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The growth of e-commerce was accelerated across the globe due to the pandemic and the measures that were implemented to curb the spread. Advertising investment has shifted into shoppable and e-commerce formats, and many companies have had to develop their e-commerce strategies on the fly. This is driving growth of the big platforms. But many […]

How Covid-19 is changing the business and the industry at large, according to Group M MENA’s Chief Executive Officer. How is the Covid-19 crisis reshaping the marketing and advertising industry in MENA? The time has come to ‘re-optimize’ everything from brand purpose, positioning, company structures, processes and growth strategies. Consumers have become far too picky and […]

By Erik Matlick Amid heightened concern around consumer privacy, Google is the latest browser developer to make policy changes that impact the use of cookies. In strengthening the privacy protections within its Chrome browser, Google has made it easier for users to block third-party cookies and harder for tech companies to fingerprint. With consumers bombarded by targeted ad […]

By Alex Malouf Is there any company more ubiquitous than Google? The company is everywhere, serving up billions of search engine results every day, powering our phones, helping us with our emails, providing even the directions for us to take. You know you’ve made it when your brand name becomes a verb. Google hasn’t been […]

2016 has been the year that wasn’t for the Middle East media 7DAYS closed down; Emirates 24/7 and Khaleej Times slashed jobs GN Media closed down four popular radio stations Newspapers and magazines adverting spend to drop by by 6.1 per cent and 4.5 per cent, respectively, in 2017 The year 2016 ended with yet […]

  Against a backdrop of mounting political, social and economic instability that followed the toppling of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the ousting of Egypt’s first democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood (MB)-backed Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, and the coming to power of previous Egyptian Armed Forces commander-in-chief and minister of defense Abdel-Fattah El […]

  Twitter has introduced new tools for what it calls “objective-based campaigns”, offering four new ways in which advertisers can buy ads on the social media platform. Previously, ad buyers worked on a cost-per-engagement model, paying for promoted tweets only when users interacted with them – a click, reply, retweet or ‘favorite’. Now, advertisers can […]

Last month, Spanish telecom company, Telefónica, beat its competitors to the punch: it teamed up with private equity firm Blackstone to buy the technology behind MobClix, a defunct mobile ad exchange. On the surface, it’s a natural move. For mobile advertisers hungry for user data, the richest sources are the mobile carriers themselves. And, for […]