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Brands

# brands - Friday 22 March, 2013

From The Daily Edge Social-medialicious

11 companies who are really good at social media

From Taco Bell to Irish Rail.

# brands - Sunday 3 February, 2013

From The Daily Edge Tatt's Odd This post contains images

9 people who love tech brands so much they got tattoos of them

Cisco Systems on your bicep? Really?

# brands - Wednesday 23 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Clocks This post contains a poll This post contains videos

Video: What do you think of the new Guinness ad?

This one cost €6.5m to make. Worth it?

# brands - Tuesday 1 January, 2013

Career Change This post contains images

12 companies which originally sold entirely different products

What did Tiffany & Co, Avon and Nokia sell before they became household brands? Not jewellery, cosmetics nor phones…

# brands - Thursday 20 December, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Advertising

Irish smokers start at lower age than any other EU country

A new report from the European Commission showed that 51 per cent of people in Europe have never smoked and one fifth have given up.

# brands - Sunday 16 September, 2012

Badvertising This post contains videos

Are these the most irritating Irish ads ever?

Bertie in the cupboard, awkward RTÉ Guide man, an overexcited chicken fancier: here are our nominees for some badvertising for distinctly Irish products.

# brands - Tuesday 28 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie 9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Tuesday

Good morning! Here’s what you need to know this morning.

# brands - Saturday 25 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Tantrums, taunts & bills – the struggle of sending kids back to school

Lesley Anderson, a single mother of two children, tells her story about the difficulties she faces meeting the ‘back to school’ costs.

# brands - Monday 4 June, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Opinion

Column: Children are conditioned from birth to develop ‘brand loyalty’

Family clinical psychotherapist Joanna Fortune says toys don’t just let children ‘play’ anymore – they are constantly selling to them…

# brands - Monday 7 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Sally O'brien

“Put a bit of butter on the spuds André”: Our favourite Irish ad catchphrases

Will we ever find out who was taking the horse to France? Or how exactly Sally O’Brien might look at you? Revisit some favourite Irish ad catchphrases…

# brands - Friday 27 April, 2012

National Library awarded for social media savvy

Fáilte Ireland gets overall prize in eGovernment awards for their Discover Ireland online campaign.

# brands - Sunday 22 April, 2012

6 female brand spokespeople who show age is just a number

Legendary women who can still promote a product.

# brands - Tuesday 31 January, 2012

From The Daily Edge Work Can Wait

What brands register with a five-year-old?

Jaguar, Puma and Greyhound lose out and unsurprisingly Disney and McDonald’s are in.

# brands - Thursday 6 October, 2011

How to market stuff to women

A seminar focusing on Ireland’s female consumer – what she thinks and, more importantly, what she buys – is underway in Dublin.

# brands - Friday 24 June, 2011

Bye Bye This post contains images

In photos: 8 brands you won’t see after 2012

See which names made it into 24/7 Wall St’s list of brands it expects to disappear over the next 18 months.

# brands - Monday 20 June, 2011

.phew, .abouttime: Internet naming body agrees to expand domain names

The organisation has voted to allow the creation of new domain suffixes, meaning .google, .apple or .thejournal are a possibility.

# brands - Monday 9 May, 2011

Apple overtakes Google to become world’s most valuable brand

The value of the Cupertino tech company almost doubles in 2011, as the launch of the white iPhone 4 sparks scuffles in China.