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Like a RECMA ball: Joe Nicolas discusses UM’s ranking

UM MENA is the highest-ranked media agency in the region, the second highest in the world, and is part of the leading agency group in MENA. CEO Joe Nicolas explains what the rankings mean and how they came about.

By Austyn Allison

UM MENA is the second-best media agency in the world, and the best in MENA for the fourth year in a row. That is according to RECMA, the French firm that independently ranks media agencies globally. Mediabrands, the media division of Interpublic Group of Companies, which includes UM, Magna and Initiative and is part of Middle East Communications Network (MCN) in the region, topped the list of media agency groups in the MENA region. (The top-ranked agency globally was OMD Russia.)
Since 1991, RECMA has delivered regular rankings of media agencies. In its own words, “RECMA collects and analyses data from more than 70 countries. As a rating agency RECMA delivers a qualitati


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