A new survey by Bayt.com and YouGov focuses on current trends in employee attraction, retention, and engagement from both the employee and employer perspectives. The MENA Talent Attraction and Retention 2022 survey revealed that the three top drivers of employee attraction in Lebanon are salary and compensation (56%), workplace environment...
Wunderman Thompson has launched the 8th edition of 'The Future 100: 2022', their annual essential trend almanac offering a snapshot of the year ahead and the most compelling trends to keep on the radar. 'The Future 100: 2022' from Wunderman Thompson’s futurism, research and innovation unit, Wunderman Thompson Intelligence, offers 100 original trend predictions across 10 sectors, spanning culture,...
One of the region’s most respected conglomerates, Al Habtoor Group, has announced its plans to enter the NFT space. Led by Habtoor Mohammed Al Habtoor, the project will start with a launch of an exclusive NFT Collection in Q1 of 2022. Titled Last Hopium, the collection will feature 10,000 unique avatars...
TBWA\RAAD appoints Rafael Lavor as it new Head of Strategy. Lavor will be responsible for leading the agency’s planning team and its strategy discipline in the region, across all clients and brands. Rafael will play a critical role in shaping disruptive, business-building brand strategy and ensuring unconventional thinking at every...
Digital Encom, a UAE based start-up with its unique Retail Operating System, has been named as Tech Asia’s fastest growing start-up. Digital Encom is developed as a retail operating system platform to provide technology-enabled solutions for the distribution of Digital gift vouchers, bill payment and phone top-up platforms enabling customers...
This year, CNN Arabic is celebrating 20 years since it first went live in 2002 as a digital news service based out of Dubai Media City to tell stories for Arab audiences all over the world. Since then, CNN Arabic has continued to evolve and innovate, delivering best in class...
The Creative Floor Healthcare Awards 2022 launches today and will celebrate the world’s best health and wellness creative, clients and agency talent. Founded in 2014, the aim was to help change the way award shows are run. Not only do the awards celebrate world-class creative but also agency people (various...
ADFEST unveils its full line-up of the ADFEST 2022 Jury Presidents to oversee its 20 Lotus categories. Vinit Suraphongchai, Chairman of ADFEST, says; “Our family of juries include 63 creative specialists and spans the length and breadth of Asia Pacific and the Middle East, from Australia to China, from Japan...
GCC countries achieved significant shifts in ICT use during the past two decades, making a huge difference in the services provided to users as they advance their digital infrastructure, according to the GCC ICT Use Index 2021, a report recently released by Orient Planet Research (OPR), an independent unit of...
With the gates open and welcoming the world, Expo 2020 Dubai continues to share its exceptional vision of a brighter future. With Mastercard’s focus on innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability as the official payments partner of Expo 2020 Dubai, electriclimefilms collaborated with Craft WW agency to showcase Mastercard’s level of...
OOH Capital, the global Out of Home advisory company and consultancy, has extended its global reach with the arrival of three new partners, covering Asia, the United States and Benelux. The new partners are Jim Liu, formerly Zenith Media Head of OOH in China and later instrumental in setting up...
Oakley announced a new, multi-year partnership with French footballer and Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappé. At just 23 years old, Mbappé is already considered to be a generational talent, but the sport performance brand says in a press announcement it has partnered with him not because of what he has accomplished...
New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced for 2022 “The Future Now”, a new category group launched to shine the spotlight on creative work that uses technology to provide an innovative approach that leads to a more engaged consumer experience. New categories within this future reaching group include Generative...
Bain & Company, one of the world’s leading global management consultancies, has announced the internal promotions of three new members to partnership. The new partners are based in the firm’s United Arab Emirates office. As per the latest round of promotions, Bain and Company has endorsed 78 individuals to senior...
White Square international advertising and marketing festival – one of the largest creative festivals in Europe – announced the start of the call for entries of its 2022 edition. Annually over 1000 entries of more than 30 countries of the globe take part in the competition. This year, it will be...
