YouTube has launched the first edition of The Lantern, the first award on the global video platform to recognize the efforts of creative agencies, media agencies and advertisers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during the Holy month of Ramadan. Led by YouTube,… Read More
Marketers face a huge challenge in being able to keep pace with changing consumer behaviour and media consumption. As consumers increasingly turn to digital, marketers are faced with the issue of how to best optimise budgets across channels and understand the role digital media can… Read More
J. Walter Thompson has launched a global campaign ‘Donate the Bars’ to promote the usage of the black bars that appear on either side of the vertical videos on YouTube for a good cause. This is done by converting the black bars into ad space… Read More
The second day of Dubai Lynx has ended, and this place does not stop surprising me. Though I must admit that Titan the Robot is starting to be a ‘normal’ thing, but that in itself should be surprising. The first session in the Academy was… Read More
Earlier this month, Alphabet, Google’s recently formed holding company, had created significant buzz for its impressive quarterly earnings report, surpassing Apple to become the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalization of around USD 560 billion. The last time Alphabet (then still under the… Read More
For many content creators who otherwise did not have a platform to present their skills or ideas, YouTube has been a solution for a long time. Over the years, some of these YouTube channels on genres such as gaming, comedy, beauty or fashion have earned massive fan following with… Read More
With online video’s promise of giving targeted reach and offering results that are accurately measurable, video has emerged as a serious contender for online advertisement budgets As technology and media consumption have seen a considerable change from passive television to viewing video on demand, video advertising… Read More
Google has launched a Middle East edition of its online marketing data platform ‘Think with Google’. The site, which offers analysis and insights for the marketing industry, was introduced in tandem with new research focused on UAE consumer decision making called moments that matter. The… Read More
Ramadan could not have ended on a better note for Muslims than Mecca inspiring the world about all things beautiful about Islam. For me it gives me the opportunity to write about Islam and Snapchat’s #mecca_live. No matter how it is worded, the honest truth is that… Read More
Ever since I started reading on the first reports that trickled in on #Mecca_Live, I just had to write about it for two reasons. It feels wonderful as a Muslim to read people speaking about Islam in the way they did, as a religion I… Read More
