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WARC, the global marketing intelligence service, released its ninth annual Marketer’s toolkit for 2020. The toolkit is based on a survey of nearly 800 marketers around the world and interviews with 10 leading brand marketers and serves as a guide to help marketers be aware of the near-term trends, which will help them stay ahead in the market. The […]

By Nader Bitar Earlier this year I wrote about how Amazon tends to disrupt and realign any industry it chooses to lay claim to. Some seven months on, that turned out to be fairly prophetic as the e-commerce giant has now officially entered the ad-tech fray with the full might of Sizmek’s tech stack behind […]

By Mohamed Itani Let’s face it, some of you must have thought of or desired at some stage to manage your media in-house. Well, if you go by the saying “if you want something done right, do it yourself” then you must have actually gone beyond the simple thought of in-housing. Well, it also appears […]

Adform, a global independent advertising technology platform, has opened its first office in the region in Dubai. The operation will provide on-the-ground support Adform’s existing Middle East clients while seeking new business. Pawan Setpal, who has more than ten years’ experience in digital advertising and adtech will be responsible for day-to-day operations. Setpal joins Adform […]

(Image: TJ Lightwala, head of Future Adaptive Specialist Teams (FAST), Mindshare MENA) Magnitt, the startup for startups, has secured almost $1 million in seed funding $560 million was invested in MENA startups in 2017, up 65% from 2016 Digital startups in the MENA region have raised more than $500 million in equity investments in 2017 According […]

Transparency has been a growing concern in digital advertising, with ad fraud was estimated to cost brands $16.4 billion globally in 2017, according to WPP’s global agency, The&Partnership. In fact, nearly 20 percent of total digital ad spend was wasted in 2016. Companies have been looking for the best solutions to combat this issue with […]

Just 3% of CMOs think they have the perfect internal skill set 72% are increasing content marketing budgets Only 25% say they make full use of data they have access to   A recent survey by marketing and advertising consultancy NewBase shows that globally CMOs are appreciating the changing media landscape, but the budgets show […]

By Hussein Dajani, general manager – digital marketing, AMI region (Africa, Middle East, and India), Nissan Motor Corporation So many new lingos out there, but do people really care? People don’t consume media in silo; they’re interacting with brands across multiple touch points and platforms, each on their own path to purchase. They don’t know […]

What the latest restrictions on Apple’s mobile ad ID mean for the industry. Announced at Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at the end of June, the news was not exactly a surprise. Right on the heels of Google’s phasing out of the third-party cookie on Chrome by 2022, and in line with its own decision to […]

Choueiri Group’s digital media arm, Digital Media Services (DMS), has launched its latest digital ad performance solution “DMS Perform” at STEP Conference 2019 on February 13. As brands set out to compete in today’s cluttered markets, quality lead generation has become an increasingly more complex task. Marketers, in turn, want assurances that their advertising is being […]