Author Archive for Iain Akerman
Kit Kat Chunky – Silence Your Hunger
Project: Silence Your Hunger Client: Kit Kat Agency: JWT Dubai Executive creative director: Seyoan Vela Regional creative director: Adham Obeid Art director: Adham Obeid Copywriters: Adham Obeid, Michael Fillon Head of TV Production: Emily Haddad Group account director: Ebru Goksu Planner: Prahbakar Iyer Production company: The Talkies Post-production company: Digital District – Paris Music composition: [...]
Cometh the hour, cometh the suit
Ramsey Naja is chief creative officer, JWT MEA “There’s probably been more ink used on the topic of good leadership than blood spilled by bad leaders. Motivational speakers, industry gurus, and endless writers of self-help, get-rich-quick and Donald Trump-esque business publications have all waxed lyrical and pontificated endlessly on the subject and, in the process, [...]
McDonald’s reviews public relations brief
McDonald’s has called a review of its public relations account in the Gulf. The incumbent on the business is MS&L, which has held the account since it moved from Weber Shandwick in 2010 without a pitch. The shift in public relations agencies took place shortly after the creative advertising account moved from FP7 to Leo [...]
Wunderman set to expand on back of digital growth
Wunderman is set to expand its workforce across the Middle East and North Africa by 12 per cent. The expansion comes on the back of a number of significant account wins and continued organic growth, with the increase in staff equating to more than 20 new employees spread across the network. The recent account wins [...]
Mojo group establishes media wing
Dubai-based independent communications group Mojo has launched a media planning and buying wing. Mojo Media will be headed by Azhar Siddiqui, previously managing director of Magna Global, which is part of the IPG/MCN network. He joins the group as managing partner of Mojo Media through a joint venture agreement. The new wing complements the group’s [...]
Musical project draws on global design
Designers from the UAE and across the world have contributed to a unique Dubai-based musical project that’s set to launch on 17 May. Fourteen posters inspired by songs from the album A L.A.S, which is the brainchild of Adriano Konialidis, have been produced by illustrators, graphic designers, typographers and artists from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Poland, [...]
DDB Dubai strikes gold at New York Festivals
DDB Dubai has struck gold at the New York Festivals International Advertising Awards. The agency won in the design category thanks to its ‘Organ donation’ work for the Committee of Organ Donation in Lebanon (pictured above), which also won gold at last year’s Dubai Lynx. DDB also walked away with a bronze for its TV [...]
Burger King – 20 Years Young
Burger King has released an “emotional” commercial to celebrate 20 years of Burger King in the Middle East. Shot around Dubai by young directors Sebastian Funke and Jan Vogel and set to a soundtrack by Joe Dickinson of BKP, the pan-Arab ad is rolling out across TV, online and cinema. Project 20 Years Young Client [...]
Memac Ogilvy Label wins region’s first Grand Clio
Memac Ogilvy Label has become the first regional agency to win a grand prix at the Clio Awards in New York. The Tunis-based agency won in the innovative media category for its ‘Return of Ben Ali‘ campaign for Engagement Citoyen, which also collected a haul of golds across multiple categories at the Dubai Lynx in [...]
Absolut Blank set to make Middle East debut
Swedish brand Absolut is bringing its global creative movement Absolut Blank to the Middle East for the first time. The concept, originally created by Absolut in collaboration with TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York, involves artists and designers using the brand’s iconic bottle as a blank canvas to create original pieces of art over the course of [...]
