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As the region – and the world – entered an unprecedented time of confinement and isolation in March, leading Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD launched a series of initiatives to support people and businesses, helping them alleviate the financial pressure they are under and use contactless banking while staying safely at home. In parallel, Emirates NBD […]

TikTok, has partnered with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world’s largest humanitarian network, to launch the #ForClimate campaign. The campaign has been  running from  September 16th to 30th, in which TikTok users can raise awareness of climate change by using three specially designed stickers depicting extreme weather conditions: […]

This article first appeared on Communicate‘s sister site: AMEinfo.com Apple is a company that just reached $1 trillion in market cap and it is also getting ready for the new iPhone release. Samsung, on the other hand, just in time for the Note 9 release (August 9), is upping its ante by releasing adverts attacking […]

Snapchat and Instagram are stepping up their shopping rivalry as they both work e-commerce into new areas of their apps. Instagram On June 12, Instagram brought shopping into Stories, the vertical-video section that was copied from Snapchat. Brands on Instagram will now be able to drop shopping bag stickers into their Stories and sell products […]

‘Studios’ or training programs for creators on social media platforms have been all the rage with YouTube and Facebook setting up physical and online studios and trainings to help creators with equipment, advice, etc. Now, Snap has extended the capabilities of its ‘Lens Studio,’ which was launched last year. The Lens Studio and its extended […]

By Jamal Al Mawed, Head of Public Relations and Communications for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in the Middle East, Africa, and South America Summer is almost over and with it comes the inevitable crazy fourth-quarter push to finish the year on target and execute all the plans you made earlier in the year but postponed to […]

By Tamara Habib, business director, Netizency They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And imitation is something that Facebook has been doing a lot of lately: stories, lenses, filters… it seems there’s no stop that Facebook won’t pull to clone Snapchat’s features. But is Facebook’s attempt at imitating all things Snapchat beginning to […]

Your bi-weekly news on how brands are using bots around the world by Simon Hudson, CEO and founder of Brndstr Love them or hate them, bots are fast becoming the new vertical for brands to run campaigns on. These programmatic, digital assistants that sit inside social channels are becoming extremely popular around the world. Over […]

With a daily active user base of 76.5 percent in the MENA, Matthew Talbot, CEO, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), is unsurprisingly confident about what the service has to offer users – and, of course, advertisers. Since its licensing deal with Indonesian media corporation Emtek, BBM has set up independent offices in Canada, Jakarta and Singapore, and […]

Meet the Snapchatters: Cortlan McManus, director of social, Starcom Ema Linaker, director of digital, Edelman Dabo Farah Shaer, content manager, UM Studios What is Snapchat? Snapchat is the coolest thing to happen to social in a few years – even Instagram is getting the ephemeral feeling! It’s a super interesting notion of time and documenting experience: […]

Undeniably news and social media have developed an interconnected – if sometimes perilous – relationship. While certain platforms have encouraged citizen journalism, the real-time nature of others has changed the meaning of breaking news. Stemming from such social media platforms is a more personal service: messaging. While newsfeeds and timelines are inundated by brands almost […]

In light of the Holy month of Ramadan, Facebook announces a new collaboration with popular Arab characters of Freej, creating a sticker pack of the Emirati animations for Facebook’s Messenger. Freej is an animated television series geared toward local Arab children. Adding to the dozens of themed sticker packs at Facebook’s Sticker Store, the “Celebrate with […]

Bank Audi and MasterCard launch the “Tap2Pay – NFC Wearables, ” a first-of-its-kind payment solution in the Middle East, during a press conference held at Bank Audi headquarters in Bab Idriss on Tuesday, March 31. This modern payment solution marks a new era for credit card payments in the region as it introduces MasterCard’s contactless technology that can now […]

  Mobile marketing is quickly becoming a contact sport. Automakers such as Ford and Toyota are illustrating how static ads on screens and billboards can quickly generate dynamic ads for the smartphone through the use of near-field communication, the short-range wireless communications technology that’s behind Apple Pay and works with a quick tap of the […]