Members of the Irish Defence Forces press office and the team from advertising agency Rothco pose with the silver Cannes Lion.

Award-winning Rothco campaign for the Defence Forces has boosted female applicants

In his latest two-fingers to Europe, Nigel Farage combines a voting session at the European Parliament, where he is an MEP, with a telephone call, which is very basic back-of-the-class behaviour
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‘Economic PTSD’, post-Brexit profit warnings, Tina Green, Nigel Farage and Fifa

Irish booksellers have asked the Government to delay a new national public tender on the supply of library books, which it says could force Irish companies out of business. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES

Bookshops may disappear from Irish towns, trade body ‘manifesto’ warns

RTÉ Television managing director Glen Killane who is leaving for Eir TV and Eir Sport

Telecoms group appoints senior Montrose executive as MD of Eir TV and Eir Sport

Adele’s Carpool Karaoke with James Corden has got more than 114 million YouTube views. Photograph: Craig Sugden/CBS via Getty Images

Why Sky got its hands on the viral-churning ‘Late Late Show’ (not that ‘Late Late Show’)

The recent critical triumph has been matched by some commercial success. In 2015 and 2016 to date, Irish films including Brooklyn, Room, Sing Street (above), Love & Friendship, Song of the Sea and The Lobster have taken a combined $140 million at the worldwide box office, with Brooklyn accounting for about $62 million of this.

Capital budget has been cut 44% since 2008

Asking prices for houses outside Dublin rose sharply in the second quarter of 2016, with prices in the capital rising more modestly, according to separate reports from property websites MyHome.ie and Daft.ie. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times.

Prices rise 1.1% in capital, but increase 10.2% outside Dublin in year to June, says report

Nathan Carter, the “Justin Bieber of country” according to this newspaper, performs at the inaugural RTÉ Irish Country Music Awards. Photograph: Andres Poveda

Stetson invasion proves a hit for Montrose

Outgoing UK prime minister David Cameron, accompanied by  wife Samantha Cameron, pictured in happier times in April 2015 as he examines a massive crossbow during a visit to the Game of Thrones set in Belfast. Photograph: Reuters/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Industry will continue to fight European proposals to end content geo-blocking

Sailor  Annalise Murphy, a medal hope for the Rio Olympics. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Broadcaster says advertisers can place themselves ‘at heart of Irish glory’ in Rio

Newstalk’s breakfast team from September: Shane Coleman, Colette Fitzpatrick, Paul Williams and Alan Quinlan. Photograph: Maxwell’s

Communicorp station hopes to double down on its 25 to 54-year-old, urban audience

Protesters gather to demostrate against the EU referendum result in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday in London, England. Up to 50,000 people were expected before the event was cancelled due to safety concerns. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Brexit fallout, the Bregretters and the happy Brexiteers with no bregrets

Some £2.5 billion has been wiped off the value of ITV since the Leave vote in the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union. Photograph: PA

Decline in sterling against the dollar makes owner of UTV more attractive target

Rupert Murdoch is adding seven radio stations in Ireland. Photograph: Reuters

Deal to buy Wireless radio stations extends Rupert Murdoch’s influence in Ireland

Rebekah Brooks,  chief executive of News UK

Company agrees deal to acquire Belfast’s Wireless Group for £220m

David McRedmond led TV3 for nine years.  Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times

Former TV3 chief executive joins Rory Godson company in a non-executive role

Colette Fitzpatrick will present Newstalk Breakfast alongside Shane Coleman, Paul Williams and Alan Quinlan.

Daily schedule changes follow departure of Ivan Yates from radio station

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt with relay team-mate Nesta Carter: Boys and Girls worked with Bolt on a campaign for Digicel. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty

Advertising agency part of Irish industry contingent on French ‘reconnaissance’

 Fan zone at the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower ahead of the UEFA 2016 European Championship in Paris. Photograph: REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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Euro 2016 fan zones, Brexit update and the ‘athleisure’ clothing boom

Reckitt Benckiser  marketers Maria Mealiffe (left) and Hazel Roche: “The sponsorship of Love Island is a perfect fit for our target market and fits really well with our overall campaign.”

Sponsorship of reality television show on UTV was ‘perfect fit’ with global campaign

The Public House’s Catrióna Campbell and Colin Hart outside the advertising agency’s premises near Dublin Castle.

Emigrant creatives don’t have to ‘compromise’ to return to Dublin, agency says

On top: a study has found Coca-Cola to be the most attractive sponsor of Euro 2016, followed by beer giants Heineken and Carlsberg. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

One-nil to the soft drinks brand in consumer appeal, Onside research finds

 Novak Djokovic  hits a forehand during the men’s singles final  at the 2016 French Open  which is now on Eurosport. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

Discovery-owned network is warming up for new era of watchability

Netflix ‘Bloodline’: Ben Mendelsohn (left) and Kyle Chandler star as brothers Danny and John Rayburn. The drama was closer to the ‘savour’ than ‘devour’ end of the ‘binge scale’.

Binge watching is the new normal, says chief content officer Ted Sarandos

The Wild Atlantic Way “passport” can be stamped with motifs at post offices.

The souvenir to ‘deepen visitor engagement’ could promote local businesses in future

Baz Ashmawy (right) is taught how to do Wudu in his two-part RTÉ2 series ‘Baz: The Lost Muslim’

New commissioning rounds get under way as broadcaster begins to shape future schedule

UCD:  home of the summer media course

Crisis management and camera work part of one-week summer course at UCD campus

The  tribute to Jonah Lomu was shared by hundreds of thousands of fans around the world in the 24 hours after it was published.

Chemistry’s work for ‘Irish Examiner’ and Rothco’s ‘Shred of Decency’ win double gold

Donald Trump: drying on the shelves at the Jinhua Partytime Latex Art and Crafts Factory in Zhejiang Province in China. Photograph: Reuters/Aly Song
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Donald Trump masks, the US millennials living at home and friendly, helpful ‘cobots’

 Facebook: gets 14 cent out of every euro spent on digital advertising in Ireland.  Photograph: Reuters/Dado Ruvic

Big battles lie ahead, as media groups report accelerated decline in print advertising

INM chief executive Robert Pitt. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / The Irish Times

‘Strong growth’ in digital business not enough to offset drop in newspaper income

Eir is permitted to remove a payphone unit if the average usage over a period of six months falls below less that one minute a day.

Communications regulator proposes keeping usage thresholds at one minute per day

Laura Bates has written the kind of sex and life education you wished you had when you were 14. Photograph: Eric Luke

Laura Bates has written a frank and funny book that gives girls the armour and tools they need to survive the ‘bombardment of crap(...)

Feargal O’Rourke, managing partner PwC: the company’s report  found, in particular,  a lack of understanding about blockchain technology, with 86 per cent of Irish firms “at best moderately familiar” with it. Photograph:  Donall Farmer/©INPHO

A quarter of traditional firms fear they will lose over a fifth of business, says PwC report

Amy Huberman and Jason Byrne in “The Rug”, a Sky comedy short produced by Sharon Horgan’s company, Merman

Six Ireland-themed shorts to premiere at Cat Laughs festival

2fm presenter Louise McSharry was on MC duties at Measurement Conference in Dublin’s Liberty Hall.

‘Harsh but fair’ truths of social media marketing at Measurement conference

“We have been identifying some new talent and they will be names that you will know,” says Newstalk chief executive Tim Collins. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Ivan Yates may be off, but George Hook is not finished yet, says station CEO Tim Collins

Tom Enders, the chief executive of Airbus: a man with access to some interesting engines. Photograph: Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP
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A review of the business world this week

Standardised packaging for tobacco in UK. Photograph: ASH/PA Wire

The drab shade was deemed the most repellent - but will consumers always see it that way?

‘Big Brother’ presenter Emma Willis and ‘Big Brother’s Bit On The Side’ host  Rylan Clark-Neal

Three-year-deal secures reality series and its celebrity version

Today FM has appointed Keith McCormack, formerly of 98 FM, as its new chief executive.

Communicorp radio station will be led by the current head of Dublin’s 98FM

Road trip: the B&B show that follows Daniel and Majella O’Donnell has switched to RTÉ One for its second series.

Filming begins on the second series next month

For four years and 11 issues from 1959, ‘Campaign’, edited by Bernard Share and Isolde Farrell, covered the advertising and graphic design business in Ireland

Institute of Creative Advertising and Design brings back ‘critical thinking’ title

Michael O’Leary: the Ryanair chief has been doing his bit for the Remain campaign in Britain’s EU referendum
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BBC recipes, Brexit update, ‘President Trump’ and other stock market ‘tail risks’

 Katie Molony, managing director of Maximum Media

Company behind JOE.ie and Her.ie is chasing millennials via social and branded content

‘The Good Wife’: fans in Ireland will have already seen its series finale, notwithstanding the fact it is yet to air on either RTÉ One or More 4

‘Seen it already,’ say some viewers. ‘It’s on at what time now?’ say the rest

Legal firms engaged in lobbying activity are not thought to be complying with the legislation to the same extent as public relations professionals. Image: iStock

PR industry believes legal and other professions have not reported lobbying activities

CarsIreland.ie was launched in 2004 and, according to INM, has almost 1,000 car dealers advertising 40,000 used, new and classic cars for sale on the platform each month.

Media group buys remaining 50% of the car classifieds business

‘Joan Collins hasn’t exposed herself to “harmful rays” since the age of 20, she says, which surprises me, as when I picture Joan Collins, born in the sun-worshipping 1930s, she is 100 per cent of the time reclining in an inflatable pool armchair with 1980s cordless phone in one hand and a ridiculous cocktail in the other.’ Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images

‘Blue skies in this country are like sporting triumphs, or abortions – they happen, but there’s no legal right to them’

Going for gold – TG4 programmes such as ‘An Klondike’ have been at the heart of the station’s success

The Oireachtas na Gaeilge awards will pay special tribute

 Former London mayor Boris Johnson campaigning for the ‘Leave’ side in the UK’s Brexit referendum.  Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg

Liberty Global’s planned donation to anti-Brexit group signals uneasiness

Tom McGuire: “We’re enhancing our programme teams now, and training 12 producers at the moment.”

‘Tweaking’ to station includes new summer weekend shows from independent sector

Fair City: along with other TV programmes, increasingly its audience does not watch live but on catch-up platforms.

Move brings TV industry closer to ‘total audience’ measure of on-demand and live views

“A festival of faces”: traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photograph: Michael Nagle / Bloomberg
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Hotel Chocolat; grimacing at the New York Stock Exchange; techie team work and a popcorn mogul

 Prince:  exerted an unusual level of control over his music publishing. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/WireImage for NPG Records

Artists who embrace advertisers are not treated with suspicion anymore

Graham Norton: advised by his Eurovision predecessor not to drink until song nine. photograph: pa images on behalf of so tv

Wogan to be remembered by Graham Norton during song contest’s grand final

Peter McPartlin is a well-known figure in the Irish advertising industry.

Former Today FM chief executive appointed to oversee and grow media agency business

The show sees Daniel O’Donnell and his wife Majella experience ‘the unique hospitality’ of Irish B&Bs

Couple will be touring Irish B&Bs; again this summer as hit series switches channels

Mobile  ad revenues are driving growth. Photograph: Bloomberg

Industry body says 13% rise in online ad spending in 2015 helped it surpass television

‘There’s a tuneless choir in West Bridgford, Nottingham. They don’t have a note between them. Well, they do, just not the ones that Björn and Benny intended.’ File photograph: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters

‘It must be lovely to be able to say ‘this is it, if this isn’t good enough for you, then screw you’’

Commuters at Tara Street DART station. That average travel time breaks down into about eight long minutes waiting on the platform and almost 28 minutes on board the train. Photograph: Frank Miller

Dublin rail commuters are a captive audience for up to 36 minutes per day

Executive director of UK government communications Alex Aiken

Alex Aiken advises Irish PR professionals to ‘be more German’ to prove their worth

Sonia Flynn, international vice-president of SoundCloud.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

Platform plans to negotiate ‘creator partnerships’ between brands and artists

Electric Ireland’s head of marketing Lisa Browne (left), pictured with Katie Taylor, Paul McGinley and group sponsorship  and activation manager Edel McCarthy. Photograph: Anthony Woods

Medals not required for sponsorship to succeed, says head of marketing

‘Great British Bake Off’ winner Nadiya Hussain: dismal treatment  by certain parts of the media

RTÉ plans to try harder to reflect the cultural diversity of Ireland - and it’s about time

Food warehouse in Quezon City, in the Philippines. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg

Iced coffees, tobacco laws, ‘Bin Laden’ banknotes and an Atlantic City ‘running on fumes’

SoundCloud said the subscription and advertising income would give musicians and other producers of content “the opportunity to be paid for the work that they share”. Photograph: SoundCloud

Music streaming company to sell adverts on free version

Rob Doyle: people who become writers tend to suffer from hypersensitivity and that is a very debilitating quality to have to make your way in the world. Writing is the one domain where it becomes useful

‘For me, the most exciting things are happening in that liminal space between memoir and fiction’

Michelle Fairley as Dolly  in RTÉ’s ‘Rebellion’: Fairley is known globally for her role as Catelyn Stark in ‘Game of Thrones’

Reception for ‘Rebellion’ in the US likely to sway RTÉ’s decision on whether to bring it back for a second series

‘Poldark’: Starring Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza and Aidan Turner at the eponymous hero. photograph: mike hogan

Company behind ‘Great Irish Bake Off’ to develop ‘Bucking the Trend’ for RTÉ

The First Dates Ireland episode featuring  Ethan Miles, Mateo Saina and Alice Marr can be seen on RTÉ Player now.

Seven-year-old service has 4.4m monthly streams ahead of launch of new version

 Twitter: year-on-year revenue growth from large brand advertisers had been “softer than expected”. Photograph:  REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

The social network is desperately trying to compete with Facebook for video ad dollars

US President Barack Obama tries virtual reality glasses as he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) tour Hanover Messe Trade Fair in Hanover, Germany April 25, 2016. Photograph: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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The Dyson Supersonic, ‘accidental pirates’ and Warren Buffett’s 92-year-old sidekick

Some 449 complaints, or 38 per cent of the total, were registered in respect of digital advertising

Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland upheld complaints against 72 ads last year

2fm’s ‘Breakfast Republic’ team -  Jennifer Zamparelli, Bernard O’Shea and Keith Walsh.

JNLR radio survey shows decreases for most of the big stations but gains for Radio 1

Garret Keogh, co-founder of Telegraph Hill: “Smart brands get that people don’t want a return to the 1950s TV where it’s ‘and here’s a word from our sponsors’.”

The broadcasting industry comes together to laugh, moan and do business in Dungarvan

Suzanne McElligott, chief executive of IAB Ireland

Native advertising, where ads mimic content, is worth €45m, says an IAB PwC report

HyperBrow’s Simone Smyth (left) and Sorcha Delaney

Dublin design studio HyperBrow won EU pitch to create Stem subjects campaign

Big Mac: has been showing its age
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The ‘Grand Mac’, the ‘tough phone’ market and why it’s good to be a data scientist

Print: under pressure

Print and digital media co-exist in firms but it does not have to be so

FM 104: owned by Belfast-based Wireless Group

Former UTV stations won’t participate in advertising recovery this year, analysts say

Only 46 per cent of the 165,000 people who watched the recent series of ‘Homeland’ on RTÉ2 watched it live

But broadband in Ireland is not yet good enough for this type of online service, it says

TG4’s car-based dating show Pioc do Ride, made by El Zorrero Films, and RTÉ’s The Notorious, a series about MMA fighter Conor McGregor made by Motive Television, were among the first winners of the festival’s Torc awards to be announced.

‘Pioc do Ride’ and ‘The Notorious’ among the shows celebrated at industry get-together

Patrick Meade, managing partner of Boys and Girls: “Increasingly, clients want to extend work we’ve created in the Irish market into wider European or global markets.”    Photograph: Paul Sharp / Sharppix

Irish agency joins Interpartners to help it create ads that don’t get lost in translation

The ‘Shred of Decency’ confetti campaign created by Rothco for Daintree Paper

How to work in advertising and not hate yourself, as explained by Rothco

AIB group brand director Brian Keating with James Stephens GAA club hurler Jackie Tyrrell (left) and Crossmaglen footballer Aaron Kernan. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Club championship ‘Toughest’ campaign has grown into ‘brilliant canvas’ on TV schedules

Into the lair: ‘Dragon’s Den’ returns with two new ‘Dragons’. Photograph: Ruth Medjber

Popular Sunday night series back for a seventh run on RTÉ

There are things the next government could do to not only preserve but promote employment in the Irish media sector. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Next coalition could protect and promote employment in Irish sector - if it wanted

A man walks on a red carpet in front of the Gulfstream G650 ER aircraft at Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) at Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, China. Photograph: REUTERSAly Song
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Osman Kibar and the ‘god pill’, Yahoo bidders, ‘nearables’ and the music ‘value gap’

Noel Curran at Dublin City University: he noted that three consecutive recommendations by the BAI that RTÉ’s public funding should be increased have been ignored. Photograph: Eric Luke

Outgoing DG says broadcaster unable to solve ‘structural’ problems on its own

Spending on digital advertising in Ireland hit €340m last year - IAB PwC report

Denis O’Brien: radio group owner

Communicorp on hunt to fill top job after Peter McPartlin resignation last year

TV3’s ‘The Gadget Buzz’ presenters Joe Donnelly and Dr Fionnuala Conway with series editor Andy O’Donoghue: series two will explore technology of the future.

TV3 series returns for second run to analyse impact that technology has on people’s lives

AOL chief executiveTim Armstrong: “It is probably going to take a long time, it might take a couple of decades . . .” Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

AOL engineers in Dublin contributing to development of One advertising platform

Vacant beach chairs at the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
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Ghost resorts, inversions, ‘Panamania’ and a guide to H&M;

Morph: New episodes by Aardman Animation will feature on Sky Kids app later this year

Kids ‘don’t hold back’ in their views, says Lucy Murphy, its first head of kids’ content

 Dee Forbes: has jumped the fence from a multinational media world backed by billionaire shareholders to a relatively puny national one beset by political inertia

RTÉ must negotiate with its new DG’s old employer if it wants to show Olympics

Ivan and Deirdre Yates: The High Court ruled in February that AIB was entitled to a judgment of €1.6m against Ms Yates. It demanded repayment from her, a primary school teacher, in June 2014. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Broadcaster has denied move prompted by family’s legal battle with AIB

Rachel Reid (played by Ann Skelly) is confronted by her father Liam (Anthony Brophy) in a forthcoming episode of ‘Red Rock’

TV3 soap opera is ‘one of the most successful exports in Irish broadcasting history’

Dermot O’Leary, Goodbody stockbroker’s chief economist: “A vacuum exists when important policy initiatives in the areas of housing, infrastructure and health need to be addressed.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Stockbroking company says that political uncertainty could harm Irish economy

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