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Market research companies eMarketer and Global Web Index have collaborated together to release the 10th edition of the global media intelligence report. The report is a detailed compilation of data and insights about internet users’ traditional and digital media usage in 42 key markets worldwide. Communicate will be highlighting the key trends that are shaping the […]

Broadcast specialist,  markettiers MENA has released the first-ever report that dives into the podcast market in Saudi Arabia. As the listenership for the podcast medium continues to climb globally, the report provides key details into the KSA market, to help marketers understand how to better reach their targeted audience. The research was conducted by Censuswide, […]

Boutique lifestyle consultancy Catch Communications has launched its new training arm, Catch Academy in the UAE. Communicate speaks with Injeel Moti, Managing Director at Catch Academy and Catch Communications, to learn more about what the academy plans to offer. Why the need to introduce Catch Academy in the region now? The idea to set up Catch […]

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 […]

Harris Diamond, McCann World group chairman & CEO, sat down exclusively with Communicate for a wide-ranging discussion. Do you see specific trends emerging in this digital environment? The biggest trend continues to be consumers’ awareness and knowledge of where information is coming from; their ability to understand that we are marketing to them. They are […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sophia can identify faces and have long conversations with others. Sophia is also a Saudi citizen. This might not come out as big news to you, until you learn that Sophia is a robot, imbued with artificial intelligence. Sophia, modeled after actress Audrey Hepburn, has been touring the globe, in a sign that the age […]

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 […]

By Alex Malouf Is there any company more ubiquitous than Google? The company is everywhere, serving up billions of search engine results every day, powering our phones, helping us with our emails, providing even the directions for us to take. You know you’ve made it when your brand name becomes a verb. Google hasn’t been […]

By Puja Panuum It is safe to say that the relationship between consumers, content and brands has undergone seismic change in the last 10 years. Understanding the needs of the consumer has become much simpler because of the increasing availability of real-time data, which allows brands to target their messages in a way that marketers […]

The last time Communicate wrote about Faisal J. Abbas was in October 2016. He had only been a few days in his new job as editor-in-chief of Saudi’s English-language daily Arab News. The headline was “Good news for Arab News”. It seems our prediction was accurate. Back in 2016, when asked if he planned to […]

The media sector in Saudi Arabia, much like the country itself, is undergoing massive changes. In April 2017, new ministers for Culture and Information and Communications and IT were appointed with the responsibility of reshaping the media landscape of the Kingdom. Later in the year, MBC’s hard-hitting host of Al Thamina (Eight o’clock), Dawood Shirian, […]

Four months into Ravi Raman’s role as senior vice-president of Khaleej Times, the media company has announced three new projects, partly revamped its subscription model and is on an aggressive hiring spree. Communicate sat down with him to see how he plans to keep Khaleej Times afloat amid tumultuous market conditions. More than a newspaper […]

(L to R: Baker Atyani, Faisal J. Abbas and Ben Flanagan) Saudi-based English language daily Arab News has launched bureaus in Europe and Asia as part of its ongoing global, digital expansion. The multimedia newsgathering hubs, run by two veteran journalists with decades of experience in the field, will contribute to the print edition and […]

The media’s problem isn’t digital, but quality content (and ethics), says Alex Malouf, board member of MEPRA and IABC I’ve read article after article about the demise of print media, both globally and in the region. Often, that decline is attributed to digital media. And sometimes, as with a recent piece I read, media executives, who […]

By Sourav Ganguly, chief media officer of Centric DXB There’s a very good and simple reason that ad blocking is taking off. Internet users find ads invasive, annoying and even irrelevant. While some advertisers resist ad blockers by working with publishers that block content for IP’s with blockers, others are opting to learn from it. Once […]

Ziad Issa, Ipsos Connect MENA’s vice-president of media research, on why print isn’t dead…just yet We are undeniably living in an era when digital and social platforms are our primary form of news from around the world. Unsurprisingly then, they have made a dent in traditional newspaper readership – or so you would imagine. With […]

2016 has been the year that wasn’t for the Middle East media 7DAYS closed down; Emirates 24/7 and Khaleej Times slashed jobs GN Media closed down four popular radio stations Newspapers and magazines adverting spend to drop by by 6.1 per cent and 4.5 per cent, respectively, in 2017 The year 2016 ended with yet […]

By Janet Levine There’s no shortage of headlines about storied print publications scaling back or shutting down entirely. Ad Age, for one, called it a category in “secular decline” in its 2019 Publishers A-List. From a media perspective, print publishers have a unique opportunity to reinvigorate their brands. If we treated these publishers the way […]