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Customer lifecycle management marketing company Zeta shares insights on the shifts in spending to digital and how marketers should approach the strategy process to adapt with this transition.

Communicate speaks with Alexander Elsas, Head of Marketing and Communications of Mercedes-Benz Cars Middle East, to learn more about their new initiative titled 'How To' and what it hopes to achieve.

By Denise Lee Yohn Kim Kardashian West eventually caved to the social media backlash that arose from her decision to brand her new line of shapewear Kimono, opting for the less culturally inappropriate Skims instead. But that doesn’t mean all brands now need to ensure their naming decisions pass muster with customers. Certainly we have entered an era in […]

He turned an average-sized plastic manufacturing company into a marketing services giant with a market value of $20 billion. After 33 years of service, he left WPP in the midst of controversy, and within a month formed S4 Capital, providing digital marketing solutions to a broad array of clients. At age 74, executive chairman Sir […]

Amazon is trying a new way to take its Alexa digital assistant mobile by developing wireless earbuds that mirror Apple’s popular AirPods. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is readying earbuds with built-in Alexa access for as early as the second half of this year, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The headphones will look and act […]

It is not new. It started more than 10 years ago when Saudi Arabia came in second place after the UAE with $911 million in annual advertising spend in measured media allowing independent creative agencies to pave their way into a competitive ad-land dominated by multinational networks. Today, putting the numbers in perspective, the most […]

In typical UAE style, the Dubai World Trade Centre set a Guinness World Record for most participants riding in a virtual reality (VR) roller coaster in one hour. Driven by Samsung, the activity saw 461 participants using Samsung Gear headsets to experience a virtual roller coaster ride in a 4DX theatre at GITEX. While the […]

With the days of unlimited data becoming a thing of the past, there has been a growing trend in customers using up mobile data much quicker than what they were doing previously. Is this because user habits didn’t factor in just how data hungry our habits were or is there something else at play? It’s […]

Zomato launched its Cashless product in Dubai earlier this year. However, on October 18, the company announced through a blog post that it’s shutting down this business “due to a lack of product-market fit in its current form”. Deepinder Goyal, CEO and founder of Zomato, lists the following reasons for shutting down the product: • […]

As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry’s more prominent organizing bodies. A month before Apple revealed in June that later this year it would enable ad blocking on its mobile Safari browser, the Interactive Advertising Bureau broached the topic during its board […]

Recently, several Middle Eastern countries – even smaller cities and towns – have been promoting themselves through destination marketing campaigns. Following the Arab Spring revolution, the Middle East’s tourism market took a hard hit and as the influx of tourists started dwindling, governments began to realize the importance of destination marketing to put themselves back […]

The role of women in Saudi Arabian society is undergoing a subtle but steady change. More women are working – not just in the private and public sectors – but also running their own businesses. In 2012, two Saudi women, judo-player Wojdan Shaherkani, and 800-meter runner, Sarah Attar, participated in the Olympics for the first […]

STARZ Play announces the launch of its new STARZ Play service, a premium online video offering that claims to provide the latest US blockbuster movies and TV series immediately after they premiere in the US, along with a library of recent TV series, movies and children’s content. STARZ Play marks the first time that Starz […]

The Oxford Dictionary defines a ‘mobile phone’ as “a telephone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area, without a physical connection to a network” and the word ‘mobile’ as “able to move or be moved freely or easily”. However, with the introduction of phablets, tablets and […]

Digital and social media agency AccelerateME Online launches a new campaign titled “Nothing is created, everything is transformed.” The agency, based in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, featured the campaign on its newly created website, acceleratemeonline.com. The campaign emphasizes the transformational power of social media in our days and reflects how social media has created a […]

Research firm Euromonitor International recently released its report titled: “The top 10 global consumer trends for 2015,” authored by Daphne Kasriel-Alexander, consumer trends consultant, Euromonitor International, UK. As consumers increasingly make choices based on creating a positive impact on community and the world of digital and real life converge, consumption patterns are set to see […]

  When developers first starting building for Apple’s phones, in 2007, they were given one format for the four-inch iPhone screens. A larger format came along three years later, when the iPad debuted. Google, on the other hand, gave developers an array of options, so they could build apps for its ever-evolving cache of hardware partners […]

Ad units in magazines’ iPad editions climbed 16 percent in 2013, according to a report out on December 23 by MPA-The Association of Magazine Media-  and Kantar Media. The report, which looked at 69 magazines with monitored print and iPad editions, is a hopeful sign for traditional publishers stymied by secular headwinds affecting print media. […]