great Indoors' in this Land Rover spot.