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Rethinking visibility beyond search

Samsung Electronics – MENA’s Omar Saheb explains why marketers in the Middle East need to rethink visibility in the age of generative AI.

search visibilityOmar Saheb, Chief Marketing Officer – MENA, Samsung Electronics MENA.

For more than a decade, performance marketers in the region have focused on one goal: ranking at the top of search results. 
We’ve built search engine optimisation (SEO) strategies, refined keywords and optimised every page element to win attention. But that playbook is starting to feel outdated.
Today, we’re entering a very different reality. One where we no longer scroll pages to find results. Where generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google’s search generative experience (SGE) deliver a single, synthesised answer.
If your brand isn’t part of that answer, you simply don’t exist. This change matters even in MENA, where Google holds more than 95 per cent of the search engine mark


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.