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Image credit: Arsen Galstyan / AFP By Puja Pannum, managing director at Blis MENA The World Cup: whether it’s vuvuzelas or 7-0 thrashings, it’s the sporting event of the year that is sure, as always, to have a massive global impact. As for brands, it’s a crucial time to drive awareness and sales – Coca Cola, […]

Excitement is high for the FIFA World Cup in the region with four Arab countries participating in it for the first time. The first game on June 14 will see Saudi Arabia and Russia kick off the tournament. A GCC-wide study by OMD shows that 75 percent consider themselves extreme football fanatics and 65 percent […]

  It occurred to me when I was in Brazil for the World Cup that when the 2010 tournament kicked off in South Africa, the iPad was just a couple of months old. Apple has shifted more than 200 million tablets since then and the second-screen experience is now the norm.  By the time Mario […]

  The World Cup 2014 in Brazil and the run-in to the tournament have shed a new light on our industry, and the creative and executional challenges it now faces. A few years ago, the focus would have been on big budget TV executions that blew you away. Not anymore. Take Nike, which ignored all […]