Jul 03
We’re hiring a Head of Creative

We’re hiring a Head of Creative

Sarah Sheeran

We are looking for a new Head of Creative to lead our creative output as a video agency. To be right for this role, you will have advertising or marketing experience and be confident developing effective creative concepts for clients. This role is part art direction and part copywriting and will involve collaborating closely with our design, digital and video…

Sep 30
5 Creative Uses of Website Video in Design

5 Creative Uses of Website Video in Design

Sarah Sheeran

Inspirational Designs Using Website Video   Website video is going through a bit of a transformation right now. With HTML5 video backgrounds, greater flexibility with video player integration and host of other innovations, the most exciting web designs out there are using video like never before. As a video and digital Producer I’m more than a little excited about this….

Sep 23
Snapchat Video – the latest tool for digital marketing

Snapchat Video – the latest tool for digital marketing

Róisín Nic Dhomhnaill

  New kid on the block Snapchat, the disappearing photo and video app, has stealthily been making friends with that most elusive and difficult-to-reach group of cool kids – the lucrative “millennial” market. Facebook has been the biggest kid in the playground for years now but the average Snapchat user is 18 years old. That’s a whopping 22 years younger…

Sep 16
Video marketing: The Impact of the Apple Launch

Video marketing: The Impact of the Apple Launch

Diarmaid Mac Mathuna

With the controversy over U2’s free-if-you-want-it-or-not album gathering momentum, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at another side to the Apple launch last week that hasn’t been getting too much attention: its impact on video marketing. Here’s my round up of three ways the Apple launch will influence video marketing: Wider viewing angle: One of the…

Jul 10
Live event streaming in UCD – TEDxUCD 2014

Live event streaming in UCD – TEDxUCD 2014

Sarah Sheeran

Live Event Streaming in UCD The Agtel team were delighted to provide live event streaming services at this year’s TEDxUCD event. The crew filmed and live vision mixed the TEDx talks on location and streamed them live online. The talks were also made available after the event on the TED.com website and YouTube channel. You can watch all the videos…

Mar 11
Shooting HD Video on Google Glass

Shooting HD Video on Google Glass

Diarmaid Mac Mathuna

I was shooting HD video using Google Glass on day one of the Innovation Convention 2014 in Brussels yesterday. The picture quality was impressive for such a small device and it’s not hard to imagine that this is what we’ll all be shooting video on in a couple of years time…

Jan 30
Why Ireland should join CERN

Why Ireland should join CERN

Diarmaid Mac Mathuna

There was a great buzz at this morning’s Ireland for CERN launch event. I was delighted to have been invited to speak at it with Seán Kelly MEP and Prof Ronan McNulty of UCD, and it’s been covered by RTÉ, The Irish Times and The Journal. I spoke about Agtel’s success winning major European tenders with clients such as the…

Jan 07
Top Video Marketing Trends of 2014

Top Video Marketing Trends of 2014

Sarah Sheeran

Whilst taking down the tinsel and putting the Christmas jumpers away for another year, we’ve decided to beat those January blues by looking ahead to what 2014 might bring and reminisce on what a year 2013 was for video marketing. The expansion of high speed broadband nationwide, the increasing ubiquity of smartphones and the meteoric rise of content marketing meant…