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Neticenzy, a Dubai-based digital marketing agency with a focus on social media, recently won TikTok’s B2B account. Communicate had a relaxed chat with Fadi Khater, Founder & Managing Partner, to discuss this big win and more. Much more. Your PR announcing Netizency’s TikTok win does not read like the typical PR. It was kind of […]

How Covid-19 is changing the business and the industry at large, according to Memac Ogilvy’s Chief Executive MENA, and Ogilvy’s Chief Digital Officer EMEA, and Executive Partner Worldwide.  How is COVID-19 reshaping the marketing and advertising industry in MENA? When it comes to any major social or cultural transition, it takes time for us to be able to fully […]

Digital Advertising Specialist Chris Gregory-Pasha on how Quibi could disrupt the OTT landscape, or not… Launching a brand new short-form streaming service in the middle of a global pandemic – utter madness or disruptive brilliance?Well, in reality, it’s probably a bit of both… Quibi, for the uninitiated, is the brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the founder […]

Reda Raad, chief executive of communications group TBWA\RAAD, on how true leaders should address the current crisis. Just a few short months ago, the year ahead looked promising and prosperous. Now, the talk is of mere survival. The sheer scale of the unfolding crisis has led to panic and paralysis on a global scale, but […]

Hamish McPharlin, head of Insights at BBC Global News, says that, understood and used the right way, data can fuel creativity. If there is something that media companies are not lacking in, it is data about their consumers. With the rise in connectivity and an ever-increasing connected user base, we know about our audiences more than […]

Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” which stars Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino and produced by Netflix, will appear in theaters few weeks before the movie makes its debut on the streaming website. This announcement comes months after negotiations between Netflix and major theatre chains in the U.S. This move is described by some as Netflix […]

By Eric Kallman I think it was Jeff Goodby who used to write about asking his cab drivers what commercials they liked. It was a good way of taking the pulse of the people for someone living in the middle of adland. So, recently I decided to do the same with my Uber drivers. “What […]

Ali Azarmi started his career in Advertising in 1987 in Publcis Graphics London Office and came to Dubai in 1993. He was the executive creative director at BBDO until he left in 2004 to work as an advertising consultant. In 2008, he established the Middle East branches of Joy Films UK ([email protected]) with his partner […]

The Dubai-based marketing and advertising industry body Advertising Business Group (ABG) has announced its plans to tackle a number of key industry issues and making new appointments during its first AGM. ABG Chair Sanjiv Kakkar, who is Unilever’s executive vice-president across MENA, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, outlined two key initiatives: The first is to […]

By Waseem Yakdi, CEO, Zia Creative Network Once considered to be incomparable, the relation between creativity and return on marketing investment delivering effective and staggering profitability has now become a new normal in the current advertising scenario. Now, in agencies, planning departments work much more closely with creative departments. Amid economic uncertainty, there is greater […]

Martin Sorrell stepped down as CEO of WPP following an internal investigation into misconduct, ending a 33-year career at the world’s largest agency holding company. The company announced that WPP Chairman Roberto Quarta would take over as executive chairman until a new CEO is appointed. Mark Read, CEO at Wunderman and WPP Digital, and Andrew […]

Earth’s biggest advertiser, Procter & Gamble Co., is “piloting” three new agency models that are fast taking over some of its biggest brands in its biggest countries. Among the most notable changes is a new yet-to-be-named multiagency agency led by Publicis Groupe and covering all of P&G’s North American fabric-care business. That business alone accounts for […]

The role of advertising and media industry role in restoring humanity social, emotional and physical health by Tarek Ayntrazi, CEO, Generation C The advertising industry has a unique opportunity to regain relevance and assert its indispensable role in influencing and regulating the type of content that is funded by advertising dollars. Advertising played a crucial […]

This interview is a part of Hopscotch’s series The Leader Board, a regular feature, which highlights the champions leading the way to gender balance in our region’s workplaces. This month, it’s the turn of Grayling, a multinational global communications agency founded in 1981 with boots on the ground in 53 offices and over 1000 staff […]

By Graeme Erens, CEO, Genius Loci Branding, Design & Wayfinding It’s been an exciting time recently seeing the ups and downs some global brands have had, with the media highlighting the brands disconnect from market emotions and customer opinions. Or, has the paranoia of a social media backlash set off a sequence of knee-jerk reactions […]

GCC Board Directors Institute (BDI) has appointed H+K Strategies (H+K) as content partner to the Institute for the next three years.  Additional content partners for the board include PwC, McKinsey & Co, Heidrick & Struggles and Allen & Overy, while supported by the Capital Market Authorities in Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE, Qatar Financial Centre and the […]