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For the first time, UM MENA has launched its annual trends for 2016 in a report titled “Next Thing Now”. The report features the insight of media specialists at the agency as well as professionals from Coca- Cola, Google, DMS and Yahoo! Highlights from the report include: Technology & innovation For 2016, brands must approach […]

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 […]

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 […]

  Depending on your personality or your personal situation, the future is either a source of excitement or a cause for anxiety. Either way it rarely leaves anyone indifferent. For businesses, it comes loaded with implications, particularly if they need to be ready to react to rapid changes. No strategy has ever been conceived with […]

During an interview this summer in Chicago, Paul Roth, AT&T‘s president of retail sales and services, described wearable devices as the “future of retail” before adding, “it’s a niche market”. That’s why the tech industry is looking to Apple to do what it does best: Take a budding technology, package it neatly and blow it up […]

Online journal trendingbytes.com shares the latest digital, web and user insights, as well as social media news, with Communicate Levant. YouTube will let your fans donate to you Hello YouTubers! Are you ready to make some money outside of advertising? After upsetting users by announcing a subscription-based service for musicians, YouTube wants to help its […]

  WPP‘s global media agency Mindshare has set up a global wearable technology group called Life+ to help brands take advantage of the nascent technology. Life+ will be headed by Jeff Malmad, managing director of mobile at Mindshare North America, and is designed to help brands understand the opportunity that wearable technology presents, whilst ensuring […]

  Under the theme “Innovation at the Intersection of Media, Technology and Design”, STEP – a media, technology and design platform for creatives, influencers and technophiles in the MENA region – conducted the third edition of its annual conference on April 30 at Dubai’s Al Serkal Avenue. The choice of an underground and unfussy venue was not without reason, as STEP organizers had […]

  Under the title “10 Mobile Trends for 2014 and Beyond”, JWT has released its third annual report on trends in the mobile sphere, mapping out how the world of mobile connectivity is evolving The report spotlights key themes that came out of this year’s Mobile World Congress, Consumer Electronics Show and South by Southwest […]

  STEP – a media, technology, and design platform for creatives, influencers, and technophiles in the MENA region – which will be holding the third edition of its annual conference on April 30 at the Al Serkal Avenue, has just announced a slew of updates to its program and lineup of speakers. Ali Halabi from Istanbul […]

Under the theme “Innovation at the Intersection of media, technology and design”, STEP – a media, technology, and design platform for creatives, influencers, and technophiles in the MENA region – will hold the third edition of its annual conference on April 30 at the Al Serkal Avenue. In line with the main theme, the conference will […]