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Imad Jomaa, Founder and President of Lebanon-based holding company JGroup, explains how he sees programmatic in light of JGroup’s recent investment in FoxPush, a Dubai-based full-stack solution for publishers and digital advertisers. How fast is the programmatic ad market growing in the region and what is driving this growth? Programmatic advertising is growing rapidly across […]

While marketeers understand their target market holds the key to business success, they sometimes miss the mark when it comes to engaging them. If a brand fails to add value through personalized touchpoints, then, in the words of Arianna Grande, it’s “Thank you, next!” With today’s digital economy characterized by disruption, customized communication is not […]

Nadim Samara, CEO at OMG MENA, and Andreas Frangeskides, Director-Marketing Solutions at Annalect MENA, explain how Omnicom Media Group harnesses the power of data via Omni, its proprietary data management platform.

Bayan Ishtaiwi, digital media manager at Vizeum, explains how Google’s phasing out of third-party cookies is going to scramble the market. There is not a single person I know that wasn’t targeted with an ad after browsing content somehow related to that ad. To the point that we often hear the words ‘creepy,’ ‘annoying,’ ‘too much,’ […]

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. […]

Earlier this summer, Finish, the leading dishwasher detergent brand launched a first of its kind – a contextual marketing digital campaign. It hinged around the love women have for cooking for their loved ones during the month of Ramadan & contrastingly, the hate they have for the dirty dishes this cooking creates. Read: Domestic staycations rate […]

RAPP Middle East, part of the Omnicom network, has just concluded an extensive pitch process bagging a three-year CRM contract for a leading automotive client. The client is none other than BMW Group Middle East. The pitch included other companies including Accenture Interactive, according to industry sources. Just recently, however, BMW Group extended its relationship […]

Taxation is a globally accepted practice by the state to generate revenue and subsequently fund expenditures that sustain the operation of the government. For so many years, the people of the UAE were basking in the glory of a tax-free lifestyle, however, a year ago the government announced that VAT would finally take effect in […]

Big digital players have done much since he issued a challenge for them to get third-party audience verification, eliminate fraud and ensure brand safety a year ago, but Procter & Gamble Co. still has cut spending on them by 20 to 50 percent, chief brand officer Marc Pritchard said in a speech to the Association of National […]

By TJ Lightwala, head of Future Adaptive Specialist Team (FAST) and Performance, Mindshare MENA Telco data provides user level, location data married with contextual or interest data. Hence, it is now highly possible to target a GITEX participant, at a certain location, at the time the event is taking place with the desired ad of […]

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 […]

Independent creative communication agency, tamra C2, recently revealed C2 NATIVE, a separate entity focused on delivering data-driven digital communications, technologies and solutions for brands in the region. The new entity has also been signed on as the second agency in the world for the Oracle DMP (Data Management Platform) agency model partnership that enables the […]

ITP Publishing Group in expanding its scope with the launch of a new digital division, ITP Live. The division will extend the digital footprint of ITP and APP Media Group’s brands, and provide new content creation opportunities for commercial partners. ITP Live has five key business areas: what it claims to be the region’s largest […]

In your talk at Festival of Media MENA 2016, you spoke about millennials. Do you think marketers are ignoring other consumers by focusing only on this demographic? We are starting to limit ourselves too much with demographic data. Simply because someone is between 18 and 25 years of age, it doesn’t mean they are not […]

Xaxis, the programmatic media and technology platform, announces the MENA launch of its moment marketing solution, Xaxis Triggers. The program aims to allow real-time synchronization of digital campaigns and external events. One example of this product in action can be witnessed during a change in weather: with Xaxis Triggers, a programmatic campaign can complement a current event, like weather, across […]

Annalect MENA, Omnicom Media Group MENA’s data, technology and analytics division, has partnered with Ensighten, an enterprise data and tag management company, to bring first-party data insights to the region’s advertisers. This partnership is designed to help them improve the efficiency and ROI of their brand campaigns. The Ensighten Open Marketing Platform enables brands to […]

  You have probably heard it many times already, haven’t you? Data — big or small — is the new “Holy Grail of modern marketing”.  When it comes to programmatic trading of advertising inventory, data — in a similar fashion to Jerusalem for the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam – sits at the epicenter […]

Last week, Publicis Groupe  and Adobe announced the launch of the Always-On Platform, an end-to-end marketing management platform from Publicis Groupe that automates and connects all components of a client’s marketing efforts. The platform will standardize on Adobe Marketing Cloud, offering all Publicis Groupe agencies access to content creation, marketing intelligence, audience build and identification, campaign […]