YouTube is going to kick start its second edition of The Lantern Award, an accolade which celebrates the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) most engaging and creative advertisements during Ramadan and Eid. Designed to recognize the MENA’s creative, media and advertising agencies, The Lantern… Read More
Swiss companies, such as the soft cheese manufacturer Baer and Swiss Life, have said that they will stop placing any advertising on Google because their ads have appeared alongside YouTube videos with inappropriate content, such as neo-Nazi speeches or extremist videos. US telecom giants AT&T… Read More
The year 2016 was when video made a big impact on Facebook, and there are clear indications that one of the major developments on Facebook for 2017 will be music. Attracting Tamara Hrivnak, former director of music partnerships at YouTube, to Facebook HQ is one… Read More
In many ways, we take technology for granted and often misuse it in what we think is creative. Technology has opened up creative floodgates but we are now drowning in content oceans. Courtesy connectivity, all creative inhibitions and barriers are lifted and the walls between… Read More
Emirates is the most positively perceived brand by women in the UAE over the past year. 2016 also saw Emirates crowned as the number 1 brand in the overall YouGov Brandindex UAE Buzz rankings. The airline giant continues to impress with star studded advertising campaigns.… Read More
Meaningful Brands outperform the stock market by a staggering 206 percent. This is just one of the key findings from the 2017 Meaningful Brands, a global study from Havas Group that links brand performance to quality of life and well being. This year, Meaningful Brands… Read More
Social video, which involves the dissemination of content in audio-visual format across social media platforms and applications, is experiencing massive growth as a content marketing format, and is expected to continue in 2017. Video is transforming social media marketing and turning social platforms into broadcast… Read More
YouTube is joining efforts with Dubai Studio City to bring a YouTube Space, an incubator space giving YouTube creators the tools and guidance that remove barriers enabling them to innovate and experiment with content, to Dubai next year. Through this collaboration, the Middle East &… Read More
Around one in four YouTubers say they watched a branded video last month, according to data from Global Web Index. And as it’s long been known that online video resonates most strongly with younger age groups, it’s little wonder that this is an activity which… Read More
The video game-streaming market may be fairly young, but it’s already fiercely competitive. So, as Microsoft enters the fray, it is worth taking a closer look at two of the industry’s current major players – Amazon-owned Twitch and YouTube Gaming. Microsoft’s new service Beam will… Read More
