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Interested in the fast-growing gaming community in the region? Communicate spoke with Mathew Pickering, Managing Director at gaming and esports communications agency Power League Gaming, to break it down for you. What does PLG do, exactly? Power League Gaming connects brands with Arabic gaming and esports audiences, primarily across MENA, of which 30% of the […]

Market research firm Ipsos has released a new report that explores how attitudes towards travel have evolved during the last few months in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here are the key findings – The desire to travel has been steadily increasing People are increasingly expressing their desire to travel again, with many reminiscing about […]

Elie Aoun, CEO of Ipsos Media in MENA, will take the helm as the new global leader for Adex service. Communicate spoke with Aoun to learn more about the service and how it’ll benefit the region. What is Adex? Adex (Advertising expenditures), is a service that measures the advertising expenditures on different media, in different markets. […]

Throughout the ages, tones, topics and styles in content marketing have evolved drastically. Communicate takes a step back and examines how the way we pitch changed over time.  

As part of Ipsos MENA’s ongoing commitment to deliver fast, high-quality data, the company introduces a new online panel in the country of Iraq. Iraq is the latest addition to Ipsos Interactive Services’ (IIS) MENA panel which already covers Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, and Kuwait. Communicate spoke with Joseph […]

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 […]

As the region witnesses the surge in e-commerce popularity, retailers wonder as to what kind of new habits will this instill into the consumer. To learn more about the reasons for the changing habits in consumers and how it will impact the retail industry, Communicate sat with Sachinn J Laala and Richard Nicoll, CEO and Managing […]

Multinational market research firm, Ipsos has released the fourth wave of COVID-19 MENA Consumer Sentiment Tracker from April 10 to April 13, 2020; a report on understanding attitudes, behaviors, and future expectations in various countries in the MENA region. The study covered KSA, UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, and Morocco and was conducted through online surveys. The tracker […]

Britain’s online measurement body has appointed Ipsos, as the new supplier of the UK industry-standard, for online audience measurement from January 2021. The appointment follows a broad industry consultation and a tender process, undertaken to ensure that media owners, advertisers, and agencies can continue to rely on UKOM endorsed data for audience reporting, and be confident […]

By Elie Aoun, CEO of Ipsos Connect I have been working in research, media research in particular, for the last 27 years. That’s the only thing that I’ve done. Throughout these years, I witnessed many changes and transformations, always – or at least most of the time – for the better. I used to see […]

By Ziad Issa   The last decade showed us many changes in media consumption, where everyone almost accesses the internet, smartphone, and social media. The technology is shifting the use of audio and video-based content. In Saudi Arabia, over the top (OTT) has not yet taken away significant reach from linear TV as it has […]

By Rizk Haddad. On January 31, 2019, at 6am, all Shock Middle East radio brands introduced a clutter-free experience to our listeners and clients with ‘only two ads in a row’. We wanted to understand the consumer behavior around radio consumption and engagement better, and commissioned an independent research survey with IPSOS. This highlighted key insights […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made history when it passed a Royal Decree in 2017 permitting women to drive in the Kingdom. The ban officially lifted on June 24, 2018 when women took to the streets albeit behind the wheel. This lifting of the ban means that Saudi Arabia will have 3 million female drivers […]

23% of TV ad spends are during Ramadan, according to Ipsos 2017 research Viewers in Saudi Arabia (60%) and in Egypt (70%) actually prefer watching ads on YouTube to TV In MENA, users spend an extra 6 million hours on Facebook throughout the month Clearly, Ramadan is a peak period for advertisers with users spending […]

The holy month of Ramadan is an introspective and spiritual time of the year, when people fast, pray, change their daily routines, catch up with their favorite TV drama series and spend more time with their near and dear ones. It’s also that time of year when television and digital screens are bombarded with commercials. […]

There’s one word that saw a 365 percent increase in usage since 2016 making it Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2017. That word is ‘fake news’. Although popularized in 2016 during the US elections – and since then by the US President – fake news is not exclusive to either; it is an all-pervasive […]

Ramadan is a peak period for advertisers with 23 percent of TV ad spends being spent in the Holy Month according to Ipsos 2017 research. During this time, video consumption also increases, YouTube reports. Why YouTube? According to Ipsos reports last year, Ramadan viewership on YouTube over the last three years has increased threefold in […]

Pinaki Banerjee, global program director, Ipsos Connect UAE on breaking the stereotype and empowering women through advertising Given the role that women play in deciding on the everyday brands used in households, women are central characters in many advertisements. Traditionally in many developing markets, stereotypes were often used to portray the role women played. Most […]

CNN has been named as the #1 international news channel in the Middle East, in terms of its reach to audiences in the region, a new Ipsos survey revealed.   The Ipsos Affluent Survey Middle East, which launched in Europe in 1995 has expanded to cover other regions including Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America and […]

Ipsos has been awarded the online and digital business of Mediaquest. The newly signed agreement nominates Mediaquest as the exclusive data providers for Ipsos, who will also perform market research analysis covering numerous areas including online audience measurement, a hybrid approach that integrates data from site-centric and software panel measurement. This study enables websites to […]

  Last year, Pepsi’s three-minute “Let’s Come Together” film for Ramadan was not only among the longest ads released in the Middle East for the Holy Month – with, presumably, a budget to match – but also the most watched video on YouTube outside of and in the MENA region, having clocked up close to […]