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By Darren Hodgkin, CEO of PPMG A website is more than a window to your store. In 2020 it is your store; as important as your brick and mortar, stand, or stall. For web-only brands, it is the one sales environment they have and as crucial as the products they sell. While visual merchandising tells […]

Launching an app is great. Getting people to use it again and again is a different story altogether. Ayat Mohammed, Media Planning Manager at Hearts & Science, explains how to overcome this challenge. According to former product leader at Facebook, SC Moatti, “to build products that people love, you have to build products that are […]

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 […]

MEmob’s Ihab El Yaman explains how the online ad industry, and his company in particular, is preparing for Google’s phasing out of third-party cookies. When, last January, Google issued a virtual death warrant for third-party cookies, with a plan to purge them from advertising by 2022 and have the industry use its Privacy Sandbox instead, […]

Jessica Usenbor, Platforms & Capabilities – Programmatic Lead at OMG, explains how Google’s phasing out of third-party cookies will in fact help the industry go back to basics. The deprecation of the third-party cookie is an opportunity for advertising to get back to its essence and focus on its core objective: to build customer trust […]

Majid Al Futtaim’s Head of Business Analytics Guillaume Thfoin explains how data became a key component of the group’s innovation strategy.

It’s every company’s dream to know the real-time location of its audience, deeply understand them and know exactly how, when and where to speak to them. Data mining companies specialize in providing brands with such information, ensuring campaigns’ cost-effectiveness by harvesting and analyzing data. However, these firms and how they operate are still not well […]

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. […]

By Debjani Mukherjee, Consultant, FTI Consulting Gulf What do you think of when someone says Artificial Intelligence (AI)? For most people in the PR industry, it might inspire fear. Machine learning and AI automatically make us think that the logical reasoning and analysis function of our work can be taken away in an instant, and […]

As technological advancements spur the pace of change around the world, the advertising and media industry is naturally affected. One of the key areas impacting it will be Artificial Intelligence (AI). Therefore, Publicis Media’s data, technology and innovation’s practice has put together the top 10 AI terms that everyone should know or be aware of. Here they are: […]

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 […]

Impact BBDO has teamed up with Google to create “smarter and more compelling commercial content,” says the agency in a press statement. As part of a longer term and global view, the agency network believes that the nature of the relationship with Google goes well beyond a simple collaboration: “It’s a perfect alliance, marrying the […]

We have all seen movies in which military pilots wear sophisticated helmets that use “target acquisition and tracking” devices; military hardware does not rely on augmented reality (AR) as we know it, but the concept’s evolution into civilian usage is evident. With smartphones becoming smarter and a growing number of companies focusing on head-mounted displays […]

  Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at Pro Publica and author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, discussed how, in the last year alone, she spent more than $2,000 on goods and services meant to protect her against identity theft and data mining. In effect, the […]

Last month, Spanish telecom company, Telefónica, beat its competitors to the punch: it teamed up with private equity firm Blackstone to buy the technology behind MobClix, a defunct mobile ad exchange. On the surface, it’s a natural move. For mobile advertisers hungry for user data, the richest sources are the mobile carriers themselves. And, for […]

  Internet users all over the world are concerned about how organizations are using their personal data.  In fact, it’s not uncommon to see a news story about how personal data is being used against rather than for consumers. While Internet users in the MENA region are much more likely to agree with the statement […]