Ardmore Advertising and Marketing

Ardmore Advertising and Marketing is an independent creative agency based in Belfast, working across the UK and Ireland. It plans and produces campaigns that combine strategy, creative ideas, media buying and digital work, for commercial brands as well as government and public-sector clients.

What Ardmore Advertising and Marketing does

• Campaign strategy and creative: insight-led advertising ideas taken from concept through to multi-channel delivery.
• Media planning: choosing where and when campaigns run so they reach the intended audience.
• Digital and social media marketing: online campaigns and social channel activity alongside traditional media.
• Design: visual work supporting brand and campaign output.
• Behaviour-change campaigns: public information work on road safety, rail safety and reducing car dependency.

Who it works with

Published campaigns include work for the Department for Infrastructure, Network Rail, Stena Line, eir evo and the dairy brand Dromona. It also helped the 11 councils of Northern Ireland launch a new enterprise support service, and has worked for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Key facts

• Based in: Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Group: part of the Ardmore Group, alongside the eCommerce consultancy Built for Growth Digital
• Investments: the group has taken a strategic stake in Bonfire, a creative agency in Dublin
• Sustainability: runs the ACT Collective, an internal programme aimed at cutting the agency's carbon emissions towards net zero