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With the rise of e-commerce shopping, redirection of advertising budgets towards digital over mainline, integration of influencer marketing as part of the marketing mix, Group M MENA released a report to help marketeers understand the key trends that are going to dominate the industry in 2019 and beyond.   Trend 1 – Most of the […]

Google has confirmed to Ad Age that an industry trade body tasked with deciding which “annoying” ad formats web browsers should block largely used its data and research methodology to do so. The trade body, known as the Coalition for Better Ads, last year publicly presented the material in full with Google and 18 company […]

By Amol Ghate, Managing Director, Kantar Insights – UAE The proliferation of digital media has led to massive fragmentation leaving marketers scrambling to understand which channels and creative ideas are best used to reach and engage their target audiences. Media options seem endless. To further complicate matters, these different digital choices and reactions to these choices […]

By George Slefo Google’s Chrome browser will soon come with preinstalled technology that will block the most annoying ads currently marring the web experience, the company confirmed on Thursday. Publishers will be able to understand how they will be affected through a tool Google is dubbing “The Ad Experience Report”. It will basically score a […]

indaHash co-founder Barbara Soltysinska and Future Tech managing director Boye Balogun on why influencer tech is the future of marketing indaHash is an international platform that automates content marketing campaigns with digital influencers on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. Since its launch in early 2016, it has executed more than 600 campaigns in 30+ countries for […]

While I’m scrolling down my two favorite sites, Slate and The New York Times, I come across ads that are served based on context, as well as sponsored content that appears in the feed of the news blocks or in-article. This kind of ad unit doesn’t break my browsing journey and leaves me to interact […]

UK-based ad tech company InSkin Media is stretching its wings beyond London, Hamburg, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong to set up its first MENA office in Dubai later this year. We caught up with the company’s chief commercial officer Steve Doyle and MENA head of sales Toby Daniell to see what they’ve been up to […]

Launched as a start-up at ArabNet Dubai in 2014, TaskSpotting began as a research and insight crowdsourcing app that actually paid its users for participating in a “mission”. Essentially, the mobile app relied on geolocation to let users know about missions available around them – whether it was trying a new restaurant or comparing prices […]

The year of mobile. Cross-device targeting. Geofencing. Personalized marketing. Identity-based targeting. The small screen revolution. These are just some of the phrases that do the rounds when people talk about mobile – if not digital – advertising. However, there seems to be a certain bubble surrounding mobile advertising in the MENA region, where smartphone penetration […]

“Welcome to a commercial for Hulu’s new commercial-free option,” intones an elegant, bespectacled gentleman in a new TV spot. He’s sitting in a wingback chair with a thick book on his lap; there’s a roaring fireplace to his right, a teapot on a table to his left. “And now we’re reading from the dictionary,” he declares […]

  The crises hitting the ad industry keep multiplying. Ad-blocking stories have topped the trades and mainstream press for weeks. Talent shortages abound, though the great work produced by top talent is rarely properly rewarded. Twenty years after the first banner ad debuted, we still can’t agree on what an impression is. There are crises […]

The power of Apple is rarely in the new technology it brings to the market, but the new behaviors it popularizes. From mobile payments to near-field communication, MP3 players to smartphones, Apple is rarely first to market — but with its brand, vast market share, swelling coffers and ability to make the complex seem simple, […]

As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry’s more prominent organizing bodies. A month before Apple revealed in June that later this year it would enable ad blocking on its mobile Safari browser, the Interactive Advertising Bureau broached the topic during its board […]

Mobile ad fraud is on the rise and is estimated to have doubled since last year. Juniper Research has estimated that advertisers will lose some $19 billion to fraudulent advertising activities on online and mobile devices in 2018. The issue of app install fraud is a growing concern, particularly in the GCC. Therefore, Omnicom Media Group […]

By Sourav Ganguly, chief media officer of Centric DXB There’s a very good and simple reason that ad blocking is taking off. Internet users find ads invasive, annoying and even irrelevant. While some advertisers resist ad blockers by working with publishers that block content for IP’s with blockers, others are opting to learn from it. Once […]

Ex-MD of The Telegraph Group, Hugo Drayton was appointed as CEO of InSkin Media in 2009. Since then, the digital landscape and with it, the agency has evolved to better cater to the needs of publishers and advertisers. Following the launch of InSkin’s MENA office we caught up with Drayton to hear his thoughts on […]

Have you ever wondered who funds the Internet? Who pays for all the content and services that we enjoy online for free? The answer is advertisers. They fund the “free Internet” and they are the reason we can enjoy all the content websites (Forbes, CNN, Times), the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), search engines (horizontal […]

Remember when you were really engrossed in watching something (ahem, ahem) online and kept getting interrupted by pop-up ads? Or when you’d hidden a certain tab somewhere when a parent or boss hovered over you, only to have pop-ups give you away? Enter ad blockers. Today, they are living a second life, moving on from […]

If marketers are surprised today by how much more automated ad-buying costs than traditional methods, they have a new state of shock and awe ahead of them, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said Wednesday in a talk during Advertising Week. “Advertising is going to get exponentially more expensive,” Armstrong said. That’s because every time e-commerce makes another purchase […]