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As the region witnesses the surge in e-commerce popularity, retailers wonder as to what kind of new habits will this instill into the consumer. To learn more about the reasons for the changing habits in consumers and how it will impact the retail industry, Communicate sat with Sachinn J Laala and Richard Nicoll, CEO and Managing […]

Ayman Haydar, CEO of programmatic marketplace provider MMP World Wide, explains how programmatic goes way beyond simply distributing ads online.

Now get a job through Snapchat! The quick-service restaurant chain launched a recruitment campaign in the month of October, targeting Saudi Nationals through Snapchat Lens, making it the first brand in the MENA region to do so. The aim of the campaign was to fill 850+ positions across multiple roles including manager trainees, guest experience leaders, […]

By Michele Iozzo Just a few years ago, you could clearly distinguish between banners for brand awareness and banners for sales conversion. With different key performance indicators (KPIs), performance marketing and brand departments co-existed with minimal interaction. Today, marketers need to ensure consistency across all channels, and performance ads often don’t meet those standards.  It’s […]

By Tomasz Wnuk Digital advertising represented the largest portion of ad spend for Middle East marketers in 2018 at 52 percent— and that number will only grow, according to the 2019 Middle East Report on Travel Advertising published by SOJERN. Whereas, two in three (61 percent) travel marketers plan to spend more on digital in […]

By I-Hsien Sherwood and Ann-Christine Diaz Another Cannes Lions is wrapping, but don’t let its lessons fade away into the summer dog days. If you’d rather those memories stick like the floor of the Carlton Terrace, read on for a refresher. Whether you’re nursing a sunburn and a rosé headache or a grudge because you […]

1. The growth of Internet advertising will drive global ad spend in 2019 Stronger than expected Internet advertising will drive 4.7 percent growth in total global ad spend in 2019 reaching $623 billion – substantially ahead of the 4 percent forecast made in the previous edition of the report, published in December 2018. Zenith forecasts […]

By Ayman Aly, senior regional marketing manager, Canon Middle East Most organizations have one aim: to grow their company into a successful business. The key to this is marketing the brand and the evolution of digital technology in the past decade has exponentially increased the choice of marketing channels. In the highly competitive area of […]

By Danielle Jamal, communication director, Leo Burnett It’s been three years since I landed in the UAE and the same question still comes to mind: DMPs, dynamic banners, A|B, multi-variant, and programmatic, are all buzz words being discussed among agency and brand peers; however, are brands in the MENA region really using these capabilities to […]

Pierre Choueiri, Chairman and CEO, Choueiri Group, on what’s in store for Choueiri and the industry How are budgets changing in difficult times? How much is moving toward digital and is it at the expense of other channels? The media industry has been going through some tricky years, where in 2016, we saw an approximate […]

By Ambarish Gupta, Founder & CEO, Knowlarity How does one conclude if their moolah is being wisely spent on advertising campaigns? Well, this is a question that has been daunting agencies and clients alike for quite some time now. While, the print-only age had its own challenges, the influx of the online revolution in this […]

PepsiCo gave audiences a glimpse of its potential foray into a futuristic AI-driven world with the Pepsi Smart Supermarket, a cardless cashless pop-up, and the Pepsi BOT’ler, a smart butler that took drink orders from users’ smartphones. We caught up with Dani Afiouni, head of consumer engagement and media MENA at PepsiCo to know more about […]

These were some of the thoughts that came out of the agencies’ feedback on what our mobile story should be on. Clearly, they couldn’t agree on one thing so we decided to let them talk about whatever they wanted to talk about. Over to the experts… Fahad Maghrabi, digital director, Initiative Riyadh   What are […]

Our life is a social book. But, that’s a stale fact. What’s hot? We post #InstaUpdates on our social platforms – “Feeling blessed”, “Having lunch”, “Watching movie”, “Checked in at the airport”, “Admitted in hospital”, and so on. There’s nothing new about it. What’s next? This social frenzy has been taking a toll on us […]

Digital marketing strategy is becoming more important with every passing day as the number of users using digital channels is increasing and advertising is becoming more mature. A good example in the last couple of years is the advent of native advertising and programmatic media. We should never talk about one given marketing strategy in […]

There has been widespread conversation around the growth rates, scale, client value and product potential of programmatic media. At the same time, there are enough critiques highlighting the challenges of programmatic and its use cases. In this article, I attempt to scour through the playing field by looking at the big-picture trends of mature markets […]

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 […]

Instagram is breaking outside the box. After years of limiting photos and videos to the square format, Instagram recently announces that people will be able to post photos and videos shot in landscape and portrait mode, aka the formats available on roughly every other major social network except Vine. The support of new formats isn’t […]

Blast off Upon the launch of Criteo’s new Dubai office, coming this summer, the company’s presence was felt at the recent ArabNet, where Communicate got to chat with Gregory Gazagne, executive vice president of EMEA with Criteo. The performance marketing technology company has had a remote presence in Dubai since 2012, but with a local […]

  In this day and age, each and every one of us lives two distinct lives: one offline, which is the real life we all know, and another life online, which so many of us are now enjoying. This new online lifestyle has attracted all sorts of people, both sane and mad, to Madison Avenue. […]