Code Red was a campaign run by 98FM where people on the street were given the chance to win €98,000 if they correctly guessed a code. Dublin Talks presenters Adrian & Jeremy were locked in a large cube, which acted as the centre piece to the event. A large element of the campaign was based around a countdown clock. The value of the money to be won went down over time, and the presenters had Read more…
The Drop was a SPIN1038 campaign that ran for two weeks in Summer 2016. Listeners had the chance to win money every day by revealing the location of the drop zone, where the money was located. Each morning a special hashtag was announced on air. We placed a map on our website which zoomed into the drop zone, based on how many times the hashtag was used throughout the day, until the final location revealed Read more…
I visited Liverpool for a long weekend last year. While in a hotel lobby looking through the brochures for the cities attractions, I came across a small fold-out card for Everton Football Club, with a list of their fixtures for the season. It’s a very simple idea, but I immediately thought about how something like this could be useful for my local Irish team, Galway United. In a city full of tourists, most of whom Read more…
The Realex Web Awards took place in the Liberty Hall Theatre last month, and I got to head along. It was my first time at the awards, and the first time a website I worked on was nominated. 98FM was up for the Best Media Website award, and for the third year running (my first year with them as a designer) 98FM won. Here’s proof! https://t.co/pFIW1L49Ww has been named Best Media Website at the #WebAwards Read more…
edit: 10/01/2016 Register365 have upgraded their service so using Zeus is no longer required. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to get the permalinks on this site working. After numerous modifications of .htaccess files I finally realised the blatant mistake I was making, Register365 hosting does not support mod_rewrite because it does not run Apache. It does however support Zeus and provides the code for rewriting permalinks on the Register365 knowledgebase. To Read more…