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May 31, 2018 “Your work speaks for you more than your gender”

7 questions with  J. Walter Thompson Beirut’s creative director, Paola Mounla 1. What are the challenges you have faced on account of being a woman? To be frank, throughout my career, I have never faced challenges based on my gender. However, the industry as a whole still objectifies women – not in the workplace but in […]

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February 01, 2018 INSIGHT: How advertising is empowering women

Pinaki Banerjee, global program director, Ipsos Connect UAE on breaking the stereotype and empowering women through advertising Given the role that women play in deciding on the everyday brands used in households, women are central characters in many advertisements. Traditionally in many developing markets, stereotypes were often used to portray the role women played. Most […]

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April 13, 2016 Woman on a mission

Susan Credle is the global chief creative officer (CCO) of FCB. Over her 30 years of experience in the ad industry, she has worked her way up from a secretary – back when there were secretaries – to global CCO, working across big-name networks. Along the way, Credle has won several accolades, such as being […]

Culture
January 13, 2016 Agent of change

FCB International’s chief creative officer made his first trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last month to speak to female students about creativity in three different universities: Jeddah School of Advertising and Dar Al Hekma University in Jeddah, as well as Al Yamamah University in Riyadh. Intrigued, we caught up with him to learn […]

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May 04, 2015 Handle with care

  **Statutory warning: This article contains the words “stereotype” and “cliché” a number of times and there are only so many synonyms we could find. In 2013, Raha Moharrak became the first Saudi woman to conquer Mount Everest. In 2014, Major Mariam Al Mansouri became the first female F-16 fighter pilot in the United Arab […]

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March 18, 2019 Women in PR: we mean business

Zainab Imichi Alhassan, co-founder of POP Communications, on taking our roles as communicators seriously At the age of twenty-two, I started working in public relations in the United Arab Emirates. Five years later, I now run my own agency. While the path has been filled with its challenges, as is with any serious and fulfilling […]

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March 09, 2019 Why brands need to reconsider advertising to women

By Yulia Klimacheva, head of brand strategy at Jpd Agency Today, we live in an unprecedented period in our history, where women in many corners of the world hold their own rights and stand equal alongside men. Which is why we have witnessed such a phenomenal growth in women entrepreneurship over the last two decades. From […]

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January 29, 2019 How to avoid the pitfalls of Gillette’s ‘woke’ commercial

By Laura Wasson, creative director at advertising agency, Madwell This is the age of “woke capitalism” and we are no longer selling products but ideas, values, movements. In theory, this is a positive thing, but it can go weirdly wrong: Witness the gulf between Nike’s inspired and risky Colin Kaepernick spot and Gillette’s tone-deaf #metoo commercial. To avoid the […]

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October 18, 2018 Are ‘women empowerment’ initiatives actually empowering women?

Not even close, say some of the region’s top marketing talent at The Marketing Society’s latest Brave Conversations…  ‘Brave Conversations’ is a series of quarterly roundtables held by The Marketing Society and Communicate. The candid chats bring together marketing and advertising experts to discuss, debate and challenge both, new and existing topics that are of […]

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October 03, 2018 “Brand leaders and their agencies are often sitting in ivory towers unaware of their audience’s beliefs.”

By Christina Ioannidis, Chief Engagement Officer, Aquitude, a boutique brand engagement consultancy which works with corporations to engage with their main stakeholders i.e. their employees and customers Today’s marketers are operating in a market, which is shifting with demographics changing drastically. Generational divides, rifted by digital savviness and social changes, have created a complex marketing […]

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July 26, 2018 5 steps for brands to survive in a female-powered future

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, […]

Culture
July 04, 2018 ABG out to tackle women and kids… in advertising

The Dubai-based marketing and advertising industry body Advertising Business Group (ABG) has announced its plans to tackle a number of key industry issues and making new appointments during its first AGM. ABG Chair Sanjiv Kakkar, who is Unilever’s executive vice-president across MENA, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, outlined two key initiatives: The first is to […]

Culture
June 12, 2018 Note to marketers: “In the 21st century, a woman is no longer just a woman”

In conversation with Pui Chi Li, head of marketing for the Middle East and Africa region of Xerox’s Developing Markets Operations.  What are the challenges you have faced because of being a woman? The transition to a working mother has been one of the greatest challenges to date. Prior to children, I had total control […]

Culture
April 09, 2017 Say hello to Omniwomen

Omnicom launched the UAE chapter of its global initiative, Omniwomen, on International Women’s Day. The initiative is dedicated to championing the number and influence of female talent within the company and is currently active in ten local chapters across the globe, including in the USA, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, China and now the UAE. […]

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April 13, 2016 Women to watch in the GCC

Dana Adhami Head of MENA at Maker Studios Inc. Adhami started her career in 2004 with independent agency Catch, where she grew from media manager to digital director – UAE over a period of four years. Since then, she has only grown further, specializing in the field of digital and, as a natural progression, mobile. […]

Industry
June 25, 2014 JWT launches global scholarship program to support aspiring female creatives

  JWT Worldwide has announced an international scholarship program to assist and promote talented female creative advertising students. Named after both the industry’s and JWT’s first female copywriter, Helen Lansdowne Resor, the scholarship was launched to celebrate the agency’s 150th anniversary. Along with The New York Times, JWT hosted a panel at the Cannes Lions International […]

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