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Predictions 2025: The year ahead for generational shifts in marketing

OMD UAE’s Saleh Agha shares why advertisers must think like cultural anthropologists to win the trust and loyalty of generations that will shape our media future.

Saleh Agha, Managing Director, OMD UAESaleh Agha, Managing Director, OMD UAE

As we welcome 2025, it’s clear the media and advertising landscape in the Middle East continues to evolve. The patterns that began to emerge in 2024 – heightened consumer scepticism, an insistence on purpose and authenticity, and the mingling of physical and digital experiences – are now racing forward at full speed. For brands and media strategists, predicting the near future means understanding how three distinct generations –millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha – are reshaping the conversation and affecting how brands run their businesses.
Each generation has its own motivations, content preferences and platforms of choice, creating an environment where traditional formats and cutting


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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.