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Anghami, the regions largest and most loved streaming service, announced today a new collaboration with The Walt Disney Company Middle East in which brands are able to reach millions of consumers through various branding and media solutions alongside hit Disney movie soundtracks.

In the new age of podcasts and audio streaming, one wonders whether radio still garners any listeners? The answer is yes. According to a new survey conducted by data measurement firm Nielsen, the radio industry is still thriving in the UAE. The new study conducted by Nielsen’s UAE Radio Audience Measurement (RAM)- a service designed […]

WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness releases the anatomy of effectiveness report for the MENA region. The report aimed at advertising agencies, marketers, and media owners alike, highlighting five key priorities for brands seeking to improve their impact in the Middle East and North Africa region. The report has been created in collaboration with […]

Earlier Communicate looked at some of the most glorious moments in tech from this decade. While there were too many great moments to count, there were also some moments that didn’t quite live up to the hype. Here’s a list of those moments in the world of tech. IGTV While Instagram falls under one of the […]

By Anthony Crupi Advertisers looking to shill for their products and services within the context of an Emmy Award-winning series are once again more or less out of luck, as premium cable and streaming platforms gobbled up most of this morning’s nominations. Of the dozens of scripted, reality and variety series acknowledged today by the […]

Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) Measurement  has been expanded to 26 major markets including UAE, South Africa, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey, among others. Nielsen is expanding its advertising measurement of YouTube’s mobile app. The measurement company announced a deal with Google that will witness the Nielsen […]

By Anthony Crupi The giddy excess of the Peak TV era has culminated in a sort of option paralysis among consumers, many of whom, when presented with a near-infinite number of entertainment choices, make none whatsoever. According to Nielsen’s newly released Total Audience Report for the first quarter of 2019, more than one-fifth (21 percent) […]

By Anthony Crupi The much griped-about series finale of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” on Sunday night broke the premium cable network‘s all-time ratings records, as nearly 20 million viewers tuned in to find out who would get to sit on the Uncomfortable Pointy Chair. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the 82-minute “Thrones” capper averaged 19.3 million total viewers, […]

By Ahmed Hafez Younis “There’s no recipe for creativity.” If you walk around Facebook’s offices chances are you’re going to come across this poster. It truly reflects what we at Creative Shop believe. We also believe that to connect with today’s consumers in this mobile world, we must build for where they are and not where […]

By Rishi Saxena Measuring impact is the big challenge. An average person in the Middle East is served over 1,500 online impressions a month and can see up to 600 marketing messages across different media channels within a day according to the results of a 2018 Nielsen benchmark study on MENA media trends. This does not […]

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 […]

Facebook and Apple are in another fight over privacy and data after reports surfaced last week that Facebook built a consumer research app that opened a backdoor to iPhones. The phonemaker, which disabled the app, has accused the social network of violating its app rules. Apple and Facebook have had a contentious relationship since Apple […]

When asked what his biggest takeaway was after attending Burning Man earlier this year, Martin Sorrell had a ready response: “The importance of creative destruction and renewal.” A photo of the iconic Burning Man graced the first page on the prospectus of Sorrell’s new venture, S4 Capital. And to be sure, Sorrell himself has been […]

Snapchat and Nielsen, doubling down on their partnership, are now offering marketers the ability to make targeted ad buys based on offline data, in a similar fashion to other popular social media platforms. A marketer can use Nielsen audience data, for instance, to target someone on Snapchat who purchased lipstick at a retail store offline. […]

The World Cup is a huge global phenomenon with more than 3 billion people watching it in 2014. This year, with the participation of four Arab teams, viewership in the region is naturally expected to be higher, which in turn, means that advertising spends during this period are also higher. The biggest chunk of spends […]

75% of the world’s data traffic will be video by 2020. Online video revenue in MENA to grow between 22% and 35% annually until 2021 So yes, users around the world are watching video – a lot more than they ever did, which explains why advertisers are increasingly spending more on digital video. But, much […]

From arcade games to high-end Playstations to Candy Crush… gaming has undergone a massive evolution. Through this evolution, somehow, it managed to stay away from the attention of marketers. There was no brand logo inserted in a Pac-Man or a video ad inserted in Space Invaders to continue playing. But now, with gaming making its […]

There has always been a general sense of dissatisfaction in the regional ad industry with regards to digital ad measurement and monitoring. That is now set to change with Nielsen’s launch of Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) in the UAE. DAR was launched in 2011 and is already used in more than 33 countries for campaign […]

The beginning of April 2018 saw an investigation being launched into advertising legend and WPP chief Martin Sorrell over undisclosed alleged “personal misconduct.” Just a few days later, Sorrell stepped down as CEO and now WPP is on the hunt to fill his shoes. Why WPP is now vulnerable WPP looks vulnerable at the moment […]