Interview with some of the key people behind the the AIB Bank's 'Surfer' ad which featuring Irish big wave surfer John McCarthy and filmed in Lahinch and Doolin in September 2008. Featuring interviews with director Richard Carr from ad agency Rothco and Michael Duffy from production company Blinder. Also in this podcast Paul Moran from Mediaworks gives his retrospective on the ad business in 2009.

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.

The Persuaders celerbated reaching the 100 podcast milestone with a special edition Digital Dialogue. In this podcast a special panel is in studio to discuss the latest developments in digital marketing. The panel is: John Dunne, Radical Niall O’Driscoll vStream Doug BaxterInteractive Ocean Ronan O’Caoillaigh Gravitate We discuss the Cannes Advertising Lions 2009, Opel Ireland interactive advertising, online video trends, Microsoft Surface marketing applications, banking marketing, video in banner advertising, media becoming the message, HB Advertising campaign by Atomic., Joseph Jaffe, When To Join The Conversation

Two of the biggest advertising campaigns running at present - the Guinness Signature and Bord Gais Energy's Big Switch campaign are discussed in this podcast. Guests are John Burns from Guinness and Nicky Doran from Bord Gais Energy.

Podcast on how brands are using the Volvo Ocean Race to showcase products and services across the globe. This podcast is a special recording made at the Global Showcase Marketing event held in Galway on June 3rd, 2009 in conjunction with the Volvo Ocean Race which was stopped-over in the city. Among the speakers and interviewees are John Warehand, PR Director, Inmarsat, Ola Rembe, Vice President Communications, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, and John Concannon, Failte Ireland,Enda O'Coineen from Let's Do It Galway and John Trainor, from Onside Sponsorship consultancy.

A special report from the An Post Direct Marketing Awards held in Dublin's Mansion House. Interviews with agencies, clients, sponsors and suppliers.

David Connor ( Pareto 3D and 80/20 Marketing ) and Franco Noonan from Cashmere Media are in studio to discuss their decision to integrate their businesses. We have a discussion on gaming in advertising, and also on the work done for Toyota for the Meet Mike campaign.

Plus a discussion on the state of the free-sheet newspaper market.

In this podcast an interview with Niall Dowling from Atomic.ie where he discussed the agency's approach to using Facebook, using a campaign recently launched for HB. There is also an interview with Anne Marie Boyhan from the Ideas Campaign and also Ian Heffernan from Springvale Overseas Property who discusses how the company has changed marketing tack to address the new challenges.

In this podcast a special report from the 2009 Digital Media Awards where I interviewed a number of the winners covering digital marketing topics - Cybercom, Customerminds.com. Plus I speak to the manager of the Spanish Tourism Office in Dublin about the prospects for how the sector there is faring in 2009 and the activities of the office to attract Irish tourists. Plus an interview with Neil Horgan from Abbey Travel who was a speaker at a recent Travemedia.ie Netowrking event.

A special report from London where I attended the ESOMAR conference titled: RETAIL AND SHOPPER 2009 THE VOICE OF THE SHOPPER LONDON / 2 - 4 MARCH In this podcast there are interviews with several of the presenters as well as the organising committee. This podcast also features an interview with Karina Heavey who has recently established 121 Marketing - an innovative marketing networking group as part of the 121 Business Network.

In this podcast an extended interview with Colin Lewis from Cityjet. In 2008 Colin was awarded the Marketer of the Year Award at the All Ireland Marketing Awards. In this interview we trace Colin's career in marketing involving marketing roles in airlines, travel and music in Ireland, UK and Australia. The podcast also has an interview with Paul O'Sullivan, Director at the Faculty of Business, DIT who was one of the speakers at the Weathering the economic storm with Online Marketing seminar organised by the Irish Internet Association and CustomerMinds.com

To coincide with the third running of the Irish blog awards, an interview with Robert Coyle from Bloom Advertising and with Maryrose Lyons from Brightspark Consulting about the use of blogging as a marketing tool and indeed a form of social expression. Also in the run-in to the ESOMAR retail research taking place in London from 2-4 March, there is also an interview with Gill Aitchison, President, Global Shopper and Retail Research, Ipsos, UK.

One of the more interesting projects I've been asked to help out with for a long time is the Joblessandproud.com project. David Jones harnessed the collective efforts of the social blogosphere,with no little help from Maryrose Lyons of Brightspark Consulting following his appearance on Newstalk to discuss his book he wrote in the aftermath of losing his job. This podcast covers my interview with David on The Persuaders - I also interview Michael Wallace from Loadzajobs.ie about their jobsfair.

An extended interview with one of the founders of Customerminds.com Mike Mc Mahon, We discuss the background to the company and some important online marketing strategies including e.mail marketing, viral marketing, and online strategies that companies can implement themselves. Customerminds.com has recently opened a UK office.

In this podcast we take a look at the topic of improving your e.mail marketing campaigns, tips to build your e.mail list and generate higher open rates. My guest interviewee on the show was Mary Rose Lyons founder of Brightspark Consulting. Brightspark is an Internet Communications company that specialises in attracting visitors to websites. The company provide the full range of internet marketing and web design services.

In this podcast, an interview with Saul Medhurst-Cocksworth from M62 - a Liverpool based company who consult with clients on how to make their presentations and communications more effective through strategic use of visual media. I also have in-studio Stephen Quinn from ad agency Atomic and Jane McDaid from youth communication specialist PR agency Thinkhouse PR.

In this podcast a number of interviews. AnneMarie Smith from Trocaire discusses their global gift campaigns, Paul Brosnan of Irish Forestry Fund is in-studio to discuss how forestry is one investment option that's bucking the trend. We interview Loretta Lambkin from Dublin Docklands Authority and Tom Shanahan, Master Franchisor for Ireland for Kendelbell. Wishing you and all your families a Very Happy Christmas and hope you will join me again in 2009 for more podcasts. Alex.

An extended podcast on customer loyalty with Ronan Kinahan from Kinahan Vibe Training where we discuss the critical area of customer service and the top tips for maintaining customer loyalty. There is also a brief interview with Michael Collins from Abroad magazine about the Irish Consumer Travel Awards which take place next April in the RDS Dublin.

A special edition of The Persuaders Marketing Podcast. We interview founder of Javarepublic, David Mc Kernan. The podcast comes from the Javarepublic Roastery in Ballycoolin in north Dublin. The Javarepublic Roastery was only opened in October 2008 and represents the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream for David. In this special podcast on Javarepublic's branding strategy we explore the brand's marketing strategy and also the production process of coffee roasting. Also I am delighted to say that David has offered to host our next Persuaders Pudding Club in the Javarepublic Roastery . Subsequent to the podcast the date is now confirmed : WEDNESDAY 14TH JANUARY AT 6PM IN JAVAREPUBLIC ROASTERY - TO GET ON THE INVITE LIST SEND ME AN E.MAIL TO thepersuaders@mac.com

No company or organisation is immune to crisis. Everyday, organisations run the risk of being affected. However, a crisis does not necessarily have to turn into a disaster for the business or organisation involved. In this podcast I talk to two of the contributors to a new book published by Kogan Page on Crisis Communication which provides readers with advice on how to limit damage effectively by acting quickly and positively. Speaking to me in the podcast are Jim Walsh of Walsh Public Relations an Irish public relations company and Stuart Hyslop from Surrey House Corporate Communicatioons in the UK. All of the book's contributors are members of IPREX an organisation of independent public relations agencies with some 60 partners across the globe.