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How Covid-19 is changing the business and the industry at large, according to Group M MENA’s Chief Executive Officer. How is the Covid-19 crisis reshaping the marketing and advertising industry in MENA? The time has come to ‘re-optimize’ everything from brand purpose, positioning, company structures, processes and growth strategies. Consumers have become far too picky and […]

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 […]

The Michael Page salary and skills guide provides an overview of market and employment trends, including observations such as job seekers’ sentiments, while also highlighting salary trends per role within each industry. The report listed four key job market trends which were prevalent in the region: The top reasons for people living and working in […]

Gambit Communications, a local independent agency, has announced its launch late July in the Middle East market. Gambit Communications is named after the opening move of the game of chess. “The name is also a double-entendre because the phrase ‘make an opening gambit’ also means ‘to start a conversation with someone’, and in our field […]

Over the past year, geopolitical situations and economic challenges have left their mark on businesses across the globe, increasing the pressure on creative, media and PR agencies to reinvent themselves. “The greatest degree of reinvention is needed in ad [creative] agencies,” says BPG Group CEO Avi Bhojani, mainly because audiences now consume content and buy […]

You hear these buzzwords around often: ‘budgeting’ and ‘saving money’. But, you do realize that it’s easier said than done – especially when working in an entry-level position. There is no magical formula for getting rich overnight, and saving money is a challenging task. Without a doubt, money is a powerful tool and the paradox […]

Much has been said about millennials and what they want from their personal and professional lives. If popular notion is anything to go buy, it seems that they want travel, technology, and bean bags. We decided to find out what it is they really seek in their professional lives – and in the process dispel […]

Much has been said about millennials and what they want from their personal and professional lives. If popular notion is anything to go buy, it seems that they want travel, technology, and bean bags. We decided to find out what it is they really seek in their professional lives – and in the process dispel […]

Much has been said about millennials and what they want from their personal and professional lives. If popular notion is anything to go buy, it seems that they want travel, technology, and bean bags. We decided to find out what it is they really seek in their professional lives – and in the process dispel […]

While creative agencies are constantly looking to increase their offerings with a well-rounded approach, salaries still play a large role in an employee’s choice to join a workplace or their loyalty to one. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking, but according to Hays’ “GCC 2015 Salary & Employment Report,” 41 percent of respondents expect a pay increase […]

Whether an agency calls its work environment its “culture”, “dynamic”, or “DNA”, creative industries have tried to set the bar high when it comes to adding incentives beyond salary and generic benefits packages. As Sasan Saeidi, FP7 UAE’s managing director, says, “This industry is very demanding, especially in this part of the world where things […]

The first-ever Festival of Media MENA was held in April this year, inviting experts from different fields to talk about the evolving advertising and media industry in the MENA region. As the industry grows, so, inevitably, does the demand for skilled talent. It’s no surprise then, that one of the panels focused on “Solving the […]

Working in advertising is supremely stressful. There’s no doubt about that. This is especially true if you’re managing a creative team. You might find your employees being cooped up in the office all the time, trying to come up with the perfect ad or a perfect one-liner for an ad campaign. Often, when ideas are […]

As international and local media digressed into the infrastructural and economic implications of Dubai’s Expo 2020 bid win in November 2013 – which, according to an infographic released by Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) MENA in early 2014, generated some 161,525 tweets, of which 118,083 were congratulatory and 82 percent were on announcement day – the […]

Although its storyline was cause for concern, very few predicted that The Interview – a movie on tabloid journalists setting up an interview with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un after finding out he is a huge fan of their show – only to then be asked by the CIA to assassinate the leader – would lead […]

Planning your career shouldn’t be about appraisals and job interviews. Instead, it should be an annual exercise of assessing where you are, where you want to be, and how you can get there. For advertising and marketing professionals, in particular, a career could go so many different ways that having a roadmap – with annual […]

The shortage of digital skills in the MENA market place is unprecedented and it is easy to identify the factors behind the shortage in skills. The use of social, search, mobile, digital and analytics services in global companies is high especially in western countries that are leading the market in the use of such tools. […]

Demanding employees and a market at standstill are draining employers dry October is the month when Lebanese – the young, the old, the families and the friends – go back to their daily routines after having said goodbye, once again, to numerous expats that came visiting for the summer; the Lebanese are still leaving the […]

  Early last month, HR solutions provider Aon Hewitt released its annual Global Salary Increase Survey, which confidently projected a 4.8 percent hike in salaries for UAE companies in 2015, albeit down from 5.1 percent last year. The predictions were slightly higher for companies across the GCC (5.1 percent) but, again, had dropped from last year’s 5.5 percent increase. These forecasts sit […]

  During my two and a half years at RBBi and throughout my 15-year career before that, I have seen that several clients tend to skip the most important phases of product development – be it for a website, mobile app, consumer product or service design – let alone the usability and user experience (UX) […]