All Entries Tagged With: "Dubai"
Ali Café – Pants Down
Dubai-based boutique agency Livingroom has created a TV commercial for Ali Café that shows a succession of coffee drinkers’ trousers falling down. Project Pants down Client Ali Café Creative agency Livingroom, Dubai Creative directors Martino O’ Brien, Mansoor A. Bhatti Art directors Carlos Khoury, Mansoor A. Bhatti Copywriters Martino O’Brien, Wissam Smaira, Ahmed al Masri [...]
Cairo’s Digital Republic expands with launch of Dubai office
Cairo-based independent digital agency Digital Republic is expanding into the Gulf with the opening of a Dubai office. The move represents the agency’s first foray outside of Egypt, where it was founded in 2009 and now employs 53 people. It is hoping to replicate its Egyptian success in Dubai, offering digital media and campaign strategy, [...]
Creative recruitment agency opens in Dubai
JWT Dubai’s former regional business director Christian Loos has launched the regional office of creative recruitment agency The Talent Business. The Dubai office is the company’s sixth global hub and will service the Middle East and Africa region under the leadership of Loos, who had been with JWT for a year following his move from [...]
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 [...]
Millward Brown enters the Middle East
WPP-owned global marketing research company Millward Brown has expanded into the Middle East. The new office in Dubai will function as a division of AMRB, also a WPP company and the existing Millward Brown licensee in the region. Gagan Bhalla, CEO of AMRB, said: “We are excited to be partnering with Millward Brown in their [...]
Dubai launches new global ad campaign
A new international print and online campaign promoting Dubai as a business hub is being rolled out by Falcon & Associates. The campaign, called ‘Dubai means business’, emphasises the emirate’s key geographical location between east and west and argues that ‘when you run the numbers, Dubai means business’. Ahmad Abdullah Al Shaikh, director general of [...]
Jack Morton expands into the Middle East
Global experiential marketing agency Jack Morton has expanded into the Middle East with the opening of an office in Dubai. The agency, which is headquartered in Boston, has appointed Alex Apthorpe and Yvonne Hoffzimmer as joint managing directors, with the duo tasked with overseeing the development, growth and operations of Jack Morton in the Middle East. [...]
Absolut challenges UAE creatives to follow in footsteps of Andy Warhol
Swedish brand Absolut is challenging the UAE’s creative community to follow in the footsteps of artist Andy Warhol. Absolut, which has worked with some of the world’s leading artists to create some of the world’s most famous advertising, wants regional creatives to pitch their ideas based on the original brief presented to Warhol in 1985. [...]
Absolut challenges UAE creatives to follow in footsteps of Andy Warhol
Swedish brand Absolut is challenging the UAE’s creative community to follow in the footsteps of artist Andy Warhol. Absolut, which has worked with some of the world’s leading artists to create some of the world’s most famous advertising, wants regional creatives to pitch their ideas based on the original brief presented to Warhol in 1985. [...]
ITN to open Dubai bureau
The UK’s ITN is to open an ITV News bureau in Dubai, reports The Guardian. Led by international correspondent John Irvine, the new bureau will cover news across the Gulf, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. As a result of the move, the network’s South African bureau will be closed, although ITV News will retain a [...]
