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“Hoping to learn how to strike the perfect balance between brand content and influencer content, we launched the first quadripartite regional test. The marriage of native influencer and brand content was the perfect mix to increase brand awareness and drive purchase intention. The positive findings of this test have clearly redefined our content & media strategy moving forward.” – Myriam Bunni, Senior Brand Manager Ultra Doux at L’Oreal Group

The global pandemic had a major impact on the communications industry. Can it be salvaged and come out stronger?

Customer lifecycle management marketing company Zeta shares insights on the shifts in spending to digital and how marketers should approach the strategy process to adapt with this transition.

Communicate speaks with Alexander Elsas, Head of Marketing and Communications of Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, to learn more about their new initiative titled 'How To' and what it hopes to achieve.

Majd Alaily, Data & Audiences Lead – MENA, and Huda Serhan, DMT Project Manager, explain how Google’s new framework for CPG brands in MENA, developed in partnership with MCN Mediabrands and announced last week, can facilitate digital marketing transformation.    Like many industries, the fast-moving consumer goods vertical (CPG) experienced rapid pressure in a dynamic environment due to […]

International marketing intelligence service, WARC releases the Global Ad Trends report which highlights the impact of Covid-19 on ad investment in 2020. According to the report, advertising spend is projected to be $563bn for 2020. This is a steep decline from earlier forecasts, which predicted a rise in spending by 7.1% to $660bn. The decline is […]

The International Advertising Bureau (IAB) recently conducted an online survey with 29 senior executives from the marketing teams of agencies and clients, to understand their media spending plans for the remainder of the year. The survey sample includes 62% representation from agencies, 24% from clients and 14% from other entities such as publishers. The respondents […]

To celebrate Saudi National Day, Saudi Aramco created an educational film  featuring the journey of the country through key historical milestones, using Twitter as the main channel to connect with its audience. The interactive film showcases the civilizational and developmental shifts witnessed by the Kingdom, one era after another. By detailing the Kingdom’s transformation, the film […]

By Muzammil Hamza Although Virtual Reality rung it’s announcement bells first in 2012, the “reality” aspect was still fictitious to mainstream users in the MENA region until mid-2015. Initial applications of the technology, and sneak-peaks of the gadgets involved spurred a global race to identify the next major market opportunities, especially among tech-enthusiasts, who expected the […]

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 […]

By George P. Slefo A new study suggests that Fortnite has more in common with Facebook than Call of Duty, with the massively popular game emerging as a new kind of social network for a key demographic of younger consumers that brands covet. “Unlike other platforms and services, Fortnite uniquely combines benefits from gaming, social […]

By Pedro Goncalves One of the strongest memories from my early days in advertising was the “EUREKA” moment, when for the first time, I was exposed to the biddable media concept. Words like Programmatic and RTB were still to come into use, but I felt strongly that whatever the official name, it will have a gigantic […]

1st Case Study: Emirates NBD Emirates NBD is a leading bank in the UAE. Part of their corporate marketing initiatives is to build and maintain brand affinity amongst the local UAE community. One way the bank does this is through tailored communications during cultural moments like Ramadan. Emirates NBD turned to Snapchat—an untapped medium and […]

Snapchat and Nielsen, doubling down on their partnership, are now offering marketers the ability to make targeted ad buys based on offline data, in a similar fashion to other popular social media platforms. A marketer can use Nielsen audience data, for instance, to target someone on Snapchat who purchased lipstick at a retail store offline. […]

New analysis by Kantar Millward Brown of 2000 brands measured in the BrandZ™ global brand equity database shows that fewer than 1 in 10 brands grew between 2014 and 2017. But Amazon, the quintessential disruptive brand, more than doubled its brand value in the same period simply by making more people’s lives easier and less […]