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The millennial attention gap in your 2026 marketing plan

The Brill Collective's Ailidh Smylie why and how brands need to show up on TikTok in 2026, and what they stand to lose if they don't.

Ailidh Smylie, Head of Social and Digital at The Brill CollectiveAilidh Smylie, Head of Social and Digital at The Brill Collective

TikTok isn’t a teen playground. In the UAE it’s daily media for millennial decision-makers. Social media penetration is 100 per cent here, with around 7.5 million people using TikTok. Treat it like a side channel and you’re funding the gap.

TikTok literacy check: Let’s run a quick TikTok Literacy Challenge.

How would you answer: “Do you have any kids?”
Next, ‘Who put the muffins in the freezer?’
Yes or no: are you partial to watching pro baseball teams lip-syncing to millennial anthems?
And finally, if someone wants to learn how to slickback jubi slide, how do they begin?

If you’re on TikTok, you’re smiling already. If not, here’s the twist: most of the peop


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