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Fahad Ali, Founder and Creative Director of Broomstick Creative, explains how to use the grown-up video platform the right way. As more brands churn out video content by the minute, our timelines, feeds, and WhatsApp messages are bombarded with videos and animations that either capture our attention or make us skip them in a heartbeat. […]

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 […]

Cortlan McManus, Head of Content Practice at Publicis Media. I work with great people who inspire me to be better than I would be myself. I get my hands dirty in <code> to think of internal products that allow us to make better products for our clients. We think about people – their problems – […]

Marco Bertozzi, Vice President, EMEA Sales & Multi-market Global Sales at Spotify, tells  Communicate what users were listening to while social distancing was in effect around the globe and in the region.  What were the significant consumption trends by users on Spotify during the lockdown period? Audio plays a very important role in people’s lives, because of […]

Ayman Haydar, CEO of programmatic marketplace provider MMP World Wide, talks about how the tech giants are entering the world of e-commerce and the changes in sentiment towards digitization.  10 weeks. 70 days. 1,680 hours. Far too many Netflix binges to mention. Meaningless stats at any other time, but in the context of the coronavirus, […]

International marketing intelligence service, WARC releases the Global Ad Trends report which highlights the impact of Covid-19 on ad investment in 2020. According to the report, advertising spend is projected to be $563bn for 2020. This is a steep decline from earlier forecasts, which predicted a rise in spending by 7.1% to $660bn. The decline is […]

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 […]

WhatsApp launches two initiatives to support the global fight against the Coronavirus pandemic: the global launch of the WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub in partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNDP, and a $1m donation to the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The WhatsApp coronavirus information hub which can be found on whatsapp.com/coronavirus,  provides […]

According to the report released by the international marketing intelligence service, global advertising spend is set to rise by 7.1% to $660bn this year, guided by a 13.2% growth in internet investment. Quadrennial events such as the US presidential elections and the Summer Olympic games in Tokyo are expected to help TV spend to rise by […]

With the rise of e-commerce shopping, redirection of advertising budgets towards digital over mainline, integration of influencer marketing as part of the marketing mix, Group M MENA released a report to help marketeers understand the key trends that are going to dominate the industry in 2019 and beyond.   Trend 1 – Most of the […]

Since January 2019, TikTok has been ranked the top downloadable app behind WhatsApp and Messenger. The app is believed to be popular among the younger generations who could use it to upload their content using elements such as music and effects. The app’s technology sheds a light on how the algorithm is designed to bring […]

By Anne Connelly We’re at the edge of one of the greatest societal shifts since the separation of church and state. Ten years ago, with the creation of bitcoin, people were given the ability to digitally transact value without the need for a government to manage the system. Bitcoin marked the beginning of the separation […]

WhatsApp, a free and popular messaging Facebook-owned app, is set to be no more ad-free. It its not clear when the exact date in which the ads will  be implemented into the platform.  “As we said last year, we will start showing ads in status in the future,” a WhatsApp spokesperson in an e-mail to Communicate. The announcement was […]

By Afreen Khan Home of a 1.5 billion users worldwide, WhatsApp reported a security breach few days ago. The company, which  introduced “End-to-End Encryption” in 2016, asked users to update their WhatsApp mobile applications as the update contains a fix for a malicious hacking that was reported. The breach was discovered early May, in which […]

  “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy [stuff] we don’t need.” Tyler Durden’s remarkable line from Fight Club is also the opening line of WhatsApp’s blog post titled: “Why we don’t sell ads”. Yet, mobile users in the UAE have been receiving marketing messages from unknown […]