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Epica Awards’ Editorial Director Mark Tungate tells Communicate about setting up an award show in the era of Covid-19 and the ways to address these sensitive times when looking at advertising work. The Epica Awards always had quite a strong distance component in its setup, with many journalists voting remotely. How does this help you in […]

Khaled AlShehhi, Executive Director of Marketing & Communication at the Public Diplomacy Office in the UAE Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, tells Communicate how he got into marketing, what his work means to him, and how he sees the role of government communications. What is your background and when did you start in […]

By Anthony Crupi Advertisers looking to shill for their products and services within the context of an Emmy Award-winning series are once again more or less out of luck, as premium cable and streaming platforms gobbled up most of this morning’s nominations. Of the dozens of scripted, reality and variety series acknowledged today by the […]

As the industry grows worldwide,“the core principles of marketing effectiveness and growth actually remains the same,” said Traci Alford, Effie Worldwide’s President and CEO in an interview with Communicate. However, Alford explains the significance of maintaining a vision that ensures that the short term and long term plans are aligned in order to maintain the […]

By Afreen Khan CAFU has recently launched a film, shot and produced by themselves, titled “Faded Voice.” The film is an initiative to reward its fan base by crowdsourcing the plot from the customers in a creative manner. The campaign included a series of multiple films that were shot locally in Dubai, catching more than […]

By Nicola Mendelsohn The Cannes Lions Festival has never been more important. This gathering of the great and the good from the creative industries on the sun-drenched Croisette, has always been an opportunity to celebrate outstanding work from the past year and look forward to the emerging themes in advertising. I’m sure this will always be true […]

By I-Hsien Sherwood and Ann-Christine Diaz Another Cannes Lions is wrapping, but don’t let its lessons fade away into the summer dog days. If you’d rather those memories stick like the floor of the Carlton Terrace, read on for a refresher. Whether you’re nursing a sunburn and a rosé headache or a grudge because you […]

By George P. Slefo A new study suggests that Fortnite has more in common with Facebook than Call of Duty, with the massively popular game emerging as a new kind of social network for a key demographic of younger consumers that brands covet. “Unlike other platforms and services, Fortnite uniquely combines benefits from gaming, social […]

YouTube is trying to stamp out its second major brand revolt in as many years, putting executives on an emergency call with top marketers and agencies, and sending a memo to Madison Avenue to let advertisers know it’s working on a fix. The problem: Pedophiles are viewing videos of children, leave disturbing comments and then […]

In the battle of online versus traditional and e-commerce versus retail, the former platforms have been touted as the clear winners. However, recent moves by tech companies seem to suggest otherwise. Despite the (over)hyped effectiveness of digital advertising, giants like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat have all resorted to traditional media, like print and outdoor, to […]

By Faith Popcorn, futurist, author, founder and CEO of marketing consultancy BrainReserve Twenty years ago, I said a revolution is coming in which women would supersede men. I guess I was a little early with this prediction (it’s a problem we futurists have) because it’s happening right now. As women forge ahead – pursuing higher education, […]

The World Cup is a huge global phenomenon with more than 3 billion people watching it in 2014. This year, with the participation of four Arab teams, viewership in the region is naturally expected to be higher, which in turn, means that advertising spends during this period are also higher. The biggest chunk of spends […]

Wunderman Global CEO Mark Read was thrust into the spotlight in April when WPP announced that CEO Martin Sorrell was stepping down amid an unspecified allegation and that Read and his colleague Andrew Scott would step in as chief operating officers. Read had been floated in past years as a possible successor to WPP’s iconic leader, […]

(Image credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/Ad Age) By Brian Braiker, editor, AdAge W. Somerset Maugham was onto something in 1941 when he wrote “the Riviera isn’t only a sunny place for shady people.” While still hilarious in 2018, there was significantly less shadiness – both in conference-goer behavior and as a reprieve from the blazing sun […]

Do you do the Cannes Cannes?  By David Parkinson, co-founder, Brave & Heart I went to Cannes Lions. Once. It started well: flight into Nice, taxi to Cannes, take in the narrow streets with a sense of excitement in the air. The streets were thick with older dark-rimmed glasses in sailor tops mixed with younger preppy […]

75% of the world’s data traffic will be video by 2020. Online video revenue in MENA to grow between 22% and 35% annually until 2021 So yes, users around the world are watching video – a lot more than they ever did, which explains why advertisers are increasingly spending more on digital video. But, much […]

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 […]

“The choice of a Saudi princess for Vogue Arabia‘s [June] cover is completely tone-deaf.” These are the words of Husain Abdulla, executive director of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, in a recent interview with NPR.  Vogue Arabia, published by Condé Nast in partnership with Nervora in the region, has been embroiled in one […]

The review comes at a particularly bad time for WPP, which has been operating without a CEO since Martin Sorrell stepped down earlier this month. Since then, questions about the holding company’s future have swirled. Sorrell was known as being extremely hands-on with WPP’s clients. Though clients have been outwardly quiet about their thoughts on […]

If you thought P&G had cut all it could from agency and production fees, think again. Chairman-CEO David Taylor said in an investor presentation that the company plans to reduce such spending by $400 million through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. That comes after a combined $750 million in such savings over the […]