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Group M releases their mid-year report for the MENA region, which forecasts the future of spending in the region’s media industry for the remainder of 2020 as well as 2021. In 2019, MENA advertising spend declined by 5.8%. This year, the number is expected to reduce even further as the industry faces a dual-shock from […]

International marketing intelligence service, WARC releases the Global Ad Trends report which highlights the impact of Covid-19 on ad investment in 2020. According to the report, advertising spend is projected to be $563bn for 2020. This is a steep decline from earlier forecasts, which predicted a rise in spending by 7.1% to $660bn. The decline is […]

Aligned with the projected growth forecasts shared earlier, the latest research findings spanning the first two days of the holy month clearly depict, how the increase in TV viewership due to the Covid-19 #Stayathome situation has resulted in a record-breaking Ramadan 2020 performance from the region’s leading broadcasters.

Kunal Gupta, CEO of digital media technology provider Polar, shares five reflections for the advertising industry in the age of coronavirus. 1. Spend decreases in obvious advertising categories will be offset by overall digital growth. Travel represents 9% of digital ad spend and in the past day alone, three of my clients have shared they’ve […]

Rania Zalami, Area Director for India & Middle East at Meltwater, explains what being a female leader in tech means today. To say that there are few female leaders in the Middle East’s tech world is an understatement, but Rania Zalami is one of them – and the first Arab woman to fully take ownership […]

As life in China slowly begins to return to normal, the draconian measures that were earlier implemented to curb the spread of the virus have taken a toll on the country’s economy. The two-month-long pandemic forced businesses to halt operations and residents to remain indoors, causing a stint in the country’s economic growth. This also […]

According to the report released by the international marketing intelligence service, global advertising spend is set to rise by 7.1% to $660bn this year, guided by a 13.2% growth in internet investment. Quadrennial events such as the US presidential elections and the Summer Olympic games in Tokyo are expected to help TV spend to rise by […]

Intigral CEO Hamoud Al Rumayan explains how his company is changing viewing habits in Saudi Arabia, while supporting the kingdom’s vision for the future.

Advertisers will spend more on social media platforms than on print for the first time this year, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts.  According to the report , advertising expenditure on social media will grow 20 percent in 2019 to reach US$84bn, while advertisers’ combined expenditure on print, newspapers and magazines, is expected to fall […]

In its fifth edition, Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2019  report, it is forecasted that the average person will spend 100 minutes each day watching online video in 2021, which is up from 84 minutes this year, In other words, that’s the equivalent of watching 25 continuous days of video in 2021. “The amount of time people […]

The fifth edition of the Media Consumption Forecasts by Zenith sheds light on the rise of mobile internet usage globally, along with the popularity of television and radio. According to the survey conducted across 57 countries, the amount of time people use on mobile internet is a collective of 3.8 trillion hours this year, which […]

WARC, the international marketing intelligence service, forecasts podcasts to account for 4.5 per cent($1.6bn) of global audio advertising spend by 2022, which his the double the expected investment of this year. The company said in a statement  that this forecast is almost double the $885m in expected investment this year. This expectation comes at the […]

1. The growth of Internet advertising will drive global ad spend in 2019 Stronger than expected Internet advertising will drive 4.7 percent growth in total global ad spend in 2019 reaching $623 billion – substantially ahead of the 4 percent forecast made in the previous edition of the report, published in December 2018. Zenith forecasts […]

For decades, free TV has coexisted alongside premium programming that requires a subscription to a cable or satellite service. Now that traditional TV content is shifting to the Internet, a similar dynamic is taking shape. Subscription streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are jockeying with a growing crop of free, ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) […]

Christos Solomi is the executive director of programmatic at Omnicom Media Group MENA. 1. To a layperson, how would you explain programmatic TV? Most of the ads you see on your TV were planned and purchased weeks and often months in advance of the spot appearing on your screen. Everyone watching the TV channel at […]

MENA Market Place (MMP) describes itself as a “premium programmatic advertising marketplace enabling leading publishers and premium brands to better monetize their digital advertising inventory.” Sound familiar? That’s because the company first launched in 2014. A lot has changed since then. Nader Bitar, director, has replaced Vincent Pellilo, the ex-managing director, bringing with him a […]

Amazon’s advertising business continued its ascent last quarter, hitting $2.2 billion in revenue – a growth rate outpacing even optimistic forecasts for the company. Yesterday, Amazon reported second-quarter results and advertising was again the brightest spot for the e-retailer, growing at 132 percent, its fastest-growing segment by far. Amazon’s total sales hit $52.9 billion, an […]

Global consumers will spend an average of 67 minutes a day watching online video this year, up from 56 minutes last year. By 2020 the average person will be spending 84 minutes a day watching videos online. In that year, China will have the keenest viewers, with the average person spending 105 minutes a day […]