BBC has changed its play for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this year, Effective February 1, 2016 OSN subscribers will get to see a new channel from BBC called ‘BBC First’, as the UK based broadcaster brings down the curtain on BBC Entertainment. The channel is… Read More
UAE based publisher, The National, has brought back #CycleToWorkUAE campaign. The initiative, originally launched in January 2015, aims to increase the activity levels for UAE office goers and in turn reduce the frequencies of obesity, diabetes and heart diseases in the country. In the second… Read More
The launch of Netflix in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region promises to be an interesting development not only for Netflix but also for MENA onliners and the industry. While Netflix is living up to its claim of truly becoming global by entering… Read More
The Out of Home (OOH) advertising industry has grown several folds in the last few years in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In the United Arab Emirates alone, it became a billion dollar industry with several factors impacting its growth including Dubai… Read More
Held under the Patronage of the UAE’s Minister of Culture, Youth, and Social Development HE Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, 20 inspirational women were celebrated at the Arab Woman Awards UAE 2015. The Arab Woman Awards were established by ITP in 2009 to recognize… Read More
The sports entertainment genre on television is a relatively young one in the Middle East. It was only about 18 years ago that the satellite-broadcasting boom gave way to 24-hour Arab sports channels. The channels programming covered international sports along with regional ones such as… Read More
Despite the various challenges that the publishing industry faces in Saudi Arabia, the country which is considered to be one of the biggest markets in the Middle East and Africa is poised to grow to USD 3.6 billion by 2017, according to a new study… Read More
From Marketing Kingdom Middle East to Back to the Future, the week saw Twitteratis voicing opinion on both the subjects. Earlier this week, the Marketing Kingdom Middle East second edition was trending in Qatar. Marketing experts from Twitter, Yahoo!, the Body Shop, eBay, Cambridge University and Virgin… Read More
The youngest of the South Asian media players in the region, Viacom18, has busied itself in the Middle East and North Africa region with a focus to scale its business and become a definite option for reaching out to the South Asia Diaspora. The mandate… Read More
Qataris replace Singaporeans as the richest built asset population, with a built asset wealth of USD 198,000 per capita compared to USD192,000 in Singapore. With investments in infrastructure, residential and non-residential buildings, Qatar’s built asset wealth will continue to grow at double digital levels for… Read More
