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WPP’s end-to-end creative commerce agency names Roy Armale as its first global chief innovation officer. Armale began his career at Geometry working on the application of behavioral thinking in shopper marketing, to keep clients ahead of the transformation in retail. Since then, his work across the agency’s diverse roster has resulted in the adoption of […]

Mel Edwards is the Global CEO of the newly created agency, Wunderman Thompson. The agency is a creation of a merger between J. Walter Thompson (JWT) and Wunderman that took place months ago. “When we looked at our clients, we thought, actually, there was a huge amount of benefit and how we could collaborate and […]

Jamie Angus is the director of the BBC World Service Group, which is the service that provides news in English and the other 42 languages globally, on TV Radio and Online. He began his career working for Radio4 after graduating from Oxford University. After which he rose to become the lead of the service. In […]

WARC revealed the Effective innovation Report – Lessons from the 2019 WARC awards, which highlights the key innovation trends for effective marketing.  The report itself includes opinions from judges who highlights the ideas that have transformed a business or disrupted category conventions and delivered major results. The WARC awards feature some of the marketing industry’s […]

Notable for its news coverage, BBC.com  is also home for wide genres of content ranging from informative to entertaining topics such as lifestyle, science, culture, natural history and more.  The BBC team explains that real time and accumulated data plays significant roles in identifying the type of content audiences most likely want to engage with. […]

In November 2018, WPP announced that it is merging J. Walter Thompson with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson. The merger saw Wunderman global CEO Mel Edwards becomes global CEO of the combined agency, with JWT global CEO Tamara Ingram becoming chairman of Wunderman Thompson. Now, it has revealed what the brand stands for: a “creative, […]

In the latest in a wave of changes at the world’s largest holding company, WPP is merging J. Walter Thompson with Wunderman to create Wunderman Thompson. The news of the change comes two months after WPP announced the merger of legacy shop Y&R with VML. WPP’s new CEO Mark Read announced the news in a […]

Creative agencies have been known to be slow on the uptake of technology with media agencies embarking digital and data quickly. That has now changed with multiple creative agencies building their digital offering. TBWA\RAAD, for example, has its own data department and manages digital and social for clients including Nissan. In fact, the agency’s CEO, […]

Appetite Creative ‘Soul-utions’, a UK-based creative and digital advertising agency, has partnered with Dubai-based programmatic company MENA MarketPlace (MMP) to bring high impact units that can be traded programmatically. The partnership will see the launch of the ‘Liquid Skins,’ an ad format created by Appetite Creative that runs on all screen types across a range […]

In a world not so far away, the Internet was born. During its toddler years, it gave us connectivity, knowledge, and accessibility (among other things). Then came the teenage years and with it, annoyance – pop-up ads, malware, clickbait – and an odd rebellion – ad blocking, VPNs, incognito modes. The Internet – or rather […]

Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Ventures, on how retailers can tap one of the world’s hottest commodities to create truly unique customer experiences This May, The Economist declared on its cover page that “the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”. The strategic relevance of data to the shopping, retail […]

By Elie Khouri, CEO, Omnicom Media Group MENA With the amount of data and technology available today, marketers are expected to be more accountable and strategic in the way they stimulate business growth. Marketing is increasingly viewed at the board level as an investment rather than an expense; the quantifiable return being expressed in better […]

Publicis Groupe has formed a partnership with Alibaba that will benefit the clients of Publicis Media, Publicis Communications and Publicis.Sapient. Alibaba’s Uni Marketing framework is a complete product portfolio powered by data that enables brands to have control of brand building across the Alibaba ecosystem in China. The partnership with Publicis Groupe in China will […]

Publicis Communications MEA has joined forces with Google to enhance its digital-first approach across the roster of creative agencies, Leo Burnett, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi and Arc. The partnership aims to help Publicis Communications MEA creative agencies “adopt, develop, and apply a digital-first approach and power integrated thinking, resulting in effective, engaging, industry-defining, award-winning campaigns that dwell […]

At the recently held Festival of Media Global in Rome, OMD UAE received another trophy for its “Unleash your Potential” Infiniti Q50S campaign, taking home Bronze in the Best Use of Technology category. The campaign, which was a collaboration between OMD, TBWA and Infiniti, had earlier won Gold in the same category at the MENA […]

Magnus Djaba was named global president of Saatchi & Saatchi after global CEO Robert Senior announced his departure earlier this month. Djaba has just overseen the move of the network’s London headquarters from Charlotte Street – where Saatchi’s famous “Nothing is Impossible” slogan had been carved into the stone steps for 40 years – to […]

A programmer by education, practice and, most importantly, passion, Ziad Jammal has put his years of coding experience into his business venture, Datum Graph. After a stint at IBM, he joined Omnicom Media Group (OMG) in 2006 to help it build software capabilities for its business intelligence practices. After three years with the group, he […]

In a conversation with Communicate, Peter Mears, CEO of Havas Media Group, reiterated the significance of looking at advertisement as a field that has changed within its ecosystem, yet the “fundamentals of the craft” remains the same. Considered one of the most powerful people in the advertisement world, Mears said that the craft is about […]

By Penry Price, vice-president of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions As marketing becomes increasingly driven by data and technology, ad agencies are having to compete for business against a newfound rival: consulting firms such as Accenture and Deloitte. While this tension has been brewing for a few years, it’s now reaching fever pitch. Deloitte has acquired a […]