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In-Depth
EXCLUSIVE RAMADAN INSIGHTS PART 3: Was your campaign a HIT or a MISS?
June 19, 2018The holy month of Ramadan is an introspective and spiritual time of the year, when people...
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In-Depth
Economy or equality: the driving force behind Saudi women taking the wheel
June 25, 2018The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made history when it passed a Royal Decree in 2017 permitting...
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Media
ARN scraps Nightline after 11 years. What’s next?
June 25, 2018Nightline, the evening show on ARN’s Dubai Eye 103.8 FM, has come to an end after...
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Marketing
Is this World Cup sponsorship doing more harm than good?
June 25, 2018The World Cup is a huge global phenomenon with more than 3 billion people watching it...
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Marketing
Would you rather… the World Cup edition
June 24, 2018With 75 percent in the GCC considering themselves “extreme football fans,” it’s no surprise that the...
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In-Depth
“I’m really focused on WPP more than I am on what Martin is doing.”
June 24, 2018Wunderman Global CEO Mark Read was thrust into the spotlight in April when WPP announced that CEO...
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Events & Awards
3 ways in which P&G dominated Cannes 2018
June 23, 2018P&G, one of the largest advertisers in the world with over $7 billion ad spend in...
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Events & Awards
5 things ex-WPP chief Martin Sorrell revealed at Cannes
June 23, 2018Departed WPP CEO Martin Sorrell wrestled New Yorker writer Ken Auletta for control of an onstage...
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In-Depth
Cannes is “back to business”: The Diet Coke edition
June 22, 2018(Image credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/Ad Age) By Brian Braiker, editor, AdAge W. Somerset Maugham was onto...
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Opinion
Why this ad man doesn’t attend Cannes. Ever.
June 22, 2018Do you do the Cannes Cannes? By David Parkinson, co-founder, Brave & Heart I went to Cannes...
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Events & Awards
5 questions with Cannes’ MENA jurors
June 21, 2018This year’s Cannes jury has 16 experts from the region and so we caught up with...
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Events & Awards
All the MENA winners at Cannes 2018
June 21, 2018Advertising’s biggest festival is underway and regional agencies are making a splash at the awards. It’s...
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Media
5 ways TV advertising is getting a new life thanks to AT&T and Time Warner
June 20, 2018TV is getting a new season thanks to AT&T’s deal with Time Warner. AT&T is a...
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Media
9 things you should know about the AT&T-Time Warner deal
June 20, 20181. Wait, so what just happened? US District Judge Richard Leon that an AT&T-Time Warner deal...
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Campaigns
Want to win an Infiniti? Then hope the match ends with this score
June 20, 2018The buzz around the FIFA World Cup 2018 has hit a new high this time with...
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Appointments
Infiniti’s Francesca Ciaudano moves to new role
June 19, 2018Francesca Ciaudano, general manager – Marketing & Public Relations in the Middle East for Infiniti, is...
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Campaigns
Which is the 1st brand in MENA to use this Snapchat AR feature?
June 19, 2018Snapchat launched its Portal Lens back in October 2017 as an exclusive feature for Netflix’s Stranger...
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Events & Awards
These 3 regional agencies made it to the WARC 2018 Awards
June 18, 2018WARC has announced the winners for its 2018 Effectiveness Awards across four categories: content, social, brand...
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Marketing
REVEALED: A new way of reaching your consumers
June 18, 201830% of audiences are estimated to block ads in 2018, in the US alone. 40% dislike...
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In-Depth
Is ‘integration’ swallowing individual agency brands?
June 17, 2018When Campbell Soup Co. named Publicis Groupe the winner of a massive agency review for digital, creative...
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In-Depth
EXCLUSIVE RAMADAN INSIGHTS PART 3: Was your campaign a HIT or a MISS?
June 19, 2018The holy month of Ramadan is an introspective and spiritual time of the year, when people...
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Media
Diwanee launches entertainment website Mashaheeri
November 6, 2014Regional digital publisher and media group Diwanee Media Group has launched Mashaheeri.com, a specialized Arabic celebrity...
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Digital
On hold: mobile advertising in MENA
March 20, 2017These were some of the thoughts that came out of the agencies’ feedback on what our...
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In-Depth
Why now is the time to jump onto the e-commerce wagon
September 25, 2017The e-commerce landscape has seen a great deal of movement in the past year. November 2016...
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Campaigns
How Rotana is celebrating its 25th anniversary
October 8, 2017In celebration of its 25th anniversary, hotel management company Rotana has launched a global TV campaign...
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Marketing
Dubai Festival City’s IMAGINE provides a new immersive experience
August 13, 2017Al-Futtaim Group’s Dubai Festival City (DFC) recently revamped the mall to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The...
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Campaigns
Subway brings strangers together through its Pop Up Iftar
June 20, 2017The act of breaking fast during Ramadan is both a spiritual and emotional experience. Be it...
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Campaigns
Surprise! Puck’s Ramadan ad doesn’t only target women
June 8, 2017Ramadan is a month when people around the world abstain from food and drink from dusk...
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Campaigns
Audiences criticize Zain’s anti-terror Ramadan ad
May 31, 2017On May 26, Zain posted its Ramadan anti-terror video featuring pop singer Hussain Al Jassmi on...
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Campaigns
Xpress Money goes the CSR route on Mother’s Day
May 21, 2017Xpress Money launched a campaign called “Mother’s Day for Kids without Mothers” on the occasion of...
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Campaigns
BLOM Bank – Director’s Cut by Philippe Aractingi
May 21, 2017BLOM Bank and its agency Impact BBDO teamed up with four of Lebanon’s renowned directors: Philippe...
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Campaigns
BLOM Bank – Director’s Cut by Chadi Younes
May 19, 2017BLOM Bank and its agency Impact BBDO teamed up with four of Lebanon’s renowned directors: Philippe...
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Campaigns
BLOM Bank – Director’s Cut by Leila Kanaan
May 19, 2017BLOM Bank and its agency Impact BBDO teamed up with four of Lebanon’s renowned directors: Philippe...
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Campaigns
Amnesty International and TBWA/RAAD fight against Islamophobia
April 22, 2017The current political environment and the consequent travel rules have resulted in Arabs and Muslims being...
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Campaigns
FP7 and OMO’s latest campaign advocates play (and dirt)
April 9, 2017OMO’s latest campaign, created by FP7 Dubai, is based on several alarming statistics: Kids had an...
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Campaigns
Nissan Middle East creates new measurement unit: Camel power
April 5, 2017Measuring a car’s performance in horsepower is standard, but it’s not enough, especially in the Middle...
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Marketing
Babyshop refreshes brand positioning
March 7, 2017Landmark Group’s kids’ retail store, Babyshop, has reinvented its brand positioning to cater to the changing...
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Events & Awards
5 things we heard at the PR Pressure Conference
March 1, 2017Organized by Secret PR, the PR Pressure Conference is an annual forum to discuss the challenges...
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Campaigns
HSBC UAE launches new film for #OneStepCloser campaign
February 15, 2017On January 8, HSBC UAE launched a film “One Step. Endless Possibilities.” to support its new...
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Campaigns
BBDO gamifies YouTube’s notorious pre-roll for Snickers
February 5, 2017Snickers’ much-loved “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign takes on YouTube’s pre-roll format in its...
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Campaigns
Berger Paints launches “Colours of Arabia” in the Middle East
February 2, 2017Launched in the UAE, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, “Colours of Arabia” is a social media campaign...
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Campaigns
Grey rolls out “The Love Story” for Raffaello
January 30, 2017Raffaello Middle East has launches its latest campaign created by Grey MENA that tells the story...
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Campaigns
Dubai Tourism partners with Wunderman Dubai for global campaign
January 25, 2017Inviting European markets to escape their gloomy winter, Dubai Tourism called upon Europe’s most famous weather...
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Campaigns
Algerian football superstar Riyad Mahrez and PepsiCo team up
January 17, 2017PepsiCo and Algerian football superstar Riyad Mahrez have teamed up as part of an Algerian Pride...
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Events & Awards
Region’s first YouTube FanFest held in Jeddah
March 15, 2017The Arab world’s first YouTube FanFest was held at Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports City on March...
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Digital
YouTube to open YouTube Space in Dubai Studio City
December 9, 2016In partnership with Dubai Studio City, YouTube is launching its tenth YouTube Space in the world...
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