It’s now almost 14 years since we launched Campaign Middle East in October 2008. And those 14 years, charted by 300 issues of the magazine, have been the most turbulent I have known in my almost 45 years in regional media.
We couldn’t have launched at a more interesting time. On 24 September, Atlantis The Palm had opened with the biggest fireworks display the world had ever seen, but that was the peak of a wave of an economic boom that had already begun to crash. On 15 September, Lehman Brothers had collapsed, and the world was starting to realise that the party was coming to an end.
2008 was still a record year for the GCC advertising industry, but by January 2009 the dollar value of our can
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