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By Denise Lee Yohn Kim Kardashian West eventually caved to the social media backlash that arose from her decision to brand her new line of shapewear Kimono, opting for the less culturally inappropriate Skims instead. But that doesn’t mean all brands now need to ensure their naming decisions pass muster with customers. Certainly we have entered an era in […]

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 […]

Lee Clow, the creative mind behind ads like Apple’s “Think Different” and Adidas’ “Impossible is Nothing,” is retiring. As of February 14, the chairman at TBWA/Media Arts Lab and director of Media Arts at TBWA/Worldwide is moving into an advisory role as chairman emeritus at Media Arts Lab. Clow joined the agency known as Chiat/Day (once nicknamed Chiat Day […]

A veteran who has been in the industry for more than 15 years and a marketing strategist turned adman reminiscing about the past and current state of the ad industry to offer a recommendation on way to get it back to its golden era by Ahmad Abu Zannad, regional strategy director, Leo Burnett GCC & George Maktabi, […]

I read an article a while ago titled “How to Manage People Who are Smarter than you” shared by one of my connections on LinkedIn…the same connection that didn’t reply to a humble request for a meeting. Suddenly, I started thinking about the gesture of acknowledging the fact of acquiring, retaining or even confessing the […]

Yes, JC or Jonathan Oliver, is every bit as crazy as he looks in the picture and as we got to witness up close during his talk at the first ever Festival of Media MENA held in Dubai this April. It’s the good kind of crazy; the kind that is good for a company like […]

“To be or not to be,” deliberated Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s famous play. While the reference might be too dated for today’s digital age to pay heed to, it is something worth considering when brands decide to be “viral”, or, at least, create viral content. Fortunately – or unfortunately – they can spare themselves the […]

As the regional advertising industry grows – thankfully – so do the number of ‘specialist’ agencies, positions and titles. It could be the result of the growth of specialized fields, be it digital or experiential marketing, or it could simply be the need to define roles further as advertising gets more integrated and, maybe, even […]

  When developers first starting building for Apple’s phones, in 2007, they were given one format for the four-inch iPhone screens. A larger format came along three years later, when the iPad debuted. Google, on the other hand, gave developers an array of options, so they could build apps for its ever-evolving cache of hardware partners […]