GroupM, the global media investment management group and parent company to WPP media agencies Mindshare, Wavemaker, MediaCom, and BPG Maxus has announced a change to their management structure in Lebanon.Hana Kaddaha Khatib, current Regional Managing Director of Mindshare Levant & Egypt, will be leading operations for the group as Managing...
FP7 Dubai has announced a major client win in the real estate industry: Dubai Properties. The agency will be responsible to produce and launch multifaceted creative campaigns for the Dubai-based real estate developer.The relationship took effect in December which saw the launch of the popular 1/-JBR campaign, a stylish and elegant marketing approach to...
Spark Foundry announced today the appointment of Chris Boothe to the role of Global Brand President effective immediately. Boothe, who currently serves as CEO of Spark Foundry USA, will focus on further scaling Spark Foundry’s unique brand proposition across 60 global offices in 35 countries. As Global Brand President, Boothe...
Dentsu Aegis Network has appointed Tarek Daouk as CEO of Middle East and North Africa, a move that is set to drive forward the organisation’s ambition to become a 100 percent digital economy business by 2020. In his new role, the former CEO of Starcom Middle East will take responsibility for...
Alfa, managed by Orascom TMT, celebrated Mother's Day during a luncheon held at Le Gray Hotel in downtown Beirut in honor of mothers in the media sector. A panel focusing on the experience of Mothers in Media Sector opened the event featuring journalists Nehmat Azouri Oussi, Rabiaa Al Zayat, and...
The Effie Awards, globally known for honoring marketing effectiveness have selected a juror from the MENA region for the first time ever. Having won close to a hundred Effie Awards, Tahaab Rais, FP7/MENA’s Regional Head of Strategy and MENA Truth Central Director, will be joining the judging sessions in Singapore....
Ascential plc, the parent company of Cannes Lions announces that Philip Thomas, CEO of Ascential Events, will take on the additional role of Chairman of Cannes Lions when Terry Savage leaves that position after this year’s Festival in June. Previous to his current role running Ascential’s Events division, he was...
Within the framework of promoting Lebanese investments in Senegal, the MEREF (Movement of French Enterprises and Economic Representations in Lebanon), in cooperation with Front Page Communication, organized a round table on Friday, March 16, at ESA Business School on the theme "The opportunities of the Senegalese market from Lebanon." The...
its. Communications, a marketing and advertising agency operating in Lebanon and the Arab region, has announced the launch of two new departments: its. Stories and its. Health.its. Stories specializes in high-quality video production through web services, applications, smart phones and all digital platforms in order to assist businesses in animating...
As part of the GCC Traffic Week (11-15 March), GMC Middle East set a new Guinness World Records, for the ‘largest parade of GMC cars’, in partnership with Abu Dhabi Police. Held at Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, 191 GMC vehicles gathered to form over a four-kilometer long parade...
A team of two young professionals from Initiative MENA has won the Gold Award in the Young Lynx Media Competition which was announced on March 12, day two of the Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity 2018.The winning team included Myriam Farah, Social Outreach & Influencer Partnership, and Mehak Khan,...
The Division of Audio Visual Arts (DAVA) / Department of Media Studies at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) has integrated the International Association of Film and Television Schools (CILECT) as a member who has been recognised for the academic quality of its programs.The CILECT, which includes over 180 audio-visual educational institutions...
Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), a top-three global communications agency, has announced the appointment of Sunil John, Founder & CEO of ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller, as President of BCW’s Middle East operations.BCW was created in February through the merger of Burson-Marsteller & Cohn & Wolfe, leading PR agencies owned by WPP, the...
FP7 MENA has announced the promotion of Amr El Kalaawy as the Managing Director of FP7/CAI effective immediately. As MD of FP7/CAI, Amr will report into Sahar El Zoghby, CEO, MCN Egypt, enabling valuable collaborations with sister agencies leading to a richer, more integrated product offering for current and future...
Momentum/CAI has announced the promotion of Lina Fateen as Managing Director of their agency. Lina Fateen joined FP7 Cairo in 2002, and with a track record in systems & procedures and a work ethos to match, she grew to become Deputy MD of Momentum in 2016, where she was tasked to...
