This article showcases our top picks for the best Ireland based News companies. These startups and companies operate a variety of News solutions. We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands. Regardless, they are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.
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We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Ireland News Companies
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Kinzen
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Kinzen is a technology company that helps citizens engage with the publishers who inform, inspire, and empower them. Kinzen was founded by Áine Kerr, Mark Little and Paul Watson.
The company’s HQ is in Dublin. Kinzen is also building a publisher version of their experience (a project funded by the Google Digital News Initiative)..
NewsWhip
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NewsWhip is the world’s most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.
NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world’s leading publishers, brands and agencies, including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what’s important across both the web and 5 social networks.
Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social. NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term.
NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.. .
Locker
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Locker is a platform which is changing the way fans globally consume sports media through personalization. By implementing deep machine-learning and trusted content aggregation, Locker provides users with a single app to find and consume the topics they love, from the media brands they trust.
Fans can choose from hundreds of available media brands and thousands of topics to follow, and Locker conveniently finds the stories best suited to them.. .
Courtsdesk
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Courtdesk provides online database of court cases and reporting in Ireland.
Paddy Power PLC
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Paddy Power provides online interactive sports betting services. The company operates through Online Australia, UK Retail, Irish Retail, and Telephone segments.
It offers fixed odds games betting, online games and casino, business-to-business, and risk management services as well as peer-to-peer games, including online bingo and poker. The company provides sports betting services through paddypower.com, paddypower.it, sportsbet.com.au, and iasbet.com.au websites as well as through a chain of licensed betting offices and Dial-a-Bet telephone.
It also offers online gaming services through paddypower.com, paddypowergames.com, paddypowercasino.com, paddypowerbingo.com, paddypowerpoker.com, paddypowervegas.com, rollercasino.com, and betdash.com websites. As at February 2010, Paddy Power operated a total of 356 retail outlets: 209 in Ireland, 8 in Northern Ireland, and 139 in Great Britain.
Almost two thirds of Paddy Power’s profits were generated outside of Ireland in 2010. They are the third largest online bookmaker and sixth largest online gaming business in Britain and Ireland and, at the current trajectory, they will have more shops in the UK than Ireland by 2013.
The acquisition and growth of Sportsbet and IAS has made Paddy Power the number one online corporate bookmaker in Australia. New B2B activities have seen them expand into France, in partnership with PMU.
In 2010, turnover was over €3.83 billion which is up 39% on 2009. Underlying operating profit was €103.8 million, which is an increase of 48% on 2009.
Storyful
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Storyful was established in December 2009 by Mark Little, award winning former RTE journalist. It is the first news agency designed for the social media age.
Storyful is an online publishing platform for news stories which combines journalistic skills, curation technology and an online community to turn social media noise into streams of relevant news. The business gathers the most valuable content from social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook and delivers it to global news organisations though its StoryfulPro product.
Storyful has developed curation partnerships with a number of established global media brands. 36 Real time stories challenge the old rules of news.
They don’t fit neat categories. They refuse distinctions between professional and amateur.
Language is tight. Less is always more.
They believe every story starts with a single voice. There is no such thing as a scoop, just a story before its inflection point.
Newslinn
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Newslinn is an online platform that enables its users to share photos with each other. The platform enables citizens to connect with journalists in their local area.
Newslinn was launched in 2015 and is based in Dublin.. .
Noa
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Noa lets you cut through the noise with thought-provoking audio articles from world-class publishers, crafted into powerful Series. Listen to opinion, analysis, and feature articles from The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Telegraph, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs and many more.
At Noa we believe in the value of quality journalism. But we also know you’re extremely busy.
That’s why we help you remove the noise from the daily news cycle by selecting the very best articles spanning current affairs, business, finance, and innovation. Our articles are professionally narrated and grouped into short audio Series, which bring you from A-to-Z on the topics that matter..
Ireland’s Technology Blog
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Ireland’s Technology Blog is an Irish technology blog covering all aspects of technology no matter how small or large. We feature everything from home technology, personal technology, gaming, smartphones and all the latest breaking news from around the world.
Ireland’s Technology Blog’s founding team is Colm Smyth and Hazel Tymlin (ITB Gadget Girl) and we also occasionally have independent bloggers help to bring you the best coverage of international and local technology news. TippFMLogoFeaturing Monday’s at 9:30am on TippFM‘s Today Show we speak about new technology products, field listener questions and more.
Tipp FM’s Market Share is larger than Radio 1, 2FM, Today FM, Beat/Spin and Newstalk combined! We have also featured on one of Ireland’s most popular stations, NewsTalk Radio on the Tom Dunne show discussing the latest in technology news from home and around the world. Email address for Press, and Media Opportunities: E: info@irelandstechnologyblog.com Links: Site: http://www.irelandstechnologyblog.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/ITB_News Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IrelandsTechnologyBlog.
Irish Tech News
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Irish Tech News is an award winning online publication.
The Irish Times
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The Irish Times was established in 1859; the first edition was published on Tuesday March 29th 1859. The Irish Times has earned an international reputation as Ireland’s quality daily newspaper.
News reporting from throughout Ireland is accompanied by reports from a comprehensive network of foreign correspondents, as well as sports and business coverage, features and arts sections, lifestyle, jobs and property. Each issue contains well-informed background analysis and assessment of the events of the day, and diversity of debate in the daily opinion columns..
Agriland
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Agriland is Ireland’s largest digital publisher in the agricultural sector in Ireland. Established in 2013 their aim is to bring together in one online resource all the information, news and services required by people involved in the agricultural and farming sectors in Ireland.
Agriland is also the first and only, daily farming news service in Ireland, publishing seven days per week, 365 days a year, with content available across all digital platforms and through the Agriland app. With a team of highly skilled and experienced journalists and industry experts, they will keep you up to date on all the latest news and updates on issues effecting you and your business whether its Dairy, Beef, Tillage, Pig, Poultry or other farming enterprises you are involved in.
They also have extensive coverage of the latest machinery news so whether its a new labour saving device or what tractors are suitable to your enterprise, they will have it covered. In addition, they have developed a trading platform to allow farmers and retailers buy and sell goods and services from each other or simply browse what’s on offer..
Creme Global
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Creme is an information technology startup changing the world by developing online food and chemical safety assessment tools and services. Creme also develops high performance computing technology and web services.
Creme provides online high performance computing web software services. Creme’s services allow clients to perform chemical exposure and safety assessments for consumer exposure in the food, cosmetics and chemical industries.
Creme’s services incorporate curated large data sets and probabilistic Monte Carlo modelling. Technical breaches of contaminant levels in food will occur.
Without accurate data organisations are obliged to treat every breach as a major incident. Creme provides data, expertise and responsiveness to enable our clients to react quickly when an issue arises to protect their reputation and business.
Creme also provides probabilistic exposure assessment consulting for clients. Creme also develops high performance computing technologies and web services for industry and government agencies..
TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie is an online media and publishing company that operates a news website. It covers local and international, sports, business, politics, entertainment, science, culture, and more.
TheJournal.ie was launched in October 2010 and is operated from Dublin, Ireland.. .
Ad Tech Daily
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Ad Tech Daily is a news publication dedicated to all things ad tech, with a particular focus on advertising operations (ad ops), launched in 2008. It features news, interviews, events, commentaries aimed at serving an audience of primarily ad tech professionals.
Occasionally, you will see news covering the larger sphere of online advertising and online marketing. Initially launched under the name of “Ad Operations Online” by ad tech industry expert Otilia Otlacan, the site was rebranded as “Ad Tech Daily” in August 2015 in order to reflect the expansion of topics covered on daily basis.
Otilia continues to be the site’s editor, publisher, and occasional webmaster; the current team has expanded to include several freelancers helping out daily operations and scheduling. Ad Tech Daily is completely independent, not affiliated with any industry body..
Silicon Republic
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Since 2002, Siliconrepublic has embraced its mission to be Ireland’s No 1 resource for technology news. Today it is read by over 250,000 people each month (unique visitors, Google Analytics, October, 2012) Siliconrepublic.com is Ireland’s leading website for IT and business decision-makers focused on making effective use of business and technology.
Their award-winning team of journalists have chronicled the growing technology landscape in Ireland diligently and now every week thousands of readers from Ireland and Europe, Silicon Valley and the rest of the world, come to Siliconrepublic to be informed on vital issues affecting the technology business, start-ups, academia, CIOs and IT decision makers, as well as emerging areas like innovation and discovery, green tech and the digital lifestyle. Since 2002, technology has moved from being a niche issue for businesses and individuals to affecting the fabric of their professional and personal lives.
Siliconrepublic has charted the spread of broadband to almost every business and household and the rise and rise of mobile communications. There are few businesses today that can function without technology and Siliconrepublic has been there every step of the way, chronicling this revolution.
When they began, the internet was only a PC-centric experience, Facebook didn’t exist and Google had only embarked on its commercial model. Today, they are in a world where 1 billion people are online and the next 3 billion people will be carrying mobile devices.
They believe their mission has expanded to not only serve their local and global audience with news on the shifting technology landscape, but to also provide vital services like jobs and careers, events listings, technology services directories and reports and whitepapers. The nature of news coverage, too, has changed, to include high quality video coverage, as well as the ability to share the latest news and video reports across the web via social media.
The revolution began in 2002. Stick with Siliconrepublic as they guide you through the choppy waters of change and the incredible years ahead in what is truly the century of innovation, collaboration and communication.
Irish Examiner
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The Irish Examiner is an Irish national daily newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1841 by Francis Maguire under the name “The Cork Examiner.” The newspaper was acquired by Landmark Media Investments in 2013.
The newspaper office is based in Cork, Ireland.. .
Business & Finance
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Part of the Business & Finance Media Group, Business & Finance is Ireland’s leading business magazine. Established in 1964, the magazine is devoted to providing senior business people across every sector with quality editorial and in-depth coverage on all aspects of enterprise.
The Business & Finance brand portfolio includes business magazines and special interest business supplements, electronic news and information and a range of business award programmes/conferences in Ireland, the UK, Asia and the US. The diverse portfolio of publications managed by the Group offers a complete overview of business in Ireland today.
Business & Finance Events has created world-class award ceremonies which celebrate success in Irish business, finance, IT and politics, and summits which educate and engage in specific industry areas; leading the way in offering a unique experience to all involved and providing unrivalled networking and business generating opportunities.. .
FeedMarklet
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Create an RSS feed instantly, then add content rapidly. Feedmarklet gives you your own RSS feed instantly, with no sign up required.
Adding content to your feed is a snap- just browse the web as you normally would, and when you find something interesting, press the bookmarklet button in your browser bookmark bar to immediately add the page you are on to your feed. Feedmarklet automatically extracts the location and title of the page that you are reading, saving you the time of entering this information into a form.
If you select some text before clicking the Feedmarklet button, it will use this text for the news item’s description, allowing you to add content to your RSS feed even faster. To automate and turbo-charge your feed building experience, we also provide a bookmark button that finds every link on the page you are viewing, and adds all of them (except the ones you exclude), to your feed.
You can use this tool to build huge collections links by quickly scraping them from existing pages.. .
Newstalk
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Newstalk is the national independent talk radio broadcaster of Ireland. The station is the only commercial radio station in Ireland to take on an exclusively talk based format.
It is operated by News 106 Limited, a subsidiary of Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp, and broadcasts under a sound broadcasting contract with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.. .
E-Dublin
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E-Dublin is a giver of Information for those moving to Dublin
Animo Television
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The Animo Group is made up of two key companies- Animo Television and Animo Digital. Animo Television is an Irish independent production company that specialises in high-end, thought-provoking and entertaining television.
Animo was established in 2003 to produce programming for both domestic and international markets. Since that time, Animo Television has established itself in it’s home market with several leading celebrity entertainment series, a number of primetime documentary series, one-off documentary productions, factual entertainment series, and a host of television event specials.
Animo’s television output has generated a lot of media attention – from heated debate surrounding it’s ‘Future Shock’ series to glowing reviews of where it has taken Irish reality shows to date. Animo has a strong record of accomplishment in bringing together various public and private partners, sponsors and other third party funders in delivering the highest standard commercial public service programming.
The senior production team at Animo has considerable experience in all forms of broadcasting, including documentaries, factual entertainment, entertainment and live television. We have been at the helm of award-winning documentaries, created formats which have sold successfully across the globe, and produced long-running series for all major Irish broadcasters that return, season after season.
The other key component to the Animo Group is Animo Digital. Animo Digital primary focus is offering first-class creative thinking, project management and timely delivery in the production of corporate videos.
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College Times
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College Times is where ideas breed, themes trend and stories break.
The Irish Independent
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Irish Independent is the largest-selling daily newspaper in Ireland. It is published by Independent News & Media PLC, an international newspaper and media group with interests in the Ireland, Northern Ireland, and South African regions.
The Irish Independent was formed in 1905 as the direct successor to the Daily Irish Independent, an 1890s pro-Parnellite newspaper, and was launched by William Martin Murphy, an Irish nationalist businessman.. .
LiveGaelic.com
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The LiveGaelic.com team are GAA fans through and through. They’ve been fans of Gaelic Games since they were knee high to a grasshopper and after spending countless hours chatting, arguing, and even fighting over their opinions they decided that they might as well make something concrete from them and voila, www.livegaelic.com was born.
When putting the site together they decided that they’d try and make it the best resource for GAA info on the ‘net by covering every aspect of the Games from club competitions to inter-county, as well as covering the stuff that other media outlets shy away from, like handball and camogie. They try hard to get the big breaking news stories to you first and to write informed and insightful articles about them.
As well as that, they try to keep everything that they write as accurate as possible. If you ever see an error in any of their stories, then please don’t hesitate to contact us and they’ll correct it as soon as possible.
Another exciting feature they endeavour to bring you is interviews with the men and women who make the news. They’re always busy knocking on doors, making phone calls, and tweeting to see if the players, managers, and pundits would be willing to lend us their insight into the game, so keep an eye out for their exclusive interviews and guest articles.
The biggest thing for us though is bringing you the info before anyone else. The clue is their name; they want to get the scores and scandal to you as close to ‘live’ as possible.
They’re the only GAA site with a dedicated social media slave, who’ll be facebooking, tweeting, and +1’ing, scores, opinions and breaking news all week long, so if nothing else, be sure to sign up to their feeds and whatever social media site that takes your fancy, and expect to be notified of goals and points almost before they happen.. .
Derry Now
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Derry Now is part of Rivermedia, the Irish media business which operates six local newspapers in the north west of Ireland. These newspapers include the Derry News in Derry City, and the County Derry Post which is popular right across County Derry.
Rivermedia also operates three newspapers in County Donegal – The Donegal Post, The Letterkenny Post, and The Inish Times. Derry Now is a breaking news website.
It is run by the experienced and dedicated team of journalists from the Derry News and County Derry Post newspapers. These journalists are at the leading edge of news coverage in Derry City and the wider County and get to the heart of every story..
Giant Animation
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Giant Animation creates branded entertainment for film, TV and interactive media.
Aftering
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Aftering want to help you through the challenging experience of dealing with death. Their goal is to provide you with trusted information, practical advice and show you the options.
They want to empower your decision making. Death is a very personal experience.
Aftering aims to help you through the process to create a unique and personalized celebration of someone’s life.. .
Mashup Media
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Mashup Media is a young & vibrant Irish digital content agency specialising in online video marketing and production.
The Daily Business Post
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The Daily Business Post is a free daily news service.
Imperic Media
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_The Imperic_ is a media and publishing website that produces interesting articles, news, information and resources in a digital age. The website covers topics from tech, digital and business, through to lifestyle, entertainment and reviews, whilst attempting to maintain a conversational tone to it’s writing.
Editorially, _The Imperic_ will only publish content that fits to the mantra of “A Catalogue of Interesting”. .
Business And Leadership
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Business and Leadership Ltd is Ireland’s leading resource for breaking business and management news, as well as offering in-depth interviews and insights. Their aim is to bring together in one online resource all the latest stories of which business leaders and entrepreneurs need to be aware, as well as the latest management thinking from expert contributors and interviewees.
At Business and Leadership, They have a particular interest in management practices, leadership insights from those shaping business today, the export sector, entrepreneurial activity and the constantly evolving world of marketing.. .
Irish Daily Star
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Irish Daily Star is a newspaper publishing company.
Hacks/Hackers
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The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires.
Calom Technologies
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Hosted Live TV & Video Delivery Platform
Olytico
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Olytico mines all online information that’s relevant to your brand and industry.
Clixicle
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Clixicle helps the convert the photos you love to amazing creations that serve as daily reminders of a life well lived. Clixicle makes printing easy & affordable by bringing exclusive print products to your doorstep.
Our offerings include framed photo prints, photo books and magazines, canvas prints, photo prints and a variety of personalized gifts. Clixicle also powers artists by giving you the capability to focus on what you do best – creating awesome designs.
We offer end to end fulfillment of your designs on various print media – from product creation to customer fulfillment.. .
The42
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The42.ie is the sports news source for today’s Irish sports fan.
CItyLocal Cork
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CityLocal Cork provides a local portal and offers Web adverts for Cork, optimised to ensure that businesses can be found on the first pages of Google. Customers don’t have to have a website, as CiryLocal Cork’s Web adverts will ensure that your business gets noticed.
If customers have a website, they can increase traffic to it with a link from an advert in Cork’s Business Directory. Their aim is to get you up and running with a minimum of fuss.
CityLocal Cork”s local portal for local people packed with Cork News, Cork Events, Cork Cinema listings, Cork Weather and fun pages for all ages – all updated daily. So whether you are looking for a Cork Restaurant, Cork Accommodation or a selection of Cork Hotels you’ll “Find it” on CityLocal..
Derry Journal
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Serving Derry and the north west of Ireland in print and online.
European Institute of Women’s Heallth
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The European Institute of Women’s Health is an NGO making women’s health and well being a priority for European policy makers at local, regional and international level. It does this by developing and providing information for women, constantly improving resources and information with research for education and training.
It has specific information projects such as: Cancom, a Cancer Information Project, with news, events, EU statistics,reports. It has also one of the most comprehensive Engender, gender equity project information sites.
It is currently developing a European health policy web based library. One of the initial subjects in this library will include Gender Health information.
The EIWH is based in Dublin, Ireland.. .
newbridgetown
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newbridgetown offers information and news about Newbridge Town FC, a soccer club.
Irish Lottery Results
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Irish Lottery Results is an online platform that enables individuals to find news and information about Irish lotteries.
NewsBrands
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National Newspapers Ireland (NNI) has re-branded as NewsBrands Ireland. Their new name and identity is more representative of the multi-platforms where their content can be viewed.
Their new logo, designed by Radical, incorporates the multi-platforms of print, desktop / tablet and phone. They continue to represent all National Titles.
Their remit continues to be to promote advertising within their members’ publications and to work towards a fair and balanced legislative framework that brings Ireland into line with other EU jurisdictions. At the NewsBrands Ireland table, their members are encouraged to put aside their individual competitive differences and to draw on the strength that comes by acting as a collective group.
They use that strength to inform key target groups about the power of press. They represent their member titles on matters that affect the industry and campaign on their behalf to affect change.
In this regard, they encourage good relations with a variety of professional bodies and maintain affiliations, including active participation in the following:. .
Bespoke Choice
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Bespoke Choice is an innovative sales platform that helps venues to increase their annual number of wedding bookings and the average revenue per wedding. Designed and built by wedding planning professionals, the application enables couples to build a unique package via an interactive journey of the services the venue has to offer.
Once booked the software uses AI to maximise upsell revenue for the venue while also ensuring couples have the best wedding they can afford.. .
An Lár TV
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An Lár TV is headquartered in Ireland and is an internet TV company focussed on Irish culture and heritage. An Lár TV linear streams 6 channels on computers and mobile devices, and on TV’s via media streaming players.
An Lár TV is currently viewed in 120 countries around the world.. .
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