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WPP’s GroupM MENA’s former head of digital now is Experience Services Lead for Accenture Interactive in the Middle East. With nearly two decades of industry experience in the US and the Middle East, TJ Lightwala was officially appointed Experience Services Lead for Accenture Interactive in the Middle East. For seven years, Lightwala was leading regional […]

By Elías Jabbe Pertinent topics such as mobile advertising, digital publishing and influencer marketer were discussed and further analyzed during the Mobile Marketing Association’s annual Impact Forum in Dubai. The forum brought in thought leaders working in-house  at global and regional companies to discuss the transformation of business through mobile. Among the speakers was Emre […]

By Elías Jabbe The Mobile Marketing Association returns to Dubai today to host the latest edition of one of its signature events: MMA Impact Forum. The Istanbul-based MENA & Turkey chapter of the global MMA is leading the organization of the annual forum in Dubai that unites marketers from various countries in the Middle East […]

By Jack Neff It’s time to put on your thinking caps, or at least get test subjects to. Neuromarketing has gone from the realm of intriguing experiments with questionable merit among market researchers to an everyday tool for many brands. And it literally involves thinking caps, in that electronic sensors are used to measure brain […]

By Fernando Angulo, Global speaker, SEMrush.com Since childhood, I have been fascinated by aviation. Growing up it was exciting to follow stories about the planes, the pilots and the science of flight that rapidly developed and diversified into fixed wing and rotary types as well as the evolution of propeller and later jet power. Which […]

Mobile budgets have increased since 2016, with 23% spending more than a quarter of their budget on mobile Over the longer term, those spending more than 25% of their budget on mobile will almost double by 2022 93% still use Facebook while only 41% use Snapchat for mobile marketing The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), recently […]

Marketing used to be about the 4 Ps of price, product, promotion and place. But that isn’t the case anymore. In a world of increased connectivity and more options than ever before, marketing is no longer the same. This interview looks at the evolution of marketing as a function, and how it is reflected on […]

Last year’s brand safety debacle brought to light some key issues with digital advertising. Among these were viewability and ad fraud. Ad fraud is rather self-explanatory, but what is viewability? Viewability is essentially an online advertising metric that determines if an ad is actually ‘viewable’, and then, allows advertisers to pay only for ads that […]

As much as 83% of marketers in EMEA will increase their budget over the next 12 months, and in five years’ time, 40% expect more than a quarter of their budget to be dedicated to mobile, according to new research from WARC and the Mobile Marketing Association. Based on a survey of 548 marketing professionals […]

Global location intelligence company Blis is now stepping into a new frontier of geo-location-based mobile advertising through its partnership with TVTY. A “moment marketing company,” TVTY brings to the partnership the ability to launch location-based digital ad campaigns reacting to real-time events. These real-time events include “sporting events, changes in the weather or even stock market […]

These were some of the thoughts that came out of the agencies’ feedback on what our mobile story should be on. Clearly, they couldn’t agree on one thing so we decided to let them talk about whatever they wanted to talk about. Over to the experts… Fahad Maghrabi, digital director, Initiative Riyadh   What are […]

It feels like video has been the next big thing in digital media for the past ten years. Ever-increasing connection speeds and user connectivity have fueled the continued acceleration of video usage and, therefore, its importance to advertisers. Recognizing a shift in user behavior – and video as revenue potential – the big TV companies […]

Mediavest | Spark’s “Memories Matter” campaign has been shortlisted for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) EMEA 2016 Smarties Awards. This is the only entry from the Middle East to make it the shortlist of the global mobile marketing award program in two categories: Social Impact / Not For Profit and Mobile Social. The shortlist was […]

Last year was the year of mobile. You blinked? Well, you missed it. We moved from multiple screens to one – the mobile – and now, we’re again including new screens through wearables and virtual reality, resulting in a shift in consumers’ consumption habits and technology adoption. The one interesting element that governs this seismic […]

Data is arguably the hottest commodity in marketing, which makes it a tempting target for bad actors. But it’s not just Eastern European hacking networks that companies have to worry about. Marketers are also increasingly facing questions about how to keep other countries and even competitors out of their data troves. Data breaches in recent […]

Media experts have a way of predicting or at least forecasting what’s to come. Inevitably, this leads to the question: “What  will change in the next five years?” My answer is, “Not much.” And this is received with a mix of curiosity and some suspicion. Allow me to explain: we will not witness a massive […]

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 […]

As international and local media digressed into the infrastructural and economic implications of Dubai’s Expo 2020 bid win in November 2013 – which, according to an infographic released by Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) MENA in early 2014, generated some 161,525 tweets, of which 118,083 were congratulatory and 82 percent were on announcement day – the […]

The rise of mobile advertising and social media, and the transition to programmatic buying of digital display, will help the global advertising market grow five to six percent a year over the next three years. According to ZenithOptimedia’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, global adspend will grow 4.9 percent to reach $545 billion in 2015. The […]

  Mobile marketing is quickly becoming a contact sport. Automakers such as Ford and Toyota are illustrating how static ads on screens and billboards can quickly generate dynamic ads for the smartphone through the use of near-field communication, the short-range wireless communications technology that’s behind Apple Pay and works with a quick tap of the […]

Mobile advertising platform, Ad Colony recently published the results of their survey, which asked marketers regarding their strategies and results for user acquisition (UA). The meteoric growth in mobile app usage has bred major competition in the marketplace. Creating a stellar app is just the beginning for developers. With millions of apps in the Google […]

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 […]

The sharing or collaborative economy is the latest business model for marketers and business owners to sink their teeth into. Companies such as AirBnb and Uber have transcended their position in the market by recognizing the incomparable advantages of e-commerce as their main platform for doing business. Top-down communication and business models will soon be something […]

  “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy [stuff] we don’t need.” Tyler Durden’s remarkable line from Fight Club is also the opening line of WhatsApp’s blog post titled: “Why we don’t sell ads”. Yet, mobile users in the UAE have been receiving marketing messages from unknown […]

  Global digital performance advertising company Criteo  has announced that its in-app measurement solution, AD-X Tracking, is working with Twitter as part of the Mobile App Promotion program. The partnership will see Criteo developing a custom measurement solution for tracking mobile app install campaigns. “Initial results during the beta period have been very strong for mobile performance […]

  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 […]