Pictured L-R: Roisin O’Brien (mytaxi), Barry Sweeney (Guns or Knives), Chloe Guildea (Source ooh), Pat Cassidy (PML Group), Caroline Shesgreen (Vizeum and Gary Bramall (mytaxi)
Taxi-hailing app Hailo has been renamed mytaxi following a merger between the two groups, which creates Europe’s biggest e-hailing app. A wide-ranging nationwide OOH campaign planned by Vizeum and PML announced the name-change.
“The first thing you’ll recognise is that the mytaxi app looks really familiar, the colour scheme is still the same – and the ‘Irishness’ that leant to the success of Hailo here is still visible, ” mytaxi’s General Manager in Ireland, Tim Arnold said.
This Irish feel was maintained with some very witty taglines by Guns or Knives.
Formats of note in Dublin included East Link Toll Domination, Bridges on Ballybough & North Strand Roads and a 240 Sheet in Ranelagh. A moving mechanical arm was added to a Golden Square on Cuffe Street to give the old app a proper send off.
Commenting on the merger, mytaxi CEO Andrew Pinnington said: “The mytaxi focus is on combining knowledge of what our customers need with real-time data to help our passengers move freely within the cities we service.
“We look to work in harmony with our drivers, and the cities and countries in which we operate to facilitate better movement in challenging and congested urban environments.”
Pictured (L-R) Back: Jonathon, Chris, Gerard, Stephen, TJ; Front: Chloe, Orla, Lucy
PML Group, Ireland’s leading Out of Home (OOH) communications agency, has strengthened considerably its team in the Republic of Ireland in recent months.
The client service teams in Source out of home and PML have both been boosted with new arrivals in the form of Chris Murphy and Lucy Savage (PML), and Orla King and Chloe Guildea (Source out of home).
TJ Duffy, Jonathon Scully and Gerard Tyrrell have all joined the group’s Poster Audit Bureau campaign monitoring team.
Elsewhere within the group, Stephen Larmour is the new group finance manager.
In January 2017 PML Group celebrated 35 years in the OOH media business. The company is part of the Posterscope worldwide network.
Carlsberg are plugging into Christmas with a stand-out OOH campaign that includes a variety of illumination specials.
Source out of home worked with Carat on the Outdoor planning. It’s running on Golden Squares, 48 Sheets, Metopoles, Adshel, T-Sides, Pub A1s and the Green Screen. Several innovative elements are included in Carlsberg’s festive promotion, which literally lights up on Out of Home! These include special builds on Golden Squares and 48 Sheets, where the Carlsberg logo lights up around the logo. We love the clever creative from Irish International, which has been designed so that the lit-up logos looks as if they are Christmas tree lights plugged into actual the posters.
EL (electroluminescence) 6 Sheets on bus shelters and metroglo on Metropoles have also been incorporated into the campaign, further enhancing the campaigns visibility out on street.
Meteor ran a ‘live’ disruption on OOH on November 24th. The disruption was a pre-recorded mock news bulletin report, that was aired across multiple platforms, including digital OOH.
A primary location for the disruption was Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. At exactly 6.30pm Meteor ran a 2-minute takeover on the Green Screen at the entrance to the centre, airing a ‘breaking news’ report from Waterford Whispers covering missing chocolate, hints for extravagant gifts and more. Other locations where the disruption took place were The Square Tallaght, the Ilac Shopping Centre, a DigiVan in Dublin city centre as well as 30 city centre Orbscreens.
Vizeum and Source out of home planned this disruption on OOH, which was part of its overall Christmas campaign on Outdoor. The OOH creative from DDFH&B focuses on the ‘hintmas season’ and is running on 48 Sheets, Golden Squares, T-Sides, Digital Portrait Panels, Adshel, City Impacts, Citybox and the Green Screen. OOH also features in Meteor’s Merry Hintmas TV advert; a 48 Sheet is included which a man uses to hint to his partner that we would like a present from Meteor this Christmas.
You can view a video of Meteor’s ‘live’ news report at Stephens Green here.
Tayto is promoting its new, bigger value bags on Outdoor advertising and the campaign includes two special builds.
Planned by Vizeum and Source out of home, formats in Tayto’s Outdoor campaign include dPods, 48 Sheets and Adshel. The creative by Publicis Dublin promotes a variety of Tayto products, all of which now have bigger value bags. Pouch Specials were installed at two petrol stations, in the form of giant sized packets of Tayto’s Snax and Waffles brands, tying in with the key message in the campaign that Tayto is using bigger bags for its snacks brands.
Please note this is a mocked up design for illustrative purposes only
Clear Channel have installed their first digital screens at Westend Shopping Park – Blanchardstown. The network comprises 6 X 70’HD Screens which support static, basic motion or HD video while there are flexible creative, day part & short term opportunities. Globally Clear Channel have 5,200 screens in 23 Countries including the Castlecourt and Abbey Centres in Northern Ireland.
Westend Shopping Park has become known as Ireland’s first Shopping Park with over 25 stores across fashion, home, leisure, sport and lifestyle. It is home to many top brands such as Next, Heatons, New Look, Argos, Lidl, McQuillan’s, GAP, Nike, Dealz, Petstop, Pavers, Laura Ashley, Baby Elegence, Mountain Warehouse, Champions Sports, KFC, Costa and Three. It is beside the Blanchardstown Centre and boasts 600 parking spaces.
Centra has announced its new ‘Live Every Day’ brand positioning, which will result in a radical transformation of the brand following significant investment. The transformation will see the introduction of healthier convenient food ranges, in-store renovations and underpinned by a heavyweight marketing campaign. As part of its advertising campaign, Centra is running an extensive promotion on Out of Home.
Planned by Starcom and Source out of home, Centra’s ‘Live Every Day’ Outdoor campaign is running on Adshel, Superside, City Impacts, Bus Commuter Cards, Phone Kiosks and Luas Columns. The campaign creative by Irish International includes a variety of appetising product shots of Centra goods, along with its new tagline ‘Live Every Day’.
Commenting on the announcement, Ray Kelly, Centra marketing director, said: “With Live Every Day, Centra is redefining convenience with a healthier, more innovative offering across our stores. We are revolutionising our in-store experience to position Centra as the ultimate time saver for great food.”
“The change is not just a tagline, there will be tangible proof points that customers will experience, including the refurbishment of our stores. Some of the other in-store changes we have made are simpler, like our decision to make healthier options more prominently available.”
“The in-store experience is critical for our success as we understand that our customers lead busy lifestyles and as Ireland’s leading convenience brand we want to make their lives simpler. Whether they choose to Live Well with healthier choices or every once in a while Live it Up with some well-deserved indulgence, Centra are here to help.”
JCDecaux has been awarded the advertising contract to sell space on bus shelters from January 2017 by the National Transport Authority. Clear Channel is the incumbent.
Currently 1,843 shelters are maintained by Bus Átha Cliath (Dublin Bus) and Bus Éireann.
The agreement covers:
The NTA values the contract at €30 million over its 63 month lifespan. The contract may be extended by up to 39 months at the sole discretion of the Authority.
Pictured are representatives from AIB, Source out of home, Exterion Media and Starcom.
In the week of the All Ireland football final, AIB appeared on a full domination of Connolly train station in central Dublin. The GAA themed creative features on all formats within the station for cycle 19, including Commuter Points, dPods, Transvision and various specials such as hanging banners and wrapping of the walls of staircases and tunnels and of the ticket barriers. It’s literally wall to wall AIB throughout the station! In a further twist to the campaign, GAA quiz questions appeared on the digital formats on the week of the match, which allowed commuters to test their GAA knowledge while waiting for their train.
In terms of boarding and alighting, Connolly is the busiest station in the country. According to the heavy rail census carried out in November 2015, the station accounted for in excess of 14,000 boardings and alightings on that day.
The Connolly domination was planned and placed by Starcom and Source out of home with creative by Rothco.
Nestlé KitKat Chunky’s latest variant – a cookie dough flavour – is in shops now. Appetising designs featuring the product are displayed on 48 Sheet billboards, Europanels and bus shelter 6 Sheets. The launch comes seventeen years after the original KitKat Chunky hit the shelves in Ireland.
Back in 1999 the new brand appeared, fittingly, on large scale 96 Sheet panels. Outdoor worked for the new product in its infancy back then and is still doing a great job for the newest incarnation of the brand today.
The OOH campaign was placed by Mindshare and Source out of home with creative by DDFH&B.
