With Cannes Lions 2019 on the horizon, YouTube has released a special edition Cannes YouTube Ads Leaderboard celebrating the most popular global video ads since last year’s festival. The winners leverage some of the most powerful components of best-in-class advertising. The third ad ranked globally… Read More
The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region’s adland ended last week with festivities, celebrating Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity’s 2019 edition. Over 170 awards were handed out across 18 categories on the awards’ night. These included 18 Grands Prix, 24 Golds, 44 Silvers… Read More
Digital Media Services (DMS) and Google collaborated to further breakdown programmatic for marketers in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. As a key programmatic player in MENA, DMS’ portfolio brings together inventory from Arabic and international broadcasters, publishers, video and audio platforms, all… Read More
Digital marketplace, noon, is the fifth most searched query on Google in Saudi Arabia during 2018. According to the search engine giant’s list of Top 10 searched queries in the kingdom, noon has surged to the top league. As per noon officials, it is also… Read More
For consumers in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, Emirates, Almarai and Facebook are the most popular brands. While Emirates tops YouGov BrandIndex’ annual brand health rankings for the UAE, Almarai and Facebook top rankings in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, respectively. In a… Read More
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
