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New department will commission papers and host expert debates, policy briefings by high-level officials. Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, has announced the establishment of a new Research and Studies Unit (RSU). Based at the newspaper’s headquarters in Riyadh, the new unit will deliver thought-provoking studies written by a team of acclaimed resident […]

Market research firm Ipsos has released a new report that explores how attitudes towards travel have evolved during the last few months in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here are the key findings – The desire to travel has been steadily increasing People are increasingly expressing their desire to travel again, with many reminiscing about […]

In recent years, #SaudiNationalDay has been a key conversation topic on Twitter. In fact, the Saudi flag emoji was tweeted 27 million times globally in the past year (1 Sept 2019 – 1 Sept 2020, Twitter Internal). With more audiences turning to the platform – marking the highest ever quarterly year-over-year mDAU (monetizable daily active […]

Marwa Kaabour, Head of Marketing & Corporate Communication at Al Masaood Group, on how digital innovations are driving auto dealership forward. The state of global affairs is changing, probably at a faster speed than what a speedometer could track. The future is uncertain, and many businesses are worried about where the road ahead leads. To […]

Emojis are more important than you think. They’re not just a bunch of pictorial responses you use when your friends share funny texts or videos. They’re a constantly evolving, complex, robust form of digital language that aims to give representation to every community on our planet. 30 years from now, history will look back at […]

Market research company Global Web Index (GWI) has shared a new guide that provides insights into the essential changes in consumer behaviors and attitudes and the steps brands can apply to attract their attention in the post-lockdown world. But first, let’s lay the groundwork- the majority of the countries went into lockdown since mid-March. Since […]

 Rahul Agarwal, VP Product Partnerships at digital media technology provider Polar, explains the opportunity for programmatic advertising in the pandemic crisis. Programmatic advertising, like every other industry, has not been immune to the negative effects of the current pandemic. As countries around the world were locking down their economies in the beginning of Q2, brands […]

Communicate felt like doing a little bit of reminiscing today. Meet Donald Yip, a travel and landscape photographer from Melbourne, Australia. In the video below, Yip shares the inspiration behind his winning photograph for the competition #Landscape2019. Yes, 2019, the year that feels almost like a century ago. Agora images are a free-to-use app social app. The […]

The Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA) will be hosting the sixth edition of their annual leadership majlis virtually this year. The majlis will include a series of daily sessions starting from 30th August till 3rd September with communication leaders from the Middle East and abroad. Communicate speaks with Jonty Summers, Chairman of MEPRA and Managing Director […]

Regional online platform StriveME approaches the automotive industry in a different way, stepping outside of the usual technical details to grab the audience’s attention from a lifestyle perspective. Communicate spoke with Managing Director and Co-Founder Samah Safa, to better understand what difference this strategy makes. What is the thinking behind your editorial approach? In order […]

Abdulrahman Inayat, Co-Founder of W7Worldwide, explains how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the communications industry in KSA and how his agency is helping businesses. The global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on economies around the world. Saudi Arabia was no exception, especially during the first stages of the crisis when […]

UAE-based Q Communications just announced its expansion to Europe, right in the middle of a pandemic. Co-Founders Elsa Roodt and Katie Harvey explain how such a move is indeed a challenge, but one that can be turned into a strength. “You shouldn’t open a business with your best friend.” “We are mid-recession, no one will […]

Last month, Dubai launched the New Media Academy as part of its mission to prepare a future workforce, capable of leading the rapidly growing field of digital marketing. The academy aims to train media professionals in the public and private sector in everything related to digital, in order to nurture social media content creators. Communicate […]