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UAE-based podcast network Amaeya Media, launched in 2017, has become a key player in the region’s audio space, with 16 different shows and the UAE’s first audio-dedicated agency. Founder and CEO Chirag Desai explains how this industry is slowly but surely moving forward. In which markets are your podcasts listened to? We now have individual […]

How Covid-19 is changing the business and the industry at large, according to DDB’s Chief Executive Officer for the Middle East. How is the Covid-19 crisis reshaping the marketing and advertising industry in MENA? There’s a lot of conversation going on around this subject. But with specific mention to the region, Covid-19 has accelerated our pre-existing structural problems. The […]

Jessica Usenbor, Platforms & Capabilities – Programmatic Lead at OMG, explains how Google’s phasing out of third-party cookies will in fact help the industry go back to basics. The deprecation of the third-party cookie is an opportunity for advertising to get back to its essence and focus on its core objective: to build customer trust […]

As part of the company’s COVID-19 relief efforts, Omnicom Media Group MENA joins forces with regional media owners in the Middle East- to provide complimentary media space to its long-standing partner charities. With their support, the NPO’s – Dubai Cares, Gulf for Good, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be able to reach a larger […]

Nadim Samara, CEO at OMG MENA, and Andreas Frangeskides, Director-Marketing Solutions at Annalect MENA, explain how Omnicom Media Group harnesses the power of data via Omni, its proprietary data management platform.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) GCC urges for greater participation in an industry-wide study to comprehensively measure the size of the region’s digital advertising market. The study which was launched in October of last year is designed to deliver an estimate of the GCC’s digital advertising market. However, the involvement by industry stakeholders has been lower than […]

OMD, a global media network that is a part of the Omnicom Media Group secured a trifecta of first place wins including- the title of Global Media Agency of the year for the second consecutive year by Adweek, a leading advertising industry publication.  The accolade marks the sixth time, that OMD has been named the publication’s […]

Patrick Harris, VP-global agency development at Facebook, sat in an exclusive interview with Communicate to discuss how the social media giant is adapting to these challenging times. How did your system of agency partners develop? [Early on] we hadn’t yet figured out the role the ecosystem would play, how Facebook would invest to make sure […]

Omnicom Media Group MENA has announced in a statement  the opening of the regional operation of its dynamic creative specialist agency Adylic. Adylic works in data-driven, personalized creative advertising and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) solutions. The Dubai operation, Adylic’s seventh in the world, will serve the Middle East/North Africa region (MENA), said the statement. Raouf […]

Technology has already transformed the way we shop, it is believed that more people are increasingly shopping using their devices daily. That said, there has been an increase in technology at the point-of-sale and as part of overall retail operations. This means more data from the offline world.  We spoke to Liquid’s CEO Sachinn J Laala […]

Omnicom Media Group’s data, analytics and technology consultancy Annalect, announced in a press statement, two new senior executives in the Middle East and North Africa region. “Andreas Frangeskides has joined as Director-Marketing Solutions, while Oleksandr Cherviakov is now the consultancy’s Senior Manager-Business Solutions,” said the statement. OMG also said in the statement that they hired Joubran Abdul Khalek […]

By Hussam ElHage I am revisiting this article a year after I initially wrote it. Originally, I was going to discuss the new entrants to the advertising world; consulting firms. But now, they’re already here! Let me begin by saying that during my time working within media agencies, Accenture and other firms on a global […]

Omnicom Media Group EMEA has announced three promotions at the top of its Middle East/North Africa (MENA) operations in a press statement. The regional CEO, Elie Khouri, has been promoted to chairman, while OMD MENA’s CEO, Nadim Samara, takes the same position at the regional holding and PHD’s CEO Elda Choucair moves to the newly […]

By  Brian Braiker Rishad Tobaccowala has logged nearly four decades at Publicis. Starting with a run at Leo Burnett and followed by stints as chairman of Digitas LBi and Razorfish, he spent some time in leadership roles at VivaKi and Starcom IP as well as other companies under the Publicis umbrella. Today he is the […]

Mashreq’s in-house marketing and communications team has appointed TBWA \RAAD , part of Omnicom Group Inc., to work closer with the team in order to strengthen the bank’s position as the region’s most progressive and innovative community-focused bank. “Our data-driven disruption model questions and challenges normal conventions and we feel the rapid digital transformation of the […]

Auto enthusiast, movie buff and ardent Disney, Spielberg and Steve Jobs fan, Colin Gottlieb is also the CEO of Omnicom Media Group EMEA and Chairman of OMD Worldwide. When he visited Dubai last month, we caught up with him to talk advertising, business and movies.  On why he was in Dubai I am responsible for […]

By Stanislava Burianek We already know very well that Millennials represent a very significant spending power globally and even more so in the Middle East. They represent US$2.45 trillion in spending power, according to Adweek and according to Omnicom Group, 70% of them are likely to buy brands that support causes they care about. Subsequently, […]

[L to R: Lucy O’Brien, Dani Richa and Fouad Bou Mansour] FleishmanHillard Middle East has become part of the Impact BBDO MENA group of companies, which has been operating across the Middle East and North Africa region for more than 45 years. Both, FleishmanHillard Middle East and Impact BBDO MENA, are part of the Omnicom […]

For the first time in 20 years, Omnicom Media Group has refreshed its brand identity system, including a new logo with the OMG acronym, a modernized logotype and new graphic elements. The system is based on three core tenets: the geometry in the letterforms of the logo, the concept of micro to macro pattern repetition […]

The UK alone used 125,000 tonnes of plastic wrapping last year, especially around Christmas 500 million canned drinks are sold over the festive period 13,350 tonnes of glass is binned every year during December and January And so, Omnicom Media Group MENA has dressed up the Christmas tree outside its building in Dubai Media City […]

Mobile ad fraud is on the rise and is estimated to have doubled since last year. Juniper Research has estimated that advertisers will lose some $19 billion to fraudulent advertising activities on online and mobile devices in 2018. The issue of app install fraud is a growing concern, particularly in the GCC. Therefore, Omnicom Media Group […]

Omnicom Group suffered its biggest decline in nine years after posting sluggish results, renewing concerns that the ad giant can weather media disruption spurred by the likes of Google and Facebook. The stock closed on July 17 at $70.69, down nearly 9.5 percent from the previous day’s close after the New York-based company posted weaker-than-expected revenue growth […]

By Christos Solomi, executive director – programmatic, Omnicom Media Group MENA With a name like Christos Demetrios Solomi, you can easily guess that I probably have some Greek in me. Growing up in a Greek household meant reading mythology was mandatory and consequently, you develop a strong understanding of the idea of a self-fulfilling prophecy. […]

PHD has secured an exclusive launch partner agreement for Unilever with Digital Media Services (DMS) for its new DMS Video product. The agreement is designed to safeguard Unilever’s investments by securing an inventory that adheres to the marketer’s stringent viewability guidelines, a particularly important concern today. The FMCG group will receive privileged access to the Choueiri […]

Omnicom launched the UAE chapter of its global initiative, Omniwomen, on International Women’s Day. The initiative is dedicated to championing the number and influence of female talent within the company and is currently active in ten local chapters across the globe, including in the USA, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, China and now the UAE. […]

Americana Group has concluded its three-way agency review with the appointment of Omnicom Media Group’s Hearts & Science. The account was previously handled by MCN’s Initiative MENA. The company, which operates restaurants and manufactures consumer foods and food-related products across the MENA region, is the first regional client for the data-driven marketing agency. Americana Group […]

Omnicom Media Group has launched Hearts & Science in the MENA region. Touted as a data-driven agency, Hearts & Science was launched in the US exclusively for Omnicom’s P&G business and has since signed on telecom giant AT&T. The Dubai office will be headed by OMD UAE’s head of strategy, Fadi Maktabi, who has been […]

“In the Middle East, there have been many wars and recessions, and this is another recession. So, what do you do?” asks Elie Khouri. He not only seems unperturbed by the varied challenges the region is facing, but, more strikingly, he continues to be optimistic – even enthusiastic. We catch up with him to find […]

Volkswagen Group has selected Omnicom’s PHD as its global media agency following a lengthy competitive review. WPP’s MediaCom, which has a lengthy relationship with the automaker, had handled most of the business, including the US market. The review covered VW Group brands including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Seat, Skoda and commercial vehicles. PHD was an incumbent […]

Omnicom Media Group MENA’s CEO for Saudi Arabia, Choucrallah Abou Samra, will leave his position in June. Faisal Shams, currently general manager of OMD in the Kingdom, will assume the leadership of the group’s three offices in Saudi Arabia. Abou Samra started his career with the company back in 2003. Since then, he has opened […]

A year after Johnson & Johnson brought Coca-Cola veteran Alison Lewis in as the first chief marketing officer of its consumer business, things are going well, with sales and share beating rivals from the over-the-counter drug business to skincare. Now, hoping to maintain momentum, she’s opening a whole can of Coke-style globalization on the historically fragmented company and its […]