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Podcast: El Gamal on going beyond trends, transactions, performance and promotion

Ahmed El Gamal shares an honest take on the tug of war between brand and performance; transactional agency-client relationships; balancing trends with brand; procurement problems; and focusing on trust and credibility.

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On the latest episode of Campaign Middle East’s On The Record podcast, Ahmed El Gamal, an Executive Director of Marketing with more than 15 years of experience within the brand and marketing industry, who discusses the tug of war between brand and performance; the move past transactional agency-client relationships and the uberification of services; and the importance of knowing how and when to jump on the bandwagon of trends without placing brand safety and brand consistency at risk.

El Gamal reveals that the Middle East brand and marketing industry has, indeed, been overcorrecting towards performance, taking examples of brands such as Airbnb that have great


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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.