With just over a week to go to the Irish Life Dublin Marathon on Sunday 27th October, my guest presenter David O'Sullivan was joined by the heads of Irish charities whose funding will hopefully benefit from the sponsorship and donations from those involved. Grainne O'Leary Chief Executive Arthritis Ireland ★Jimmy Fearon Chief Executive, DEBRA Ireland Among the main themes explored were... 1. What is the historical context of Irish charitable giving? 2. How has the Irish charity sector evolved in...
Oct 19, 2024•29 min
One new event to mark on your calendars for next year is The Reinvention Summit which takes place in Dublin on April 29th and 30th. It's the brainchild of Aidan McCullen and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva . Dr Zhexembayeva, who has published multiple books on the topic of business reinvention, was in Dublin this week for a series of meetings and promotion events in advance of the Summit. According to a Harvard/Reinvention Academy study some 68% of leaders struggle with company reinvention; a real proble...
Oct 12, 2024•30 min
Interview with founder of SkillDing , Kevin Redmond. The company aims to revolutionize the way both providers and consumers approach soft skills training. By collaborating with podcasters in the business and marketing space, the company has a SAAS system that enables listener to integrate the content from podcasts into their learning journey. #podcasting #marketingtraining #salestraining #softskills
Nov 11, 2023•29 min
Interview with Belinda Barker , Chief Executive of World Media Group who was speaking at the launch of their report What's Next for Content-Led Marketing We begin by discussing what's meant by content-led marketing - essentially revolving around the story of the brand. The report is in its third year and addresses many trends in content-led marketing including the factors that respondents felt added impact and effectiveness to brand storytelling around ESG issues for international audiences. Ask...
Nov 23, 2022•28 min
A fantastic discussion on #retailmedia on last week's show with Colin Lewis who is the leading writer on this topic, and has recently penned the WARC Retail Media Platform Primer Series -- a great range of topics covered ...What exactly do we mean by Retail Media? What is the catalyst for the explosion in Retail Media? How important is it actually in overall retail revenues? What are the brands that are taking advantage of this? Leveraging Retailer's first party data. #AmazonMarketingCloud #Amaz...
Oct 29, 2022•29 min
Interviews from the expo area of the Dublin Tech Summit 2022 held in June 2022 at the RDS expo area in Dublin. Although the event had continued in a virtual format, the opportunity to network face-to-face was one that the 8,000 delegates relished. There was a palpable buzz in the exhibitor halls and hospitality spaces as the attendees digested some of the content of the keynote speakers, and looked to foster linkages with potential partners and investors. The weather obliged also which helped sh...
Jul 29, 2022•28 min
An extended interview with James Chappell, Global Business Director, Horwarth HTL and Global Chairman of Horwarth HTL, John Fareed. Both men were visitors to Dublin recently and I got the chance to talk hotel market trends with them as we emerge from the worst of Covid....also in this podcast ( 19'58" ) an interview with Killian Stokes, founder of Moyee Coffee and incoming CEO of Proudly Made in Africa
Jan 30, 2022•39 min
In this podcast an interview with the founder of start-up in the Augmented Reality space Imvizar, Michael Guerin, plus Kevin Rowe tells me about a new outdoor light extravaganza that his company will be running in a Wexford #augmentedreality #immersivetechnology
Jan 08, 2022•28 min
On 29th December I hosted the 2021 Immersive Tech Review with panelists Alan Smithson and Julie Smithson from MetaVRse and Judity Okonkwo from Imisi 3D. Our discussion was wide-ranging covering events such as new launches from Snap, Niantic, no and lo-code game engines, Microsoft Mesh, acquisitions that made headlines including Wikitude, Pico and Sketchfab, the growing participation of women in XR, hardware launches from HP, Pico and Varjo. And of course the big story of 2021, FB morphing into M...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Feature interview with Mal Stevenson, former Creative Director Irish International /BBDO Dublin and David O'Sullivan, director of Ignition and Bloodychic.com where we dissect four popular Christmas adverts gracing Irish television screens this festive season: Woodies, Supervalu, Lidl and Tesco. #christmasads #advertising #adstrategy
Dec 20, 2021•28 min
In this podcast I interview Mal Stevenson who was Creative Director at Irish International when the Guinness Christmas advert was first aired in 2003. In a wide-ranging interview we discuss the creative brief behind the advert, the creative idea and execution elements of what has become one of Ireland's most-loved adverts. Thanks also to Dave O'Sullivan from Ignition for helping to set up the interview. #advertising #Christmasads #Guinnessadvertising...
Nov 27, 2021•29 min
In this podcast we are rejoined by Kay Mc Carthy from planning agency MCCP to discuss the impact that the Covid crisis has had on consumer sentiment. We trace many of the likely implications for marketers. In part two of the podcast an interview with Finola Mc Dermott from the marketing team at EPIC in Dublin's CHQ.
Sep 11, 2021•30 min
On this edition of the show Dave Byrne, Head of Creative at Thinkhouse, discusses the marketing opportunities offered by the TikTok platform with a case-study on the campaign they ran on behalf of client Goodfellas for their Pizza Pockets brand. Also on the show in Part Two, an interview with author David Kerrigan about his latest book 'Unlock your Learning'. In the interview we discuss how breakthroughs in Cognitive Psychology in recent decades, coupled with unprecedented levels of access to le...
Jun 29, 2021•29 min
On this episode of the show, an extended interview with Michelle Carvill, co-author of ' Sustainable Marketing - How to drive profits with purpose'. In the interview we discuss Michelle's marketing career, and the genesis of the book. Themes from the book we explore are the role of leadership in promoting a sustainability in marketing agenda, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the need for both innovation and sustainability in packaging. On the www.canmarketingsavetheplanet.com websi...
Jun 04, 2021•30 min
On this episode of The Persuaders -- the topic of innovation is one that we have covered numerous times on the show, but never from the perspective of philosophy. Professor Xavie Pavie, who lectures at top French business school ESSEC's Singapore campus, is an acknowledged global thinker in how companies can be more responsible in their innovation strategy, especially by framing their thinking in a philosophical way. Prof. Pavie's contact information: www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-pavie-75a5374/ In...
May 31, 2021•29 min
On this week's show we interview the founders of London agency, SharpEnd, Cameron Worth and Rob Hollands. Their agency together with Capgemini and The Drum have recently launched Cornershop, which is a retail innovation showcase space in Shoreditch. Cornershop was recently featured on the BBC Click television show. We are joined also by Damian O'Reilly from TU Dublin's School of Retail and Services Management. We discuss the factors leading to Cornershop's creation, the brands that they currentl...
May 22, 2021•29 min
In this edition of the show, we have as interviewees: Damian Young, founder and CEO of ZEUS Scooters - an Irish company deploying the World's FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Launched in the city of Heidelberg in Germany in June 2020, ZEUS Scooters has expanded to 17 cities in Germany, making it the fastest expanding Micro Mobility company in Germany. We are also joined by Ciaran Fitzpatrick the founder of Cookie Dó, which is part of Aldi's Grow with Aldi ...
May 15, 2021•29 min
In this episode a feature interview with Alison Tyrrell. Alison is the Head of Marketing at SilverCloud Health and previous Global Head of Content, Brand Marketing & Media at Spark Foundry, an agency within Publicis Media. Alison works with brands to help them identify their narratives and connect with their audience through award winning marketing throughout the customer lifecycle. Alison’s 360 experience spans both brand and agency side in Ireland, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She ha...
May 07, 2021•29 min
In this podcast, ecommerce expert Vinny O'Brien of Vinny & Co. discusses: how Covid has shaped retailers' ecommerce capability and to understand if this has created winners and losers? What are the types of issues that retailers typically need to address in their ecommerce strategy? What are the skill-sets required to really manage e-commerce - Vinny points to Shopify as being innovative in this respect, and we discuss how to maximise the online customer experience to mirror the retail one. ...
Apr 30, 2021•28 min
In this episode of The Persuaders, we talk to Ray Sheerin who founded the Chemistry advertising agency about the need for advertisers to be prepared to take risks in their creative strategy. We discuss IPA research that points to award winning work effectiveness being on the decline. Plus, Pearse Keller from KelAir Campotel discusses how his company has had to seek new markets as Covid decimated their Irish holiday segment.
Apr 26, 2021•30 min
The CXi Report is published annually by The CX Company which is based in Dublin. It is based on an annual survey which is carried out on behalf of the company, by Amarách Research. Between the 13th July to 17th August this year a cross section of 2,500 Irish consumers were asked about their customer experiences with 151 brands across ten sectors. In this podcast Alex Gibson interviews the founder of The CX Company, Michael Killeen. As well as discussing the CXi Report there is a wide ranging dis...
Apr 21, 2021•27 min
In this episode an interview with Jennifer Condon and Adam Fulham, founders of The Irish Start-up Conference, taking place online on Tuesday 27th April 2021. In addition to the content of the conference we discussed: How has the Covid impacted on start-ups? Issue of scaling up seems to be important - how can small businesses plan for this? And what is of interest for the marketing audience in particular. We discuss how the conference has evolved and its interesting structure build to accommodate...
Apr 19, 2021•26 min
In this edition, we talk the co-founders of The Indie List, Una Herlihy and Peter Mc Partlin. The Indie List promises to bring together the best strategic, creative and technical skills in Ireland for the benefit of businesses and agencies seeking meet the demands of a fast-evolving business environment with maximum flexibility, efficiency and impact. In Part 2 of the show, Diarmuid O'Riordan from Braveherders.ie discusses how they are leveraging digital marketing strategies to boost sales of be...
Apr 10, 2021•29 min
In Part 1 of this Podcast, an interview with Belinda Barker, Chief Executive of World Media Group about their recently produced research report and survey on Content Led Marketing trends. Among the topics we explored are: How do you define content led advertising? How many years has the survey been running? How has proportion on content-led advertising changed since last survey in 2020? We also explore the issue of brand safety --what exactly is brand safety in this context? And we preview the W...
Apr 06, 2021•32 min
In Part 1 of this edition of The Persuaders, an interview with Aidan Duff who is an expert in Amazon Selling. We explore the systems that are needed to take advantage of the digital marketplace, and in Part 2, John Dunne, CEO of Ignite Digital examines the changing nature of the digital advertising landscape including the challenges posed by the imminent demise of cookies. With more than 50% of expenditure on advertising now going on digital, we explore the need this creates for strategic digita...
Mar 30, 2021•29 min
In this episode of The Persuaders, a feature interview with Dr. Alex Gordon, founder of Sign Salad , an agency specialising in semiotic analysis. Alex Gordon has worked as a semiotician for 20 years and has led cultural insight projects across five continents for global blue-chip brands such as Unilever, PepsiCo, Airbnb, Ritz-Carlton, Diageo, Kraft Heinz, HSBC, Danone, Pfizer, Colgate Palmolive, Kellogg's, Nestlé. Prior to founding Sign Salad in 2007, he established the semiotics & cultural ...
Mar 19, 2021•28 min
In this episode of The Persuaders, Alex Gibson talks to Marketing Institute of Ireland Chief Executive David Field, in advance of the annual DMX marketing conference which takes place on March 25th, and Martha Kearns, from Storylab.ie talks about the role storytelling can play in developing brands.
Mar 19, 2021•28 min
In this episode of the show, an extended interview with Paul Dervan, author of Run With Foxes - must-read collection of real-life stories, revealing the messy reality of decision-making in marketing and the secrets of making better decisions. In the interview Paul gives his insights gleaned from 20 years in marketing, working for high-profile brands, creating new ones and helping to rescue those that have got in trouble.
Feb 06, 2021•27 min
Interview with Brid O'Connell, CEO, Guaranteed Irish about the launch of Guaranteed Irish Gifts to encourage more Irish consumers to shop local.
Nov 01, 2020•12 min
Show hosted by Ronan Kinahan with guest Niall Corcoran from Atomic
Sep 05, 2016•27 min
