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…
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….
Snapchat Video – the latest tool for digital marketing
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…