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Visa picks ‘cash walla Visa’ phrase to support merchants in Egypt

Visa and Saatchi & Saatchi MEA are empowering small business with free media exposure on social media every time the word Visa is said in-store.

VisaA still from Visa's Walla Visa.

In partnership with Saatchi & Saatchi MEA, Visa has launched a campaign powered by real-world listening, turning a commonly used phrase amongst Egyptian merchants into a testament of how the global payments brand is woven into the fabric of daily life.

Daily transactions in Egypt often come with a familiar phrase: ‘cash walla Visa?’ It’s a question merchants have asked for years – passed down from one generation to the next. This isn’t a campaign line taught by Visa. It’s a cultural expression that emerged on its own, instinctively adopted by shops and shoppers alike.

Seizing this cultural phenomenon, Visa’s Walla Visa campaign aims to give small businesses the tools to promote the


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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.