Global marketing intelligence service, Warc, has launched a new regional competition – The Warc Prize for MENA Strategy – a search for the best strategic marketing thinking that has driven results in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. “This is a new kind… Read More
The sharing economy, green revolution, travel and personal finance are all becoming important areas where consumers in the Middle East & North Africa region are driving and defining modernization trends. Crimson Hexagon, that provides business insights from social data analysis to inform strategic enterprise decision-making,… Read More
Trust is a core communication issue for telco brands today. Growth is down to their strength as trusted connectivity providers for billions of people who now rely on their mobile devices to live their lives. The irony is that this explosion in mobile usage has… Read More
Kantar has appointed Julie Kollman to the role of Chief Research Officer. Ms Kollman, a global research and marketing professional, was most recently global head of insights at SABMiller, where she oversaw a team of 140 and was in overall charge of the company’s insights,… Read More
HP Inc. introduced the first of a series of global initiatives to elevate awareness of the security risks facing businesses and consumers. It kicks off with actor Christian Slater and the premiere of the newly launched HP Studios’ web series, The Wolf, highlighting how corporate… Read More
In a new role bridging our London and Middle East operations, I spent the first week of February working out of our Dubai office and getting a feel for the PR and comms sector out in the ‘sandpit’, as it’s often referred to by its… Read More
What are some of the effective marketing trends that have allowed companies and businesses to deliver impactful work in the last year? Warc, the global marketing intelligence service, has answered this question with its IPA Effectiveness Awards Report, which is an in-depth study of effective… Read More
Cicero & Bernay (C&B) is enhancing its Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region network capabilities through an affiliation with Local Flavor, based in Kuwait. This agreement follows a number of 2016 announcements of new alliances for C&B, with the agency expanding its reach to… Read More
Communicators often perceive modern consumers as web-savvy, smartphone-empowered data sifters, who snap up whichever is the best deal of the day. There is an increasing belief that brand loyalty is vanishing. In response, companies have sought to engage with their markets through an abundance of… Read More
Marketing effectiveness requires striking the right balance not only between close targeting and mass reach but also between the short and long-term strategies, according to Warc, a global marketing intelligence service and Deloitte Digital. “The decision by Procter & Gamble last year to cut back on… Read More
