Mick’s Garage Founders Honoured at 2017 Net Visionary Awards [Video]
Internet innovators Michael and Ciaran Crean from MicksGarage.com won the recognition of their peers in the Irish internet industry on Friday night when they took the overall award at the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards 2017. We were out in force from Blacknight, as one of the sponsors of the event, and we shot the […]
Amazon Prime Video Expands Choice of TV Shows in Ireland
Amazon’s Prime Video service launched in Ireland back in December of last year. With the introductory pricing of €2.99 / month for the first six months it’s hard to knock the service’s value, though, like NetFlix when it launched the range of TV shows and movies is a little lacking. Amazon, however, have announced that […]
Snapchat Top of the Charts for Fleadh Visitors in Ennis
Clare County Council has revealed that Snapchat was the most popular social media channel among users of the newly launched free public Wi-Fi service in Ennis town centre during Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann from 13 – 21 August. 13.8% of the more than 1 million megabytes (1.08 terabytes) of data transferred during the 9-day period […]
Entrepreneurship in Ireland Returns to Pre-Recession Levels
One in every 23 people in Ireland (aged 18-64 years) is a new business owner according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2016 Survey of Entrepreneurship in Ireland which has just been published. These figures are similar to the US and high compared to European countries. Enterprise Ireland, supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise […]
Irish Vampire Web Comedy Series Explores Life and Undeath for the Tinder Generation
“How can an undead villain search for love in the age of tinder? What if you were socially awkward and a monster? Join one sexy vampire – OK maybe not that sexy – as he tries to find the love of his life, again.” That’s the premise of Little Black Lies, a new Irish vampire […]
Did Pet Posers on Social Media Cause Spending Surge?
Looking for an explanation for a 163% rise in sales of pet grooming products, Argos has come up with the answer. It’s all down to animal ‘influencers’, they say, or social petworking – the dog and cat stars of social media. Convinced? Neither are we. But could there be something to it? Human bloggers, Youtubers […]
SMEs Account for More than Half of Unit Sales on Amazon
We know that Amazon is a massive global marketplace with more than 300 million active customers in more than 180 countries around the world. But did you know that small businesses now account for more than half of the unit sales on its sites around the world? Amazon today announced that small businesses and entrepreneurs […]
From Bloggerconf to TBEX – Blogging is Blooming! [Video]
We recently attended Bloggerconf in Dublin, where Blacknight was a sponsor and exhibitor. At the break, I took a camera around to discover who was there and what they thought of the event. Blogger events are going from strength to strength in recent years. It’s not so long since blogging was charitably viewed as a hobby, […]
Online Advertisers Need To Check Where Their Ads Appear
You may not know it, but your online advertising may end up next to some rather objectionable content. Google has recently became engaged in a skirmish that resulted in a boycott by some major advertisers as advertising appearing on its YouTube channels appeared alongside some rather objectionable content such as neo-Nazi speeches and extremist videos. […]
How to Drive Online Footfall to your eCommerce Site [Video]
If you build it they will come? Not necessarily says website developer Alan O’Meara, who argues that online businesses must use a range of techniques to drive ‘online footfall’ to their digital doors. ‘Get a website up. Tick a box. We’re done – let’s see what happens’. Nothing will happen if you wait and see. Last […]