Interview with Marshall Manson, Head of Digital at Edelman EMEA region who was speaking at the Marketing Institute of Ireland ( MII ) Marketing at Night series in conjunction with Edelman. Plus a series of interviews with Irish fashion buyers and marketers at the Gloss 'Look the Business' fashion event held recently in the Mansion House Dublin.

In this podcast Denis Goodbody from Adept Advertising discusses the challenges facing the Irish Advertising Sector and Aldagh Mc Donalgh from Alternatives who has established Marketing For Change which enables enables skilled marketers with a desire to give something back, to volunteer their marketing skills for the charity sector.

Interview with Declan Fearon, Managing Director of Tipperary Crystal. In the interview Declan traces his early career in estage agency, cable television and Ladbrookes in the UK before returning to Ireland.

In this podcast a special look at the issues involved in Branding in a Recession with Richard Hayes, Marketing Director, Warburtons - leading UK bakers, who describes a number of strategies that can be applied to help brands thrive in a recession.

There is also an interview with Colin Gordon, CEO Consumer Foods Glanbia Foods who talks about the recently launched Love Irish Food initiative that a number of Irish food brands have launched. Over 30 of Ireland’s leading food and drink brands are behind Love Irish Food, and it has been established to promote Irish manufactured food and drink brands to consumers, in a bid to help safeguard the future of Ireland’s largest indigenous industry. Leading economist Jim Power was unveiled as the Chairman of the organisation. The participating brands range from some of the largest indigenously-produced FMCG brands to smaller artisan producers. Member brands include Barry’s Tea, Tayto, Ballygowan, Batchelors, Avonmore, Cadbury, Goodfella’s, Cully and Sully, Flahavans and Follain.

In this special podcast, guest presenters Mark Byrne from Designworks and Ronan Kinahan from Vibe Marketing and Training discuss the marketing of the Temple Bar district in Dublin with Martin Harte from TASCQ (Traders in the Area Supporting the Cultural Quarter) which is the body responsible for the marketing of the area.

In this podcast Yanky Fachler steps in for Alex Gibson for a Bookbuzz.biz session to discuss the book Branding Only Works on Cattle by Johathan Salem Baskin

Guest Panelists are :

Padraic Gilligan MCI ,formerly Ovation

Alec Drew - BaselineGreg Byrne - SmallBusinessCan

In this podcast Mark Conguista from Irish International ad agency gives us the low-down on how to use Twitter in your marketing strategy, and as part of an integrated social media strategy. Plus we review the new Budweiser global advertising campaign. At a preview session for bloggers in Dublin I interviewed Mark Delahunty from DDB London and Charles Wong, Marketing Manager for Budweiser in Ireland.

In this extended podcast there are interviews with Internet Entrepreneur of the Year Fred Carslon from DoneDeal.ie

I also interview Robert Coyle from Bloom Advertising about the campaign they have been running across all media for Santex paints including a strong social media dimension. Piaras Kelly from Edelman PR and Conor Lynch from Connector.ie are also in studio to discuss some best-practice examples of using social media for marketing purposes, including a very interesting campaign they jointly worked on for Canon to promote a new range of high-specification camcorders.

Guest presenter Roisin Ni Mhordha interviews Mario Rosenstock of Gift Grub - which recently celebrated 10 years on Today FM - and Special One TV fame and Jimmy Murphy from The Hive who count Conduit 11850, Barnardo's and Rabodirect among their client base. They discuss the creative process in both advertising and writing creative copy generally.

Guest preseter Roisin Ni Mhordha interviews Niall Kehoe owner of Ethnic Media Ireland, and also Chinedu Onyejelem, the Editor and Publisher of the 'multicultural' newspaper, Metro Eireann. This podcast covers all issues involved in ethnic marketing in Ireland.