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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 […]

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 […]

By Hussam El-Hage, digital marketing manager, Arabian Automobiles Buried treasure; the epitome of every pirate story. The infamous “X marks the spot” leads us to the hidden troves of gold and jewels; treasure chests filled to the brim with coins. Blackbeard’s hidden gold has modern age treasure hunters scouring the oceans casting their “prospecting nets” […]

Advertisers are worried that Facebook is about to become a data desert as it deliberately dries up a once easy source of rich data on its users. On August 15, Facebook will shut down a program called “partner categories,” which gave its advertisers a way to tap directly into the largest consumer data brokers within […]

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. […]

  Google is rebranding its ad business after 18 years. The changes are rolling out in July 2018. Google Ad Words is becoming Google Ads, which will represent the full range of advertising capabilities offered by Google. Google Ads will have a new campaign type for small businesses. DoubleClick and Google Analytics will no longer […]

Creative agencies have been known to be slow on the uptake of technology with media agencies embarking digital and data quickly. That has now changed with multiple creative agencies building their digital offering. TBWA\RAAD, for example, has its own data department and manages digital and social for clients including Nissan. In fact, the agency’s CEO, […]

Companies offering help in meeting the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are bidding up the price on search ads for “GDPR” ahead of its launch on May 25. GDPR requirements are complex, and each country is likely to have different rules because the EU has left some 70 clauses open to interpretation. […]

Though marketers such as Mozilla and Pep Boys have said they’re pulling spending on Facebook ads at least for now, advertisers across the board are more likely to keep buying there. They’re giving the social network the benefit of the doubt, calculating that its problems won’t taint them or both. “We at Clorox stand by […]

Sport360 recently announced a new agreement with Moat, the renowned attention-analytics specialists based in New York that was acquired by Oracle earlier this year. Accredited by the Media Rating Council (MRC) for desktop display, mobile and video, Moat, a part of the Oracle Data Cloud, provides actionable analytics in real time on multiple screens, formats […]

As well as working with brands including Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, Moat has been recruited by the likes of Facebook, Google, Snapchat and – most recently – Twitter to provide third-party analytics of campaign performance. Oracle said that Moat will remain an “independent” platform within Oracle Data Cloud, though added it is currently […]

Independent creative communication agency, tamra C2, recently revealed C2 NATIVE, a separate entity focused on delivering data-driven digital communications, technologies and solutions for brands in the region. The new entity has also been signed on as the second agency in the world for the Oracle DMP (Data Management Platform) agency model partnership that enables the […]

ITP Publishing Group in expanding its scope with the launch of a new digital division, ITP Live. The division will extend the digital footprint of ITP and APP Media Group’s brands, and provide new content creation opportunities for commercial partners. ITP Live has five key business areas: what it claims to be the region’s largest […]

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 […]

Brightcove Inc., provider of cloud services for video, announces a new wave of feature enhancements to its core products as well as market-specific solutions tailored for Media and Digital Marketing customers. These new products and market-specific solutions aim to allow organizations to publish video faster, deliver a more engaging video experience, and drive business results. “As our […]

  Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire LiveLOOK, a global provider of real-time and visual collaboration technology for co-browsing and screen sharing. “Consumers are increasingly conducting transactions across multiple digital channels such as web and mobile.  Meeting consumer demands and exceeding their expectations for web and mobile service and support will improve […]

  The FIFA World Cup comprises eight groups with 32 teams playing 64 games over 30 days. There is a total of 5,760 minutes of football playing time – excluding the nerve-shredding extra time and penalty shoot-outs in the knock-out stages. Since a large proportion of this year’s World Cup coincides with Ramadan, with most of the matches during this time scheduled […]