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Kunal Gupta, CEO of digital media technology provider Polar, shares five reflections for the advertising industry in the age of coronavirus. 1. Spend decreases in obvious advertising categories will be offset by overall digital growth. Travel represents 9% of digital ad spend and in the past day alone, three of my clients have shared they’ve […]

With the rise of e-commerce shopping, redirection of advertising budgets towards digital over mainline, integration of influencer marketing as part of the marketing mix, Group M MENA released a report to help marketeers understand the key trends that are going to dominate the industry in 2019 and beyond.   Trend 1 – Most of the […]

A report by Polar, a format management platform, unveils some interesting insights on where digital advertising expenditure is heading, which platforms are soon going to rise in popularity, and why the cookie is dying. Where is digital advertising spend going? Digital ad spend increases by 18% year on year and soon will account for 50% […]

The self-described circus for adults Rouge shows how creativity can express itself in many forms. Communicate spoke to director Elena Kirschbaum. A mix of acrobatics, cabaret and burlesque, award-winning, Australia-based Rouge is a different kind of circus that manages to inject a healthy dose of creativity in a discipline that sometimes goes in circles, constantly […]

by Volkan Çağsal, CEO of Adphorus Digital advertising was almost half of all advertising spend in 2018, and it keeps growing, with two in three travel marketers planning to spend more this year. The second biggest chunk of that advertising spend is going towards social media. According to Sojern’s State of the Industry Report which surveyed […]

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. […]

By Ross Bethell, director of strategy at CBPR The phenomenon that sees us attached to our phone screens for the majority of the day is what we are referring to when we discuss ‘mobile.’ Any service that is made available on a handheld or portable device is ‘mobile’, which encompasses all online websites, applications, and […]

Facebook is refining its ad measurement offerings to give marketers more information about their campaigns on its ad platform. On Tuesday, the social network announced an expansion of partnerships with third-party ad tech companies, promising better quality data. Facebook said it was trying to give marketers a more accurate grasp of how ads on the social network […]

(L to R: Khaled Sharrouf and Adrian Turcsan) We were recently at SMX London, Europe’s largest search marketing conference, and were pleasantly surprised to see the transformation of search. Having attended the conference for many years now, it was interesting to witness the breakdown of barriers between search and other digital marketing practices this year. […]

Given the recent passing of the great Muhammed Ali, it was nice to see Instagram pay tribute to his ‘Rope-a-Dope’ strategy with the launch of ‘Instagram Stories’ earlier this month. After spending the past two years gingerly dodging blows and watching as Snapchat aggressively overtook LinkedIn, Pinterest, and most recently Twitter in terms of its […]

Our life is a social book. But, that’s a stale fact. What’s hot? We post #InstaUpdates on our social platforms – “Feeling blessed”, “Having lunch”, “Watching movie”, “Checked in at the airport”, “Admitted in hospital”, and so on. There’s nothing new about it. What’s next? This social frenzy has been taking a toll on us […]

Have you ever wondered who funds the Internet? Who pays for all the content and services that we enjoy online for free? The answer is advertisers. They fund the “free Internet” and they are the reason we can enjoy all the content websites (Forbes, CNN, Times), the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), search engines (horizontal […]

From humble beginnings way back in 1997 with a site called Six Degrees, social media as we know it, has come a long way. Today, it offers a variety of platforms, some of which are more popular than others. Each designed with a specific market in mind, statistics for 2016 show varied user volumes across […]

Pinterest introduced a feature on Monday that allows users to search for products with pictures instead of words. Dubbed visual search, the technology might make searching for that rondeau pot for your kitchen a little easier. For example, a user looking at an image of a living room could zoom in on a lamp and […]

Video ad tech company Unruly is continuing its global growth with expansion into the Middle East. Future Tech Media will serve as the official reseller across the UAE and KSA for Unruly’s product set, helping ROI-driven marketers benefit from Unruly’s data-driven expertise, native video ad formats and mobile video SSP UnrulyX™. With three out of […]

This year saw the continued explosion of social media penetration across the Middle East, prompted in part by the proliferation of connected devices, but, also, unfortunately, by the emergence of new polarizing forces that are shaping international opinion on the direction and stability of the region. The communication challenge for MENA governments has never been […]

When self-proclaimed “brand futurist”, acclaimed author and Time magazine’s 2009 Influential 100 list honoree, Martin Lindstrom, set out to unravel the subconscious motives of addictive smokers in a neuromarketing study (neuromarketing explores cognitive, emotional and sensorimotor responses to marketing stimuli) of unprecedented scale and size in 2004, his drives were, quite oppositely, very conscious. Lindstrom’s mother was […]

  How do we practice storytelling on social mediums where consumer behavior is at hyper speed?  We respect the nuances of each social platform.  We all know that content is king; but there is a new queen in town, and it’s called ‘context’. We hear a lot about creative social strategy today, but not so […]