Adworld - Adworld Ezine 27th September

Rothco Wins Irish Times Creative Account

Rothco has picked up the creative advertising account for the Irish Times. The account was previously held by Cawley Nea\TBWA.

Starcom Retains AIB Account

Starcom has held on to the media planning and buying account for AIB following a three way shoot-out with Vizeum and MediaCom. The media buying for EBS is also included in the brief.

Deadline Extended for Mobile Marketing Awards 2013

The deadline for entries for the inaugural Mobile Marketing Awards 2013 has been extended by a week until Tuesday October 10^th at 6pm.

Five Firms Vying for €200k Indo Ad Campaign

Five finalists have been selected for this year's Love Irish Food advertising competition which is run is association with Independent News & Media.

RTÉ Player Launches on Xbox 360

RTÉ Digital today announced a partnership with Xbox to give Xbox 360 users, access to RTÉ Player, Ireland's most successful catch-up and on-demand service, which streamed over 60 million minutes of content in July 2013 alone.

Tickets Still Available for Media Insights Breakfast

There are still some places left for next Wednesday's Direct Debate breakfast seminar which is being hosted by An Post's Mail Media Unit.

Electric Media Teams up With CollegeTimes.ie

Digital sales agency Electric Media has picked up the account to manage advertising sales for CollegeTimes.ie, one of the fastest-growing student websites in the country.

Gazette Group Exits Examinership

The Gazette Group of newspapers has successfully emerged from examinership after it secured new investment to continue in business.

Insight of the Week: A Nation of Gamblers

Irish people love to gamble and while there are many reasons for this, the old saying that "you never see a poor bookie" gains even more currency when times are economically tough.