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Linear TV “evolving” into an integrated team player, “not dying”

Sky News Arabia's GM Nadim Koteich shreds misconceptions around media, channels, audience, viewership, and the future of linear TV in conversation with Campaign Middle East.

Marketers and advertisers often get starry-eyed looking at the gradually climbing viewership, engagement, and ad impression figures on analytics dashboards while building brands or sales funnels on social media channels. While this is true, the effectiveness and impact of campaigns on more traditional platforms such as linear TV remain undeniable. So, rather than one or the other, should brands and marketers make integrated and omnichannel approaches commonplace?

Well, media leaders such as Nadim Koteich, the GM of Sky News Arabia, definitely vouch for an integrated approach. While digital channels offer targeted, interactive, and more affordable options, linear TV’s powerful storytelling


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.