The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region is not the typical emerging market given its absolute size and advanced use of technology, but the slow growth in digital marketing has given it similar characteristics. Legacy media still rules the roost here, and digital spending… Read More
To celebrate the best B2B campaigns and content from across Europe and the Middle East region, running on its own platform, LinkedIn has launched LinkedIn Marketing Awards. The awards are open from July 2, 2017 to businesses of all sizes. Winners will be announced in… Read More
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and PHD have partnered to launch the first official festival bot for Messenger. The artificial intelligence (AI) powered bot will be accessible by all 180,000 Facebook fans and is designed to help attendees navigate their way around the… Read More
Cognitev, formerly known as MENA Commerce, has undertaken a comprehensive rebranding effort. As a technology company that now concentrates more on marketing from a semantic point of view, the rebranding consists of four key changes. In addition to a revamped approach, along with a new… Read More
The most important thing to remember about video advertising in the mobile era is this: smartphones are not tiny televisions. Just as TV wasn’t visual radio and radio wasn’t an audible newspaper, mobile must be recognized for what it is — a new medium that… Read More
Magna in partnership with Twitter conducted a scientific media trial examining the location of video ads within a social environment. The resulting report, ‘The Art of the Takeover: Optimizing What Consumers See First’, reveals best practices for in-feed advertising as well as guidelines for utilizing… Read More
Video On Demand service Vuclip has launched several Arabic TV series for viewers to indulge in during the holy month of Ramadan. These will be aired on Vuclip’s OTT video service, Viu. Viewers across the GCC can tune-in to Viu for a line-up of TV series… Read More
hug digital has won the digital businesses of cleaning detergents brand ‘Clorox’, German insurance company ‘Allianz’, Gouna-based real estate project ‘Mangroovy Residence’, London-based tea magnate ‘Ahmad Tea’ and Cairo-based investment fund ‘Naeem Holding’. “We’ve been very busy at hug digital over the past six months… Read More
Data once had an ominous role in marketing, now it’s every marketer’s most valuable resource. Data-driven marketing ensures campaigns have impact, touching people in a way that has far greater resonance than blanket messaging. Not only this, it makes it easy to put a scalable… Read More
Dentsu Aegis Network’s digital creative agency based in Cairo and Dubai, Digital Republic linked by Isobar, has been awarded the digital creative, strategy and social media activation duties for Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority. The agency will create and execute a number of digital… Read More
