A Decemberish Thursday 7:15 PM, a few decaffeinated espressos, and a mouthful of Hershey’s kisses as we concluded a decent 2017 and a perplexing 2018… But there we were, investigating the status quo of our clients’ business across 14 offices and examining the region’s media… Read More
Binging on Netflix, sharing stories on Facebook and downloading content from Apple’s iTunes and Alibaba’s Ali Picture have contributed to a record year of brand value growth in WPP and Kantar Millward Brown’s 2018 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking. The increasing use… Read More
During Ramadan, the busiest ad season of the year, standout content that truly engages audience has the power to drive decisions for the rest of the year. The clutter on TV during Ramadan is twice the norm with ad breaks increasing up to 50 percent,… Read More
The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Google have launched ‘Get Dubai Businesses Online’, a program dedicated to assist local businesses get more easily discovered on the web, by listing and verifying their business information on Google Search and Maps through ‘Google My Business’.… Read More
Amazon’s aggressive stance in diversifying its services has paid off. The company has overtaken Google as the most valuable brand in the world. As per Brand Finance Global 500 2018 report, Amazon’s value has increased by 42 percent in the past year to USD 150.8… Read More
Facebook maintains its position as the most positively talked about brand in Egypt with the largest impact among consumers in the past year according to the 2017 Best Brand Rankings by YouGov BrandIndex. With Egypt constituting its largest Middle East fan-base, Facebook has certainly been… Read More
Emirates has topped consumer brand sentiment in the UAE for the third year running in the latest YouGov BrandIndex. For these Best Brand Rankings, YouGov used Buzz scores to compile the rankings. Buzz is calculated by asking consumers daily if they have ‘heard anything positive… Read More
After a few days of speculation and troubles over connecting via Skype, telecom operators in the UAE have confirmed that Skype joins the likes of Facebook calling, WhatsApp calling and Google’s call services among others, and has been blocked in the UAE. A tweet from… Read More
Google has introduced a new sequencing feature that enables advertisers to target users with different messages within one overall campaign. The video ad sequencing feature was rolled out last week as part of a campaign created by Impact BBDO to promote the regional ecommerce channel… Read More
Had Google not flipped the machine learning switch for Google Translate, it would have taken 10 years for it to bring the context in language translation that it has achieved now. It took a machine a single night to become the best player in the… Read More
